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 […]
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 […]
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Congratulations to the six Ed Psych Doctoral students who have been awarded Doctoral Student Research Grants (DSRG) for 2020! The DSRG is a competitive research grant which awards up to $1,500 for travel, payments to human research subjects, supplies, and other expenses. We have provided each recipient’s research title and abstract below. We hope this […]
As those have you who are teaching this semester have moved all of your classes to online instruction, we wanted to provide you with some resources to support moving your class(es) to distant learning while also prioritizing your pedagogical values. Here are some resources: First, you are not alone: At this point, almost 1000 instructors […]
Congratulations to Dr. Sabina Bragg who successfully defended her dissertation titled: ““Parental Shared Reading Intervention: Examining the Effects of Structured Parental Reading Training on Vocabulary Acquisition in Children Undergoing Treatment for Leukemia” Committee Members: Helen Johnson, Ph.D. (Chair), Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Jay Verkuilen, Ph.D., the Graduate Center, CUNY Bobbie Kabuto, Ph.D., […]
CONGRATULATIONS to PhD Candidate Maya Rose for successfully defending her Level II pilot study titled: Does Speaking Improve Comprehension of Turkish as a Foreign Language? A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Study. Stay tuned for updates on the Computer-Assisted Language Learning Study! Abstract: Adults find learning foreign languages to be difficult, yet show remarkable individual differences in […]
In their first contribution as Guest Editors and Contributing Writers on the Visible Pedagogy Project, PhD Student Jessica Brodsky and Professor Patricia Brooks discuss the need to integrate media literacy instruction into college courses. Read their post titled, Why Teach Media Literacy to Undergraduates? on the Visible Pedagoy Site here. Brodsky and Brooks posted […]
CONGRATULATIONS to PhD Candidate Robin E. Harvey for successfully proposing her dissertation titled: “Impact of Text Messaging through Pinyin Input System on Written Language Skills of Elementary School Dual Language Learners of Chinese.” Dissertation Proposal Committee Chair: Patricia Brooks, Chair, Professor, Educational Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY Dissertation Proposal Committee Members: Joan Lucariello, Professor, […]
Elizabeth Che, Maya Rose, and Jessica Brodsky recently headed down to St. Pete Beach for the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP) Conference. All three students presented posters and enjoyed some time in the sun! NITOP provides a chance for psychology teachers from universities, two-year and four-year colleges to come together and explore […]
