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Vandana Thadani

Professor of Psychology

I completed my Ph.D. in Developmental psychology at UCLA and came to LMU in 2004, after doing program evaluation research for an educational consulting firm. My research is in educational psychology, specifically using video-based observational techniques to study, understand, and measure classroom teaching.

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About Vandana Thadani

I completed my Ph.D. in Developmental psychology at UCLA and came to LMU in 2004, after doing program evaluation research for an educational consulting firm. My research is in educational psychology, specifically using video-based observational techniques to study, understand, and measure classroom teaching.

Present	Professor of Psychology, Loyola Marymount University
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Psychology

Educational Psychology, The Measurement of Classroom Instruction, Program Evaluation in Education, Education Technology, and Professional Development for Educators.

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Articles (5)

Textbook-Bundled Metacognitive Tools: A Study of LearnSmart’s Efficacy in ...

Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (2016)

Vandana Thadani and Nicole C. Bouvier-Brown

College textbook publishers increasingly bundle sophisticated technology-based study tools with their texts. These tools appear promising, but empirical work on ...

First-Year College Women's Motivations for Hooking up: A Mixed-Methods ...

International Journal of Sexual Health (2013)

Shannon R. Kenney, Vandana Thadani, Tehniat Ghaidarov and Joseph W. LaBrie

This study used content analysis techniques to explore 221 first-year college women's perceptions of female peers’ reasons (i.e., normative perceptions) ...

College Instructors’ Implicit Theories About Teaching Skills and Their Relationship ...

Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (2010)

Vandana Thadani, Jacqueline Dewar and William Breland

Implicit theories about the malleability of skills/abilities have been shown to predict learners’ willingness to participate in learning opportunities. The ...

Alcohol-Related Information in Multi-Component Interventions and College Students' Drinking Behavior

Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education (2009)

Vandana Thadani, Karen Huchting and Joseph LaBrie

Education-only interventions produce little change in drinking behaviors; but, multi-component prevention programs, which include alcohol information as one feature, can ...

Quantifying Students' Scientific Problem Solving Efficiency and Effectiveness

Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (2007)

Ronald H. Stevens and Vandana Thadani

Using online problem-solving tasks and machine learning tools, a measure has been developed to quantify the effectiveness and efficiency of ...

Contribution to Book

A Bayesian Network Approach for Modeling the Influence of Contextual ...

Psychological Science Faculty Works (2006)

Vandana Thadani and Ronald H. Stevens

A challenge for intelligent tutoring is to develop methodologies for transforming streams of performance data into insights and models about ...