Toni Kempler Rogat
Associate Department Head, Associate Professor
Educational Psychology and Research Methodology,
Educational Studies
Email:
trogat@purdue.edu
Phone:
(765) 494-7295
Address:
Steven C. Beering Hall of
Liberal Arts and Education
100 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2098
BRNG 5124
Profile
Research & Publications
My research examines the quality of students' motivation and engagement contextualized in collaborative group and classroom environments. Specific to collaborative groups, I focus on explaining quality variation in engagement by considering the group’s cognitive, motivational, and socio-emotional processes. At the classroom level, I am interested in students' motivational experiences, with a focus on teachers’ influence through the use of instructional and motivational practices, situated within inquiry-based science curricular contexts.
As part of my current grant activity, two STEM units that integrate science inquiry, engineering design, and community-based service projects will be co-designed, implemented, and refined. We will examine the curricular features supportive of students’ science and engineering learning and their development of science/STEM interest and agency. This project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will advance theoretical understanding of effective strategies for deeply engaging students in real-world design projects that reflect the lived experience in their communities.
My research also involves developing theory and observational measures of collaborative group engagement during complex and authentic learning tasks in science and mathematics, drawing on recent advances in conceptualizing student engagement as productive disciplinary engagement. Building on my previous National Science Foundation-funded project, I am empirically examining and theorizing the dynamics of collaborative group engagement in context.
Finally, building from my previous Spencer-Foundation funded project, I am investigating how middle school students respond to the motivational features of the inquiry curricula recommended by national science education reform efforts, with interest in promoting students’ sustained motivation and perceptions as doers of science. This research draws on multiple methods, including surveys, interviews, and classroom observations.
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Courses Typically Taught
- EDPS 53000 — Advanced Educational Psychology
- EDPS 53600 — Achievement Motivation and Performance
- EDPS 63300 — Seminar in Educational Psychology