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 Kylie Gorney was selected to receive the Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship from Educational Testing Service (ETS). The fellowship is the most prestigious student award issued by ETS, and is intended to honor Harold Gulliksen, one of the pioneers of psychometrics, who was a professor of psychology at Princeton University and the inaugural director of the …
UW–Madison’s School of Education and many of its programs are again rated among the very best in the nation according to the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday, March 29. UW–Madison is home to the fifth-ranked school of education in the nation — marking the ninth straight year it has been …
The Wisconsin School Psychologists Association (WSPA) has selected Ed Psych EdS student Molly Duffy as this year’s Bernice Krolasik Memorial Scholarship Award recipient. The award is given to one non-traditional student each year and was presented at the association’s spring convention. Duffy is a second-year student in the School Psychology area’s Educational Specialist program within …
Dr. Chia-chen Yang, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Oklahoma State University and UW–Madison Alumna, has been named this year’s recipient of the Department of Educational Psychology’s Alumni Early Career Award. Yang earned her PhD in Educational Psychology in the Human Development area in 2014 under the direction of Professor Brad Brown. Since then, she …
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 …
The School of Education has released its latest online edition of Learning Connections, a magazine for alumni and friends of the UW–Madison School of Education. The Winter 2021-22 issue centers on Research that Matters. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, the faculty and staff are world-renowned for the quality and impact 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 …
Ed Psych PhD student Melina Knabe has advanced to the final round of UW–Madison’s Three Minute Thesis® competition. With a single static PowerPoint slide and a max time of three minutes, Knabe moved through the divisional semi-finals with her research presentation titled “Which bilingual book is best for your child?” Now Knabe sets her sights …