Describe Educational Psychology here.
This department prepares professionals for careers as college teachers and university professors, educators of the gifted and creative, school library media specialists, school psychologists, instructional designers, technology specialists in schools, trainers in business and industry, 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, rigorous academic standards and heritage as a pioneer in the measurement of human creativity.
Department faculty have been awarded millions of dollars in federal and private funding for research dealing with ADHD, sex differences in mathematics strategies, autism, reading comprehension, violence prevention in schools, technology-based learning environments, and interactive learning programs for education and training. Faculty present their research findings worldwide and publish in a variety of journals and textbooks. The department is also home to the Charles H. Wheatley-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Technology-Enhanced Learning, the co-author of the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC), numerous Fulbright Scholars, Fellows and Presidents of divisions of the American Psychological Association, and college, university and national teaching, service, and research award winners.
