Team Member: Dr. Elizabeth Nowicki

Research Associate
(519)-661-2111 ext. 88646
Email: enowick2@uwo.ca

Dr. Nowicki is a psychologist, a university professor, and an elementary school teacher. After completing her undergraduate degree, she studied for her B.Ed., and became an elementary school teacher, teaching grades 6 through 8. During that time, she became interested in educational psychology/special education and decided to pursue her M.Ed. She then obtained her doctorate from the Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario. She is currently an assistant professor. Her passion is research, especially that which intersects the subdomains of social, developmental, and school psychology. She also enjoys teaching educational psychology and special education courses in the B.Ed. program as well as graduate courses in educational assessment and statistics.

Research Interests

Elizabeth's current research interests are: developmental changes in children's perceptions of peers in regards to ingroup favouritism and outgroup prejudice; meta-analyses; social competence of children with learning difficulties; measurement/assessment of attitudes; psychoeducational assessment; and racial/ethnic and gender biases during childhood.

Current Projects

Elizabeth is currently working on two nationally funded projects:

Perceptual salience of person characteristics in regards to children's beliefs about ingroup and outgroup members (funded by SSHRC). Click Here for a Complete Project Description.
Life course trajectories of children and youth that end up in the justice system (funded by the National Crime Prevention Centre).

Selected Publications

Nowicki, E.A. (2007). Children's beliefs about learning and physical difficulties. International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education, 54, 463-473.

Nowicki, E.A. (2006). Children's cognitions, behavioural intent, and affect toward girls and boys of lower or higher learning ability. Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 4(2), 43-57.

Nowicki, E.A. (2006). A cross-sectional multivariate analysis of children's attitudes towards disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 50, 335-348.

Nowicki, E.A. (2005). Understanding Children's Perceptions of Intellectual and Physical Disabilities: Attitudes, Knowledge and Social Cognition. Exceptionality Education Canada, 15, 21-39.

Nowicki, E.A. (2003). A meta-analysis of the social competence of children with learning disabilities in inclusive classrooms: Comparisons with average to high and low achieving classmates. Learning Disability Quarterly, 26(3), 171-188.

Nowicki, E.A. & Sandieson, R. (2002). A meta-analysis of children's attitudes toward individuals with learning and physical difficulties. International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education, 49, 243-265.

Selected Presentations (*refereed)

*Young, G., Specht, J., & Nowicki, E. (2007, November). Assistive Technology: One school's success story. Presentation to the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario conference, Mississauga, ON.

*Nowicki, E.A., Clarke, M., Dicks, J., & Palmer, A. (2007, May). Perceptions of racial membership and learning ability; Bias and counterbias in elementary school children. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Saskatoon, SK.

*Nowicki, E.A. (2007, April). Perceptions of same and different race children of lower and higher ability. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Nowicki, E. (2007, April). Children's cognitions, behavioural intent, and affect towards girls and boys of lower and higher learning ability. Poster presented at the Faculty of Education Research Day, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.

Nowicki, E. (2007, April). Children's beliefs about learning and physical difficulties. Poster presented at the Faculty of Education Research Day, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.

Leschied, A.W., Nowicki, E.A., Rodger, S., & Chiodo, D. (2006, March). "Better to build a child than fix an adult: A report to the Canadian National Crime Prevention Council on the predictors of risk for youth who proceed to the adult justice system and the programs that work to reduce that likelihood". Presented at the research poster exhibition, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.

*Nowicki, E.A. (2006, May). Bias and counter-bias in elementary school children: Perceptions of gender and learning ability. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE), Toronto, ON.

*Nowicki, E.A. (2006, April). Children's attitudes towards girls and boys of lower or higher ability. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.

*Nowicki, E.A. (2005, May). A principal components analysis of children's attitudes towards peers with learning and physical difficulties. Presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). London, ON.

*Nowicki, E.A. (2005, April). Elementary school children's attitudes towards peers with exceptionalities: A multivariate cross sectional study. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, QC.

*Young, G. D., Specht, J., & Nowicki, E. (2007, March). The Effect of Assistive Technology on Perceptions of Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

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