Jeanne Day

Contact Information

Office: 217 Haggar Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Phone: (574) 631-6589
Email: jday@nd.edu

Degrees

B.A, Psychology, University of California San Diego
M.A., Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
Ph.D, Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

Honors/Awards

1993 – Charles E. Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame
1996 – John A. Burns, CSC Graduate School Award (for excellence in graduate education)
1999 – Presidential Award

Educational research interests

Dr. Day’s research interests are in the area of cognitive development and educational processes. One of her primary areas of investigation currently concerns finding better ways to teach young disadvantaged children so as to improve their preparation for later school success. In addition, she studies individual differences in the ease with which children learn with an eye toward creating educationally useful profiles of ability. Recently, she has taught children attending Head Start literacy and math concepts. Finally, she has conducted research on the measurement of “social intelligence” with the eventual aim of finding ways to improve children’s social skills.

Select Publications

Lee, J. E., Wong, C. M. T., Day, J. D., Maxwell, S. E., & Thorpe, P. (2000). Social and academic intelligences: a multitrait-multimethod study of their crystallized and fluid characteristics. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 539-553.

Wong, C. M. T., Day, J. D., Maxwell, S. E., & Meara, N. M. (1995). A multitrait-multimethod study of general intelligence and social intelligence in college students. Journal of Educational Psychology, 87, 117-133.

Day, J. D., & Cordon, L. A. (1993). Static and dynamic measures of ability: An experimental comparison. Journal of Educational Psychology, 85, 75-82.