Gregg Harbaugh is a clinical assistant professor of education at Boston University where his research focuses on quantitative methods in survey research, relationships between epistemic belief and the development of expertise, and statistics and mathematics instruction in tertiary institutions. He previously worked as a community college mathematics instructor for over 15 years and served as the Academic Chair of Tertiary & Adult Education at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, prior to arriving here at Boston University.
Dr. Harbaugh is an international scholar who collaborates with many researchers in a variety of disciplines as a statistical analyst. He has co-authored many publications, including a paper with Greg Thompson that won the Australian Association of Research in Education 2012 Best Early Career Researcher Paper. His most recent methodological research work investigates the influence of response styles on latent variable analyses for survey data. His recent academic research in education focuses on statistics and mathematics education and the development of expertise.
Selected Workshops & Short Courses
- Harbaugh, A. G. (2014, February). Designing and Analyzing High Quality Experiments in the Social Sciences. Week-long workshop/short-course given at the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI) 2014 summer program, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
- Harbaugh, A. G. (2014, January). Fundamentals of Structural Equation Modeling. Week-long workshop/short-course given at the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI) 2014 summer program, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
- Harbaugh, A. G. (2012, December). Finding the Forest among the trees: Making sense of statistical analyses in quantitative journal articles. Preconference workshop given at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Measuring what people are thinking even when they don?t say it, or how to get people to a statistics lesson without them knowing. Presentation given at Murdoch University School of Education Postgraduate Research Seminar, Perth, Australia, September 2011.
Ph.D. in Learning Sciences, University of Washington
M.A. in Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland
B.A. in Mathematics, Boston University
SED RS654: Educational Inquiry and Proposal Writing
SED RS653: Quantitative Research Methods
SED RS600: Introduction to Research
Publications
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- Muller, S., Lalovic, A., Dempsey, A. R., Rosalie, S. M., & Harbaugh, A. G. (2014, in press). Visual information that guides motor execution in expert baseball batters. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
- Modecki, K. L., Minchin, J., Harbaugh, A. G., Guerra, N., & Runions, K. (2014, in press). Bullying prevalence across contexts: A meta-analysis measuring cyber and traditional bullying. Journal of Adolescent Health (not yet available online).
- Hecimovich, M. D., Peiffer, J., & Harbaugh, A. G. (2014, in press). Development and psychometric evaluation of a post exercise exhaustion scale utilizing the Rasch measurement model. Psychology of Sport and Exercise.
- Thompson, G., & Harbaugh, A. G. (2013). A preliminary analysis of teacher perceptions of the effects of NAPLAN on pedagogy and curriculum. Australian Educational Researcher, 40(3), 299?314. doi:10.1007/s13384-013-0093-0.
- Troia, G. A., Harbaugh, A. G., Shankland, R. K., Wolbers, K. A., & Lawrence, A. M. (2013). Relationships between writing motivation, writing activity, and writing performance: Effects of grade, gender, and ability. Reading and Writing, 26(1), 17?44. doi:10.1007/s11145-012-9379-2.
- Beers, S. F., Quinlan, T., & Harbaugh, A. G. (2010). Adolescent students? reading during writing behaviors and relationships with text quality: An eyetracking study. Reading and Writing, 23(7), 743?775. doi:10.1007/s11145-009-9193-7.
- Tan, A., & Harbaugh, A. G. (2014, May). ?Cold pies, warm beer, and misspent youth?: Acculturation strategies mediate ethnic self-identification and marginalization in first and second-generation migrant youth from South-East Asia. Paper presented at the 19th International Conference of the Association of Psychology & Psychiatry for Adults & Children, Athens, Greece.
- Liu, M., Harbaugh, A. G., Hancock, G., & Harring, J. (2014, April). The effect of extreme response and non-extreme response on measurement invariance. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
- Harbaugh, A. G. (2011, November). Assessing goodness-of-fit measures for multidimensional personal epistemology survey instruments: An alternate approach using multitrait-multimethod confirmatory factor analysis. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Hobart, TAZ, Australia.
- Harbaugh, A. G. (2011, August). Exploring the pedagogic and epistemic benefits of preparatory assignments: A proposal for the use of reading assignments in tertiary mathematics classes. Paper presented at the Western Australia Institute for Educational Research 26th Annual Research Forum, Fremantle, WA, Australia.
- Harbaugh, A. G. (2010, August). Student proofs: Points of entry in developmental and precalculus math courses. Paper presented at MathFest 2010, the annual Mathematical Association of America Summer meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Harbaugh, A. G. (2010, August). Preparatory assignments: Changing students? attributions, motivations and epistemic beliefs. Paper presented at MathFest 2010, the annual Mathematical Association of America Summer meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Harbaugh, A. G. (2010, April). Using instructor error?intentional or not?to extend mathematical understanding and change students? epistemic beliefs. Paper presented at the Mathematical Association of America Pacific Northwest Annual Regional Meeting, Seattle, WA.