Congrats to Nicholas Ullrich who successfully defended his dissertation titled “The Influence of Text on Coherence of Story Retells, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Acquisition, and Eye Gaze: A Computer-based Storytelling Task with Eye Tracking.” (more…)
Are you interested in using psychological and advanced statistical methods to study how we learn? Our department has 3 open house sessions this year! (more…)
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Jessica E. Brodsky (PhD Student in Ed Psych) along with Patricia J. Brooks (Prof. in Ed Psych), Donna Scimeca, Ralitsa Todorova, Peter Galati, Michael Batson, Robert Grosso, Michael Matthews, Victor Miller & Michael Caulfield recently published an article in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications titled, “Improving college students’ fact-checking strategies through lateral reading instruction in a general education civics course.” Read the full Open […]
Congratulations to the three Ed Psych Doctoral students who have been awarded Doctoral Student Research Grants (DSRG) for 2021! The DSRG is a competitive research grant which awards up to $1,500 for travel, payments to human research subjects, supplies, and other expenses. We have provided each recipient’s research title and abstract below. We hope this […]
Congrats to Elizabeth Che who successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “Identifying Factors that Predict Graduate Student Instructors’ Emphasis on Teaching Employable Skill in their Courses.” Her proposal defense was attended by many supporting students (three students are missing from the screenshot above)! (more…)
How do US and Spanish universities differ in the assessment criteria they use to assign course grades? Are they using criteria that we know to be effective? Anastasiya Lipnevich (Ed Psych. Program Professor), Ernesto Pandadero, Kalina Gjicali (Ed Psych Program alumna), and Juan Fraile examined these questions in their recent article titled “What’s on […]
Congrats to Gail Swingler who successfully defended her pilot project titled “Teacher Burnout and Depression as Potentially Overlapping Conditions A Meta-Analytic Review.” (more…)
Congratulations to Alison Weingarten who defended her dissertation proposal on “Balancing Inference and Prediction in Institutional Research: A practical comparison of logistic regression with machine learning techniques in modeling student persistence” (more…)
Dr. Keith A. Markus, Ph.D., faculty member of the Quantitative Psychology subprogram, published “Philosophical methodology and axiomatic measurement theory: A comment on Uher (2021)” in the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Markus proposes three methodological principles that can be used to apply axiomatic measurement theory. Read the article here! Article Abstract: Uher (2021) provided […]
