Jennifer Fredricks
Professor of Psychology,
Union College
Jennifer Fredricks is a professor of psychology at Union College where she teaches courses in Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, and Adolescent Development. She has published over 60 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters on motivation and engagement in school and out of school contexts. She is author of Eight Myths of Student Engagement: Creating Classrooms of Deep Learning (Corwin Press) and co-editor of Handbook of Student Engagement Interventions: Working with Disengaged Students (Elsevier). She served as the William T. Grant Distinguished Fellow and Students at the Center Distinguished Fellow, and has received funding from the National Science Foundation, American Educational Research Association, Spencer Foundation, and Institute for Educational Studies to support this work.
