Dr. David Hough
Hill Hall 304
(417)836-5254
dah315f@missouristate.edu

Dr.  Hough is the Dean for the College of Education (COE).  The COE mission is to "Create a Legacy of Learning".  (Read about the many programs and initiatives underway to promote this mission in Dr. Hough's State of the College Address.)

Dr. Hough is Professor of Research & Statistics and Director of the Institute for School Improvement.  He joined Missouri State in 1991 after having worked for the University of California as a Research Scientist from 1988-1991.  He is the author of a college text Middle School teaching: Methods and Resources (Prentice Hall). Dr. Hough is a member of RAB and he's served as editor of Research in Middle Level Education, since 1994, the National Middle School Association's Research Journal.  A member of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. Hough has authored over 100 journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and research papers, dealing with a variety of educational research.

When Dr. Hough is not hard at work in Hill Hall, he is "back home at the ranch" (literally) where he gardens, tackles a variety of wood-working projects running from barn building to shadow-box construction, and produces hay for his wife Linda's prize-wining Missouri Fox Trotters and his son Lincoln's Registered Herfords.