David Allen Bergin

David Bergin earned a Ph.D. in education at Stanford University and is an educational psychologist. He has been a teacher-educator for over 30 years. His research focuses on motivation and achievement, including talented youth of color. He has helped engineering professors evaluate science curricula. He is a past president of Division 15 Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association and has published in journals such as Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary...See more

David Bergin earned a Ph.D. in education at Stanford University and is an educational psychologist. He has been a teacher-educator for over 30 years. His research focuses on motivation and achievement, including talented youth of color. He has helped engineering professors evaluate science curricula. He is a past president of Division 15 Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association and has published in journals such as Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Journal of Negro Education, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Education and Journal of Adolescent Research, among others. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Counseling Psychology and Contemporary Educational Psychology. Like his co-author, David Bergin has extensive experience working with a diverse range of children. He speaks Spanish, has lived in Central America and has done university outreach in Mexico and Guatemala. He was a Fulbright scholar in Chile. See less