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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology Anastasiya Lipnevich has focused her research on two interacting areas of interest – (1) instructional feedback (Handbook of Instructional Feedback) and (2) assessment of noncognitive, or psychosocial, characteristics that relate to educational and life success (Psychosocial SKills and School Systems in the 21st Century). Anastasiya Lipnevich and her PhD students, […]
