Dr. Dana Lynn Driscoll is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, where she teaches courses in peer tutoring, global rhetoric, first-year writing, literacy and technology, and research methods. She has also taught in OU’s Bachelor of Liberal Studies program. Dana’s research focuses on understanding transfer of learning, or students’ ability to take skills and knowledge they’ve learned in university courses and adapt that learning to a wide variety of circumstances.   Using mixed methods, longitudinal, and multi-institutional approaches, she has investigated the role of student attitudes and dispositions, metacognitive awareness, and reflective writing on transfer.  Her secondary research interests are in research methodology, the scholarship of teaching and learning, writing centers, and writing assessment.  All of her research also directly informs her teaching, which emphasizes real-world connections, service learning, and student-centered activities. Her work has been published in Across the Disciplines, The Journal of Teaching Writing, Writing Program Administration, The Writing Center Journal and she frequently presents at regional, national, and international conferences.  Dana and Sherry Wynn Perdue, OU Writing Center Director, recently won the International Writing Center Association’s 2012 Outstanding Article award, one of the highest honors in writing center scholarship.