Elaine Koffman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Educational Foundations Program and First Year Experience Program
Office: LWN 4003
Phone: 773-442-5522
Email addresses: ekoffman@neiu.edu, BennettK@aol.com
Mailing address: Northeastern Illinois University
Department of Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies
5500 North Saint Louis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Interests and Expertise
Dr. Koffman’s research interests and expertise include:
Education
Ph.D.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Experimental psychology with a concentration in human learning
Dissertation: The Total-Time Hypothesis in the Serial Learning of Low-Meaningful Material: Method of Presentation, Age of Subjects, and Instructions to Verbalize
Advisor: Benton J. Underwood, Ph.D.
M.A.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Experimental psychology with a concentration in learning
Thesis: Reward Magnitude and the Frustration and Prefeeding Effect
Advisor: Winfred F. Hill, Ph.D.
B.A. (“with highest distinction,” Phi Beta Kappa)
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Major in psychology, four years of Russian language courses
Courses Taught
Associate Professor
Educational Foundations Program and First Year Experience Program
Office: LWN 4003
Phone: 773-442-5522
Email addresses: ekoffman@neiu.edu, BennettK@aol.com
Mailing address: Northeastern Illinois University
Department of Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies
5500 North Saint Louis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Interests and Expertise
Dr. Koffman’s research interests and expertise include:
- First Year Experience programs
- Lev Vygotsky’s theory and culture
- Middle school education
- Prevention of and response to bullying/social ostracism
- The relationship between schools and teacher preparation programs
- Time and learning
- Writing and thinking
Education
Ph.D.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Experimental psychology with a concentration in human learning
Dissertation: The Total-Time Hypothesis in the Serial Learning of Low-Meaningful Material: Method of Presentation, Age of Subjects, and Instructions to Verbalize
Advisor: Benton J. Underwood, Ph.D.
M.A.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Experimental psychology with a concentration in learning
Thesis: Reward Magnitude and the Frustration and Prefeeding Effect
Advisor: Winfred F. Hill, Ph.D.
B.A. (“with highest distinction,” Phi Beta Kappa)
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Major in psychology, four years of Russian language courses
Courses Taught
- ACAD 103 University Seminar
- FYE 109 School’s Out
- EDFN 206 Lab in Foundations of Education: Child and Adolescent Development
- EDFN 207 Lab in Foundations of Education: Educational Psychology
- EDFN 306 Education and Individual Differences
- EDFN 307 Psychology of Instruction and Learning
- EDFN 313 Problems, Issues, and Practice in Education: The Young Adolescent and theMiddle School
- EDFN 406 Human Development and Learning
- EDFN 407 Learning Theory and Educational Practice
- EDFN 417C Educational Theorists
- LEAD 313 Human Relations and Leadership
- LEAD 401 Curriculum Development and Human Learning