Faculty Bio, Stacey L. Kite

Stacey L. Kite

Professor

College/School: Graduate School
Department: Education

Campus: Providence
Main college/department phone number: 401-598-4738


Stacey Kite has been with JWU since 1992, and has been a professor of Research in JWU’s Educational Leadership Doctoral Program since 2003. Prior to that, she served as the assistant Dean of the College of Business, where she focused on satisfaction and loyalty research.

Since joining the Doctoral program, her research has focused on Student Satisfaction, Service Learning, Assessment, and Cyberbullying. Since 2007, her research has focused on middle school and high school students’ knowledge of the risks of inappropriate behavior, including risks involving cyberbullying and Internet predators.

She was the lead author of the first two versions of the Survey of Internet Risk and Behavior which as been used by many schools in Southern New England to assess student knowledge and risk. Numerous conference papers (American Educational Research Association, American Evaluation Association, etc.), and several journal articles (Journal of Active Learning in Higher Education, Educational and Psychological Measurement, The Clearinghouse, International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments) have resulted.

Publications & Presentations
  • Gable, R. K., Ludlow, L. H., McCoach, D. B., & Kite, S. L. (2011). Development and validation of the Survey of Knowledge of Internet Risk and Internet Behavior. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 71(1), 217-230.
  • Kite, S., Gable, R., & Filippelli, L. (2010). Assessing middle school students' knowledge of conduct/consequences and their behaviors regarding the use of social networking sites. The Clearing House. 83, 158-163.
  • Billups, F., & Kite, S. (2009). Surviving a doctoral program: Student perspectives of support services. Digital Commons at UCONN. http://digitalcommons.uco nn.edu/nera_2009/22/
  • Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA)–October 18 & 19, 2009. Billups, F. D., & Kite, S. L. Surviving a Doctoral Program: Student Perspectives of Support Services
Degrees
  • BS, Johnson & Wales University
  • MS, Johnson & Wales University
  • DBA, University of Sarasota