Teaching » Dean Keith Simonton, PhD

Awards and Achievements

Robert S. Daniel Award for Four Year College/University Teaching, Division 2 – Society for the Teaching of Psychology, APA (2006) [citation];
UC Davis Prize for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement, UC Davis Foundation (1994; $25,000 award, now $60,000) [citation];
Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate of the University of California (Davis Division, 2000) [citation];
Magnar Ronning Award for Teaching Excellence, University of California, Davis (Associated Students of UC Davis, 1979);
Fellow, Division 2 – Society for the Teaching of Psychology, APA (1997);
Nominations, U.S. Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1997-98);
Forum on Exemplary Teaching, American Association for Higher Education (1994);
Endowed Dean Keith Simonton Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research (UCD, 1995);
Endowed Karen D. Horobin Memorial Scholarship for Child Development Community Service (CSUS, 2019);
Endowed Dean Keith Simonton Prize for Creativity in Undergraduate Research (UCD, 2021);
Endowed Karen D. Horobin Graduate Research Support Fund (Psychology Department, UC Davis, 2021);
Endowed Dean Keith Simonton ’70 Endowed Innovation Fund in Psychology (Occidental College, 2022);
Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Service as Psi Chi Faculty Advisor, Davis Chapter, International Honor Society in Psychology (1994);
Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honorary Society (1991);
Finalist, Distinguished Teaching Award, Davis Division of the Academic Senate, University of California (1981);
Fellowship, Danforth Foundation (1970-74).

Personal Statement
Detailed Documentation
Teaching Presentation

Student Evaluations (5-Point Scale; 1987-2016; N = 91)

*Course*	*151*	*175*	*185*	*204b*	*220*	*390ab*
Maximum	4.90	4.90	5.00	5.00	5.00	5.00
Mean	4.76	4.79	4.85	4.75	4.80	4.82
Median	4.75	4.80	4.90	4.80	4.80	5.00
Mode	4.70	4.90	4.90	4.70	–	5.00
Minimum	4.70	4.50	4.40	4.20	4.60	4.20
N	8	26	28	17	3	9

N.B.: These are for the scale item “My instructor is an excellent teacher, overall” (to 2013) or “Please indicate the overall teaching effectiveness of the instructor” (from 2014 on). Online ratings began winter 2014 and are generally more than a standard deviation lower (viz. -0.209, p < .001, but SD = 0.167), thus producing the lowest minimum scores for recent courses. Excludes all undergraduate/graduate seminars with qualitative ratings.

ASUCD’s Student Viewpoint Evaluations

Course Websites

PSC	Title	Type	Years
151	Social Psychology	Upper-division undergraduate survey course	1976-1999
175	Genius, Creativity, and Leadership	General Education: Social Sciences – Writing experience	1991-2015
185	History of Psychology	Capstone course in undergraduate major	1989-2016
204b	Causal Modeling of Correlational Data	Second course in first-year graduate statistics series	1993-2009
220	History of Psychology	Graduate breadth lecture-seminar	1995-2011
390ab	The Teaching of Psychology	Professional course for post-orals graduate students	2011-2016

N.B.: Above six websites stopped being updated as of the year they were last taught, remaining for archival rather than instructional interest only. For that reason, many links are now broken and will remain so.