Should You Become an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant?

Do you remember your first college class in which the instructor had an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA)?  You may have been surprised when you realized that a peer was going to be teaching and perhaps even grading you.  Did you wonder about the duties of your teaching assistant and perhaps also the knowledge, skills, and characteristics (KSCs) and experience and/or training it takes to become a UTA? In this article, I would like to provide some answers to these questions and also discuss the benefits and challenges of this experience.



Four Ways to Support Justice-Involved Youth During School Reintegration

Youth with juvenile justice contact are a unique population that require deliberate and collaborative reintegration into the school setting to reduce their likelihood of a re-offense and to help promote their academic success. Roughly 55% of youth who engage in delinquent behavior re-offend within twelve months (Mathur & Clark, 2014).  This post will offer information on strategies for supporting school reintegration.



What’s Wrong with Educational Testing and How We Can Fix it

As quantitative psychologists who study education, teachers and parents often ask us, “What went wrong with all these tests, and how can we fix them?”

At best, educational assessments—from large-scale standardized exams administered over an entire state, to targeted cognitive diagnostic tests used by psychologists in schools—are considered a necessary evil by the teachers, parents, and students who are subjected to them.



Our Top 10 Blog Posts on Education and Psychology From 2018!

It’s hard to believe that 2019 is right around the corner. Our blog had another milestone year: we more than doubled the Psych Learning Curves’ traffic! From summer reading lists to talking about teacher burnout, our most popular topics are as diverse as our readers.

As a wrap up to 2018, I’d like to share with you our most popular posts and articles for the year. We look forward to bringing you more great content in 2019. Happy New Year to our readers and thank you for all your support!