Kathleen Collins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Special Education
Curriculum and Instruction
310 Peabody Hall
Phone: (479) 575-4218
FAX: (479) 575-6676
kxc01@uark.edu
Degrees:
- Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Special Education, 1996
- M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Special Education, 1993
- B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology, 1989
Teaching Areas:
- High Incidence Disabilities
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Educational Assessment
Research Interests:
- Special Populations
- Self-Efficacy and Individual Differences in Instruction and Learning
- Cross - Cultural Variations in Instruction and Learning
- Educational Leadership and Organizational Change
Professional Biography:
Kathleen Collins received her Ph.D. in Special Education with an academic minor in Qualitative Analysis from the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Special Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Prior to coming to the University of Arkansas, Dr. Collins worked as a post-doctoral researcher in education at the University of Arizona and as a research fellow at WestEd, a research and development laboratory located in Los Alamitos, California. Dr. Collins also worked as an Assistant Professor in the Doctoral Program in Leadership at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, where she taught courses in research methodologies, educational assessment, and organizational development and change.
Academic Interests and Accomplishments:
Dr. Collins has presented her research at numerous international, national, and regional conferences. She has published on topics that include learning disabilities, math reform, teacher beliefs, and action research topics, focused on the role of reading comprehension, anxiety, critical thinking, and cooperative learning on college students’ performance. In 2004, Dr. Collins was awarded the Department of Curriculum and Instruction’s Faculty Outstanding Research Award, Also, she was co-recipient of the James E. McLean Outstanding Research Paper Award at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Educational Research Association, November, 2004.