My research interests consist of two primary areas that revolve around human performance: training and individual differences.

In the realm of training research, I am interested in how different aspects of training programs affect training performance, particularly how effective trainees are at transferring the knowledge and skills acquired during training to different task situations. A current research project involves prompting people to self-regulate their cognitive activity (also known as engaging in metacognitive activity) and manipulating the amount of instruction or structure people receive during training. Specifically, I am examining how manipulating metacognitive prompts and structure affect how effectively people can transfer training knowledge and skills to dissimilar task situations.

My second research area of interest involves the examination of individual differences in relation to performance for educational and workplace settings.  For this particular area of research, I am concerned with how individual differences, such as career orientation, affect overall college student performance. A current ongoing research project I have focuses on the development and validation of an individual differences measure used to predict educational performance. Additionally, I conduct research on individual differences in training contexts because such individual qualities can ultimately affect the effectiveness of training programs.