I earned a doctorate in education psychology from the University of Missouri in 1993. I retired as Associate Dean and Associate Research Professor of the College of Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2015. My research interests are the role Social Learning Theory/Self-Efficacy theory play in motivation students to learn and for all people to acquire new behaviors. I am the author of "Learning Mathematics Successfully," a book for parents and teachers on how to instill mathematical self-efficacy in their student(s), published by Information Age Publishing in 2019.