Faculty
Jeanne D. Day
Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Profile
Dr. Day's research interests are in the area of cognitive development and educational processes. One of her primary areas of investigation currently concerns finding better ways to teach young disadvantaged children so as to improve their preparation for later school success. In addition, she studies individual differences in the ease with which children learn with an eye toward creating educationally useful profiles of ability. Recently, she has taught children attending Head Start literacy and math concepts. Finally, she has conducted research on the measurement of "social intelligence" with the eventual aim of finding ways to improve children's social skills.
Recent Papers
Lee, J. E., Wong, C. M. T., Day, J. D., Maxwell, S. E., & Thorpe, P. (2000). Social and academic intelligences: a multitrait-multimethod study of their crystallized and fluid characteristics. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 539-553.
Wong, C. M. T., Day, J. D., Maxwell, S. E., & Meara, N. M. (1995). A multitrait-multimethod study of general intelligence and social intelligence in college students. Journal of Educational Psychology, 87, 117-133.
Day, J. D., & Cordon, L. A. (1993). Static and dynamic measures of ability: An experimental comparison. Journal of Educational Psychology, 85, 75-82.
Bolig, E. E., & Day, J. D. (1993). Dynamic assessments and giftedness: The promise of assessing training responsiveness. Roeper Review, 16, 110-113.
Day, J. D., & Zajakowski, A. (1991). Comparisons of learning ease and transfer propensity in poor and average readers. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24, 421-426.
Contact Information
Office: 217 Haggar Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Phone: (574) 631-6589
Email: jday@nd.edu