Timothy Cleary

Timothy J. Cleary is Professor and Chair of the Department of School Psychology in theGraduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) at Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New Jersey. He obtained his PhD in Educational Psychology with a specializationin School Psychology from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University ofNew York, CUNY Graduate School in 2001. Dr. Cleary began his professional career working asa licensed school psychologist in the public and private sector. He began his academic career as aVisiting Professor at CUNY before serving as Assistant and Associate Professor at the Universityof Wisconsin—Milwaukee prior to moving to Rutgers University in 2012.Dr. Cleary’s primary research interests include the development and application of self-regulatedlearning (SRL) and motivation assessment and intervention practices across academic,athletic, medical, and clinical contexts. Specifically, he has examined trends in school-basedSRL assessment and intervention practices, developed and validated several types of SRL assessments(i.e., self-report, teacher rating scales, parent rating scales, microanalytic protocols), developedand tested academic intervention programs, and investigated links among SRL processesand performance indicators. He has published over 70 peer-review journal articles and bookchapters specifically addressing SRL issues and applications, coedited a scholarly book on SRL,served as sole author on an edited volume targeting SRL intervention programs and a sole authorfor a research-to-practice book for K–12 teachers, The Self-Regulated Learning Guide: TeachingStudents to Think in the Language of Strategies (2018). Most of his publications have appearedin top-tiered journals across multiple fields, including school psychology, educational psychology,medical education, teacher education, and sport psychology. His research productivity hasbeen widely cited by others, with approximately 8,000 Google Scholar citations and 4,000 citationssince 2018. He was the recipient of the 2021 Barry J. Zimmerman Award for OutstandingContributions to the fields of studying and self-regulated learning research from the Studyingand Self-Regulated Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational ResearchAssociation (AERA).Dr. Cleary’s extramural grant funding is significant in both its quantity and quality, andmost of his projects have been collaborative in nature. He is serving or has served as a PrincipalInvestigator (PI) or Co-PI on grants from the National Science Foundation, the Departmentof Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), Institute forEducational Sciences (IES), and the Spencer Foundation. Over the course of his career, Dr.About the Authors xxixCleary has served in a lead or collaborative scholarly role on grants totaling approximately $12million.Dr. Cleary has also taken on several leadership roles at the university and national levels.Across institutions, he has served as Program Director, Director of Clinical Training,and Department Chair. He also participated as a Fellow in the inaugural Rutgers LeadershipAcademy in 2015. At a national level, Dr. Cleary has served on the executive board for theStudying and Self-Regulated Learning Special Interest Group (SSRL SIG) of the AmericanEducational Research Association (AERA), performing roles of Chair, Program Chair, andSecretary. He also served as Chair for the Graduate Student Mentoring Program of the SSRLSIG for four years and has participated in various mentoring programs sponsored by NASP andDivision C of AERA. Dr. Cleary currently serves on prestigious editorial boards for school psychologyjournals (Journal of School Psychology, School Psychology) and educational psychologyjournals (Journal of Experimental Education, Metacognition and Learning) and served as a panelreviewer for IES grant for several years. Dr. Cleary is frequently asked to provide professionaldevelopment workshops to school personnel, researchers, and psychologists across the countryregarding the application and motivation and SRL principles.