Jennifer Winquist

Jennifer Winquist Professor of Psychology and Department Chair jennifer.winquist@valpo.edu 219.464.6841 Wesemann Hall (WH) 234

Biography

Jennifer Winquist joined the faculty in 1999. Her background is in Social Psychology and she primarily teaches courses focused on research methods and statistics. Over the years she has done research in the fields of group decision making, depression, rumination, and learning/memory. Her current focus is on “giving science away” by working with students who do research with community organizations to help further the organizational mission. In addition to this work, she has written a Statistics textbook and is currently working on an open source Introductory Research Methods and Statistics book. When she isn’t at work, Dr. Winquist and her husband enjoy time with their twins, hiking, gaming, and playing bass guitar.

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Education

PhD. in Social Psychology from University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A. in Social Psychology from University of Illinois at Chicago
B.A. in Psychology from Purdue University

Courses Taught
  • PSY 111: Lab in General Experimental Psychology
  • PSY 201: Statistical Methods
  • PSY 202: Research Methods
Research Interests

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Research that Serves Community Organizations

Selected Contributions

Carlson, K., & Winquist, J. (2020). Introduction to Statistics: An Active Learning Approach. (3rd Edition). Sage.

Butler, A., Winquist, J., Abraham, M., & Wetherell, G. (2018). Intervention reduces beliefs in learning styles in an introductory psychology lab. Poster presented at the 2018 National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology.

Abraham, M., Butler, A., Winquist, J., & Wetherell, G. (2018). Teaching Confounds in a General Psychology Lab. Poster presented at the 2018 meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association.

Winquist, J., & Carlson, K. (2014). Flipped statistics class results: Better performance than lecture over one year later. Journal of Statistics Education, 22, (3).

Recognitions

Grant from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Valparaiso University, Philip and Miriam Kapfer Endowed Faculty Research Award
Valparaiso University, University Research Professorship

Memberships
  • Association for Psychological Science
  • Society for the Teaching of Psychology
  • Midwestern Psychological Association