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SACP Information Sessions – 2019
The School and Applied Child Psychology (SACP) Information Sessions will be held by Dr. Laurie Ford, SACP PhD Program Director of Training and Admissions Coordinator. Information Session Admissions to the School and Applied Child Psychology Programs Topics Discussed: Differences in M.Ed., M.A., and Ph.D. at UBC will be discussed Career options Admissions process for UBC […]
Thriving in Grad School panel
Event Date: October 17, 2019 Time: 3:15 – 4:45 pm Location: LLED Multi-Purpose Room (2012) 6445 University Boulevard Open to graduate students only, this panel hosted by Language Sciences will explore how to thrive in graduate school, with panelists giving their experience and advice, and answering questions from the audience. Potential panel questions include: what […]
Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL) Workshop: Data Querying and Management
Date: October 16th, 2019 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Location of Event: Scarfe Room 2415 Presenters: ShunFu Hu and Xuejun Ryan Ji (MERM PhD students) Abstract: SQL is a widely used language for storing, retrieving and updating data tables in relational database. With declarative and straightforward commands, SQL enables users to easily maintain the […]
Final Ph.D. Oral Defense – Hillary McBride
Final Ph.D. Oral Defense HILLARY MCBRIDE (Counselling Psychology) Wednesday, October 16th, 2019, 12:30 pm Room #203, UBC Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road Title: Menopause as Metamorphosis: The meaning and experience for women of doing well during the menopausal transition Supervisor: Dr. Judith Daniluk (CNPS) Committee Members: Dr. William Borgen (CNPS), Dr. Laura Hurd (Kinesiology) […]
Final Ph.D. Oral Dissertation Defense – Matthew Waugh
Final Ph.D. Oral Dissertation Defense MATTHEW WAUGH (Human Development, Learning, and Culture) Wednesday, October 9th, 2019, 12:30 pm Room #200, UBC Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road Title: Getting to Know to Build the Relationship: A Grounded Theory of the Parent Involvement Process in Multi-Year Classrooms Chair: Dr. Heather McKay (CHHM) Supervisor: Dr. Laurie Ford […]
EPSE 634 | Special Topics in Advanced Assessment of School and Applied Child Psychology Practice
This course will focus on different special advanced topics in assessment including neuropsychological assessment, early childhood assessment, bilingual assessment, etc.. Pre-requisites: EPSE 528; EPSE 554 or 556; Admission to the School and Applied Child Psychology or Counselling Psychology programs.
EPSE 556 | Cognitive & Academic Assessment Practicum
In this course, the student will be exposed to the administration and interpretation of individually administered measures of cognitive abilities and academic achievement. A focus will be on individually administered tests of cognitive abilities commonly used with school age and adults. In addition to the theoretical foundation needed to interpret formal cognitive and academic assessments, […]
EPSE 555 | Academic & Social-Emotional Assessment
This course covers formal and informal methods of assessing academic achievement and social and emotional functioning. Students in this course will gain competency in the selection, administration, and interpretation of commonly utilized assessment tools as well as how to apply assessment rules in making recommendations regarding intervention/prevention efforts and/or designations and diagnoses.
EPSE 506 | Applied Psychopathology Across the Lifespan
The emphasis of the course is on current empirical and theoretical to disorders of children, youth, and adults, including issues in their classification, etiology, and developmental course. Emphasis will be placed on thinking about the most commonly encountered disorders within a developmental psychopathology framework as well as looking to increase acquisition of in-depth knowledge regarding […]
Final M.A. Thesis Defense – Carolyn Taylor
Final M.A. Thesis Defence CAROLYN TAYLOR (School and Applied Child Psychology) Thursday, September 26, 2019, 4:30 pm Scarfe Building, Room #308A Title: Pre-Service Teachers’ Implicit Theories About Achievement in Students with Anxiety and Related Use of Classroom-based Strategies Supervisory Committee: Dr. William McKee (SCPS); Dr. Rachel Weber (SCPS) Departmental Examiner: Dr. Serge Lacroix (SCPS) Abstract: […]
Final PhD Oral Dissertation Defence – Ellen Shumka
Final PhD Oral Dissertation Defence ELLEN SHUMKA (School and Applied Child Psychology) Monday, September 30th, 2019, 12:30 pm Room #203, Thea Koerner House, UBC Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road Title: Multimethod Assessment of Social-Emotional Competence in Children with Selective Mutism Chair: Dr. Grant Charles (SOWK) Supervisor: Dr. Shelley Hymel (HDLC) Supervisory Committee: Dr. Rosalind Catchpole […]
