Dr. Petrosko's curriculum vita

Dr. Petrosko has been a member of the University of Louisville faculty since 1975. His specialty areas include educational research methodology, educational evaluation, and statistics. He has collaborated on research and evaluation studies in a number of different topic areas, including special education and occupational education. He has also done research related to the assessment and accountability provisions of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA).

Educational Background

• PhD, Educational Research, New Mexico State University
• BA, Psychology, Lewis University

Teaching Areas

• ELFH 600 Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics
• ELFH 601 Applied Statistics
• ELFH 703 Multivariate Educational Statistics

Research Interests

• Elementary School Reform
• Educational Reform Policies
• Outcomes of Higher Education
• Large Scale Assessment Systems in Education
• Multivariate Statistics
• Educational Evaluation

Professional Activities

• Assistant Professor to Professor of Education, (1975-present);
• Co-director of the University of Kentucky/University of Louisville Joint Center for the Study of Educational Policy, (1992-2001);
• Visiting Professor at the Jiangxi Institute of Education, Nanchang, China (1986);
• Assistant Research Educator, University of California, Los Angeles (1972-1975).

Publications

• Pankratz, R. S., & Petrosko, J. M. (Eds.). (2000). All children can learn: Lessons from the Kentucky reform experience. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Petrosko, J. M., & Lindle, J.C. (Eds.). (2001). 2000 review of research on the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Report prepared for the Kentucky Institute for Education Research. Lexington and Louisville, KY: University of Kentucky/University of Louisville Joint Center for the Study of Educational Policy.
• Riggert, S. C., Boyle, M., Petrosko, J. M., Ash, D., & Rude-Parkins, C. (2006). Student employment and higher education: Empiricism and contradiction. Review of Educational Research, 76, 63-92.
• Winter, P. A., Partenheimer, P. R., & Petrosko, J. M. (2006/2003). An experimental approach to evaluating the viability of potential applicants for assistant principal vacancies. Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 17, 299-315.