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Svetlana Chesser
Assistant Professor of Instruction
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Office: DAV 121
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Dr. Chesser's teaching expertise includes developmental, biological, personality, educational, and medical psychology, as well as psychological tests & measurements, and elementary statistics.
Her research broadly focuses on understanding how early childhood experiences influence cognitive abilities. She uses a complex systems theory framework, large-scale longitudinal data sets, and computational methods to investigate how adversity influences cognitive development in children and adolescents.
Education
- Ph.D. Educational Psychology, Auburn University, Alabama, USA, 2013
- Jurist Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, 1997
- B.S., M.S Biology and Chemistry, Vitebsk State University, Vitebsk, Belarus,1987
Selected Publication
Chesser, S., & Forbes, S.A. (2022). The Application of Bio-Psycho-Social Principals to Educational Settings. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-7935-4718-7
Chesser, S., Durham, K.*, & Aydarova, E. (2021). Using Action Research to Promote Meaningful E-Service Learning Experience for Preservice Teachers. In A. Slapac, P. Balcerzak & K. O'Brien (Eds.). Handbook of Research on the Global Empowerment of Educators and Student Learning Through Action Research. IGI Global, pp.49-67. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6922-1.ch003
Chesser, S., Forbes, S.A., & Shelton, J. (2020). Toward an Interactionist Approach in Examination of Learning Environments. Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences,7/1: 23-32. ISSN: 2375-8899
Chesser, S., Murrah, W., Forbes, S.A. (2020). Impact of Personality on Choice of Instructional Delivery and Students’ Performance. American Journal of Distance Education, 34/3: 211-223. doi.org/10.1080/08923647.2019.1705116
Meyer, M.*, Chesser, S., Swanson, S.*, & Forbes, S. (2019). Political Attitudes of the Young Electorate in the 2016 Presidential Election and Parental Influences on Political Identity Formation. Modern Psychological Studies: 25/ 1/3, available at: https://scholar.utc.edu/mps/vol25/iss1/3
Chesser, S., Swanson, S.*, Garey, E., & Hood Jr, R. W. (2018). Religious and non-religious predictors of life satisfaction in a sample of American college students. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 21/ 4: 418–428. DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2018.1504905
Garey, E., Chesser, S., Hood Jr, R. W., & Forbes, S.A. (2018). The Religious Attribution Scale: Further validation with an American sample. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 21/9-10: 926-933. DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2018.1484432