Rate My Professor Stacey Todaro

Dr. Stacey Todaro serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Adrian College, a role she has held since 2021. She joined Adrian College in 2009 as Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015, and also directed the Statistics Resource Center from 2014 to 2021. Earlier, she worked as Graduate Research Assistant and Research Associate in the Discourse and Technology Lab at Northern Illinois University from 2001 to 2009. Todaro holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Northern Illinois University (2010), with a major in Cognitive Psychology and minor in Advanced Quantitative Methodology in Education; an M.A. in Psychology (2006); and a B.A. in Psychology (2002), all from the same institution. Her research specializations encompass cognitive psychology, statistics and research methods, human learning and memory, cognition and instruction, student engagement and motivation, language and cognition, discourse processing, and individual differences.

Todaro has published peer-reviewed articles such as 'Technology in the accounting classroom: Practitioner expectations and educator practices' with A. Gray (International Journal of Business and Applied Social Science, 2016), 'The influence of friction between football helmet and jersey materials on force: A consideration for sport safety' with A. Rossi, T. Claiborne, and G. Thompson (Journal of Athletic Training, 2016), 'The impact of semantic and causal relatedness and reading skill on standards of coherence' with K.K. Millis and S. Dandotkar (Discourse Processes, 2010), and 'Assessing graduate-level teaching assistants’ ability to construct well-functioning items for the purposes of classroom-based assessment' with P.J. Perry and J.K. Holt (Threshold in Education, 2010). She has delivered presentations at conferences including the Society for Text and Discourse, Psychonomic Society, and Midwestern Psychological Association. Honors include the Dissertation Facilitation Award from Northern Illinois University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2008) and the Northern Illinois University Outstanding Woman Student Award (2002). At Adrian College, she has chaired the Academic Planning Committee (2012-2014), served on multiple search and advisory committees, and reviewed for publishers such as Worth Publishers, Sage Publishing, and journals like Reading in a Foreign Language. She teaches General Psychology, Statistics for Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science Lab, and Advanced Research.