External

  • Kentucky Psychology Associate Graduate Mentor of the Year, April 7, 2018.
  • AERA Division C New Faculty Mentoring Seminar travel award. April 2006.
  • The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Semi-Finalist. 2004.
  • APA Science Directorate Student Travel Award. August 2003.
  • AERA Special Interest Group: Motivation in Education Student Travel Awards. April 2002 & 2003.
  • APA, Division 15 Graduate Student Research Seminar travel award. August 2002.
  • APA, Division 33 Student Excellence Award (co-presenter). August 2002.
  • AERA Division C Graduate Student Seminar travel award. April 2002.

Internal

  • University of Missouri System, New Faculty Teaching Scholars Program, 2006/7.
  • University of Kentucky Dissertation Year Fellowship. 2004/5.
  • University of Kentucky, Graduate School conference presentation grants. Spring 2001- Fall 2004.
  • Reading Excellence Act conference presentation grant. December 2002.
  • University of Kentucky, Department of Education Policy and Evaluation research grant. Fall 2001.
  • Institute on Educational Reform conference presentation grant. Spring 2001.
  • Graduated Cum Laude with Departmental Honors in Psychology.
  • College of Arts and Sciences Dean's List Fall 1993-Spring 1995.
  • University of Kentucky Valedictorian Scholarship Fall 1991.

Book(s)

Freeman, T. M. & Anderman, L. H. (accepted for publication). Sense of Belonging in College: Relations to instructor practices, motivation, and achievement. Lambert Academic Publishing Co.

Scholarly Publications

Gilles, E. E., Rajan, J. O., & Freeman, T. M. (Revision submitted, February 15, 2017). Making it worth the journey: African American college students' attitudes toward foreign language course. Western Journal of Black Studies.

Merlino, M.L., Freeman, T. M., Dahir, V., Springer, V., Hammond, D., Dyer, A. D., Found, B.J. (to be submitted to the Journal of Forensic Sciences). Forensic Examiner and Lay Person Comparison of Decision Accuracy Considering Signature Type and Complexity.

Merlino, M.L., Freeman, T. M., Dahir, V., Springer, V., Hammond, D., Dyer, A. D., Found, B.J. (to be submitted to the Journal of Forensic Sciences). Forensic Examiner and Lay Person Decision Accuracy in Single Signature Brief View and Extended View Conditions.

Kirkpatrick, R. B. & Freeman, T. M. (2008). The relationship between resilience and anger in university students. Prevention in Counseling Psychology: Theory, Research, Practice and Training,

Freeman, T. M., King, M. L., & Kirkpatrick, R. (2008). Dropping out. Invited entry in E. M. Anderman (Ed.), Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia. Delaware: Thomson Gale.

Freeman, T. M. (2008). Eleanor Maccoby. Invited entry in E. M. Anderman (Ed.), Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia. Delaware: Thomson Gale.

Freeman, T. M., Leonard, L. M., & Lipari, J. (2007). The social contextual nature of resiliency in schools: Organizational structures that facilitate positive school climate. Chapter in D. Davis (Ed.), Resiliency Reconsidered: Deconstructing the Policy Implications of the Resiliency Movement, (pp. 15-30). Connecticut: Information Age Publishing.

Freeman, T. M., Anderman, L. H., & Jensen, J. M. (2007). Sense of belonging in college freshmen at the classroom and campus levels. Journal of Experimental Education, 75(3), 203-220.