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Open House November 6th!
Come to an Open House info session for the Educational Psychology PhD Program on Wednesday, November 6th at 3 p.m. If you are planning to apply for admission to the Educational Psychology PhD program for the Fall 2020 semester, you won’t want to miss this meeting. Learn more about: Curriculum and Requirements Applying to the […]
Formative Measurement: Staking out a Middle Ground
Below is a post written by Keith A. Markus, Ph.D. He is currently a Professor in the Psychology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He serves on the graduate faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center in the Quantitative Psychology subprogram of the Educational Psychology Doctoral Program and in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Forensic Psychology subprograms within the Psychology […]
Ming Chen-2nd year PhD student-presents at CDS in Louisville, Kentucky
Ming Chen, a second-year doctoral student in Educational Psychology Department of Graduate Center, presented her poster along with her advisor, Dr. Bruce Homer, at the 2019 Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Conference held in Louisville, Kentucky, this past weekend (Oct 17-19). Her study investigated the effects of color, shape, and virtual agent in a 2D text-based […]
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November Open House!
Come to an Open House info session for the Educational Psychology PhD Program on Monday, November 6th from 3:00 p.m – 5:00pm. If you are planning to apply for admission to the Educational Psychology PhD program for the Fall 2020 semester, you won’t want to miss this meeting. Learn more about: Curriculum and Requirements Applying […]
Charles Raffaele completes his proposal of his dissertation research!
Charles Raffaele has recently completed his proposal of his dissertation research. The dissertation will investigate best formats of multimedia instruction for learning of second language reading and listening skills. Specifically, the study will determine whether non-redundant multimedia (video and narration simultaneously, with text non-concurrent) is learned from better than redundant multimedia (video and narration with text simultaneously), […]
ED PSYCH STUDENT JESSICA BRODSKY RECEIVES PSI CHI APS RESEARCH AWARD
Teaching College Students Fact-checking Skills Recent research shows that college students struggle to accurately evaluate the trustworthiness of online information (McGrew et al., 2018). Unlike expert fact-checkers, students rarely “read laterally.” That is, students don’t use independent online sources, like fact-checking sites or Wikipedia, to verify online claims and research the people and/or organizations making […]
FIGHTING FOR PRIDE, 50 YEARS AFTER STONEWALL
Emilio, who is now in his 40s, still has the letter that he sent to his parents in 1991, letting them know that he was gay and HIV-positive. Wilson, in his late 70s, recalls admitting to his mother that he was a homosexual after she asked him, “Are you a sissy?” Reid, in his late […]
Damira Rasheed Publishes Article Titled “The Association between Teacher-Child Race/Ethnicity Matching and Classroom Diversity Differential Effect on Children’s Socioemotional and Academic Skills”
Second year Educational Psychology Ph.D. student Damira Rasheed’s study (first author) on “The Association between Teacher-Child Race/Ethnicity Matching and Classroom Diversity Differential Effect on Children’s Socioemotional and Academic Skills” was recently published in Child Development (online version coming out soon). Using a diverse sample of students and teachers, the current study sought to examine whether […]
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections and Next Steps of a Recent Educational Psychology Graduate
Teresa Ober recently completed her degree in the Educational Psychology program at the Graduate Center, CUNY, specializing in Learning, Development, and Instruction. In the process of completing her doctoral education, Teresa also completed a certificate in Instructional Technology and Pedagogy. Prior to studying at the Graduate Center, she received a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell […]
