Dr. Derek Meyers
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Biography
I always have lived in Central IL and attended both Illinois Central College (AAS) and Illinois State University (BS, MS, EdD). In addition to teaching for the Department of Psychology, I am the Assistant Director of University Assessment Services on campus.
A note for my research: My birth/former name is Derek J. Herrmann, and my married/professional name is Derek J. H. Meyers.
Current Courses
PSY 331.002 Laboratory In Research Methods For Psychology: Developmental
PSY 331.002 Laboratory In Research Methods For Psychology: Developmental
PSY 415.002 Laboratory In Research Methods For Psychology: Developmental
Teaching Interests & Areas
As a non-tenure track faculty member, I usually teach Laboratory in Research Methods for Psychology: Developmental (PSY 331/415) but also have taught Educational Psychology (PSY 215) and Adult Development and Aging (PSY 303).
As a graduate student in the department, I assisted with Psychology of Personality (PSY 233), taught lab sections of Reasoning in Psychology Using Statistics (PSY 138) and Research Methods in Psychology (PSY 231), and taught Adult Development and Aging (PSY 303).
As an undergraduate student in the department, I assisted with Introduction to Psychology (PSY 111).
Research Interests & Areas
My classroom-based doctoral dissertation (in education) was a multiple case study to describe my undergraduate psychology students’ writing feedback processes and compare them (based on whether feedback was provided by me or other students) between two, differently formatted/structured class sections of the same course (PSY 331).
My laboratory-based master's thesis (in psychology) was a psychometric study of an in-development, but not formally published, measure of late adolescent romantic attachment among individuals in different relationship configurations (i.e., women/men with men/women or women with women).