Year: 2023

Ed Psych’s Wang and Schenck Selected for 2022-23 Teaching Assistant Awards

Twenty-one outstanding graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2022-23 UW–Madison Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their excellence in teaching. UW–Madison employs over 2,300 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range of disciplines. Their contributions to the classroom, lab, and field are essential to the university’s educational mission. To recognize the excellence of …

School of Education’s Román, Shaffer honored with Distinguished Teaching Awards

Twelve UW–Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. Those honored have been selected for their distinguished teaching and were nominated by individual faculty members, departments, and student organizations. Among this year’s honorees are two faculty members with …

Students recognize nine School of Education educators as ‘Honored Instructors’

UW–Madison students living in University Housing each year have the ability to recognize outstanding educators via the Honored Instructor program. Through this program, University Housing takes nominations from students who want to honor and recognize instructors who challenge students, make learning fun, and/or are inspiring. This fall’s list of Honored Instructors includes nine outstanding educators …

Real forgiveness is never toxic, says UW–Madison’s Enright to Men’s Health

Can forgiveness ever be detrimental to your well-being? Enright A recent story in Men’s Health magazine that takes on the concept of “toxic forgiveness” consulted with UW–Madison’s Robert Enright, an expert in forgiveness science and professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. “Toxic forgiveness” refers to forgiving someone when you still feel hurt or haven’t …

UW–Madison’s David Williamson Shaffer, YJ Kim to tour Asia and offer research ‘master class’

Two faculty from the UW–Madison School of Education are heading Asia to offer “master classes” on an innovative research methodology developed at UW–Madison.  In a series of seven workshops and lectures across Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur, David Williamson Shaffer, the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics in the Department of Educational …

UW–Madison’s Enright interviewed in Washington Post about forgiveness research

The Washington Post highlighted the expertise of UW–Madison’s Robert Enright, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, in a story that is headlined, “Moving lessons on forgiveness out of religious spaces and into schools.” Enright Enright is considered to be one of the founders of the scientific study of forgiveness and …

David Williamson Shaffer interviewed by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about ChatGPT and education

A UW–Madison School of Education faculty member recently lent his expertise on the role of technology in education to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on how Wisconsin college students and professors are responding to the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. Shaffer David Williamson Shaffer, the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of …

ChatGPT could help improve our education system, David Williamson Shaffer argues in Newsweek op-ed

In a recently published op-ed in Newsweek, School of Education professor David Williamson Shaffer argues the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT could have a positive impact on our education system — but only if educators approach the new technology a certain way. Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement …