Leonard B. Bliss - College of Education

FACULTY
ACADEMIC PROFILE
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
L E O N A R D B. BLISS, PH.D.
A C A D E M I C APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Educational Research
Appointed to the Graduate Faculty in 1999
Appointed to Doctoral Dissertation Advisor
P R O G R A M AFFILIATIONS
Department of Leadership and Educational Studies
E D U C A T I O N
PhD (1975) Syracuse University, Educational Research and Measurement
MS (1971) State University of New York at Oswego, Science Education
BS ( 1967) State University of New York at Cortland, Science Education
C O N T A C T
O FFICE
ZEB 239A
A D D R E S S 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199-0001
P H O N E 305-348-1903
E - MAIL
W EB L I N K S
blissl@fiu.edu
www.fiu.edu/~blissl
S U M M A R Y PROFILE
Dr. Leonard Bliss earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in science education and was beginning work on a Ph.D. in
science education when he took a course in Population Genetics and fell in love with the use of statistics to analyze
information about human beings and switched his program to a degree in educational research and data analysis. He
earned the Ph.D. in this area and has worked with graduate students in this area as a full time graduate faculty member
at five universities from Maine to Florida and in the Caribbean. He has served as a consultant and/or visiting professor at
universities in four continents and on islands in the Caribbean. He is the senior author of the Study Behavior Inventory, an
instrument designed to observe the study habits of students in higher education that is currently used in over 400 colleges
and universities in the English speaking world and is the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Dr.
Bliss is currently completing a text for beginning statistics courses under contract to Guilford Publications. He briefly served
as chair of the Department of Educational and Psychological Studies at FIU’s College of Education and now works with his
doctoral students who join him in his continued research on the nature of studying and self-regulated academic behaviors.
He continues to be involved in faculty governance through his membership in the Faculty Senate and in Labor-
Management relationships through his work with the United Faculty of Florida.
INTERESTS
Study behaviors and self-regulated learning of college and university students, particularly how they
affect academic achievement.
S E L E C T E D ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
F A C U L T Y Educational Research, measurement, and statistics 1999- Present
C H A I R M A N Department of Educational and Psychological Studies Spring 2007 –
Fall 2008
S E L E C T E D COURSES T AUGHT

EDF5481 Foundations of Education Research
EDF6472 Research Mwethods in Education: Intjroduction to Data Analysis
EDF 6486 Advanced Data Analysis in Quantitative Educational Research
EDF 6481 Educational Research Methodology
EDF 7403 Data Analysis in Multivariate Educational Research
S ELECTED P R O F E S S I O N A L & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Member, American Educational Research Association. Member, Division D (Measurement & Research Methodology). Reviewer
for numerous AERA SIGs and Divisions since 1977.
Reviewer, Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
Reviewer, Journal of Mixed Methods Research
Reviewer, Journal of Self-Regulated Instruction
S ELECTED S C H O L A R L Y A N D PROFESSIONAL WORK
S E L E C T E D REFEREED JOURNAL A R T I C L E S, BOOK C HAPTERS
Bliss, L. B. (2001). Assessment in developmental education. In V. L. Farmer, & W. A. Barham (Eds.), Selected models of
developmental education in higher education (pp. 359 – 386). Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Bliss, L. B. (2004). The Study Behavior Inventory. In R. L. Swing (Ed.), Proving and improving, Volume II: Tools and
techniques for assessing the first college year (Monograph No. 37) (pp. 103-106). Columbia, SC: University of
South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Moniz, R., Fine, J., & Bliss, L. (In 2008). The effectiveness of direct-instruction and student-centered teaching methods on
students’ functional understanding of plagiarism. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 15, 255-279.
Bliss, L. B., & Vinay, D. M. A. (2004). First steps in the development of the Inventario de Comportamiento de Estudio:
The Spanish version of the Study Behavior Inventory. Journal of Latinos and Education, 3, 25-37.
Bliss, L.B., & Sandiford, J. R. (2004). Linking study behaviors, student culture, and academic persistence in Hispanicserving
community colleges. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 28, 281-295.
S E L E C T E D OTHER P U B L I C A T I O N S
Bliss, L. B. (2008). Media Review: Greene, J. C. (2007). Mixed Methods in Social Inquiry. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2, 190-192.
S E L E C T E D REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS
Bliss, L. B. (2008, February). A discussion of four research methods issue from qualitative, quantitative and mixed
methods points of view: The nature of paradigms. Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Educational
Research Association, Hilton Head, SC.
Cuesta, Z. M. & Bliss, L. B. (2008, March). An experimental investigation of the effect of instruction in studying on
achievement of developmental mathematics students. Presented at the annual meeting of the American
Educational Research Association, New York City.
S E L E C T E D RESEARCH & EVALUATION R EPORTS
Bliss Research Associates. (2004, September). Alternative Certification for Educators Evaluation Report. Under contract
to the School Board of Broward County, Florida.
Bliss Research Associates. (2003, October). Teaching American History Grant Program Evaluation Report. Under contract
to the School Board of Broward County, Florida