Dr. Lord Information

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Dr. Thomas R. Lord

Professor of Biology

Indiana Univ. of PA

Electronic Mail Address

TRLord@grove.iup.edu

Telephone

Office: (724) 357-2484
Biology Department Office: (724) 357-2352
FAX: (724) 357-5700

Semester Schedule

Office Hours

Teaching Schedule

IUP Campus Address

12 Weyandt Hall
Department of Biology
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705

Professional Interests and Formal Education
[ Publications ]

Field: Secondary and higher education, spatial aptitudes, environmental science, human laterality.

My academic interests have been in three major areas. First, my concern for the failing quality of contemporary education in this country has led to my serving on the advisory councils on outcomes assessment and on faculty development for the New Jersey Department of Higher Education and the committee on standards in teaching for the National Biology Teachers Association. I have also conducted several studies on effective teaching strategies in post primary grades. Much of this research has focused on the role spatial aptitude plays in science learning. This work has led to cooperative investigations with several premier cognitive theoreticians in the United States and England. A second area of interest centers on environmental and ecological issues. This involvement has led to several research studies on ecology issues and the development of a liberal studies course in Environmental Science at IUP. My third research interest is the bilaterality of human beings. This has led to research studies on handedness, neural hemisphere dominance and lateral preference asymmetry.

B.S. - 1965 Rutgers University
M.S. - 1969 Trenton State College
D.ED. - 1983 Rutgers University

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