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Who We Are

The Adolescents, Teaching, Education, AchieveMent (A-TEAM) is a research team dedicated to examining and understanding the psychological, social, and emotional processes that enhance or impede academic achievement in adolescent populations. The A-TEAM is co-directed by Dr. Christian Mueller, Dr. Martin Jones, and Dr. Denise Winsor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Memphis.

Our Research Goals

Goal 1:  To research topics of interest including; peer influences, motivation, gifted students, self concept, and other topics related to academic performance.

Goal 2:  To have graduate students become active participants in all facets of conducting research and cultivate an environment which supports and facilitates learning from multiple perspectives in theory and research. 

Goal 3:  To provide support and critical feedback in the research process from investigating current literature, design and analysis of data, preparing conference proposals, and submitting scientific articles for publication.

Goal 4:  To foster students as independent researchers who are competent and efficacious about pursuing their own research interests.

Our Current Projects

• Using the NELS:88 data set to examine how school, family, and individual activities influence self-concept in gifted students.  This research contributes to narrowing the gap in the literature through investigating gifted students� academic self-concept in the domains of math self-concept and verbal self-concept.

• Using the NELS:88 data set to examine how membership in certain athletic groups and peer influences may relate to academic performance.  This study addresses a gap in the research by exploring specific team sports and academic outcomes via males' and females' perceptions of peer beliefs in relationship to academic and social perspectives.

Interested students should contact:

• Dr. Christian Mueller:  cemuellr@memphis.edu
• Dr. Martin Jones:  mhjones3@memphis.edu
• Dr. Denise Winsor:  dwinsor@memphis.edu