Dr. Michael Humphrey is an Associate Professor with the Department of Special
Education and Early Childhood Studies. He has served as an educator for the past eleven
years ranging from teaching in the Peace Corps to working in adjudicated and mental
health facilities. He holds several teaching licensures including English, Special
Education and Special Education Administration. He has supervised student teachers in
their school placements by completing observations and working collaboratively to
increase effectiveness of instruction to match students’ individual needs. Dr. Humphrey
received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa, his Master of Arts and Doctor
of Education from the University of Northern Colorado. 

Dr. Humphrey’s primary scholarship interests include integrated curriculums and
instructional interventions specifically in the instruction of mathematics and
mathematical word problem solving for students with exceptionalities, instructional
interventions for students with challenging behaviors or emotional/behavioral disorders
and the integration of positive behavior intervention and supports in the Response to
Intervention and school-wide delivery models. Dr. Humphrey also serves as the Associate
Director of the Technology Accentuated Transformative Education for Rural Specialist
(TATERS) program, a federal Special Education-Personnel Development to Improve Services
and Results for Children grant.

Articles

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Leading a Multiple Project Mobile Learning Initiative: The Approach at Boise State University (with Susan E. Shadle, Ross A. Perkins, Doug J. Lincoln, and R. Eric Landrum), EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), Research Bulletins (2013)

Many colleges and universities have launched wide-ranging, device-specific mobile initiatives or invested substantial resources to...

 

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Exploring Metacognitive Accuracy in Visual Search (with Joshua Redford, Sean Green, Micah Geer, and Keith W. Thiede), Memory & Cognition (2011)

For decades, researchers have examined visual search. Much of this work has focused on...

 

Increasing Faculty Awareness of Students with Disabilities: A Two-Pronged Approach (with Lee Woods and Linda Huglin), The Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability (2011)

Many universities use a center-based model to deliver services to students with disabilities. A hybrid...

 

Cognitive Processing Deficits and Students with Specific Learning Disabilities: A Selective Meta-Analysis of the Literature (with Evelyn S. Johnson, Daryl F. Mellard, Kari Woods, and H. Lee Swanson), Learning Disabilities Quarterly (2010)

Many practitioners and state education agency staff would likely agree that the accuracy and consistency...

 

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Special Educators and Mathematics Phobia: An Initial Qualitative Investigation (with Jack J. Hourcade), The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas (2009)

Special educators are uniquely challenged to be content experts in all curricular areas, including mathematics,...

 

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Presentations

Exploring the Role of Metacognitive Accuracy in Visual Search, 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (2009)

Although visual search performance has been studied extensively, metacognitive accuracy in visual search has gone...

 

Recruitment and Retention of Special Education Teachers in Rural Areas: Challenges and Solutions (with Keith W. Allred), 32nd Annual Teacher Education Division Conference: Teacher Preparation in Changing Times: Fostering Partnerships Between Special and General Education (2009)
 

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Creative Space: Collaborative Relationships Between Faculty and Student Affairs Professionals (with Melissa Wintrow), Association of College and University Housing Offices, International Living-Learning Programs Conference (2009)