The Learning Analytics (Master’s Program) gives you the knowledge and tools to break down data into dynamic analyses that will help guide decisions and improvements in teaching, learning, and educational policy. For more info check out the program website: Learning Analytics Program
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, Sweden In early April, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, a call went out to a select community around …
Check out the latest edition of the department newsletter for articles about faculty awards, catching up with retired faculty members, a new diversity seminar added to the curriculum, how Ed Psych researchers are conducting groundbreaking work on the pandemic, and other department news! Read it Here: Ed Psych Insider Summer 2020
Diana Hess has been reappointed as dean of the School of Education. Every five years of their tenure, deans of the university’s schools and colleges undergo a comprehensive review to assess their academic and administrative leadership and performance. The reviews include interviews with faculty, staff and students, and with external stakeholders. The provost appoints the …
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UW–Madison’s Pauline Ho recently received the UW–Madison Global Health Institute’s (GHI) Graduate Student Award Grant. Ho is a PhD student within the human development area of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. Pauline Ho The award will fund her project, “Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health: The Role of Meaning-making and Residential History.” …
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 and On-Line Mathematics Learning” — was recorded and can be accessed via this EMIC web page. Nathan and Alibali The …
Ed. Psych. alum M. Cecil Smith (Ph.D., 1988) has been named the next Dean of the School of Education at Southern Illinois University. Cecil was a student in the Human Development area, working under the direction of Steve Yussen. He follows in his mentor’s footsteps (Yussen is former Dean of Schools of Education at Minnesota …
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 magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) — how the physical changes that occur in children’s brains as they learn may help improve …
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 awarded faculty fellowships for 2020-21. The awardees span the four divisions on campus: arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, …