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Caitlin Mills, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s psychological foundations of education program, has been awarded a grant from the 2021-22 Learning Engineering Tools Competition for her project “Understanding mind wandering during learning: Creating a large dataset for more generalizable and equitable research.” Dr. Mills’ project was one of more than 800 […]

The First-Gen Institute has selected nine innovative and intersectional projects for 2022-23 “microgrants.” Co-sponsored by the Graduate School, the Office of Undergraduate Education, and the College of Education and Human Development, these awards aim to expand the visibility, equity, and persistence of the University of Minnesota first-generation community. First-Generation Higher Education Students: A Mixed-Methods Study Department […]

Sherri Turner, professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s counselor education program, and her colleagues, Professors Arshia Khan and Anne Hinderliter from the University of Minnesota – Duluth (UMD) have been awarded a six-year, $750,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support low-income, high-achieving STEM undergraduates at UMD. Professor Khan is principle investigator (PI) on the grant, and […]

José Palma, PhD, alumni of the Department of Educational Psychology’s quantitative methods in education (QME) program, had been fascinated by math, social science, and their applications from a young age. These interests eventually led to his enrollment in the QME program, following an untraditional education path. “As an immigrant first-generation student from a low-income background, […]

Ethan Brown, PhD, alumni of the Department of Educational Psychology’s quantitative methods in education (QME) program, realized that statistics was not being taught in an understandable and applicable manner while working at a consulting firm in the energy industry.  In the midst of this discovery, he stumbled upon the research of Professors Joan Garfield, Bob […]

Jennifer McComas, PhD, professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s special education program, and colleagues will present Community Informed ABA: Incorporating Autistic Perspectives to Maximize Benefits and Minimize Harms at the American Psychological Association (APA) conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday, August 4 from 10 to 10:50 a.m., Central time. McComas and other members of […]

Elizabeth Fry, PhD, alumni of the Department of Educational Psychology’s quantitative methods in education (QME) program, did not enjoy the first statistics class she took in college. Fry double majored in math and French as an undergraduate student at Valparaiso University. While her introductory statistics class did not leave her wanting to learn more, the second […]

Early on, Kyle Nickodem, PhD, alumni of the Department of Educational Psychology’s quantitative methods in education (QME) program, became intrigued by a single number’s questionable ability to represent the complexity of the human mind. He stumbled across this realization during his work in a research lab during his undergraduate career, and was thereafter inspired to […]

Three Department of Educational Psychology researchers have been awarded a five-year, $3.8 million Institute of Education Sciences (IES) grant to scale up their ELCII (Early Language Comprehension Individualized Instruction) technology. Initially developed with IES funding and the College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD’s) Educational Technology Innovations (ETI), ELCII provides supplemental early instruction in language […]

Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou, Guy Bond Chair in Reading in the Department of Educational Psychology’s psychological foundations of education program, and Danielle Dupuis, director of the Research Methodology Consulting Center, have been awarded a three-year, $1.9 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Led by Vasile Rus at the University of Memphis, their project […]