Christine Vriesema

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Christine Vriesema
Associate Professor of Psychology, Psychology Department,
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

Christine Vriesema is an Associate professor of psychology in the Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, where she leads the Psychology in Education (PIE) Lab, a collaborative research space focused on improving K–12 student and teacher experiences. Her research examines factors that shape teachers’ job satisfaction and retention, including school working conditions and professional growth opportunities, as well as the role of teacher-student relationships in fostering student motivation and learning. She also investigates how schools can support students and teachers in responding to academic setbacks. Vriesema earned a BA in psychology from Pomona College and an MA and PhD in educational psychology from the University of Arizona.

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Contributing topics
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Contributing initiatives
CORE-PACE Research Partnership
Publications by Christine Vriesema
Assessing Survey Satisficing: The Impact of Unmotivated Questionnaire Responding on Data Quality
Assessing Survey Satisficing
The Impact of Unmotivated Questionnaire Responding on Data Quality
This article explores the issue of satisficing, which is suboptimal responding on surveys, in the context of a large-scale social-emotional learning survey administered to over 400,000 elementary and secondary students. Despite concerns about its…
Assessing Survey Satisficing
The Impact of Unmotivated Questionnaire Respondents on Data Quality
This paper investigates the effect of student satisficing, the act of providing suboptimal survey responses, on data quality in a large-scale social-emotional learning survey. The study examines the prevalence and impact of satisficing among 409,721…