Academic Appointment(s):
- Assistant Professor
Division Title(s)
- Associate Director of Education
Research Interests:
- Adult learner autonomy and lifelong learning processes and outcomes for professionals and their clients in diverse cultural settings
Clinical Interests:
- N/A
Selected publications:
- Confessore GJ, Kim-Cheong C, Park E. Assessing the potential for lifelong learning in baccalaureate students: A comparative study of traditional and non-traditional students in Korea and the United States. In R. Foucher, P. Carre, H. B. Long, & A. Gosselin (eds.) Autoformation dans les organizations / SDL in the workplace. Montreal, Canada: Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Autonomy and Training, 1997.
- Park E, Confessore GJ. A pilot study of learner autonomy in selected populations of graduate students: A comparison of Asian and American students. Seoul, Korea: The Korean Society for the Study of Anthropology of Education, Anthropology of Education 2000;3(4):123-38.
- Confessore GJ, Park E. The distribution of Houle’s learner orientation typology among baccalaureate students: A comparative study of traditional and non-traditional students in Korea and the United States. In H.B. Long & Associates, Practice and theory in self-directed learning. Boynton Beach, FL: Motorola University Press, 2000.
- Park E, Confessore GJ. Development of new instrumentation: Validation of The Learner Autonomy Profile beta version. In H. B. Long & Associates, Twenty-first century advances in self-directed learning. Boynton Beach, FL: Motorola University Press, 2002.
- Park E, Meyer D. A study of the relationships of selected demographic factors, and extremely high and low scores on the subscales of the Learner Autonomy Profile: Reducing the affect of regression toward the mean. In H. B. Long & Associates, Current developments in e-learning & self-directed learning. Melrose, FL: H. B. Long & Associates, 2003.
- Confessore GJ, Park E. Development and factor validation of the Learner Autonomy Profile, Version 3.0 and extraction of the Short Form. International Journal of Self-Directed Learning 2004;1(1): 39-58.
- Park E. Assessment of language bias in the Learner Autonomy Profile: Use of the English language version with East Asian populations. International Journal of Self-Directed Learning 2004;1(2):95-108.
- Confessore GJ, Park E, Idrobo I. Initial component analysis and reliability assessment of the Spanish language version of the Learner Autonomy Profile, Version 3.0.International Journal of Self-Directed Learning 2005;2(2):91-101.
- Park E, Candler, C. Durso SC. Medical student perception of selected instructional methods. International Journal of Self-Directed Learning 2005;2(2):55-65.
- Shultz von Schlageter M, Park E, Tucker PM. Inter-site consistency at a multi-site psychiatry clerkship. Academic Psychiatry 2006;30(4):356-9.
- Park E, Durso SC, Confessore GJ. A case study of educational practices for the aging global population. Lifelong Education and Libraries. 2006;6:67-79.
- Park E, Christmas C, Schmaltz HN, Durso SC. The perceived change of diverse clinician-educators through an intensive course on teaching geriatrics. International Journal of Self-Directed Learning 2006;3(1):not yet paged.
Education/Training:
- Ed.D.: The George Washington University, Washington DC
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