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Aaron Richmond

Associate Director at the Center for Advanced STEM Education & Professor of Psychological Sciences

Psychological Sciences

Bio

Dr. Aaron S. Richmond is a professor of educational psychology and human development in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He completed his master’s degree in applied cognitive psychology from Montana State University in 2002, and in 2006, received a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Nevada-Reno.

With more than two decades of professional teaching experience in k-16 settings, Dr. Richmond has garnered several awards for excellence in teaching. His pedagogy focuses on learner-centered active learning and engagement with a specific interest in building higher-level thinking skills that students can apply in other classes. He is dedicated his academic career to studying the improvement of classroom practices and learning.

In more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters Dr. Richmond has explored effective pedagogical approaches to instruction in both k-12 and higher education. He specifically investigates cognitive and elaborative processes, model teaching competencies, the efficacy of instructional strategies in both online and face-to-face learning environments, and various other topics in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Furthermore, as evident by publishing and presenting research with over 30 undergraduate and graduate students, Dr. Richmond strongly believes in mentoring students through the research process in hopes to help shape future leaders in psychology and SoTL research.

Dr. Richmond is a member of several professional associations and served as the Vice President for Programming for the Society of the Teaching of Psychology and as past president of the Northern Rocky Mountain Educational research association. He currently holds several positions on editorial boards including the journals Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Education, Computers in the Schools, and the International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, and is the Editor of Teaching of Psychology.

Degree

PhD in Educational Psychology

University of Nevada-Reno

MS in Applied Psychology

Montana State University

BA in Social Science

University of Montana-Western

Published Works

Research Interests

Defining the processes predicting mnemonic development and addressing transfer and retentional issues in mnemonic devices


Investigating moral reasoning and its role in teacher and adolescent education


Studying different pedagogical approaches to online instruction

Office Hours

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Additional Information

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