Month: March 2017


Congratulations to Current and Former members of the Educational Psychology Department Neag Alumni Award Recipients for 2017

March 24, 2017

Congratulations to Current and Former members of the Educational Psychology Department Neag Alumni Award Recipients for 2017   Drs. Shamim S. Patwa  – Outstanding School Administrator Dr. Alan Kraut – Outstanding Professional Dr. Melvyn L. Reich – Lifetime Achievement Award   For more information and to see videos highlighting the work of all of the […]




ICYMI: National Pub STAT Covers Work by Prof. Eric Loken

March 2, 2017

Statistician Andrew Gelman, of Columbia University, and Eric Loken, a psychologist at the University of Connecticut, say scientists have bought into a “fallacy” — that if a statistically significant result emerges from a “noisy” experiment, a.k.a. one with many variables that are difficult to account for, that result is by definition a sound one. https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/17/p-value-significance/ […]