Jennifer Coffman, Ph.D.

Jennifer Coffman is a Research Associate in the Psychology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Assistant Director for Training and Research at the Center for Developmental Science. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in 2005, under the mentorship of Peter Ornstein. Her dissertation, A Longitudinal Examination of the Development of Children’s Memory Strategies in the Context of the First-grade Classroom, was embedded within an ongoing NSF-Funded longitudinal study examining elementary school classrooms and children’s memory development.

Jennifer’s program of research is directed toward understanding mechanisms of change in cognitive development and is directly influenced by her experiences as an elementary school teacher. She is interested in factors in school and other environments that may contribute to children's acquisition of effective memory strategies, academic achievement, and metacognitive knowledge. Additionally, she is interested in more general questions regarding the processes at work and the contexts in which learning and memory development are supported.

In addition, Jennifer serves as the Assistant Director for Training and Research at the CDS. In this role, she is responsible for organizing the Carolina Consortium on Human Development (CCHD) Proseminar Series, facilitating the IRB process for research projects administered through the CDS, assisting with administrative reporting functions, and coordinating the CCHD training program.

Jennifer L. Coffman, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Training and Research
Center for Developmental Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 8115
100 East Franklin Street, Suite 200
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8115

(tel) 919 843 2401
(fax) 919 966 4520
coffman@unc.edu