Maria K DiBenedetto

Dr. Maria K. DiBenedetto holds a doctorate in Educational Psychology with a specializationin Learning, Development, and Instruction from the Graduate School and University Centerof the City University of New York. She has a rich history in working in various administrativepositions in higher education, including admissions, recruitment, advisement, student services,assessment, and reaccreditation, as well as adjunct teaching of both undergraduate and graduatestudents (courses include research methods, educational psychology, counseling psychology,child and adolescent development, theories of learning in teaching, and management). She alsohas several years’ experience teaching as a high school science teacher and Chair of the ScienceDepartment, as well as experience as a second- and fourth-grade elementary school teacher.Dr. DiBenedetto’s current position is at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, inthe Bryan School of Business and Economics where she is a member of the Dean’s LeadershipTeam. In her position as Lecturer/Director of Assessment and Reporting, Dr. DiBenedettooversees assurance of learning for the business school’s reaccreditation by AACSB International(Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), one of the most prestigious and internationallyrecognized organizations that reviews business schools throughout the globe. Inaddition, she ensures the business school is meeting the assurance of learning standards set bySACSCOC (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges) for allgraduate programs, undergraduate majors, minors, and certificate programs. She also serves onvarious committees throughout the university and within the business school and is a senator onthe university-wide staff senate.Dr. DiBenedetto’s research interests are focused on self-regulated learning, self-efficacy,and motivation. She has published numerous chapters and articles on these topics and has collaboratedwith world-renown scholars in the field of educational psychology. She is particularlyinterested in research on self-regulated learning for college-bound high school students as wellas study strategies for undergraduate and graduate students and their impact on achievement.Her research has been widely cited; for example, in a recent article in The Chronicle of HigherEducation on first-generation college students’ study strategies, the authors cited one of herxxx Essentials of Research Methods for Educatorsstudies in their discussion of study strategies for success (https://www.chronicle.com/article/Knowing-How-to-Study-Can-Mean/246644.).Along with Dr. DiBenedetto’s empirical research, she has written several theoretical/conceptualpublications focused on assessment, standards-based instruction, self-efficacy within asociocultural lens, the mentoring of doctoral students, and two books, one edited and one coauthored.In the edited book Connecting Self-Regulated Learning and Performance With InstructionAcross High School Content Areas (2018), each chapter is cowritten by outstanding content areahigh school teachers throughout the United States and well-known educational psychologists onapplying self-regulated learning to classroom instruction. Self-Regulation and the Common Core:Applications to ELA Standards (2015) was her earlier coauthored book that discusses how selfregulatedand the common core can be used to teach ELA standards to students in grades K–12.Dr. DiBenedetto has served on several prestigious editorial boards: Journal of ExperimentalEducation; The International Journal of Educational and Psychological Assessment; and a specialissue of Theory Into Practice. She has served as a guest reviewer for several premier journalsincluding the Journal of Educational Psychology; Journal of Advanced Academics; Learning andIndividual Differences; and Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy, & Practice, among others.DiBenedetto is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and served aschair of Division 15’s (Educational Psychology) Committee on the Development of Early CareerEducational Psychologists. She served in several positions in the Studying and Self-RegulatedLearning Special Interest Group (SIG) for the American Educational Research Association(AERA) including Chair, Program Chair, Secretary, and Editor of the SIG.Dr. DiBenedetto has presented her research internationally and domestically and has conductedprofessional development workshops for teachers in middle schools and high schools inaddition to guest lectures for doctoral students on student learning and assessment. In addition,Dr. DiBenedetto serves on doctoral dissertation committees and has served and serves as a consultanton many projects for organizations such as ACT (American College Testing), PearsonEducation, Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES), and the PortugueseScience Foundation.