Karen Murphy
P. Karen Murphy, Ph.D.
E-mail Address: pkm15@psu.edu
Title(s): Professor of Education
Education: University of Maryland
About: Dr. Murphy holds appointments in the Department of Educational and School Psychology and Special Education and the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium and is Co-Director of the Center for Educational and Developmental Sciences. Her research focuses on the role of students' knowledge and beliefs in the comprehension of oral and written language. Specifically, Dr. Murphy's research involves the investigation of processes underlying students' abilities to read and understand a text, to critically examine and evaluate the information presented, and to make reasoned judgments as a result of reading. Her ongoing projects pertain to the role of knowledge and beliefs in teaching and learning, promoting high-level comprehension through classroom discussion, student processing of intratextual refutation, and the use of biobehaviorial indices in educational research. She is currently Associate Editor of Learning and Instruction Europe's flagship educational research journal, serves on several other editorial boards, and has authored or co-authored numerous publications in outlets like the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and the Educational Researcher.
