Research Areas

Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.

Neurocognition
Lilliam M. Malave Lopez

Lilliam M. Malave Lopez

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

307 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-4060

Email: malave@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Access and Equity; Charter Schools; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Cultural Studies; Cognition; Diversity; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; International Education; Educator Preparation; Multicultural Competence; Learning Communities; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; School and Community Partnerships; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Neurocognition; Sociolinguistics; Organizational Change; Qualitative Research Methods; Professional / Staff Development; Politics of Education; Research Design; Research Methods

Scott A. Sabella

Scott A. Sabella

Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

202A Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-1123

Email: sasabell@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Clinical/counselor supervision, program management in rehabilitation agencies, community participation of people with disabilities, supports for individuals with brain injuries, psychometrics, motivational interviewing interventions

Robert Savage

Robert Savage


Learning and Instruction

South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: 7166454000

Email: rsavage@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Access and Equity; Achievement; Assessment; Elementary Education; Cognition; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Design Experiments; Literacy; Educational Change; Human Computer Interaction; Educational technology; Educational Policy; Reading Instruction; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Learning Sciences; Measurements; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Neurocognition; Quantitative Research Methods; Statistical Methods and Applications in Statistical Issues