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Randolph Smith

Randolph A. (Randy) Smith is an adjunct Professor at Moravian College. Randy He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Houston and PhD at Texas Tech University in experimental psychology (specialties in human learning/memory and statistics). Randy taught at Ouachita Baptist University for 26 years (20 years’ service as Chair), chaired Kennesaw State University’s Psychology Department for four years, and chaired Lamar University’s Psychology Department for six years (from which he retired in 2013). His professional work centers on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Randy served as Editor of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s journal Teaching of Psychology for 12 years and subsequently served as Editor of the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research. He is author of Challenging Your Preconceptions: Thinking Critically About Psychology (2002), co-author (with Steve Davis) of The Psychologist as Detective: An Introduction to Conducting Research in Psychology (6th edition in 2013), and co-author (with Steve Davis) of An Introduction to Statistics and Research Methods: Becoming a Psychological Detective (2005). In addition, Randy has developed a comprehensive instructor’s resource package for Wayne Weiten’s introductory psychology text. He has written several book chapters and articles and made numerous presentations dealing with varied aspects of teaching, applying social psychology to teaching, and assessment of teaching. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (a Fellow of Divisions 1 and 2—General Psychology and Teaching) and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. In 2006, Randy received the American Psychological Foundation’s Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award and the University System of Georgia Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award.