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 […]
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…)
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 […]
If you are a doctoral student in your second through sixth year, you are likely eligible to apply for a Doctoral Student Research Grant (Round 16), which can get you up to $1,500 for research, travel, accommodations, conference fees, some supplies not covered by your program, a research assistant, as well as fees (not covered by your […]
