Professor Lisa F. Smith
Professor of Education
Ed.M, Ed.D (Rutgers)
University of Otago College of Education – Te Kura Akau Taitoka
145 Union Street East
Tel 64 3 479 9014
Fax 64 3 479 4295
Email lisa.smith@otago.ac.nz
Biography
Lisa is delighted to have joined the University of Otago in August 2005, from her previous position at Kean University in New Jersey. She received her doctorate in 1993 from Rutgers University, in the Educational Statistics and Measurement Program of the Educational Psychology Department. She was the recipient of the 1999 Emerging Researcher Award sponsored by the American Psychological Association and the New Jersey Psychology Association, and is currently co-editor of the APA journal, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. When asked if she misses anything from NJ, Lisa said, "Diet iced tea and my African Gray Parrot, Beau."
Coordinator
- EDUC 307: Child Development
- EDUC 331: Special Topic: Educational Psychology
Research Interests
- Affective factors that influence test performance, both on standardized tests and in the classroom
- Preservice teaching and teaching efficacy
- The psychology of aesthetics
Areas of Research Supervision
- Classroom Assessment
- Preservice Teaching and Teaching Efficacy
- Psychology of Aesthetics
- Developmental Psychology in Early Childhood
Select Publications (since 2006)
Books
- Smith, L.F., Bousquet, S.G., & Gratz, Z.G. (2009). The art and practice of statistics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning.
- Smith, L.S. Gratz, Z.A., Bousquet, S.G. (2009). The art and practice of statistics. Instructors’ manual with test bank. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning.
Refereed Journal Articles
- Smith, L.F., & Graham, S. (in press). Children’s conceptions of thinking: Developing thinking skills. International Journal of Thinking, Creativity, and Problem Solving.
- Smith, L.F. (2008). The art of science and the science of art. International Journal of Thinking, Creativity, and Problem Solving, 18,101-113.
- Smith, J.K., & Smith, L.F. (2008). The structure of artistic and aesthetic abilities in schoolchildren. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 26, 117-130.
- Smith, L.F., & Montani, T.O. (2008). The effects of instructional consistency: Using manipulatives and teaching strategies to support resource room mathematics instruction. Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 15, 71-76.
- Smith, L.F., Klein, P., & Mobley, M.M. (2007). Multiple perspectives of preservice teacher efficacy. The Learning Consultant Journal, 22, 31-56.
- Guskey, T.R., Smith, J.K., Smith, L.F., Crooks, T., & Flockton, L. (2006). Literacy assessment, New Zealand style. Educational Leadership, 64(2), 74-79.
- Smith, L.F., Bousquet, S.G., Chang, G., & Smith, J.K. (2006). Effects of time and information on perception of art. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2, 229-242.
Book Chapters
- Smith, J.K., & Smith, L.F. (in press). Creativity and Education. In J.C. Kaufman & R.J. Sternberg (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Wise, S.L., & Smith, L.F. (in press). Examinee effort and high-stakes testing. In J. Bovaird, K. Geisinger, & C. Buckendahl (Eds.). Contemporary issues in high stakes testing. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute.
- Smith, L.F., & Smith, J.K. (2006). The nature and growth of aesthetic fluency. In P. Locher, C. Martindale, L. Dorfman, V. Petrov, & D. Leontiev (Eds.). New directions in aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology of art (pp. 47-58). Amityville, NY: Baywood.
Invited Encyclopaedia Entry
- Smith, L.F, & Smith, J.K. (in press). Aesthetics. In P. Rossi (Ed.). Corsini’s Encyclopedia of Psychology (4th Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Book and Test Reviews
- Smith, L.F. (2007). [Review of Gray Diagnostic Reading Tests-Second Edition (GDRT-2)]. Seventeenth Mental Measurements Yearbook, 360-362.
- Smith, L.F. (2007). [Review of Test of Silent Contextual Reading Fluency (TOSCRF)]. Seventeenth Mental Measurements Yearbook, 797-799.
Conference Proceedings
- Smith, L.F., & Wise, S.L. (2007). What I know – What I show: A model of motivation and effort on examinations. Conference Papers CD-Rom of the Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- Smith, J.K., & Smith, L.F. (2007). Listening to the student voice in learning and assessment. Conference Papers CD-Rom of the Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- Smith, L.F. (2006). Great expectations: Perceptions of teacher efficacy in teaching practicum students in the United States and New Zealand. Conference Papers CD-Rom of the Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Rotorua, New Zealand.
- Smith, L.F. (2006). Assessing the visual arts: Gender and SES differences in New Zealand’s National Education Monitoring Project. Proceedings of the XIX Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Avignon, France, 467-470.
Monographs and Published Reports
- Crooks, T., Flockton, L., Smith, J.K., & Smith, L.F. (2007). National Education Monitoring Report 39, Listening and Viewing: Assessment results 2006. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago, Educational Assessment Research Unit, under contract to the Ministry of Education, New Zealand.
- Flockton, L., Crooks, T., Smith, J., & Smith, L.F. (2006). National Education Monitoring Report 37, Mathematics: Assessment results 2005. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago, Educational Assessment Research Unit, under contract to the Ministry of Education, New Zealand.
Future Conference Presentations
- Smith, L.F., Corkery, G., & Buckley, J. The evolution of preservice teachers’ concerns about teaching. Paper accepted for the annual meeting of The American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April 2009.
- Smith, L.F. How university students see assessment. Poster accepted for the annual meeting of The American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April 2009.
- Wise, S.L., Hauser, C., Smith, L.F. Kingsbury, G.G., Gialluca, K.A., & Slater, S. Individual score validity: How unexpected interaction between a test and a test taker influences the usefulness of a test score. Symposium accepted for the annual meeting of The National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA, April 2009.
- Smith, J.K., Smith, L.F., & Birnbaum, M.E. The relationship between reading comprehension and reading speed in school children. Paper Discussion accepted for the annual meeting of The American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April 2009.
- Smith, J.K., Jamieson, M., Gilmore, A., & Smith, L.F. Students' self-perception of reading ability and actual reading achievement. Paper accepted for the annual meeting of The American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April 2009.
- Bell, D., Rohan, T., Renner, S., Smith, L.F., & Smith, J.K. Leaving the safety zone: Inter-cultural encounters in arts education. Symposium accepted for the International Conference on the Arts in Society, Venice, Italy July 2009.
- Smith, L.F. Editors' Advice on Publishing in Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Participant in invited symposium accepted for the annual meeting of The American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 2009.
- Smith, L.F., Beghetto, R., Plucker, J.A., & Pritzker, S.R. New ideas about creativity and education from K to Ph.D.Symposium accepted for the annual meeting of The American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 2009.
- Smith, L.F., Smith, J.K., Arcand-Kowal, K., Smith, R.K., & Holterman ten Hove, K. Aesthetics and astronomy: How experts and novices perceive astronomical images. Paperaccepted for the annual meeting of The American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 2009.