Rate My Professor Aubrey Whitehead

Aubrey K. Whitehead holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from George Mason University, which he earned in 2019. His dissertation, titled 'Examining Relationships among Undergraduates' Social Group Influences, Motivation, and STEM Degree Persistence,' was chaired by Dr. Anastasia Kitsantas. This doctoral work specifically addresses how social group influences and motivational factors impact undergraduates' ability to persist in STEM degree programs, laying the foundation for his ongoing research agenda in educational psychology.

Aubrey Whitehead serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Military Institute. His research interests center on the effects of motivation, close social group influence, and self-regulation on undergraduate degree persistence, with a strong emphasis on STEM fields. Whitehead's scholarly output includes several impactful publications. In 2023, he authored 'The company you keep: Effect of close social subgroup influence on STEM degree persistence at a small liberal arts college,' analyzing how peer subgroups affect retention in STEM at small liberal arts institutions. Additional key works are 'Student Engagement while Creating Serious Educational Games in Collaborative Learning Environments: Implications for STEM Interest' (2021), which examines engagement in game-based collaborative learning for STEM interest; 'Relations among classroom context, student motivation, and mathematics literacy: a social cognitive perspective' (2021); and 'Teachers' Classroom Cognitive Activation, Support, and Student Motivation and Achievement in Mathematics' (2019). These publications demonstrate his contributions to understanding student motivation and achievement. He has collaborated with researchers such as Barry J. Zimmerman of The Graduate Center, CUNY, Jacquelynne S. Eccles of the University of California, Irvine, and Leonidas Kyriakides of the University of Cyprus. His research profile on ResearchGate shows 35 citations across these four publications.