Our Team
Dr. P. Karen Murphy
Dr. P. Karen Murphy is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Department Head at Penn State. Her research focuses on Quality Talk, a teaching and learning approach that encourages critical-analytic thinking and high-level comprehension through classroom discussions.
Her work is funded by the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Murphy frequently publishes in prestigious journals and is involved with several national and international conferences. She is the incoming editor of the Review of Educational Research and has served in editorial roles for several educational psychology journals. Dr. Murphy is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association, recognized for her contributions to student learning research.
