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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 the NCME conference. The paper, “When to Use Synthetic Linking Functions in Small-Sample Equating”, aimed to expand understanding of the …
In April 2021, members of the UW–Madison Educational Psychology Department presented research at the 2021 Biennial Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Conference. This was the first time in its history that the conference was held in a virtual format. SRCD showcases research on a broad range of topics related to child development, including cognitive development, …