The National Science Foundation’s DRK-12 program has awarded a $2.7 million grant to Sadhana Puntambekar, Sears Bascom Professor of Educational Psychology. In collaboration with Rebecca Passonneau and ChanMin Kim at Penn State University, Puntambekar will …
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Enright receives grant for forgiveness education study
Robert Enright, Aristotelian Professorship in Forgiveness Science, and Jiahe Wang Xu, graduate student in the Human Development Area, received a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to introduce forgiveness education to fifth …
Can Quantitative Ethnography Help Tell the COVID-19 Story?
The QE community collaborates to better understand a global pandemic June 16, 2020 | By Lynn Armitage, WCER Communications (Left) Daniel Spikol, Malmö University, Sweden; Stefano Schiavetto, Unicamp, Brazil; Karoline Schnaider, Umeå University, …
Nathan, Alibali part of virtual panel examining ‘Instructional Gestures for Classrooms and On-Line Mathematics Learning’
UW-Madison’s Mitchell Nathan and Martha Alibali took part in a virtual panel discussion on May 19 hosted by the Embodied Mathematical Imagination & Cognition (EMIC) team. The 90-minute event — titled “Instructional Gestures for Classrooms …
UW–Madison’s EdNeuroLab tackling math learning through brain imaging
by: Lynn Armitage, Wisconsin Center for Education Research communications In 2012, Edward Hubbard, a cognitive neuroscientist and assistant professor with UW‒Madison’s Department of Educational Psychology, created the Educational Neuroscience Lab to understand — through functional …
Dr. Robert Enright Awarded Warf Professorship
Highly regarded School of Education faculty members Li Chiao-Ping, Robert Enright, and Stacey Lee were appointed to prestigious WARF Named Professorships, UW-Madison announced on May 12. Overall, 32 members of the UW-Madison faculty have been …
School Mental Health Collaborative examining best ways to support kids’ social and emotional well-being
It wasn’t long ago when the concept that schools should play a role in supporting a child’s mental health was met with skepticism. “Historically, schools have not been seen as having a major role to …
School of Education’s Kaplan recognized with UW–Madison Hilldale Award
Each year, the Secretary of the Faculty recognizes four professors from across campus for these major awards, which have been given annually since the 1986-87 academic year. One faculty member each from the arts and …
Ed Psych Professors Create New Rural Education Research Center
Department Profs. Craig Albers and Andy Garbacz have teamed up with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research to create a new program that will focus on “rigorous, sophisticated, and interdisciplinary research that is responsive to …
School Psych Faculty Awarded New Student Leadership Grant
Albers, Garbacz, and Kratochwill Awarded OSEP Training Grant to Prepare School Psychology Doctoral Students for Leadership Careers in Academia School Psychology faculty members Craig Albers and Andy Garbacz, in addition to School Psychology Professor-Emeritus Tom …