The following interview took place on April 17th, 2020. Maya Rose (Scholarly Communication Fellow) interviewed Dr. Sarah McGrew, Dr. Patricia Brooks, and Jessica Brodsky about their timely research on media literacy. Bios for each contributor are included at the end of the post. (more…)
Congrats to Elizabeth S. Che who successfully defended her pilot project titled “Do Graduate Students Aim to Teach Undergraduates Employable Skills?” (more…)
By Maya Rose and Teresa Ober, Ph.D* * authors contributed equally to this blog post Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about challenges to graduate and early career researchers, wreaking havoc on their research plans and causing yet unknown downstream consequences on career opportunities. Though we don’t yet know the long-term impact of the pandemic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
