George Noell

Professor and Director of School Psychology

School Area

Department of Psychology
233 Audubon Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone:(225) 578-4119
Fax: (225) 578-4125

gnoell@lsu.edu

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Research Interests:

My work focuses on interventions for you young children (ages 2-12 years), at-risk children, and children with disabling conditions. My team works with challenging behaviors, academic problems, and social/adaptive behavior concerns exhibited by children. My team commonly works in the public schools, the psychological services clinic at LSU, and specialized centers off campus. We have been worked with a local foundation to develop a specialized preschool program for children with Autism. My doctoral students provide part of the services in that program. My colleagues, doctoral students, and I have focused on two problems in the areas of consultation and child behavior therapy of the past 10 years:

(1) The development of practical assessment tools that identify effective treatments. This work has focused on functional and curriculum based assessment.

(2) The development of follow-up procedures that lead to implementation of treatment plans by children’s care providers.

Over the last several years I have become involved in a new area of research focusing on assessing the efficacy of programs that prepare new teachers. This work has lead to funding that supports a number of my graduate students as they contribute to the research. Additional information about that research can be obtained at:
http://asa.regents.state.la.us/TE/value_added_model

The doctoral students on my team are actively involved in developing the skills needed for both psychological service delivery and scholarship. The majority of my articles in scholarly journals include student co-authors and a number of my students have gone on to first authored articles. I received the Lightner Whitmer Award from the Division of School Psychology of the American Psychological Association for early career scholarship. I received the LSU Distinguished Faculty Award in 2005. I serve on the editorial boards of several journals and I am in Editor-Elect of the Journal of Behavioral Education.

Selected Recent Publications:

Noell, G. H. & Burns, J. L. (in press). Value added assessment of teacher preparation: An illustration of emerging technology. Journal of Teacher Education.

Noell, G. H., Connell, J. M., & Duhon, G. J. (in press). Spontaneous response generalization during whole word instruction: Reading to spell and spelling to read. Journal of Behavioral Education.

Noell, G. H., Witt, J. C., Slider, N. J., Connell, J. E., Gatti, S. L., Williams, K. L., Koenig, J. L., Resetar, J. L., & Duhon, G. J. (2005). Treatment implementation following behavioral consultation in schools: A comparison of three follow-up strategies. School Psychology Review, 34, 87-106.

Noell, G. H., Gilbertson, D. N., VanDerHeyden, A. M., & Witt, J. C. (2005). Eco-Behavioral Assessment and Intervention for Culturally Diverse At-Risk Students. In C. L. Frisby & C. R. Reynolds (Eds.) Comprehensive Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology (pp. 904-927). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Noell, G. H., Whitmarsh, E. L., VanDerHeyden, A. M., Gatti, S. L., & Slider, N. J. (2003). Sequencing instructional tasks: A comparison of contingent and non-contingent interspersal of preferred academic tasks. Behavior Modification, 27, 191-216.

Noell, G. H., Freeland, J. T., Witt, J. C., & Gansle, K. A. (2001). Using brief assessments to identify effective interventions for individual students. Journal of School Psychology, 39, 335-355.

Professional Affiliations:

American Psychological Association (Fellow)
National Association of School Psychologists
Association for Behavior Analysis
Society for the Study of School Psychology

 

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