The following interview took place on April 17th, 2020. Maya Rose (Scholarly Communication Fellow) interviewed Dr. Sarah McGrew, Dr. Patricia Brooks, and Jessica Brodsky about their timely research on media literacy. Bios for each contributor are included at the end of the post. (more…)
Congrats to Elizabeth S. Che who successfully defended her pilot project titled “Do Graduate Students Aim to Teach Undergraduates Employable Skills?” (more…)
By Maya Rose and Teresa Ober, Ph.D* * authors contributed equally to this blog post Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about challenges to graduate and early career researchers, wreaking havoc on their research plans and causing yet unknown downstream consequences on career opportunities. Though we don’t yet know the long-term impact of the pandemic […]
Interested in learning about recent graduates of our program and what they are up to? Want to learn more about the path to academia vs. industry post graduation? We compiled a showcase of recent graduates on our main website. Read more here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Educational-Psychology/Graduate-Showcase
Dr. Jay Verkuilen will be presenting at the Graduate Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Colloquium on September 23rd at 2:45-4pm on Graphical Data Analysis for Reaction Times. He will discuss some of the work he has been conducting with PhD Candidate Maya Rose on adapting graphical tools when analyzing reaction time data in the pre-modeling stages. […]
Our Open House sessions are held twice a year: Monday, October 5th, 5pm-6:30pm (Click here to sign up) November TBA Learn more about: Curriculum and Requirements Applying to the Program Research Opportunities Graduate Assistantships, Fellowships, and Financial Aid An online meeting link will be sent to each participant prior to each meeting.
Congrats to Abigail Turner who successfully defended her dissertation titled “How Should Context-Dependent Words be Taught to Beginning Readers?” Committee Members:Linnea Ehri (chairperson), Distinguished Professor Emerita, Ed Psych, Graduate CenterAlpana Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Queens CollegeKatharine Pace-Miles, Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College Readers:Bruce Homer, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, Graduate CenterJessica DeLucia, Founder/Lead Literacy Specialist, Keys to Literacy […]
Congratulations to Anthony Betancourt who recently successfully defended his dissertation titled “Understanding Gender Differences in Traditional and Cyberbullying: An Evaluation of Construct Validity of the 2013 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey.” His psychometric analysis shows that cyberbullying is a separate factor from traditional bullying and should thus be viewed as a […]
The handbook titled, “How We Teach Now: GSTA Guide to Transformative Teaching” was written by the GSTA Editorial Team (Teresa M. Ober, Elizabeth S. Che, Jessica E. Brodsky, Charles Raffaele, and Patricia J. Brooks). The following post was written by the editorial team and provides a snapshot of the handbook. The Graduate Student Teaching Association […]
Congrats to Jessica Brodsky who successfully defended her pilot project titled “Improving College Students’ Fact-Checking Strategies through Lateral Reading Instruction in a General Education Civics Course.” Abstract: College students lack fact-checking skills for verifying online content, which may lead them to accept information at face-value. We report findings from an institution participating in the Digital Polarization […]
