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
Coordinator
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EDUC351 – Research Methods in Education
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
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. (2009). Children’s conceptions of thinking: Developing thinking skills. International Journal of Thinking, Creativity, and Problem Solving, 19, 33-52.
- Smith, J.K., & Smith, L.F. (2009). Framing effect and student preferences for university grading schemes. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 35, 160-167.
- Montani, T.O. & Smith, L.F. (2009). Intensive math remediation: Can short-term intervention make a difference for students with math learning disabilities? The Learning Consultant Journal, 27, 23-29.
- Gilmore, A., Crooks, T., Darr, C., Hattie, J., Smith, J., & Smith, L. (2009). Commentary: Towards defining, assessing and reporting against national standards for literacy and numeracy in New Zealand. Assessment Matters, 1, 135-146.
- 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.
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.
- Smith, L.F., & Holterman ten Hove, K. (2009). A Multimethod Examination of University Students' Views of Assessment (pp. 207-231). In D. McInerney, A. Liem, & G.T.L. Brown (Eds.). Volume IX of the series on Research on Sociocultural Influences on Motivation and Learning. “Student Perspectives on Assessment: What Students Can Tell Us about Improving School Outcomes.” Greenwich, CT: Information Age Press.
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., & Smith, J.K. (2008). Creating art and conversing about art: Effects of an integrated curriculum. Paper presentation at the XX Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Chicago, IL.
- 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.
Future Conference Presentations
- Smith, J.K., & Smith, L.F. New Zealand’s approach to national educational monitoring. Invited Symposium on International Perspectives on Assessment and Assessment Research for the annual meeting of The American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO, April 2010.
- Gilmore, A., Smith, L.F., Hill, M., & Cowie, B. Preparing assessment capable teachers: A program of research. Invited presentation at the Queen’s International Symposium, Kingston, Ontario, May 2010.
- Smith, L.F. Assessing how pre-service teachers learn to become “assessment capable.” Paper in symposium, Current Issues in Assessment: Perspectives from New Zealand. The 7th Conference of the International Test Commission, Hong Kong, July 2010.
- Smith, L.F. Expert--Novice differences in the perception of astronomical images. Paper presentation at the American Psychological Association Conference, San Diego, CA, August 2010.
- Smith, L.F., Smith, J.K., Arcand, K.K., & Smith, R.K. Aesthetics and astronomy: Design issues affecting non-expert perceptions of images from space. Paper presentation at the XXI Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Dresden, Germany, August 2010.