Educational Psychology PhD students Alexandra Barber and Emma Lazaroff have been selected to receive the Graduate Student Services Scholarship award from UW-Madison’s Graduate School. The Graduate Student Service Scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students …
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School of Education recognizes 2022 Ed Psych award winners
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 …
UW–Madison’s Gorney receives prestigious Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship
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 …
UW-Madison’s Molly Duffy receives Wisconsin School Psychologists Association Award
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 …
UW-Madison’s Chia-chen Yang, recipient of Alumni Early Career Award
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 …
Knabe sets sights on Three Minute Thesis® Final
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 …
UW–Madison’s Lexie Barber receives Dissertation Grant Award
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 …
Kaplan and Huang Pioneer Bayesian Techniques to Monitor Educational Outcomes
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 …
Ed Psych Student Weicong Lyu Explores How Response Anchoring Can Detect Low Effort Completing Surveys
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 …
Quantitative Methods Students Present at NCME
Earlier this summer, The Quantitative Methods area in the Department of Educational Psychology at UW-Madison had five students present at the National Council of Measurement in Education (NCME) Conference. Kylie Gorney presented three papers at …