KimberLeigh Hadfield
Mathematics & Statistics
Senior Lecturer
Contact Information
Office Location: Animal Science (ANSC) 315Phone: 435-797-3248
Email: K.Hadfield@usu.edu
Educational Background
Biography
KimberLeigh was born on the opening day of Aggie football in 1973 and was given the "Aggie Baby" award, so has been a True Aggie for life. She has been an award-winning teacher at Utah State for many years. She loves to inspire her students to employ statistical thinking in their daily lives. She currently coordinates all the Stat 1040/1045 courses State-wide including concurrent enrollment and serves on many committees, including Faculty Senator.
Teaching Interests
Teaching interests include undergraduate mathematics and statistics courses and large-student section quantitative literacy courses for non-STEM majors. Innovative pedagogy, active learning, and growth mindset combine to help math phobic students succeed in QL courses.
Research Interests
Research interests include the field of undergraduate statistics education, specifically, improving student understanding, student attitudes in statistics and decreasing statistics anxiety in large-student sections of undergraduate introductory statistics courses through innovative instruction and continuous assessment.
Awards
Faculty Teacher of the Year, 2020
College of Science
ETE Sparkshop, “What Is Excellent Teaching?” Featured Instructor, 2025
Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence
2024 TEAL Dissertation of the Year Award, 2024
Department of Teacher Education and Leadership, College of Education
Extra Mile for Teachers, 2022
College Football Playoff Foundation
Faculty Service Award, 2021
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Teacher of the Year, 2019
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Featured Instructor, 2019
2019 Inclusive Excellence Symposium: “Disrupt.” Utah State University
Invited Commencement Speaker, 2019
Integrated Studies Bachelor’s Degree and Associate Degree Graduation Program, Utah State University
The Utah Statesman 50 Most Influential Aggies: Top 10 Faculty, 2018
The Utah Statesman
Top Professor, 2006
Mortar Board
Publications | Journal Articles
Professional Journal
- Hadfield, K., (2023). A conceptual framework for formative assessment in large-enrollment introductory statistics. Statistics Education Research Journal, 22:1, Article 2. doi: https://doi.org/10.52041/serj.v22i1.99
- Schneiter, K., Hadfield, K.F, Clements, J., (2022). Leveraging the large in large-lecture statistics classes. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 31:2, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2022.2099488
- Hadfield, K., (2021). Providing ability to probability: Reducing cognitive load with worked examples. Teaching Statistics, 43:1, 28-35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12244
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.