A team of researchers from UW–Madison was recently awarded two grants to examine brief mental health interventions that are designed for use in schools. An overarching goal of these projects, which are funded via the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES), is to test strategies that schools can use to support students …
UW–Madison’s Robert Enright has been invited to represent Division 3 (Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science) of the American Psychological Association (APA) at the annual Spielberger EMPathy Symposium on Aug. 9 in Chicago. Each year, three distinguished and prominent individuals are invited to talk and exchange ideas on the themes of Empathy, Motivation, and …
UW–Madison alumna Angie Eilers has recently launched a software company, UR Turn, that is targeted at education planning for middle and high school students. Eilers earned her master’s from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology in 1992, and later received her Ph.D. from the School’s Department Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 1998. …
A new study from UW–Madison’s Xueli Wang and Seo Young Lee examines the psychometric properties of a new survey measuring factors of STEM student transfers from two- to four-year colleges. Measuring factors include things like initial attitudes toward math and science, self-efficacy in math and science, active learning, and transfer oriented interaction. This study was …
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan recently received an $800,000 grant from the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) to develop and adapt the method of Bayesian dynamic borrowing to large-scale assessment programs, such as the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). The co-PI on the project is Jianshen Chen, who …
The National Academy of Education (NAEd) announced the recipients of the 2019 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships, and this year three people with ties to UW–Madison’s School of Education are receiving these highly competitive awards. Matthew Hirshberg and Martina Rau were named NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows, while Ashley Smith is receiving an NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. “The …
Students may learn more in mixed-gender groups than when they work solely with members of their own gender, a study released by a group of researchers with UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research indicates. The study was led by UW–Madison’s Sadhana Puntambekar, who is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. Preliminary results of …
Herbert J. Klausmeier, a UW–Madison professor emeritus of educational psychology who played the leading role in founding the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, passed away on May 20 at the age of 98. After earning a Doctor of Education degree from Stanford University in 1949, Klausmeier started his academic career at the University of Northern Colorado in 1949 …