“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 […]
The following blog post was written by Dr. Jay Verkuilen. This post is part of a blog series about transitioning to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve taught graduate statistics since 2007 and a good bit of undergraduate statistics before that. I’ve only taught online a few times due to necessity. COVID-19 has pushed a […]
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 following blog post was written by Sydne McCluskey. Sydne is a PhD Student in the Ed Psych Program, specializing in Quantitative Methods. She is interested broadly in psychometrics; her recent research has focused on item analysis in the early stages of test development and on developing Generalized SEM approaches to analyzing both rater and […]
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 […]
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, […]
