Ed Psych PhD student Lexie Barber has been named a recipient of the Society for the Study of School Psychology’s (SSSP) Fall 2021 Dissertation Grant Award for her dissertation titled, “Using community collaboration to evaluate the cultural relevance of the Resilience Education Program.” Lexie is a fourth year doctoral student in the School Psychology area …
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 …
All researchers know that the ability to conduct good research depends on trustworthy data. For self-report rating scale data, a frequent concern is lack of respondent effort, or careless responding. If pervasive, this quickly leads to compromised research findings. Computer-based assessment has introduced new opportunities for monitoring respondent effort. It also could lead to interventions when low …
Moving away from home onto a residential college campus can be a big change for Youth of Color—especially if the college environment differs markedly from their home neighborhood. But having a strong ethnic identity can help these students adjust to the academic demands of college, according to a recent dissertation study conducted by Aygul Batyshira. …
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 …
If you’re interested in learning more about the field of school psychology or the UW Madison School Psychology Program, please attend one of our information sessions. RSVP to Lydia Wells, wells5@wisc.edu
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 …
Interested in learning more about the field of school psychology or the UW–Madison School Psychology Program? Attend our information session on September 27th. RSVP: Professor Katie Eklund