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Keith A. Markus, Ph.D.

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 […]

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Bruce Homer and Ming Chen presenting at Cognitive Development Society

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 […]

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ED PSYCH STUDENT JESSICA BRODSKY RECEIVES PSI CHI APS RESEARCH AWARD

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 […]

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