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Michael John Richardson
INSTRUCTOR - BYU CREDIT
Teacher Education, Department of
Education, David O. McKay School of

Office: 205 MCKB
Phone: 801-422-7310
Email: michael_richardson@byu.edu

Area of Discipline / Professional Expertise
  • Social and moral development
Research
  • Adolescent development (social, moral, cognitive). Theory and philosophy of moral and character education and development. Student and teacher perceptions of behavior problems in schools.
Education
  • M.S., Educational Psychology, University of Utah, 2003
  • B.S., Psychology, Brigham Young University, 1995
Affiliations
  • Secondary Education - Primary
Selected Publications
  • "Chinese elementary school teachers perceptions of students classroom behaviour problems.", Educational Psychology, Shen, J., Zhang, N., Zhang, C., Caldarella, P., Richardson, M. J., Shatzer, R. H., Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 187-201, Routledge: Taylor & Francis, March, 2009 
  • "Validation of the Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders in middle and junior high school.", Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Caldarella, P., Young, E. L., Richardson, M., & Young, B., & Young, K. R., Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 105-117, June, 2008  View Abstract
  • "Exploring Perceptions of School Quality: Implications for School Administrators.", Richardson, M. J., Sabbah, H. Y., Juchau, A., T. Caldarella, P., & Young, E. L., 2007  View Abstract
  • "Stress and anger as contextual factors and pre-existing cognitive schema: Predicting parental child maltreatment risk.", Child Maltreatment, Rodriguez, C.M. & Richardson, M.J., Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 325-337, November, 2007  View Abstract
  • "The development of principled character.", McKay Today Magazine, Richardson, M., & Christensen, L., Volume 10, Pages 10, October, 2006 
  • "Young and growing wiser: Wisdom during adolescence and young adulthood", In R. J. Sternberg & J. Jordan (Eds.) A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives., Richardson, M. J. & Pasupathi, M., Pages 139-159, Cambridge University Press., New York, 2005  View Abstract