David Williamson Shaffer has been appointed the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics in the UW–Madison School of Education. The honor acknowledges Shaffer’s decades of exemplary teaching, mentorship, and research, which includes establishing the field of quantitative ethnography. Quantitative ethnography (QE) unifies statistical and qualitative research methods to help researchers use the power of “big …
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 …
Ask Percival Matthews about his vision for what equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) work across the UW–Madison School of Education should look like, and he pauses for a moment. He has his own ideas. Plenty of them. But he also acknowledges that EDI work can be hard — and stresses how one person can’t do …
The Daily Cardinal sat down with UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan recently for a conversation about his research, effective teaching, and study techniques. Nathan, a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School of Education’s top-ranked Department of Educational Psychology, studies students and how they learn. He also studies how teachers structure learning experiences for students. “A unique quality …
UW–Madison’s Martina Rau is one of the most productive researchers in the world in her field, according to an analysis just published in Educational Psychology Review. The analysis also ranked UW–Madison among the top 10 institutions globally for educational psychology research productivity. The study examined the number of research publications in the educational psychology journals Cognition and Instruction, Contemporary …
Madison’s NBC15/WMTV utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Katie Eklund for a recent report on the shortage of mental health professionals in Wisconsin schools. Currently, many districts are struggling to hire enough mental health professionals to serve the needs of their students. However, Eklund, an associate professor and co-director of the School Psychology area in the …
Diagrams commonly used to teach chemistry concepts sometimes do more harm than good in students’ learning experiences, according to a new study from UW–Madison’s Martina Rau. The study, published in Journal of Chemical Education, found that undergraduate students often misinterpreted the meaning of arrows used in chemistry diagrams to convey information about things like the structure …
Forbes highlighted the expertise of Robert Enright, professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, in a recent feature on forgiveness. Enright is considered to be one of the founders of the scientific study of forgiveness and was recently lauded as a “game changer” in modern psychology by the American Psychological Association. In the Forbes article, Enright explained …
As parents, students, and teachers prepare for the upcoming 2022-23 academic year, experts from UW–Madison’s School of Education are ready to share their thoughts with media members on a range of school and education-related topics. Countdown to kindergarten (and 4K) As a parent, one day you’re changing diapers … and the next thing you know …
On Wednesday, Aug. 3, 10 student scholars took part in the Summer Education Research Poster Symposium hosted by the UW–Madison School of Education’s Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. These student scholars had been conducting research alongside faculty mentors as a part of the 10-week Summer Education Research Program (SERP). The students, who came to …