Jon F Mueller
Professor of Psychology Emeritus
Contact +1 630 637 5329
jfmueller@noctrl.edu
Office Location
WSC
Jon Mueller, Ph.D., grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He moved to the Midwest to attend college, and has been here ever since. Jon loves teaching and mentoring students, and he loves participating in an academic community.
Jon is the author of the freely available online text, Authentic Assessment Toolbox (see link below), a how-to guide for creating effective assessments, rubrics, and portfolios for evaluating student work. He also authored the text, Assessing Critical Skills. Jon has consulted on student assessment topics for more than 25 years in the U.S. and Canada at the K-12 and post-secondary levels. Jon has also authored a few other educational websites including Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology (see link below), which contains more than 6000 links to resources for instructors.
Selected Scholarship
Mueller, J. Authentic Assessment Toolbox. http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/index.htm
Mueller, J. Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology. http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/
Mueller, J. (2009). Assessing Critical Skills. Linworth Publishing: Columbus, OH.
Mueller, J., & Coon, H. (2013). Undergraduates’ ability to recognize correlational and causal language before and after explicit instruction. Teaching of Psychology, 40, 288-293.
Courses Taught
PSY 100: Psychology: Science of Behavior
PSY 205: Educational Psychology
PSY 240: Social Psychology
PSY 490: Stereotyping and Prejudice
PSY 490: Psychology of Helping
EDN 501: Assessment Strategies for the Classroom