Professor of Psychology and Education
kevinmil@umich.edu
Office Information:
2042 East Hall
4116 SEB
phone: 734.615.1800 (SEB)
Cognition;
Psychology;
Learning;
Developmental Psychology;
Education and Psychology;
Diversity
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
About
Additional Research Interests: Cognitive development, Cross-cultural
My work involves either or both of naturalistic studies of classroom processes based on videotaping classroom lessons, and comparisons between children growing up in Mainland China and the United States. In general, I’m interested in:
- relations between schooling and children’s cognitive development;
- cross-cultural comparisons of educational and developmental processes;
- teacher thinking and information-processing, particularly “on-line” decision-making in the course of instruction; and
- relations between literacy and mathematical development.
Current research projects include:
- development of “situation awareness” in beginning teachers,
- effects of perspective (teacher vs. student viewpoint) on what viewers learn when watching classroom video,
- development of self-regulated learning in different cultures, and
- relations between symbol systems (particularly Chinese characters vs. alphabetic script) and learning to read.
Area
- Combined Program in Education and Psychology
Affiliation(s)
Award(s)
- Research Scientist Development Award, NIMH
- Fellow, APA (Division 7)
- Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Academy of Education
