Andria Schwegler Profile

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Andria Schwegler, Ph.D.

  • Department Chair, Associate Professor
  • Program Coordinator: MS in Applied Psychology
  • Program Coordinator: BAAS in Psychology
  • Department of Counseling and Psychology
  • College of Education and Human Development
  • Email: schwegler@tamuct.edu
  • Room: WH-318B
  • Phone: 254.519.5799

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Dr. Andria Schwegler is an Associate Professor of Psychology and is currently serving as Chair of the Counseling and Psychology Department at Texas A&M University – Central Texas. She also serves as the Graduate Coordinator for the Master of Science in Applied Psychology program.

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Education at Troy University in Troy, Alabama, a Master of Education from Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, a Master of Science in Experimental Psychology from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology from The University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas.

Dr. Schwegler is a teacher by calling with over 30 years of experience teaching students from pre-kindergarten to graduate school. She currently teaches courses in statistics, research methods, social psychology, applied psychology, history of psychology, research-based teaching and learning, and instructional design and assessment. She also regularly performs research with students in both undergraduate and graduate courses.

She is a proponent of online learning given its ability to increase access to higher education and an advocate for excellence as a Quality Matters Certified Peer Reviewer and Research Colleague. She has published several articles related to the scholarship of teaching and learning, and she has an interest in online information literacy.


Selected Publications:

Schwegler, A. F., Shell, M. D., & Clark, D. A. (in press). Using Guidelines 3.0 to support program and course learning outcome alignment. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology.

Hopkins, L. K., Schwegler, A. F., Hopkins, R. L., & McCafferty, B. (in press). The new normal: An empirical examination of remote work in academic libraries. In Innovative Library Workplaces. Association of College & Research Libraries.

Lapierre, C. B., & Schwegler, A. F. (2023). Perceived challenges, efficacy, educational impact, and implementation of COVID-19 mitigation measures in public schools. Research and Practice in the Schools, 10(1), 51-66.

Schwegler, A. F. (2019, October 25). Academic rigor white paper 3: Aligning institutional processes to support academic rigor [White paper]. Quality Matters. https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/resource-center/articles-resources/academic-rigor-white-paper-part-three

Schwegler, A. F. (2019, October 11). Academic rigor white paper 2: Contextualizing academic rigor [White paper]. Quality Matters. https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/resource-center/articles-resources/academic-rigor-white-paper-part-two

Schwegler, A. F. (2019, September 12). Academic rigor white paper 1: A comprehensive definition [White paper]. Quality Matters. https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/resource-center/articles-resources/academic-rigor-white-paper-part-one

Schwegler, A. F., & Altman, B. W. (2015). Analysis of peer review comments: QM recommendations and feedback intervention theory. American Journal of Distance Education, 29(3), 186-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/08923647.2015.1058599