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Mimi Bong

Professor of educational psychology, Korea University

Mimi Bong is a Professor of educational psychology and the director of the Brain and Motivation Research Institute (bMRI) at Korea University.

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Mimi Bong is a Professor of educational psychology and the director of the Brain and Motivation Research Institute (bMRI) at Korea University.

For the past 28 years, Bong has studied the achievement motivation of children and adolescents in classroom settings, including influence of self-efficacy beliefs, value perceptions, and achievement goals. She was recognised as one of the most productive educational psychologists (1997-2001) and one of the most productive women educational psychologists (2009-2016). In 2006, Bong received the Richard E. Snow Award for Distinguished Early Contributions to Educational Psychology from the American Psychological Association’s Division 15.

Bong is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Education and was associate editor of the American Educational Research Journal.

She has also served or currently serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the Journal of Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist, Educational Psychology Review, Child Development, Learning and Instruction, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Educational Researcher, AERA Open, Learning and Individual Differences and Theory Into Practice.

Bong received her PhD in Educational Psychology and Technology from the University of Southern California in 1995. She holds an MA in Instructional Technology and Media from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA in Educational Technology from Ewha Womans University.

Before joining Korea University in 2007, she taught at the University of South Carolina and Ewha Womans University. She is a nine-time recipient of the Granite Tower (SeokTop) Award for Excellence in Teaching from Korea University.