The Department of Educational Psychology prepares professionals for careers as college teachers and university professors, educators of the gifted and creative, school psychologists, researchers, and test developers. Offering an array of renowned graduate programs that are perennially ranked among the nation’s top 20 by U.S. News and World Report, the department is known for its highly regarded faculty and rigorous academic standards.
Department faculty have been awarded millions of dollars in federal and private funding for research on topics such as assessment and remediation of children’s reading difficulty, sex differences in mathematics strategies, reading comprehension and vocabulary development, diagnostic classification models, preschool intervention for children living in poverty, design of student-centered learning environments, and school dropout prevention.
Faculty present their research findings worldwide and publish in a variety of journals. The department is also home to the three endowed professors, numerous Fulbright Scholars, Fellows and Presidents of divisions of the American Psychological Association, and college, university and national teaching, service, and research award winners.