Department of
Educational Psychology
The Department of Educational Psychology offers wide-ranging work extending from teacher education to research that investigates cultural and interactive processes and influences on social and cognitive functioning, collaborative and individual learning, evaluation and measurement of learning outcomes, student attributes, the application of instructional media, and basic research on the application of statistical procedures to problems of educational measurement and evaluation.
Graduates of our Master's programs teach young children with and without disabilities, guide youth in social and cultural activities, and work in institutions of testing, measurement, and evaluation. Graduates of our doctoral program work as professors in higher education and in applied fields as researchers, administrators, and social-policy analysts.