University of Arkansas at Little Rock

AAIMS, Secretary-Treasurer
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Professor, Educational Leadership

Ann Robinson is Professor of Educational Psychology and founding Director of the Center for Gifted Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where she coordinates the personnel preparation programs in gifted education.  She is a former editor of the Gifted Child Quarterly, serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) as the Vice President, and has received the Early Leader, the Early Scholar and the Distinguished Service Awards from the association.

In 2004, she and coauthor Sidney Moon received the Gifted Child Quarterly Paper of the Year Award for “The National Study of State and Local Advocacy in Gifted Education.” With Bruce Shore, Dewey Cornell, and Virgil Ward, Ann Robinson coauthored Recommended Practices in Gifted Education: A Critical Analysis, identified as one of the 50 most influential works in gifted education by a division of the National Association for Gifted Children.  Her most recent publication is Best Practices in Gifted Education: An Evidence-Based Guide with Bruce Shore and Donna Enersen.  Ann is a member of The Association for the Gifted (TAG), a division of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). She was a charter board member of the Special Interest Group on Giftedness and Talent of the American Educational Research Association.

In 2000, Ann was recognized as the Purdue University Alumna of Distinction for the College of Education.  Her own institution honored her with the University Award of Faculty Excellence in Research in 1999 and the University of Award for Public Service in 2001.

Ann is a member of the NCATE Board of Examiners and has been trained by CEC and NAGC as a reviewer for the teacher preparation programs in gifted education.