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
The following blog post was written by Sydne McCluskey. Sydne is a PhD Student in the Ed Psych Program, specializing in Quantitative Methods. She is interested broadly in psychometrics; her recent research has focused on item analysis in the early stages of test development and on developing Generalized SEM approaches to analyzing both rater and […]
Congrats to Selenid Gonzalez-Frey who successfully defended her dissertation titled, “Teaching Children to Decode Words: Connected Versus Segmented Phonation”. Her defense marks the department’s second virtual defense! Committee Members: Linnea Ehri, (Chair) Distinguished Professor, Educational Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center Alpana Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center Katharine Pace Miles, Assistant Professor, Early Childhood […]
