Mehdi Ghahremani

Dr. Ghahremani's Vita

Education

• B.Sc., University of Shahid Beheshti, Physics
• M.Sc., University of Shahid Beheshti, Physics
• M.A., University of British Columbia, Teaching and Learning
• Ph.D.; Purdue University; Gifted, Talented, and Creative Studies

Research Interests

• Higher-order Thinking (HoT) Skills
  • Creative & Critical Thinking
  • Wisdom & Wise Reasoning
  • Psychology of Design Thinking
  • LLM-based AI for HoT
• Dispositions And Habits of Mind Associated with Hot Skills
• Informal STEM Learning
  • STEM-talent Development
  • Student Engagement
• Intelligence

Courses Taught

Grad-level Courses:

• EPY 8523 Psychology of Gifted and Talented
• EPY 6553 Creativity & Motivation
• EPY 6214 Educational & Psychological Statistics
• EPY 6033 Application Learning Theories

Undergraduate-level Courses:

• EPY 4683 Advanced Issues in Educational Psychology
• EPY 4553 Creativity and Motivation
• EPY 4513 Educational Research
• EPY 4313 Measurement & Evaluation
• EPY 4073 Personal & Motivational Factors
• EPY 4033 Application Learning Theories
• EPY 3543 Psychology of Adolescence
• EPY 3253 Evaluating Learning
• EPY 3143 Human Development and Learning
• EPY 3063 Individual Differences and Exceptional Students

Selected Publications

• Ghahremani, M., Pereira, N., Ozen, Z., & Gentry, M. (in press). A systematic literature review of novice/k-12 visual representations of design ideas: A three-pronged design sketching framework. Roeper Review, xx(x), xx-xxx.
• Chowkase, A., Parra Martínez, F. A., Ghahremani, M., Finora, G*., Bernstein, Z.*, & Sternberg, R. J. (2024). Dual-Process model of courage. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1376195
• Sternberg, R., Ghahremani, M., Ehsan, H. (2023). Combating myside bias in scientific thinking: A special challenge for the gifted. Roeper Review, 45(3), 178-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2023.2212361
• Plucker, J.A., Meyer, M.S., Karami, S., Ghahremani, M. (2023). Room to run: Using technology to move creativity into the classroom. In: Henriksen, D., Mishra, P. (eds.) Creative provocations: Speculations on the future of creativity, technology & learning (pp. 65-80). Creativity Theory and Action in Education, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14549-0_5
• Lambert Snodgrass, L., Ghahremani, M., & Hass, M. (2023). Live-learn-work: Experiential learning and cultural intelligence in the internship abroad. Journal of Global Education and Research, 7(1), 50-63.
• Sternberg, R. J., Ehsan, H., & Ghahremani, M. (2022). Levels of teaching science to gifted students. Roeper Review, 44(4), 198-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2022.2115178
• Karami, S., & Ghahremani, M. (2022). Starting over: An Iranian conception of giftedness and how it can transform societies and the world. In Sternberg, R. J., Ambrose, D., & Karami, S. (eds.) The Palgrave handbook of transformational giftedness for education (pp. 251-265). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Selected Presentations 

• Ghahremani, M., Stewart, S.*, & McGuire, S.* (2024, April). Relationship between scientific-reasoning skills and thinking styles in university students. Roundtable session will be presented at the Division J - Postsecondary Education/Division J - Section 1: College Student Learning and Development in College and Beyond, Annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Karami, S., Para Martinez, F. A., & Ghahremani, M. (2023, April). Development and validation of Perception of Wisdom Exploratory Rating Scale: An instrument to examine teachers’ perceptions of wisdom. Paper session presented at the SIG-Holistic Education, Annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, Illinois.
• Stewart, S.*, Ghahremani, M., McGuire, S.* (2023, November). Exploring the relationship between academic performance and thinking styles. Poster session presented at the Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA), Pensacola, Florida.
• Karami, S., Para Martinez, F. A., & Ghahremani, M. (2023, April). Development and validation of Perception of Wisdom Exploratory Rating Scale: An instrument to examine teachers’ perceptions of wisdom. Paper session presented at the SIG-Holistic Education, Annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, Illinois.
• Ghahremani, M., Pereira, N., Ozen, Z., Gentry, M., (2021, April). A systematic literature review of novice/K–12 visual representations of design ideas. Session presented at the SIG-Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA).
• Ghahremani, M., Pereira, N., Ozen, Z., Chowkase, A., Gentry, M., (2021, April). Developing the idea-Sketching Early Engineering Design (i-SEED) Scale. Session presented at the SIG-Science Teaching and Learning, Annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA).
• Pereira, N., Ghahremani, M., Desmet, O. (2021, April). Students' experiences with collaborative creativity in engineering enrichment courses. Session presented at the SIG-Research on Giftedness, Creativity and Talent, Annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Selected Professional Activities and Memberships

• American Psychological Association (APA)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
• The Foundation for Critical Thinking
• World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC) 

Certifications and Licensures

• Quantitative Research, Assessment, and Evaluation in Education Certificate, College of Education, Purdue University 
• Qualitative Research Certificate, College of Education, Purdue University