UNC School of Education

Professor of Educational Psychology and Professor of Social Work

T 919.962.7848
F 919.962.1533
wbware@unc.edu

118 Peabody Hall
CB 3500

Describing himself as “first and foremost a teacher,” William B. Ware has taught statistics to graduate students for 39 years and remains passionate about his career. “I am fascinated by the mathematical regularities that surround us every day and amazed at the way in which statistical methods can inform us of the existence of systematic patterns in our data,” he says.  Currently, Ware is on a partial leave and taking courses in advanced statistical methods so he can incorporate some of the newer methodological developments into his classes.

A professor of Educational Psychology, Measurement and Evaluation, Ware believes relationships are the foundation of teaching. He tries to learn as much as he can about every student. “There’s a saying about teaching young children:  They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care,” Ware says. “ I’ve found that, in this respect, graduate students are simply larger ‘children.’ As a teacher, it is my goal to give to my students the tools that will enable them to be independent learners, so they may achieve at levels about which I have only dreamed.”

• Ph.D. 1968 - Northwestern University, Educational Psychology
• M.A.T. 1965 - Northwestern University, Mathematics Education
• A.B. 1964 - Dartmouth College, Psychology, Mathematics

• Randomization Tests/Bootstrapped Confidence Intervals
• Instrument Development
• Research Overview

• Applied Statistics

• 2001, Distinguished Paper Award, North Carolina Association for Research in Education
• 2000, Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 1999, 1997, Who's Who in the South and Southwest
• 1998, 1997, Who's Who in America
• 1997, Distinguished Paper Award, North Carolina Association for Research in Education (with Linda Althouse & John Ferron)
  
• 1996, Who's Who in American Education
  
• 1995, Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching at the Post-Baccalaureate Level
  

• School of Education Salary Advisory Committee, Chair, 2003 - present
• Classroom Design Advisory Committee, 2002 - present
• Chair, School of Education Post-Tenure Review Committee, 2001 - present
  
• School of Education Faculty Advisory Committee, 2000 - present
  
• School of Education Post-Tenure Review Committee, 2000 - present
  
• Search Committee, School of Education, 1998-1999
  
• Provost's Ad Hoc Task Force on Teaching Evaluation, 1998 - 2001
  
• Search Committee, Office of Educational Development Director, 1996 - 1997
  
• University Committee on Classroom Utilization, 1996 - present
  
• Chancellor's Committee on Kenan Distinguished Teaching Professorships, 1996 - 1997

Bowen, G.L., Mancini, J.A., Martin, J.A., Ware, W.B., & Nelson, J.P. (2003). Promoting the adaption of military families: an empirical test of a community practice model. Family Relations, 52(1), 33-44.

Bowen, N.K., Bowen, G.L., and Ware, W.B. (2002). Neighborhood social disorganization, families, and the educational behavior of adolescents. The Journal of Adolescent Research, 17(5), 468-490.

Sengupta, S., Strauss, R.P., DeVellis, R., Quinn, S.C., DeVellis, B., and Ware, W.B. (2000). Factors affecting African-American participation in AIDS research. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 24, 275-284.

D'Errico, G.M., Galassi, J.P., Schanberg, R., and Ware, W.B. (1999). Development and validation of the Cancer Worries Inventory: a measure of illness-related cognitions. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 17 (3/4), 119- 137.

Ware, W.B. (2001, March). Percentile confidence intervals: Coverage as a function of shape, number of bootstrap replicates, and sample size. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Association for Research in Education, Charlotte, NC.

Ware, W.B., & Althouse, L.A. (1999, April). A Monte Carlo simulation of an omnibus test based on probability plots: the line test. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montréal, CA.

Ware, W.B., Bowen, N.K., and Bowen, G.L. (1999, March). Neighborhood effects on school outcomes in middle grades youth. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Association for Research in Education, Greensboro, NC.