Helen J. Kenney, Ed.D.

Program Consultant
A. B., Emmanuel College; M.Ed., Boston College; Ed.D., Boston University; Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study, Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration

Specialty Areas

Cognitive and educational psychology; educational and psychological assessment; curriculum and instruction for the learning impaired.

My research interests have centered on the application of developmental theory to problems and issues affecting the learning of children with special needs, particularly the learning disabled and the emotionally disturbed child. Both the psychology and pedagogy of how the cognitive style of a learning impaired child impacts learning both organized and discursive subject matter of a school curriculum have shaped much of my basic and applied research efforts. A collateral research interest is the development of assessment tools and techniques addressing the interface of psychology with pedagogy.

Selected Publications

Kenney, H., & Bruner, J. S. (1966). On relational concepts and on multiple ordering. Studies in Cognitive Growth. New York: John Wiley.

Kenney, H., Zern, D., & Kvaraceus, W. C. (1977). The cognitive style dimension of reflectivity-impulsivity in normal emotionally disturbed adolescents. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 131, 107-113.

Kenney, H., & Falmagne, R. (1983). Analysis of deductive reasoning with application to instruction in geometry. National Science Foundation Education Development and Research.