Title: Associate Professor of Research, and Department Head, Curriculum and Instruction &
Interim Director, Office of Accreditation, Assessment, and Data Management
B.Sc., University of Sierra Leone, 1976
M.Sc., Texas Southern University, Houston,1980
Ph.D., University of Houston, 1978
Tel: (936) 261-3415
E-Mail: elmason at pvamu.edu
Office Hours: 8 – 5 MTWRF
Teaching:
Spring 2008
EDFN 5923 Master’s Seminar T 0530-0820PM, Delco, Rm 327
Fall 2007
EDFN 5923 Master’s Seminar W 0530-0820PM, Delco, Rm 327
Summer 2007
EDFN 5103 Educational Research
Current Research:
Project XLR8 - A High School Redesign Program, funded by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2005-2010)
Achieving the Dream: - An Institutional Transformation and Learning Program, funded by the Houston Endowment (2007-2011) Most Recent Research:
Texas A&M Systems Regent Initiative Collaborative Grant Research projects (2001 – 2005)
M.S. Theses supervised:
• The Effects of Block Scheduling on the Academic Achievement of High School Students
• Mathematics Teaching: A Study of the Effects of a Conceptual & Definitive Approach
Serves as methodologist and committee member in several Ph.D Dissertation Studies.
Areas of Interest:
• Teacher Recruitment and Retention
• Diversity Education
• Structural Modeling Equations
