Dr. Jeongmi Kim joins LEPF Department
Dr. Kim is a native of South Korea, where she taught full-time in elementary schools for eleven and a half years, including English as a Second Language. While teaching, she earned a master's degree in educational administration and a doctorate in education, both from Yonsei University. She taught extensively at university level in Korea, including graduate courses in educational finance, educational administration, lifelong education, and classroom management. She also conducted a large-scale evaluation of graduate education curricula which the education ministry used subsequently in a national review of graduate educational programs and in educational planning.
Dr. Kim began graduate work at the University of Wisconsin in 2001, and earned a Ph. D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2006. For her dissertation, she conducted a multi-level Hierarchical Linear Modeling study of mathematics achievement, investigating the effects of student, teacher, classroom, and school-level factors. She is currently working on a similar study which investigates the effects of these factors in literacy development.
Dr. Kim's articles have appeared in Yonsei Review of Educational Research, New Education, and Journal of Educational Administration, and she has presented her research results at annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association and the American Educational Finance Association.
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Kim to the department. We look forward to seeing her again in DeKalb soon.
