The Weekly Digest

"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing."
- Albert Bandura

Featured: Division 15 has released its archive of the 2018 APA Convention, which includes video of featured addresses, award winners, Business Meeting slides, our full program, and more! (Division 15)

U.S. News shares results of a recent study finding that affluent students are more likely to benefit from grade inflation in K-12 environments.
(U.S. News)

Research published by APA finds that the writing gap between girls and boys widens between 4th and 12th grade. (ScienceDaily)

Research shared by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that universal lunch programs help reduce the number of students who are suspended multiple times. (Chalkbeat)

Research from Portland State University suggests that graduate students want to learn strategies to teach interactively, but do not receive support from their universities to do so. (ScienceDaily)

Call for 2019 APA Convention Proposals Now Live!

Division 15 invites submissions for the 2019 annual APA convention to be held in Chicago, IL (August 8-11, 2019). The 2019 Presidential Theme for Division 15 will be Educational Psychology for a Sustainable and Promising Future. We encourage submissions related to this theme and research in Educational Psychology. Division Proposals are due no later than December 3, 2018 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
Those interested may learn more here.

Featured Podcast of the Week: Naomi Winstone

In Naomi Winstone's episode of our new "Emerging Research in Educational Psychology" podcast, she and host Jeffrey Greene discuss the ways in which students receive feedback, and how to help them do so more effectively. (34 Minutes)

📲Listen on iTunes here.
🔊Listen on SoundCloud here.

From the Ed Psych Job Board

Postdoctoral Research Associate – National Center for Research on Gifted Education (Link)
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor – University of Alabama (Link)
Assistant Professor – University of Illinois at Chicago (Link)
Assistant Professor – University of Virginia (Link)
Assistant/Associate Professor – Sonoma State University (Link)
Assistant Professor – University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (Link)

Remember that it's always free to share job posts with Division 15! Simply email a post to Wade George (as a Word or Pages document) for inclusion on our job board and future digests.

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