Graduate and Postgraduate Students

Graduate and Postgraduate Students October 22, 2018

Using Your Psychology Degree For A Career Outside Academia

Recently, I was looking at numbers and trends in employment for psychology degree holders gathered in the 2015 National Survey of College Graduates (I know – I’m a data geek, and I embrace it). As you would expect, the most common occupation reported through the survey was either a faculty or a psychologist providing psychological services (and in some instances both).  Having been a graduate student and the director of a graduate training program, that wasn’t so surprising to me.

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Undergraduate Students June 4, 2018

Graduating with a degree in psychology? Check out what the data say about careers, workforce demographics, salaries and more!

Did you know that an estimated 3.4 million individuals in the United States hold a bachelor’s degree in psychology and that younger psychologists are more racially/ethnically diverse than older ones? The APA Center for Workforce Studies maintains a series of interactive data tools to answer these and other questions about the psychology workforce and education pipeline. Hold your mouse over the graphs and figures, and a box pops up with additional information.

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Teachers May 21, 2018

Resources for teaching about prejudice and discrimination

The website Breaking the Prejudice Habit began as an immersive learning project funded by the Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University. Mary Kite, the project director, selected an interdisciplinary team of 14 students to find ways to “break the prejudice habit” (Devine, Monteith, Zuwerink & Elliot, 1991).

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Teachers May 7, 2018

Wholeness and Hope in Education: This is What a Professor Looks Like

It was 2003. I was a first-year doctoral student attending my first research conference. I remember her as if it was yesterday. Except her findings. I was too consumed by the way she looked; her skin color, her tone, the way she looked at her students. At the end of her presentation I waited for my turn to speak to her – although I did not know what I wanted to say. All that came out was “Hi, I’m a student here. Thank you”, as tears ran down my face.

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Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Teachers April 23, 2018

I-O Psychology Gives Back to Society!

Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology—what a mouthful! The field originally focused on the prediction and improvement of job performance in industrial and military settings, but after World War II interests in broader organizational phenomena (e.g., leadership, groups, motivation, satisfaction) came into frame. Before APA Division 14 incorporated as the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in 1982, it was called Division 14, Industrial and Business Psychology from 1945 to 1962. In 1962, “Business” was dropped from the name, and in 1973 “Organizational” was added to the name.

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, High School Students, Undergraduate Students March 26, 2018

The first step to overcoming procrastination: Know thyself

Procrastination is one of the most damaging characteristics that students display because it robs them of good grades and prevents them from maintaining productive and healthy relationships with their teachers, families and friends. Procrastination can have both external (e.g., situations involving work overloads) and internal causes (e.g., personality characteristics).

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Undergraduate Students February 4, 2018

The I-O Playbook: Bringing Psychological Assessments to the NFL

Three industrial-organizational psychologists have brought a whole new field to psychology—Dr. Harold Goldstein, Dr. Kenneth Yusko, and Dr. Charles Scherbaum have given the National Football League (NFL) an innovative and evidence-based tool for selecting players during the draft using their extensive research and experience in personnel selection and industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. Their work designing, implementing, and validating a new psychological test called the NFL Player Assessment Test (NFL-PAT) has shown how the science of I-O can be applied in new, sophisticated, and very cool ways.

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Undergraduate Teachers January 29, 2018

This is Why Social Media is the Secret to Success in Student Engagement

Over the last few years as a School Psychology doctoral student, I have begun to experiment with various social media and technology platforms with hopes to improve efficiency and service delivery. I have found that the attention and information consumption of youth are structured into small but high-volume increments of time. Each social media platform serves its own purpose in the lives of our youth and as educators we must utilize this knowledge to bridge the educational gaps that exist.

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, High School Students, Pre K - 12 Teachers, Undergraduate Students January 1, 2018

Looking back at 2017: A Year In Review from the Psych Learning Curve.

2017 was a great year for the blog. We highlighted psychologists doing great work, a series on how to get into graduate school and featured many articles on the application of psychology in schools.

As a wrap up to 2017, I’d like to share with you our most popular posts and articles for the year. We look forward to bringing you more great stories from psychology and education in 2018. Thank you for all your support and feedback in our second year!