Congrats to Elizabeth S. Che who successfully defended her pilot project titled “Do Graduate Students Aim to Teach Undergraduates Employable Skills?” (more…)
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See what the graduates of 2020 are up to!
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
Abigail Turner defends her dissertation titled “How Should Context-Dependent Words be Taught to Beginning Readers?”
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 […]
Anthony Betancourt defends 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”
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 […]
New Handbook on Teaching Edited by Members of Educational Psychology Program at CUNY: Download Your Free Copy Today!
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 […]
Jessica Brodsky defends her pilot presentation!
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 […]
Brooks and Homer receive PSC-CUNY Awards!
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 Markus publishes article “On epistemic violence in psychological science”
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 defends her proposal and publishes an article as first author
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 […]
Elizabeth Che and Dr. Patricia Brooks Contribute to Visible Pedagogy Project
“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 […]
