Welcome to the Department of Educational Psychology
The University of Connecticut stands among the top public universities in the nation. The Department of Educational Psychology within UConn’s Neag School of Education is ranked by U.S. News & World Report at No. 17 in the nation for our special education concentration, and is one of the University’s most productive departments. We offer Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts degrees in Educational Psychology with concentrations in:
- Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology
- Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent Development
- Learning Sciences
- Research Methods, Measurement and Evaluation
- School Psychology
- Special Education
We also offer a Master of Arts in Educational Psychology with concentration in Educational Technology.
Recent Department News
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The Neag School department had the highest research expenditures across the Storrs and regional campuses in Fiscal Year 2023
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Christopher Esposito, Neag School doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Psychology, prepared the following rapid research brief with the Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation (CEPARE). This research brief describes best practices for ensuring success for students entering institutions of higher education today.
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Joseph Madaus, professor of special education in the Department of Educational Psychology, co-edited the recently published “Handbook of Higher Education and Disability” through Edward Elgar Publishing. This 10 Questions feature covers his work and research in higher education accessibility for students with disabilities.
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Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Sandra Chafouleas shares insights on learning from Travis Kelce’s Super Bowl sideline behavior.
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Eight outstanding graduates will be formally recognized at the Neag School’s 26th Annual Alumni Awards Celebration on March 9.
Upcoming Events
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Mar
19
Traction Workshop: The Pitch Deck 6:30pm
Traction Workshop: The Pitch Deck
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
The Traction Program is made up of bi-weekly workshops and office hours with the potential for seed funding based on participation and the opportunity to apply for incubation space. The workshops are free and open to all undergraduate and graduate students at UConn.
Learn the basics of creating a pitch deck for your startup. A great pitch deck gets your audience excited about your idea and engages them in a conversation about your business — hopefully leading to investment. In this workshop we’ll cover what slides you should include in your deck, how you should structure your pitch and how to make your deck look visually appealing.
Office hours with the workshop instructor are available the following week to those that attended the workshop.
Traction Workshops are coordinated by the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI) at UConn. CCEI was founded in 2007, and is a focal point for entrepreneurial activity within the University. CCEI supports student, faculty, staff, and alumni entrepreneurs across all academic departments, schools, and colleges. For more info: ccei.uconn.edu
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Mar
20
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Rachael Cody 11:30am
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Rachael Cody
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
11:30 AM
Admissions Building
This PhD defense is a part of the Educational Psychology program, with an emphasis on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent Development.
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Mar
20
ELP Info Session 4:00pm
ELP Info Session
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Online
Become a School District Leader! For Connecticut educators aspiring to advance their careers and become a school district leader, the Executive Leadership Program through UConn’s Neag School of Education offers a one-year program designed to prepare experienced educational leaders to serve as superintendents and/or in other district-level leadership positions. For interested educational leaders, there is now a pathway from the ELP to the Ed.D. program. The pathway will be described in the information session. Graduates of this program earn an endorsement for the Connecticut (093) Superintendent Certification and acquire the knowledge necessary for successfully meeting the challenges of district leadership in the 21st century. For more info, visit http://s.uconn.edu/ELPInformationSessions2023
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Mar
20
Get Seeded Pitch Competition 6:00pm
Get Seeded Pitch Competition
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Have a business idea? Looking for seed funding to help you get started? Get Seeded provides UConn students across all schools the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a live virtual audience who then votes on which ideas are funded. Students that are selected to pitch have an opportunity to earn up to $1,000 in seed funding for their idea as well as support from other students who may be interested in joining their business venture.
Don’t have an idea yet? Not ready to pitch? Just want to watch other students pitch? Get Seeded pitch nights are open to the public and are a great way to network and connect!
Here’s how it works:
- Interested students can apply to pitch an idea at one of our “Shark Tank style” pitch nights
- Selected participants will then pitch their idea for 5 minutes at one of our virtual pitch nights to members of the audience
- At the end of the night, the audience votes for their favorite ideas
- The top 3 teams of the night will win $1,000, $750 and $500 respectively, in non-dilutive seed funding towards their new business venture or idea!
- In April, the top five teams from our pitch nights are invited to pitch at Demo Day, where teams can win up to $5,000 in seed funding!
