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Holliway, David

Assistant Professor

Department of Educational Leadership
& Counseling Psychology

Washington State University
207S WSU Tri-Cities
Richland, WA 99354-1671

(509) 372-7242
dholliway@wsu.edu
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Curriculum Vitae

Research interests

David Holliway’s current research focus is on the development of perspective-taking in writing discourse and on the development of his own teaching practice. His interests include writing development, cogniton and language, Collaboration in Informal Sience Education (ISE) programs, educational assessment, program evaluation, and media literacy

Teaching/professional interests

Holliway teaches various classes in Educational Research, Educational Psychology, and Classroom Assessment for undergraduates in the teacher education program, masters students in the MIT and M.Ed. programs, counseling students in the M.Ed. program, and doctoral students in the Educational leadership program. Prior to coming to WSU-Tri-Cities, Holliway was an assistant professor at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Human Development, Educational Psychology, Classroom Assessment, and honors classes in Language, Literacy, and Thought.

Recent accomplishments

  • Holliway, D. (2007, August) Aria, Nacirema, and Bafa Bafa: "Towards cultural understanding through Educational Psychology." American Psychological Association (APA), San Fransisco, CA.
  • Holliway, D. (In press). “You say it looks like a dragon:” Spontaneous analogies and spatial referencing in written descriptions. Communication and Cognition.
  • Holliway, D. (2006, April). “Like Walking Into an Entirely Different World:” Small Steps Toward Cultural Understanding Through BafaBafa in Introductory Educational Psychology. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.
  • Newsletter editor/secretary for the Teaching Educational Psychology Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.
  • Paper presentation: "A Writing intensive Approach to Teaching introductory educational psychology." American Educational Research Association, Montreal Canada, 04/05.
  • Paper presentation: "Perspective-taking in young writer’s informational writing. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society" (CogSci), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. 08/02.
  • Holliway, D. (2005). Informal Assessment. In, Banks, S. (Ed.), Classroom Assessment: Issues and Practices. Allyn and Bacon, Needlham Heights, MA.
  • Holliway, D. (2004). "Through the eyes of my reader: A strategy for improving audience perspective in children’s descriptive writing." Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 18 (4), pp. 334 – 349.

Educational background

  • Ph. D. Educational Psychology, Human Development and Cognition, University of Washington, Seattle, 2000
  • M. A. Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and Discourse Analysis, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1986
  • B. A. Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1984
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