Robert Rueda
Professor of Education, Rossier School of Education
University of Southern California
Phone: 213-740-2371 Email:
Biography/Research
Robert Rueda is the Stephen H. Crocker Professor of Education in the area of Psychology in Education at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He completed his doctoral work at the University of California at Los Angeles in Educational Psychology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California, San Diego. His research has centered on the sociocultural basis of motivation, learning, and instruction, with a focus reading and literacy in English learners, and students in at-risk conditions, and he teaches courses in learning and motivation. He served as a panel member on the National Academy of Science Report on the Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education, and also served as a member of the National Literacy Panel (SRI International and Center for Applied Linguistics) looking at issues in early reading with English language learners. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the American Educational Research Association, and recently served as the associate editor of the American Educational Research Journal. He serves on the editorial boards of several educational journals, and is a member of the International Reading Association and the National Reading Conference.
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, California. Major Program: Educational Psychology. Specialization: Special Education, 1979
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California, San Diego, 1981-1982.
M.S.W., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Specialization: Psychiatric Social Work, 1974
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, California. Major: Psychology, 1972
