University of Houston - Clear Lake
School of Human Science and Humanities
— Faculty Profile —

Robert A. Bartsch
Division Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor of Psychology
Robert A. Bartsch

Email: bartsch@uhcl.edu
Office: Bayou 1529.11
Phone: 281-283-3327

 

Mailing Address:
University of Houston-Clear Lake
2700 Bay Area Blvd.
Campus Box 15
Houston, TX 77058
Robert Bartsch is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Division Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Bartsch grew up in west Texas and found his way to Houston for his undergraduate degree at Rice University. He then went to the University of Colorado-Boulder and received his PhD in 1996. He took his first teaching job at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. After five years at UTPB, he had an opportunity to come back to Houston and started teaching at UHCL. Dr. Bartsch has published a total of 24 articles which include 13 different student co-authors.

At UHCL, Dr. Bartsch has been convener of the psychology program and co-director of the university's Teaching-Learning Enhancement Center. He is currently a member of the Texas Faculty Development Network Executive Board and a consulting editor of the journal Teaching of Psychology. His hobbies include hiking, running, and science fiction.
Education
  • Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Colorado - Boulder
  • M.A. in Social Psychology, University of Colorado - Boulder
  • B.A. in Psychology, Statistics, and Chemistry, Rice University

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Research Interests
  • Teaching of psychology
  • Mass media
  • Social influence
  • Attitudes

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Teaching
  • Statistics and Research Methods
  • Social Psychology
  • Psychological Thinking

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Selected Publications
  • Bartsch, R. A., Bittner W. M. E., & Moreno, Jr., J. E. (in press). A design to improve internal validity of assessments of teaching demonstrations. Teaching of Psychology.
  • Case, K. A., Bartsch, R. A., McEnery, L., Hall, S. P., Hermann, A. D., & Foster, D. A. (in press). Establishing a comfortable classroom from day one: Student perceptions of the reciprocal interview. College Teaching.
  • Hentges, B. A., Bartsch, R. A., & Meier, J. A. (2007). Gender representation in television commercials as a function of audience age. Communication Research Reports, 24, 1-8.
  • Bartsch, R. A. (2006). Improving attitudes toward statistics in the first class. Teaching of Psychology, 33, 197-198.
  • Bartsch, R. A., & Cobern, K. (2003). Effectiveness of PowerPoint presentations in lectures. Computers and Education, 41, 77-86.

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Affiliations
  • American Educational Research Association
  • American Psychological Association
  • American Psychological Society
  • Social Pyschologists of Texas
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • Society for the Teaching of Psychology

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