Faculty Vita

Richard Shepard, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

Shepard, R. G., Trimberger, A., Leklider, D., & McClintock, P. (1999). Empowering family school partnerships: An integrated hierarchical model. Contemporary Education.

McKinney, A., Shepard, R.G., & Trimberger, A. (1999). Increasing parent involvement during case conferences: A creative problem solving approach. Contemporary Education.

Shepard, R. G., Fasko, D., & Osborne, F. H. (1999). Intrapersonal intelligence: Affective factors in thinking. Education.

Shepard, R. G. & Owen, D. W. (1995). Thinking critically about performance assessment and education reform. Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Discipline, 14 (4), 80-87.

Shepard, R. G. (1995). Subjectivity in teacher decision-making: Underlying cognitive processes. Education, 115 (4), 509-515.

Shepard, R. G. (1995). The role of automatic processing in reflective teaching and decision-making. Scholar and Educator, 18, 35-43.

Shepard, R. G. & Rose, N.H. (1995). The power of parents: An empowerment model for parental involvement. Education, 115 (3), 373-377.

Shepard, R. G. (1994). Raising our consciousness: The role of automatic processing in teacher decision making. In J.H. Divine & R. S. Tompkins (Eds.). Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 2, pp. 267-273.

Eaglin, J. & Shepard, R. G. (1994). At the eye of the storm: Performance assessment and educational reform. In J. H. Divine & r. S. Tompkins (Eds.) Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 2, pp. 57-67. Evansville, IN: University of Southern Indiana.

Rose, N. H. & Shepard, R. G. (1994). Increasing parental involvement through Family Resource and Youth Services Center. (Tech. Rep.) Morehead State University, submited to Kentucky Cabinet for Human Resources.

Shepard, R. G. (1994). Biblical progression as moral development: The analogy and its implication. Journal of Psychology and Theorlogy, 22, 182-186.

Shepard, R. G. & Fasko, d. (1994). Intrapersonal intelligence in education. Scholar and Educator, 17, 25-34.

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American Psychological Association, Division 15 Educational Psychology

American Educational Research Association

Mid-South Educational Research Association

Phi Delta Kappa

Research Areas

Cognitive Processes in Teacher Decision-Making

Writing and Conceptual Development

Integrating Psychology and Theology

Service/Outreach Projects

Kentucky Teacher Internship Program (KTIP) observed for seven interns (1993-1995)

Student Teaching Advisory Committee