Following is a Q&A with Learning Analytics alumna, Jay Winston. Winston graduated in May 2023 with an MS in Educational Psychology: Learning Analytics, and is now working for the City of Madison. Read along to learn about Winston’s experience in the program and find out what she has been up to since. Winston Can you speak …
The Educational Psychology department is proud to celebrate Pauline Ho, a current PhD candidate in the Human Development area, who received several awards this year recognizing her work in identity involvement. Awarded the 2023 UW–Madison School of Education Thora Wick Homme Memorial Scholarship for her dissertation, Pauline writes: The Thora Wick Homme Scholarship supports my dissertation …
The Educational Psychology department is proud to recognize Melina Knabe, a current PhD student in the Human Development area, as the recipient of the 2023 Michael Vincent O’Shea and Harriet Frisbie Eastabrooks O’Shea Fellowship. Working with Dr. Haley Vlach in the Learning, Cognition, and Development Lab, Melina’s work focuses on the intersection of cognition, education, …
On Saturday, May 13, UW–Madison will celebrate its Spring 2023 Commencement. We reached out to a few of our graduating students from bachelor’s to PhDs to learn more about their favorite memories, advice for incoming students, and future plans. Scroll down to learn more about these graduates — who are just a handful of the …
The Master’s in Educational Psychology: Learning Analytics program at UW–Madison is a skills-based degree designed for working professionals. Completely online and asynchronous, students in this program learn balanced analytical methods, design strategies, and communication skills in the seven-course curriculum. These students work with a world-class teaching team to perform and present analyses, and learn how to improve …
Twenty-one outstanding graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2022-23 UW–Madison Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their excellence in teaching. UW–Madison employs over 2,300 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range of disciplines. Their contributions to the classroom, lab, and field are essential to the university’s educational mission. To recognize the excellence of …
UW–Madison’s Yuanru Tan received the Best Student Paper Award at this year’s International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 15-19. Tan is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Psychology’s Learning Sciences program. Her paper, “Ordered Network Analysis,” introduces ONA as a solution to model and visualize collaborative problem solving by …
It has been quite a year for AtentaMente, the Mexican non-profit organization for which Leandro Chernicoff, a doctoral student within the Department of Educational Psychology, is a founding partner and Academic & Research Director. AtentaMente specializes in social-emotional learning and education, empowering educators and other members of society to cultivate well-being via awareness, self-regulation, and …
Two papers that were selected for awards at the recent 2022 International Society for the Learning Sciences annual meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, were written by authors from the UW–Madison School of Education. Nathan A paper by UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan and Michael Swart, co-written with Candace Walkington of Southern Methodist University (SMU), received the International Conference of the …
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 who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations. While service can come …