Dr. Michael Humphrey is an Assistant 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
Exploring Metacognitive Accuracy in Visual Search (with Joshua Redford, Sean Green, Micah Geer, and Keith W. Thiede), Memory & Cognition (2011)
Increasing Faculty Awareness of Students with Disabilities: A Two-Pronged Approach (with Lee Woods and Linda Huglin), 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...
Special Educators and Mathematics Phobia: An Initial Qualitative Investigation (with Jack J. Hourcade), Clearing House (2009)
Special educators are uniquely challenged to be content experts in all curricular areas, including mathematics,...
Mentors Increasing Special Education Retention (with Evelyn S. Johnson, Keith W. Allred, and Jack J. Hourcade), Academic Exchange Quarterly (2009)
Lack of effective professional mentoring and minimal ongoing support programs have been suggested as two...
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...