College of Education Administration

Research Interests: K-16 Earth systems education: Cory Forbes is the Associate Dean for Research and the Fenton Wayne Robnett Endowed Professor of Science Education in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Arlington. Forbes holds a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and M.S. in Science Education from the University of Kansas and M.S. in Natural Resources and Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Michigan. His teaching and research efforts focus on STEM education in K-12 and undergraduate STEM contexts. He directs multiple externally-funded projects involving STEM curriculum development, assessment design and testing, professional development for K-12 STEM teachers, and classroom-based research on STEM teaching and learning that are based in regional, national, and international partnerships with education researchers, STEM faculty, K-12 teachers, and stakeholders. Forbes is a NARST Early Career Research Awardee and Fulbright Faculty Scholar.

Bio: Tim Jacobbe, Ph.D. is the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is also a Professor and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Mathematics and Statistics Education are the primary foci for Dean Jacobbe’s research. He is an author of two books entitled Developing Essential Understandings for Teaching Statistics in Middle Grades and Bridging the Gap Between Common Core State Standards and Teaching Statistics. Jacobbe served as the Chair of National Council for Teachers of Mathematics and American Statistical Association Joint Committee on K-12 Statistics and Probability. He was the PI on the NSF-funded Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics Project that has been administered to several hundreds of thousands of students and teachers around the world. Prior to his academic career, Dean Jacobbe served as an assessment specialist for Educational Testing Service where he was a primary test developer for the SAT, GRE, and Advanced Placement exams. Jacobbe is a first-generation college graduate and a veteran of the United States Navy. This background motivated Dean Jacobbe to come to UT Arlington in hopes of serving students and the local community. He has dedicated a large portion of his career to integrating his scholarship with teaching to engage and make a difference in local communities. Giving back is what drives and inspires Dean Jacobbe and he is honored to serve as the Dean of a College that aspires to make a difference in the lives of others.

Research Interests: Multimodality, making, teacher PD, computational thinking, critical literacy: Dr. Robin Jocius is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. A former classroom teacher and interventionist, Dr. Jocius earned her Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from Vanderbilt University, where her research and teaching focused on children and adolescents’ interactions with new and digital media. Dr. Jocius’ teaching and research interests include critical literacy, digital literacies, teacher learning, and the development of instructional contexts that support culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Her current research is funded by the National Science Foundation and investigates how critical, multimodal Making can enable more equitable access to computing and computational thinking in K-12 classrooms. Her work has been published in the Journal of Literacy Research, Language Arts, The Reading Teacher, English Journal, and Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice.