Jeff Bisanz

Contact

Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Arts - Psychology Dept

Email: jbisanz@ualberta.ca

Overview

Research

Cognitive development, with emphases on mathematical cognition, instruction, and assessment.
Community-based research on the development of children and families with the Community-University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth, and Families.

Teaching

PSYCO 422/622: Advanced Topics in Developmental Psychology--Early Child Development and Social Policy (Fall, 2017)

In this combined graduate/undergraduate course we examine the relation between research on early childhood and the development of social policy in the area of early learning and care.

Featured Publications

Development of mathematical knowledge in young children: Attentional skill and the use of inversion.

Watchorn, R. P. D., Bisanz, J., Fast, L., LeFevre, J., Skwarchuk, S.-L., & Chant-Smith, B.

Journal of Cognition and Development. 2014 January;

Refining the quantitative pathway of the Pathways to Mathematics model

Sowinski, C., LeFevre, J., Skwarchuk, S.-L., Kamawar, D., Bisanz, J., Smith-Chant, B.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2014 January;

The protocol for the Families First Edmonton trial (FFE): A randomized community-based trial to compare four service integration approaches for families with low-income.

Drummond, J., Schnirer, L. So, S., Mayan, M., Williamson, D., Bisanz, J., Fassbender, K., & Wiebe, N.

BMC Health Services Research. 2014 January;

The relation between mathematics and working memory in young children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.

Rasmussen, C., & Bisanz, J.

Journal of Special Education. 2011 January;

The role of executive attention in the acquisition of mathematical skills for children in Grades 2 through 4.

LeFevre, J., Berrigan, L., Vendetti, C., Kamawar, D., Bisanz, J., Skwarchuk, S.-L., & Smith-Chant, B. L.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.