Rachel

Ebner

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology

Email:

Rachel.Ebner@yu.edu

Office Address:

Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#606

Office Address (secondary):

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#543

Education:

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2012

Other, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2007

MA, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2006

BA, Kenyon College, 2004

Biography:

Dr. Rachel Ebner is an educational psychologist. She specializes in developing, researching, and implementing innovative ways to advance student learning and assessment both inside and outside the classroom. In addition to teaching, she works with Yeshiva University faculty and administrators as Director of Student Learning Assessment.

Teaching and Research Interests:

Assessment of student learning, instruction, and program effectiveness ● Technology, learning, & cognition ● Self-regulation & motivation ● Risk & prevention ● Literacy acquisition & development ● Social-emotional development

Publications:

Ebner, R., & Ehri, L. (2013). Vocabulary learning on the Internet: Using a structured think-aloud procedure. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 56(6), 472-481, republished in Digital Literacies: An IRA Cross-Journal Virtual Issue Ebner, R. (2012). Using the Internet with a structured think-aloud methodology to enhance college students’ vocabulary (Doctoral dissertation). Available at ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (UMI No. 3508670).