Dr. Jeannine E. Turner is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, in the Learning and Cognition program, within the Anne Spencer Daves College of Education Health and Humas Sciences at Florida State University. She earned both her M.A. (Program Evaluation) and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Learning, Cognition, and Instruction) from The University of Texas at Austin. She joined FSU faculty in Fall 2004. She teaches courses in Motivation and Emotions, Educational Psychology, Classroom Assessment, Lifespan Development, Social Psychology, Self-Regulation, and Grounded Theory Analysis.
Her research focuses on issues of motivation, emotions, self-regulation, instruction, and learning. Her current research interests include micro and macro cultural influences on students’ motivations, emotions, self-regulation, learning, particularly in engineering education and learning a foreign/second language. Dr. Turner is most known for her research on students’ experiences of academic shame that include aspects of motivation and self-regulation. She has authored articles for academic journals including Journal of Educational Psychology, Educational Psychology, Educational Psychology Review, Journal of Advanced Academics, Education Sciences, Culture & Psychology, and Thinking Skills and Creativity. She has also published book chapters in Emotions in Education and Advances in teacher Emotion Research: The Impact on Teachers’ Lives. Her most recent publications include a chapter on Goal Complexes in the Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and a chapter on data triangulation in the book, Qualitative Research with Diverse and Underserved Communities. Her students’ research focuses on motivation, emotions, beliefs, identity-development, and self-regulation across a wide range of domains and contexts.
Dr. Turner is the Principal Investigator and Co-Director of PURPOSE: Partners United for Research Pathways Oriented to Social Justice in Education. PURPOSE is an Institute of Education Sciences funded Pathways to the Education Science Training Program, established to develop a pipeline of talented researchers who ask questions around current education issues who bring fresh approaches to address entrenched educational problems. In addition to directing the program, she serves as a mentor to Master’s students in the program to help them build their researcher identity and position them to be good candidates for doctoral programs.
Dr. Turner is a member of the American Psychological Association Division 15: Educational Psychology Practice Committee, which produces Education Practice Briefs. The goal of the briefs is to translate research to help guide teachers and school leaders to use evidence-based practices.