Bethany Van Vleet is a teaching professor and director of the online graduate program in family and human development in the Sanford School. She is a proud sun devil, having received her BS (Psychology) and PhD (Educational Psychology – Measurement, Statistics, and Methodological Studies) from ASU.
Bethany has been teaching in the Sanford School since 2007. Teaching activities emphasize statistics, research methods, parenting, and human development. Her scholarly interests include parenting, positive psychology (e.g. hope, kindness), family processes, personal and family narratives, the measurement of race and ethnicity, ethnic self-identification, and power in longitudinal data analysis.
Education
Ph.D., Educational Psychology - Measurement, Statistics, and Methodological Studies, Arizona State University
M.A., Educational Psychology - Measurement, Statistics, and Methodological Studies (concentration in Human Development), Arizona State University
Van Vleet, B. B., & Thompson, M. S. (April, 2012). An investigation of power analysis approaches for latent growth modeling. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Presentations
Panel member at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Workshop Best Practices for Online Master's Programs (February 8, 2019).
Bodman, D. A. & Van Vleet, B. L. (July 2019). Sand Dollars and Starfish: Making the Most Out of Canvas Discussion Boards. Presented at Instructurecon, Long Beach, California.
Bodman, D. A. & Van Vleet, B. L. (February 2019). A Sense of “Wonder”: Kindness, Empathy, Hope, and Diversity. Presented at the Celebrate the Young Child Conference, Chandler, Arizona.
