JPS 2020 — CELEBRATING 50 YEARS CONSTRUCTIVISM May 28–30, 2020, Philadelphia To learn more, visit the JPS Website. Click here to view the PDF of the JPS 2020 Meeting Announcement.
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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 […]
October 2019 Newsletter
Click below to view the October 2019 Newsletter in PDF form. EPSY Newsletter October 2019
September 2019 Newsletter
Click below to view the September 2019 Newsletter in PDF form: EPSY Newsletter September 2019
June 2019 Newsletter
Click below to view the June 2019 Newsletter in PDF form. EPSY Newsletter June 2019
Ed Psych Program Monthly Newsletters
Each month, we will post an Educational Psychology Program Student Newsletter created by our Executive Committee Student Representatives. Within each newsletter, you will find information on recent student, faculty, and alumni updates, important dates, upcoming colloquiums, and more!

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 […]