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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
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Research Interests:
- Individual differences in learning strategies in reading
and listening comprehension
- History of Psychology
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Undergraduate courses:
- History of Psychology
- Principles of Research in Psychology
- Learning
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Graduate courses:
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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
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