BSc, BA (Honours), PhD
First Year Advisor/Lecturer, School of Psychology
Contact details for Dr Michelle Hood
Research expertise
- General Area: Educational and Developmental Psychology
Specific Interests
- Factors in literacy and numeracy development, e.g.,
- auditory and visual temporal processing
- early home environment and family factors
- early home-based literacy interventions - Academic motivation and achievement, e.g.,
- effects of different learning goal orientations in the area of literacy and numeracy performance, and, in particular, in performance in statistics courses by university students
- barriers and enablers to seeking academic help and to succeeding at university
Sample past honours projects
- Attention and perceptual processes in reading
- Family versus peer attachment relationships in facilitating career development
- Parental beliefs in determining literacy practices in the home
- Perceived barriers and enablers and academic motivation in university students
- Loneliness and on-line friendship formation in adolescents and young adults
Current teaching areas
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Lifespan Development
- Introductory psychology courses
- Cognitive neuropsychology lectures on reading disability
- First Year Advisor
- Assistance for first year students with issues relating to successful transition and orientation to university and to the psychology program
- Peer mentoring program
- Success in Psychology Program
- Learning About My Profession program
- Individual consultation for first year students who are experiencing difficulties
Publications
- Hood, M., Conlon, E., and Andrews, G. (accepted). Pre-school home literacy practices and children???s literacy development: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Educational Psychology.
- Hood, M., Conlon, E., and Andrews, G. (2006). Active versus passive pre-school home practices and literacy development: A longitudinal comparison. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58 (Supp.), 7.
- Hood, M. (2005). Can perceptual and cognitive factors explain the relationship between rapid naming speed and reading ability? Australian Journal of Psychology, 57 (Supp.), 56.
- Hood, M. and Conlon, E. (2004). Visual and auditory temporal processing and early reading development, Dyslexia, 10, 234 ??? 252.
- Hood, M. and Conlon, E. (2003). The role of temporal processing in early reading development. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55 (Supp.), 81.