Education

B.A., Psychology, Texas A&M University

M.A. and Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

Contact Information

512-471-9226
abrichards@austin.utexas.edu

Angela Bush-Richards

Research Scientist Associate IV

Angela Bush-Richards is a member of the research team at the Charles A. Dana Center. She works primarily on the Academic Youth Development (AYD) Project, developing research instruments, collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and reporting on the teachers, students, and classrooms involved in AYD. Angela also contributes to strategic planning for the AYD program and provides research support for the Algebra I Intensification Project.

As a social learning psychologist, Angela’s research interests include motivation, self-regulation, academic emotions, and how the learning environment influences these processes. Angela also uses various quantitative and qualitative methodologies for examining learning, instruction, group processes, classroom community, and motivation in her research.

Before coming to the Dana Center, Angela served as an Interdisciplinary Education Sciences postdoctoral researcher at University of Virginia Center for Advanced Studies of Teaching and Learning, an evaluation analyst for the Austin Independent School District, and senior program coordinator for academic assessment in the UT College of Fine Arts. She has also taught psychology at St. Edward’s University and educational psychology courses at the University of Texas at Austin.

Selected Publications

Bush-Richards, A. M., Schneider, C. L., Leach, L. F., Harvey, K. E., Fong, C. J., & Chao, T. (2011, April). Intelligence, persistence, and problem solving: Assessing change in student beliefs over an academic youth development program. Poster session to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Bush-Richards, A. M. (2009, April). Classroom quality, math achievement, and gender: The importance of organization and engagement. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Bush, A. M. (2006). What comes between classroom community and academic emotions: Testing a self-determination model of motivation in the college classroom. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.

Robinson, D. H., Funk, D. C., Beth, A., & Bush, A. M. (2005). Changing beliefs about corporal punishment: Increasing knowledge about ineffectiveness to build more consistent moral and informational beliefs. Journal of Behavioral Education, 14, 117-139.