Cecil Robinson

Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology and Counseling
308 Carmichael Hall
(205)-348-6801
crobinso@bamaed.ua.edu
Appointed in 2003

Recent Courses Taught:

BEP410: Academic Mentoring
BEP541: Cognition and Instruction
BEP561: Social and Cultural Foundations of Behavior

Areas of Research:

Technology, democracy and social education
Historical cognition, learning from multiple texts
Positive psychology, hope theory, motivation

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002. Educational Psychology.
B.Sc., Northwestern University, 1995. Computer Science.

Professional Experiences:

Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology and Counseling, College of Education, The University of Alabama, 2003 – Present.

Contributing faculty member for the School Psychology Program, Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology and Counseling, College of Education, The University of Alabama, 2006 – Present.

Instructor of Educational Psychology, Department of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, SUNY 2001 – 2002.

Selected Publications:

Lopez, S., Rose, S., Robinson, C., Marquez, S., & Ribeiro, J. (in press). Measuring and promoting hope in schoolchildren. In R. Gilman and S. Huebner (Eds.), Promoting wellness in children and youth: A handbook of positive psychology in the schools. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Robinson, C., & Rose, S. (in press). Locus of control. In S. Lopez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Robinson, C. (2007). Figured world of history learning in a social studies methods classroom. The Urban Review, 39(2), 191-216.

Robinson, C., & McKnight, D. (2007). Technologized democracy: A critique on technology’s place in social studies education. Technology, Humanities, Education and Narrative (THEN) Journal, 1(4), 15-36.

McKnight, D., & Robinson, C. (2006). From technologia to technism: A critique on technology's place in education. Technology, Humanities, Education and Narrative (THEN) Journal, 3 (Summer 2006), 28-44.

Robinson, C., & Raineri, G. (2006). Effects of document generation and source presentation on historical understanding and thinking. In S. Barab, K. Hay, & D. Hickey (Eds.), Making a Difference: The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 585-591). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Selected Presentations:

McBride, M., Robinson, C., Rose, S., & Turner, M. (2008, April). Hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and academic achievement among racially diverse working class students. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Rose, S., Thoma, S., & Robinson, C. (2007, May). Social-Cognitive and motivational factors promoting student volunteerism. A poster presented at the meeting of the Association of Psychological Sciences Convention, Washington, DC.

Rose, S. & Robinson, C. (2007, April). Domain Specific Hope. A poster presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Robinson, C. & Stewart, W.H. (2006, November). Comparative analysis of text coherence across historical documents and textbooks. A paper presented at the meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly, Washington, DC.

Robinson, C., & McKnight, D. (2006, June). WWW and multicultural democracy: Evaluating U.S. history websites. A paper presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Bloomington, IN.