A study by Dr. Anastasiya Lipnevich (Ed Psych faculty), Terrence Calistro (Ed Psych student), and a colleague from Dublin City University was selected and is number 6 on the 2023 top 10 most significant studies in education.

Educational Psychology PhD student Fedor Marchenko was awarded the Pufall Travel Award for the best proposal submission from the Jean Piaget Society in 2023.

Phd Student Carolina Lopera received a prestigious and highly selective summer internship at Educational Testing Service (ETS), where she will work with the NAEP team investigating students’ opportunities to learn. Congratulations on this achievement Carolina! 

Congrats to Jessica Brodsky who successfully defended her dissertation on “Fostering College Students’ Fact-Checking Skills: Three Studies Assessing Lateral Reading Instruction in a General Education Course”

Students, alumna, and faculty presented research at the 93rd Eastern Psychological Conference (EPA) in New York City on March 5, 2022. The Educational Psychology department had a great showing! See pictures below along with the titles and abstracts of the papers that were presented by Ed Psych students.

Congrats to Yongchao Zhao who successfully defended her dissertation on “The Effects of Education and Cognitive Skills on Employability and Earnings for Labor Market Entrants: Evidence from Large-scale Worldwide Survey Data”

Congrats to Alyssa Landau who successfully defended her pilot presentation on “Defining Twice Exceptional Learners, A Study of Self-Concept”

Jessica Brodsky’s (PhD Candidate) dissertation research on lateral reading was featured in the APA Monitor on Psychology. Check it out here! The article describes how lateral reading is an evidence-based strategy that can be used to combat misinformation in the classroom. You can also check out Jessica’s published research here. 

Wondering how to synthesize the myriad of models on feedback?

Congrats to Russell Miller who successfully defended his dissertation on “Screen Time and the Psychological Well-Being of U.S. Teenagers: An Exploratory Re-Analysis of Data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey”