Marissa Bamberger

Marissa Bamberger earned her B.A. in psychology from North Central College in 2019. After earning her master's degree in educational research and evaluation, she is currently completing her Ph.D. in educational psychology at Northern Illinois University. She began teaching at North Central in 2022. Her research focuses on learning and psychological misconceptions, and she is eager to expand this research to include topics in social justice.

Selected Scholarship

Bamberger, M. R., Ketsman, O., Chiang, J.-L., Poku, A. B., Kennedy, K., Sanderson, M., & Reeves, T. D. (manuscript submitted for publication). Pre-service teachers’ use of technology to learn to teach: Exploring the roles of self-efficacy, resilience, and academic stress.

Bamberger, M. R., Campbell, C., & Smith, T. J. (2023). Priming metacognition and critical thinking to dispel psychological misconceptions. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. Advance online publication.  https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000361

Bamberger, M. R., & Smith, T. J. (2023). First-generation college students: Goals and challenges of community college. Community College Review, 51(3), 445–462. https://doi.org/10.1177/00915521231163903

Bamberger, M. R., & Reeves, T. D. (2021). Individual and contextual factors associated with data sharing in the social sciences. The Social Science Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2021.1986663

Courses Taught

PSYC 255 Research Design & Experimentation

PSYC 100 Psychology: Science of Behavior

PSYC 240 Social Psychology