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Dr. Scott VanderStoep has been a part of Hope for all or part of the last five decades. He was a student in the 1980s, taught on a temporary appointment in the early 1990s, and returned full-time in 1999. He has held several roles at the college: Frost Center director, director of assessment, Hope鈥檚 accreditation liaison officer for the Higher Learning Commission, chairperson of the Department of Psychology, and dean for social sciences. He currently serves as a member of the Department of Psychology.

Areas of expertise

Dr. VanderStoep鈥檚 teaching areas are developmental psychology, psychology and religion, and cognitive psychology. He also teaches First Year Seminar and Senior Seminar. He has authored three books: two editions of Learning to Learn: The Skill and Will of College Success and Research Methods for Everyday Life. He is also the editor of Science and the Soul: Christian Faith and Psychological Research.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1992
• M.A., University of Illinois, 1989
• B.A., Hope College, 1987

Honors, grants and awards

• Grant for 鈥淲orkshop for Enhancing Social Science Methodological Skills,鈥� Great Lakes Colleges Association鈥檚 Expanding Collaborative Initiative, July 2014 (coordinator of four-day faculty-development workshop, hosted by Hope College)
• Teagle Pedagogy Fellow, Great Lakes Colleges Association, 2012鈥�2014
• Reed Faculty Achievement Award, Hope College, 2010
• Teagle Senior Assessment Scholar, National Center for Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, Wabash College, 2007鈥損resent
• Psi Chi International Honor Society President, 2008鈥�2009 (President-Elect, 2007鈥�2008; Past President, 2009鈥�2010)

Selected publications

Books

• Research Methods for Real Life: Blending Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, with D. Johnston, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009
• Learning to Learn: The Skill and Will of College Success (2nd Edition), with P.R. Pintrich, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008
• Learning to Learn: The Skill and Will of College Success, with P.R. Pintrich, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003

Edited Book

• Science and the Soul: Christian Faith and Psychological Research, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003

Articles

• 鈥�,鈥� Reformed Journal, October 14, 2024 
• 鈥�,鈥� Reformed Journal, July 4, 2024
• 鈥�,鈥� Reformed Journal, February 1, 2024
• 鈥�,鈥� Reformed Journal, January 8, 2024 
• 鈥�,鈥� Reformed Journal, September 25, 2023
• 鈥�,鈥� Reformed Journal, September 18, 2023    

View all of Scott VanderStoep鈥檚 published work at .

Outside of the college

Dr. VanderStoep serves as a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission. In his non-work time, he has been a high school basketball official since 1996.