School Is Ending: Educators Need to Close Strong
The end of a school year actually brings mixed emotions to educators.
Counter to what you may think, the approaching end of school does not mean educators are ready to celebrate. OK, maybe a little. This stereotypical response to the closing of school years misses something very important. Endings can be very difficult.
Strong close to the year, Generation Lockdown, and more in the News Roundup
Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment: What’s a student to choose?
Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment: What’s a student to choose?
Properly preparing students for college is of the utmost importance for parents and high schools, especially when reports indicate that many students are not “college-ready”. Making students college-ready varies, but more often than not exposure to more rigorous coursework is the determining factor. Two well-known programs that prepare students for college-level work are Advanced Placement and dual enrollment. There are numerous reports highlighting the positive outcomes of each individual program, but which program best prepares students for college rigor?
Memorizing can be good, slowing undergrad growth and more in the news roundup
4 Reasons to Pursue a Career in School Psychology
Most enter a career in school psychology to work with youth and families in school settings; address complex challenges; and support student learning and mental and behavioral health. Many school psychologists would agree, however, that the benefits of a career in school psychology extend beyond their reasons for initially becoming a school psychologist.
Benefits Of High School Psychology, Working Memory And More In The News Roundup
I-O Psychologists’ Passion Projects: Increasing Fairness for Job Seekers with Criminal Records
We continue our exploration of the field of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology, the American Psychological Association’s Division 14. If you’ve read our recent blogs, you already know that 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.
In this second blog of a new series, we continue interviewing I-O Psychologists about their passion projects to show you how these individuals are applying their training to make a difference in human or animal lives. The first post explored how an I-O psychologist helped the animal fostering program.
Columbine Anniversary, Gifted Students, and more in the News Roundup
Computational Social Science Skills
Our devices track our behavior in ways that create unimaginable amounts of information, information that can be useful for understanding human behavior. Not surprisingly, the widespread availability of these data parallels an increasing interest in data science and related topics (see Figure 1). Social scientists are increasingly using “big data” to examine theoretically-grounded research questions. Yet, few social scientists, especially psychologists, have the skills and training experiences needed to engage with this rapidly growing area of expertise called “data science.”