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John P. Rickards

John P. Rickards

Title: Professor


Departmental Program: Perception, Action, Cognition

E-mail: John.Rickards@uconn.edu

Office Phone: (860) 486-2501

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-Mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Individual differences in learning strategies in reading and listening comprehension
  • History of Psychology

Undergraduate courses:

  • History of Psychology
  • Principles of Research in Psychology
  • Learning

Graduate courses:

  • History of Psychology

Representative Publications:

  • Rickards, J. P., & Slife, B. D. (1987). Interaction of dogmatism and rhetorical structure in text comprehension and recall. American Educational Research Journal, 24, 635-646.
  • Rickards, J. P., & McCormick, C. B. (1988). The effect of interspersed conceptual prequestions on notetaking in listening comprehension. Journal of Educational Psychology, 80, 292-294.
  • Rickards, J. P., Fajen, B., Sullivan, J., & Gillespie, G. (1997). Signaling, notetaking and field independence/dependence in text comprehension and recall. Journal of Educational Psychology, 89, 508-517.
  • Denner, P. R., Rickards, J. P., & Albanase, A. J. (2003). The effect of story impressions preview on learning from narrative text. Journal of Experimental Education, 71, 313-332.

Other:

  • Departmental Evaluator, Transfer Admissions.
  • Chair, Departmental Courses and Curriculum Committee