Department of PsychologyJanet Peters

Janet Peters

  1. Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Engagement & Scholarly Associate Professor
  2. Director of Instructional Excellence & Innovation
  3. Associate Professor, Career Track
Email Addressjanet.peters@wsu.edu
LocationCIC 125D
Phone509-372-7431

Education

  • PhD, Organizational Psychology, Colorado State University, 2014
  • M.S., Organizational Psychology, Colorado State University, 2010
  • B.S., Psychology & Human Development, University of Wisconsin Green Bay, 2008

Biography

Teaching

  •  Introductory Psychology
  • Elementary Statistics in Psychology
  • Research Methods
  • Organizational Psychology
  • Special Topics: Professional Skills for Psychology Majors
  • Freshman Seminar

Research

  • Student, Employee, and Faculty Engagement
  • Innovative Instruction and High Engagement Pedagogy
  • Student Leadership Development
  • Student Attitudes Towards Statistics

Recent Recognitions

  • 2017 WSUTC Outstanding Teaching Award Recipient
  • 2017 LIFT Faculty Fellow and AVID Instructor
  • 2017 Center for Civic Engagement Faculty Fellow
  • 2017 Research paper on employee engagement ranked among the Top 10 most important articles of 2016 with practical significance to organizations

Recent Presentations & Publications

  • Peters, J.M., Snell, C., & Almeida, A. (2017). Teaching Statistics to Psychology Majors Using Service Learning. Symposium presented at the international conference of European Psychology of Teaching and Learning, Salzburg, Austria
  • Peters, J.M (2017, October). Making the “Mean” Meaningful: A New Strategy for Student Engagement in Statistics Courses. Paper presented at the annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, San Antonio, TX
  • Peters, J.M (2017, May). Bring Your Best: Leveraging the strengths of peers to teach Introductory Psychology. Symposium presented at the annual conference for the Teaching of Introductory Psychology, Seattle, WA
  • Kiersch, C.E. & Peters, J.M. (2017). Leadership from the inside out: Student leadership development within authentic leadership and servant leadership frameworks. Journal of Leadership Education.
  • Byrne, Z.S., Peters, J.M., & Weston, J. (2016). The struggle with employee engagement: Measures and construct clarification using five samples. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(9), 1201-1227.