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 […]
Professor Patricia Brooks and Associate Professor Bruce Homer both received PSC-CUNY awards this year! Congratulations! Below we listed the titles of the research projects and brief project overviews. Dr. Brooks and Phd Candidate Maya Rose (co-PI) received a PSC-CUNY Grant for their research project titled “Does Speaking Improve Comprehension of Turkish as a Foreign Language? […]
Dr. Keith A. Markus, Ph.D., faculty member of the Quantitative Psychology subprogram, published an article titled “On epistemic violence in psychological science” in Theory & Psychology. In this article, he comments on Held (2020)’s “Epistemic violence in psychological science: Can knowledge of, from, and for the (othered) people solve the problem?” Abstract: Held (2020) […]
Milushka Elbulok-Charcape successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “An Assessment of Undergraduate Students’ Research Literacy” via WebEx. Her work on valid and reliable assessments of research literacy is critical given the lack of attention towards research literacy in the social sciences. Milushka also recently published an article titled “Reducing Stigma Surrounding Mental Health: Diverse Undergraduate […]
“Wikipedia Editing Develops Students’ Information Sourcing and Writing Skills” Elizabeth Che In their contribution as Guest Editors and Contributing Writers on the Visible Pedagogy Project, PhD Student Elizabeth Che and Professor Patricia Brooks talk about how they have used Wikipedia to teach Introductory Psychology undergraduates about information sourcing skills, editing, and research. Click below to read […]
The following blog post was written by Dr. Jay Verkuilen. This post is part of a blog series about transitioning to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve taught graduate statistics since 2007 and a good bit of undergraduate statistics before that. I’ve only taught online a few times due to necessity. COVID-19 has pushed a […]
The following blog post was written by Charles Raffaele and Hamadi Henderson: We are proud to have published a chapter with Dr. Bruce Homer in the new book Handbook of Game-Based Learning (edited by Plass, Mayer and Homer), titled “Games as Playful Learning: Implications of Developmental Theory for Game-Based Learning”. The chapter argues for a […]
The Douglas-McGill University Research Laboratory on Psychological Trauma and its collaborators (including Fordham and the The New School in New York) are recruiting adults to complete a short online survey aiming to understand the circumstances in which the COVID-19 pandemic can be stressful vs. traumatic. You will be asked to answer questions about yourself, the […]
Click below to view the December 2019 Newsletter in PDF form. EPSY Newsletter March 2020
