Colleen Ganley

Dr. Colleen Ganley is a Professor of Developmental Psychology and in the Florida Center for Research in STEM at Florida State University. In her research, she examines the cognitive and affective factors related to math learning. She is particularly interested in the early development of math anxiety, interventions for reducing math anxiety, and the role of parents and teachers in children’s math anxiety and learning. She designs questionnaires, collects and analyzes longitudinal data, and uses advanced statistical techniques to answer questions about these research ideas. She also teaches research methods and statistics courses to undergraduate and graduate students.