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Public Service Loan Forgiveness PSLF Program documents.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness – Success!

There was no way for me to become a psychologist without taking out student loans, so my first day of graduate school was a blend of exhilaration about pursuing my vocational calling and dread over-committing myself to loans that were much larger than any amount of money I had ever earned. Four years later I had a graduate degree, a network of inspiring colleagues, a postdoctoral fellowship, and six-figure debt.



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First do no harm: Practical ways schools can work against systemic inequities for all of their students

According to Erikson’s fourth stage of his famous lifespan theory of development, when kids reach schooling age, they face the crisis of industry versus inferiority. As we tell our graduate students, this is where teachers and schools have the most influence on students’ social and emotional development, and it’s where they can do the most harm. This harm is especially likely if a student is Black or Latino. We know that both groups are more likely to be verbally reprimanded, expelled, and suspended in comparison to White students.



3 new reasons why US educational tests should be dynamic

In our Psych Learning Curve blog post one year ago, we described an approach to educational testing—called dynamic measurement— that has the potential to improve educational testing practice in the U.S.

In dynamic measurement, students are assessed at multiple time-points with targeted instruction in between, and then the growth across that time-span is incorporated into students’ scores. We’ve shown in past work that scores from dynamic measures are less affected by student characteristics such as race, gender, or poverty level than are traditional tests. Now, we want to share three more insights from our research that we think will continue to support the potential for dynamic measurement in U.S. schools.



What should learning look like to prepare our children for the future world?

Albert Einstein famously asserted, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” As we progress further into the 21st century, Einstein’s statement resonates in my mind as I deliberate over the current focus and probable trajectory of education.

What should learning look like to prepare our children for the future world? Should creativity be the sole focus? Is an emphasis on learning how to learn the key, or do children need to develop a vast general fund of information?



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I-O psychologists’ passion projects: Can AI predict your personality in a job interview?

We continue our exploration of the field of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology, the American Psychological Association’s Division 14. I-O Psychology is the study of behavior in the workplace. I-O Psychologists frequently help businesses better hire, motivate, and retain employees. But they can apply their skills in many other ways.

We continue interviewing I-O Psychologists about their passion projects to show you how these individuals are applying their training to enact positive societal change. If you missed the earlier posts of this series, we encourage you to also read about the passion projects of Dr. Haley Woznyj, Dr. Ann Marie Ryan, and doctoral student Mike Morrison.

Meet Dr. Louis Tay, an Associate Professor at Purdue University’s Department of Psychological Sciences, and his graduate student, Louis Hickman. Louis Tay received his Ph.D. in I-O Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. At Purdue, he pursues cross-disciplinary research with the goals of improving the psychological measurement techniques. He is also developing science-based well-being programs and policies for organizations and societies more broadly.

Louis Hickman received an M.S. in Computer and Information Technology with a specialization in Natural Language Processing from Purdue. He is currently an I-O Psychology doctoral candidate at Purdue, working with Louis Tay on several research projects at the intersection of psychology and Artificial Intelligence (AI).