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 […]
Congrats to Jessica E. Brodsky (Ed Psych PhD student), Dvora Zomberg (GC Psych), Dr. Kasey L. Powers (GC Psych Alumna), and Dr. Patricia J. Brooks (Ed Psych/Psych Prof) on their recent publication titled “Assessing and fostering college students’ algorithm awareness across online contexts” in the Journal of Media Literacy Education (JMLE)! The Graduate Center recently […]
PhD Candidate, Maya Rose was awarded a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) from the National Science Foundation for her study, “Does Speaking Improve Comprehension and Processing of a Foreign Language? A Computer-Assisted Language Learning and ERP Study.” Maya recently talked about her research and advice for fellow students applying for NSF grants on the […]
The following post is part of our Student Spotlight Initiative Aleksandra Kazakova is a Phd Candidate in the Quantitative Methods in Educational and Psychological Research Specialization. Recently, Aleksandra presented a poster at the 2021 Conference on Statistical Practice titled, “An application of Structural Equation Modeling in the analysis of ordered categorical factors indicating the relationship […]
Congratulations to Magdalen Beiting-Parrish who defended her dissertation proposal on “Analyzing Linguistic Features of Standardized Math Items: A Text Mining Approach.” (more…)
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By Marcy Zipke “Knock, knock!” “Who’s there?”“Tennis!”“Tennis, who?”“Ten is my favorite number!!!!” The knock knock joke above was the first successful joke I ever wrote. I was about 5 or 6 years old and obsessed with knock knock jokes. The problem is that I didn’t have the metalinguistic awareness (MA) to understand how they worked, […]
The following post is part of our Student Spotlight initiative My name is Yeshan Qian. I am currently a first year Ph.D. student in the Learning, Development, and Instruction specialization. Here are some of my updates and progress: I have been doing research under Dr. Colette Daiute’s guidance, on heritage language learners among Chinese immigrant […]
Throughout the semester, we are going to post about students in our program in the form of student spotlights! Each post will include information about the student’s interests and line of research. Posts will include links to more information such as publications, presentations, posters, blog posts, and other research materials. If you are interested in […]
