IVAN W. KELLY, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
and Special Education.
Dr. Kelly teaches courses
in research, statistics, development, educational
assessment, and
learning theory in the Department of Educational
Psychology. He also spent eight summers
teaching
research methods to academically gifted students
in the United States.
Dr. Kelly has published
over 100 articles and book chapters on a
number
of subjects including eating disorders, probability
theory, science education, philosophy of
science,
geophysical variables and behaviour, body
image, critical thinking, biases in human
reasoning, personality, reading education,
Jean Piaget's developmental theory, factors
that contribute to people saying they have
meaningful lives, and the experiences of
crisis line volunteers.
Some of these articles
have been translated into other languages
including
Danish and Spanish. These articles have appeared
in Psychological Bulletin, Philosophy
of the Social Sciences, Personality and
Individual
Differences, The Mathematics Teacher, The
Science Teacher, International Journal
of
Learning Disabilities, Teaching Statistics,
Review Journal of Philosophy and Social
Sciences,
Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of
Psychology, Canadian Journal of Behavioural
Science, The Statistician, The Journal
of Consiousness Studies, The Canadian
Journal of Volunteer Resources Managaement, and so on.
Professor Kelly has long
entries in four encyclopedias, including
the
Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (Academic
Press) and an article in a philosophy of
science textbook. . His research has been
described in popular media such as Reader's
Digest,
Psychology Today, Discover, National
Geographic (Online), The Guardian,
The New York Times, The Telegraph (UK),
in an editorial with The
Globe and Mail, a number of television
documentaries (Discovery Channel) and
on ABC's 20/20.
He has collaborated on
research projects with many scholars, both
locally (in education, philosophy, medicine,
and mathematics), and internationally with
those
from a number
of countries (including England, Scotland,
Holland,
Finland,
U.S.A., Germany, Australia, and Belgium).