2023-2024 Pitch Nights
- October 10, 2023 at 6pm
- November 2, 2023 at 6pm
- December 6, 2023 at 6pm
- January 30, 2023 at 6pm
- February 22, 2023 at 6pm
- March 20, 2023 at 6pm
Demo Day: April 16, 5pm
Apply to pitch at Get Seeded HERE: https://ccei.uconn.edu/getseeded/
Teams are selected up to one week prior to the pitch night.
RSVP to attend an upcoming pitch night HERE: https://ccei.uconn.edu/getseeded/
Get Seeded Pitch Competitions are coordinated by the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI) at UConn. CCEI was founded in 2007, and is a focal point for entrepreneurial activity within the University. CCEI supports student, faculty, staff, and alumni entrepreneurs across all academic departments, schools, and colleges. For more info: ccei.uconn.edu
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Mar
20
Reproductive Justice: The Intersection of Health, Rights, and Social Justice 6:30pm
Reproductive Justice: The Intersection of Health, Rights, and Social Justice
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
06:30 PM
Student Union
Reproductive justice is a feminist framework, developed by women of color, that center’s the needs of the most marginalized and affirms our human right to bodily autonomy and to live healthy lives with access to the necessary physical, mental, political, economic, social, and sexual resources for the well-being of all people. The three core values of reproductive justice are the right to have a child, the right to not have a child, and the right to parent a child or children in safe and healthy environments.
This discussion will examine and highlight the disparities in care, access, and how it affects Black maternal health and mortality rates. Attendees will also understand the reproductive justice framework, learn about access and advocacy in Connecticut, and the barriers students have in accessing care.
Please register using the button to the left.
Join us at the Women’s Center for a Watch Party!
This panel is sponsored by the Women’s Center and the UConn Foundation as part of the #ThisIsAmerica series.
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Mar
21
Latino Education Series SP24 with Dr. Michele Back 5:00pm
Latino Education Series SP24 with Dr. Michele Back
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
05:00 PM
Gentry Building
Dr. Michele Back “Performing Knowledge and Identity in Native/Heritage Spanish Peer Tutoring Interactions”
Dr. Back offers a retrospective analysis of three previously published works (Back, 2020; Back, 2016a; Back, 2016b) about native/heritage speaker interaction in Spanish peer tutoring contexts. She first examines how knowledge is negotiated and co-constructed in peer tutoring sessions, particularly when gaps in lexical knowledge are evident on the part of the peer tutor. She discusses how these peer tutors draw upon embodied, artifactual, and historical resources, as well as “social others” (Lantolf, 2015) to resolve lexical gaps and position themselves as experts or non-experts. She then moves to an examination of a peer tutoring session in which knowledge of a popular Mexican television personality led to resistance and interactional asynchrony between the tutor and tutee. She outlines possible reasons for this asynchrony, with a focus on the difficulties of negotiating cultural and symbolic knowledge among native/heritage speakers, despite the potential richness that peer tutoring environments could provide for this type of language learning. She concludes with implications for language learning, including the potential the benefits of peer tutoring programs for both native/heritage and L2 Spanish learners, as well as the need for more transformative approaches in language learning for these programs to be truly enriching.
Dr. Michele Back is Associate Professor of World Languages Education at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, where she works with Spanish, French, Chinese, and ASL language teacher candidates. Dr. Back’s research interests include teacher development and professionalization; cultivating global citizenship; the ethical and equitable use of language learning technology, intersections of race, discourse, and identity; developing a pedagogy of symbolic competence; and the role of translanguaging and multilingual ecology in transforming schools and other communities of practice. She has published articles in the Modern Language Journal,Foreign Language Annals, TESOL Quarterly, and CALICO, as well as the books Transcultural Performance: Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities (Palgrave, 2015) and Racialization and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Peru (co-edited with Virginia Zavala, Routledge, 2019).
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Apr
1
Application Deadline: IB/M Program Shortage Areas All Day
Application Deadline: IB/M Program Shortage Areas
Monday, April 1st, 2024
All Day
Contact Information:
Dominique Battle-Lawson
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Assistant Director, Student Support
dominique.battle-lawson@uconn.edu
Sydnee Jones
Academic Advisor
sydnee.jones@uconn.edu