MA SACP Thesis Defence – Meagan Murphy
Final M.A. Thesis Defence MEAGAN MURPHY (School and Applied Child Psychology) Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019, 3:30 pm Scarfe Building, Room #278 Title: Investigating the Relation Between Working Memory and Math Anxiety as Contributors to Elementary Students’ Math Task Performance Supervisory Committee: Dr. Rachel Weber (SCPS); Dr. Sterett Mercer (SPED) Departmental Examiner: Dr. Laurie Ford (SCPS/HDLC) Abstract: Math anxiety […]
QMS Event : Deep Learning – Why You Should be Excited
Date: September 18, 2019 Time: 12:15-1:15 pm Location: Scarfe Office Block Room 2415 Speaker: Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (Assistant Professor, Linguistics & School of Information, Computer Science, UBC) Moderator: Yan Liu ( Assistant Professor, MERM, ECPS) Abstract: Deep learning is a class of machine learning methods inspired by information processing in the human brain. Deep learning has […]
Meet & Greet with Dr. Bruce Wampold
There will be a general meet and greet for ECPS faculty, staff, and students who are interested in meeting ECPS’s International Research Visiting Fellow (Dr. Bruce Wampold). It will be held on Wed Sept 11th from 3pm to 3:50pm in Scarfe 2415. About Dr. Bruce Wampold: Emeritus Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of […]
CNPS Information Sessions – 2019
The CNPS Information Sessions will be chaired by Admissions Chair, Dr. Rob Bedi 1st Session 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Wednesday October 2nd Location: Neville Scarfe – Room 203 2nd Session 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM, Thursday October 24th Location: Neville Scarfe – Room 203
Welcome Tino Chabudapasi
We are pleased and excited to welcome Tino Chabudapasi Tino Chabudapasi has come to us with a B.Sc in Business Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has several years of experience providing service and support to international students and his most recent position was a leadership role in student admissions at a private institution of higher education. With a passion for […]
Maram Alraddadi – Final M.A. Defence (SPED)
Title: “Using Self-Regulated Learning Theory to Investigate the Effectiveness of Inclusion for Students with Visual Impairments in a Secondary School in Saudi Arabia” Friday, August 16, 2019 at 12:00 to 2:00 pm Neville Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall, Room 2415 Examining Committee: Prof. Kim Zebehazy (Advisor) Prof. Nancy Perry (Committee Member) Prof. Deborah Butler (External Reader) […]
Welcome Dr. Ed Kroc
We are pleased and excited to welcome Dr. Ed Kroc Dr. Kroc is joining us as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology. Dr. Kroc has already been working at ECPS as an Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and was previously a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Statistics. Dr. […]
Dr. Bruce Wampold visiting UBC
ECPS’ awardee of the Faculty of Education International Research Visiting Fellowship will be visiting ECPS from September 8th to September 22nd. To close off this visit, he will be providing a talk entitled, “Is it the Relationship or the Treatment that Makes Psychotherapy Work? The Case for an Integrated Model” on Friday September 20th at 2pm […]
Winter 2019-2020 Sessional Lecturer Positions
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA-VANCOUVER Winter 2019-2020 Sessional Lecturer Positions Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education Faculty of Education Positions below are reposted on July 10, 2019 | Application Deadline: August 5, 2019 EPSE 310A: Assessment and Learning in the Classroom QUALIFICATIONS Preference is given to doctoral students who have a strong understanding […]
Welcome Dr. Terence Tracey
We are pleased and excited to welcome Dr. Terence Tracey Dr. Terence Tracey is joining us for the next three years as a Visiting Professor in Counselling Psychology. Dr. Tracey comes to us from Arizona State University where he was a Professor since 1999 and served as Department Head of the Counselling Psychology Program. Prior […]
Congratulations to ECPS SPED Students: I-Chen Wu, Karen Kester and Lilian Wataka
I-Chen Wu (SPED PhD), Dr. Owen Lo, Advisor Dr. Marion Porath Scholarship in Education A scholarship is offered annually by Merv Porath in memory of his wife, Dr. Marion Porath (B.Ed. 1974, M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1988) for a graduate student studying High Ability within the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, […]
Congratulations to Dr. Aloysius Anyichie!
