Maggie McLean presented a poster at the Midwest Instruction Leadership Council (MILC) conference on using data to evaluate whether a movement and music program increased on task behavior and task initiation in a group of second grade students. Dr. Lisa Stewart, School Psychology, advised McLean on the poster and also attended the MILC conference held at the St. Paul River […]
Doris Walker-Dalhouse, Professor Emerita, STL and A. Derick Dalhouse, Psychology, have a chapter published in Immigration in the 21st Century: Political, Social, and Economic Issues, edited by Judy Ho and Published by Nova Publishers, N.Y. The title of the chapter is Preservice Teachers Culturally Relevant Beliefs: The Impact of a Clinical Experience Tutoring Sudanese Students.
The graduate program in School Psych program recently was approved for a university sponsored iPad technology initiative. All on-campus School Psychology graduate students will be issued iPads this fall at no cost to the students. The iPads will be integrated into day-to-day course instruction, as well being used by the graduate students in assessment labs, in practicum settings, and for research […]
Dr. Lisa Stewart, psychology, trained 80 Northwestern Minnesota Americorps Reading Corps members Aug 20- 22 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Over 1,000 Reading Corps members from all across Minnesota started their year of service this week by taking the Americorps pledge and getting trained to provide high quality targeted interactions and reading interventions with kids from age 3 to grade […]
Recent Psychology graduate Spencer Coffman has published a paper on “Facial Expression: The Ability to Distinguish Between Enjoyment and Nonenjoyment Smiles.” Spencer conducted the research with Dr. Elizabeth Nawrot (Psychology) as part of an Experimental Psychology class. The article appears in the Summer 2013 issue of the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research. Spencer graduated in 2012 and plans to […]