Haley Vlach, professor of educational psychology and director of the Learning, Cognition & Development Lab, has been named a recipient of the Romnes Fellowship from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education for 2022-23. Her research examines children’s cognitive development, including their ability to remember information, acquire language and construct concepts. …
Each spring, the School of Education recognizes some of its most outstanding individuals with Faculty and Staff Distinguished Achievement Awards. On Thursday, April 14, this year’s award winners were honored during a reception and short ceremony in the Education Building’s Wisconsin Idea Room. Among those recognized include the Department of Educational Psychology’s very own Sadhana …
UW–Madison’s Sadhana Puntambekar is the lead author on a paper that’s being recognized by the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST) as one of its Research Worth Reading awards. The paper being recognized is titled, “Supporting middle school students’ science talk: A comparison of physical and virtual labs.” This award is given to three …
The School of Education’s Mitchell Nathan is among the 26 UW–Madison faculty winners of the 2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition. The competition, from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their …
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has received a three-year, $897,000 grant from the Institute for Education Sciences to work on the development of probabilistic forecasting approaches to model trends toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The purpose of this project is …
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan has been invited to serve as an advisor on the Advisory Committee of the Centre for University and School Partnership (CUSP) in the Faculty of Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Nathan is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. The committee was established in …
David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology was elected as President of the Psychometric Society. His term will begin in July 2023 The Psychometric Society was founded in 1935 and is devoted to the advancement of quantitative methodology in the behavioral sciences. The Psychometric Society publishes the …
Monitoring trends in education outcomes over time is critically important to education policy. Dr. David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods, and his graduate student Mingya Huang have developed a Bayesian probabilistic forecasting workflow that can improve this monitoring when applied to large-scale assessment trend data. At the international level, large-scale assessment programs …
Andy Garbacz, Associate Professor in the School Psychology Program, was recently awarded a grant of $4 million from the Institute of Education Sciences for a five-year project to examine the efficacy of a family-school partnership intervention for promoting children’s social, emotional, and behavioral competencies. Working in collaboration with school professionals, the team will examine the …
Join the Department of Educational Psychology’s Dr. James Pustejovsky, for a talk on the “Four Things that Every Researcher Should Know About Research Synthesis.” Monday, September 27, 2021. 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. CT 259 Educational Sciences Meta-analysis is a set of statistical tools for synthesizing results across multiple sources of evidence. Meta-analyses of intervention research …