Christine B. McCormick came to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005 as Dean of the School of Education. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with a minor in measurement and statistics, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously she was a faculty member and held administrative roles at the University of New Mexico and the University of South Carolina where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in human growth and development, educational psychology, learning and cognition, and classroom assessment.
Dr. McCormick is the author or coauthor of more than 40 publications on a variety of topics in child development and education, including research on metacognition and cognitive strategies. Her most recent book, co-authored with Michael Pressley, and published in 2007, is titled “Child and Adolescent Development for Educators”, New York: Guilford Press. While at the University of New Mexico Dr. McCormick was part of a NSF funded research team assessing cognitive diversity and its implications for the mathematics learning of children in New Mexico (Hispanic, Native American, and Anglo).