Highlighting the research and work of CYFS Student Affiliates.
Recent school psychology graduate Tyler Smith is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award for the American Psychological Association’s Division 16 (School Psychology). Smith’s dissertation will be recognized Aug. 11 at the APA’s annual convention in San Francisco.
Name: Heejae Chung
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Program: School Psychology
Year: First year (just completed)
Project: Traineeship in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders
What will you be doing with the project?
I am broadly learning about autism spectrum disorder.
Name: Sonia Lindner
Program: Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology
Year: First year (just completed)
Project: Coaching Science Inquiry in Rural Schools
What will you be doing with the project?
I am helping to generate and implement a coding scheme that will be used to analyze video-recorded coaching sessions with middle school and high school teachers. The project aims to identify which elements of the coaching process lead to desired teacher and student outcomes.
Name: Danae Peterson
Program: Ph.D. in Educational Studies/Instructional Technology
Year: First year (just completed)
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska
Project: Coaching Science Inquiry in Rural Schools
What will you be doing with the project?
I will be working with the team to help code videos of previously recorded coaching collaboration.
Teachers play a pivotal role in building relationships between families and schools. Amanda Moen, doctoral student in school psychology, has developed a measure that assesses how preschool teachers rate their effectiveness at building these relationships.
Sonya Bhatia, doctoral student in school psychology, has received the 2017-18 Buffett Early Childhood Institute Graduate Scholars fellowship. The $24,980 fellowship will fund Bhatia’s dissertation project, “An Examination of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation’s Effects on Teacher-Student Interactions.”
Paul Dizona, CYFS graduate assistant, has received the Psychological Assessment Young Scholars Award from the American Psychological Association.
The award recognizes his research poster, titled “Pre-K Measurement Triangulation Using Caregiver and Directly Assessed Measures of Cognitive Ability,” which Dizona will present at the 2017 APA Convention Aug. 2-6.
Andrew White, CYFS graduate assistant and doctoral student in school psychology, recently received a dissertation award from the Society for the Study of School Psychology. His thesis is titled “Using Self-Regulation to Predict Preschoolers’ Disruptive Behavior Disorders.”