Congratulations to Aloysius Anyichie, ECPS’ HDLC Ph.D. Graduate, for being awarded the G.M. Dunlop Distinguished Contribution Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Educational Psychology 2019. The Canadian Association for Educational Psychology (CAEP) annually sponsors the G.M. Dunlop Awards for the best Masters and Doctoral theses or equivalent scholarly work in educational psychology. The awards are […]
Tug of Logic: A Competitive Board Game For Collaborative Reasoning
Time: 2-4 pm, Friday, May 31, 2019 Location: Scarfe Building Library Block Room 278 Speaker: Dr. Michael Picard Join philosopher, author and public intellectual, Dr. Michael Picard as he introduces, demos and discusses the new board game, Tug of Logic. A collaborative game that seeks consensus and tests its limits, it aims at constructing complete […]
(SPED M.Ed) Learning Disabilities – Archived
The sequence of prerequisite and required courses includes introductory and advanced coursework in learning disabilities (EPSE 316, 526), and in special education more generally (EPSE 512), a foundations course in learning, development, and instruction, a supervised “clinic” assessment to intervention experience offered in an accessible community-based setting (EPSE 431), and a field experience in students’ […]
(SPED: M.A.) Learning Disabilities – Archived
The sequence of prerequisite and required courses includes introductory and advanced coursework in learning disabilities (EPSE 316, 526), and in special education more generally (EPSE 512), a foundations course in learning, development, and instruction, a supervised “clinic” assessment to intervention experience offered in an accessible community-based setting (EPSE 431), and a field experience in students’ […]
BCASP 4th Annual Spring Workshop
Truth and Reconciliation: Inclusion Through an Indigenous Lens Date: Friday, May 3, 2019 Time: 8:30 am – 4:00 pm Location: Resource and Education Centre: 14123 – 92nd Avenue, Surrey, BC (right next to the District Education Centre) In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released their final report regarding the ongoing impact of residential schools […]
Workshop: Philosophical Fiction
Time: 2:00 – 4:00pm, Thursday, April 18, 2019 Location: Scarfe Library Block, Room 278 Presenter: Dr. Natalie Fletcher This workshop will be lead by philosophical practitioner and interdisciplinary researcher, Dr. Natalie Fletcher, who will be visiting from Montreal. Her workshop titled, “Philosophical Fiction,” will introduce various tools to analyze and evaluate philosophical stimulus so as […]
Psychology Careers Expo
Time: 12:00-4:00 pm, Thursday, March 21, 2019 Location: UBC Nest (Great Hall) In collaboration with the Psychology Students’ Association of UBC and the UBC Department of Psychology, UBC Psi Chi is excited to present the Psychology Careers Expo! This three part event will be a great opportunity for students to: – CREATE meaningful connections with […]
ISGP Nexus Conference Nexus Interdisciplinary Conference 2019: Wicked Problems and Interdisciplinary Solutions
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019 Time: 9:00 – 5:00 pm Location: GSS Loft @ The Nest We would like to invite graduate students and community members to take part in the 2019 Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Conference. This conference is envisioned by students of the ISGP as a way of embodying the essence of interdisciplinary research – becoming a […]
Congratulations to ECPS Associate Professor Dr. Sterett Mercer
Please join the Department in congratulating Dr. Sterett Mercer, Associate Professor in ECPS, and his colleagues for being awarded a $2.4 Million research grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to support their 5-year research project Reducing Youth Violence and Racism/Discrimination: The Efficacy of Comprehensive Prevention Strategies (CPS). Funded through the NIH’s Minority Health and Health Disparities […]
Research Presentation: Uncovering Text Features of Hyper-partisan News using NLP with Deep Learning
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00pm, Thursday, March 21, 2019 Location: Scarfe Library Block, Room 278 Presenter: Chiyu Zhang (PhD student in iSchool), Xuejun Ryan Ji (PhD student in MERM), & Yadong Liu (PhD student in Linguistics) This study aims to identify typical text features of hyperpartisan news via a set of text analytic approaches, as […]
Publication Strategies Panel
Time: 1:00-3:00pm, Friday, March 15, 2019 Location: Douglas Kenny Room 2510, (Suedfeld Lounge), Vancouver Campus Panelists: Anthony Paré (Professor & Head, LLED), Anne-Michelle Tessier (Assistant Professor, Linguistics), Ron Darvin (recent graduate, LLED, postdoctoral fellow, SFU), Xuejun Ryan Ji (Ph.D. student, ECPS, LangSci Steering Committee) Hear from faculty and graduate students with experience in academic editing […]
Challenging Behaviours Conference – Autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders
Time: May 10, 11 & 13, 2019 PRESENTED BY: School District No. 36 (Surrey) IN COLLABORATION WITH: BCCH, Department of Psychiatry Pacific Autism Family Network UBC Department of Psychiatry Developmental Disorders Program UBC Psychoeducational Research & Training Centre This conference will focus on children and youth with autism spectrum disorder, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, intellectual […]
CIRCA Colloquium Series: Detecting Anxiety Disorders in Children with ASD
Time: 2-3:30pm, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Location: Scarfe Building Library Block, Room 278 Speaker: Dr. Connor Kerns (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology) Children with ASD frequently experience co-occurring anxiety disorders, yet these anxiety disorders can often go undetected, given the overlap of anxiety and autism symptoms. In this talk, Dr. Kerns will review research on […]
QMS Research Talk: What the heck are Learning Analytics anyway?
Time: 11am – 12pm, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019 Location: Scarfe Building Library Block Room 278 Moderator: Ryan Ji (PhD student, MERM, ECPS) Presenter: Dr. Leah Macfadyen (Associate Director, MET, Faculty of Education) Abstract: Developments in education and learning technologies in recent decades mean that universities are now awash in data about learners and learning. Online teaching […]
Research Talk: Applying grounded theory methodology to understand mental health service use among youth and young adults living with mental health challenges
Time: 1-2pm, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019 Location: Scarfe Building Library Block Room 278 Speaker: Dr. Shelly Ben-David (Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, UBC Okanagan Campus) Grounded theory is a method of qualitative inquiry that has particular relevance for mental health research. This presentation will provide an overview of grounded theory methodology, in the context […]
QMS Research Talk: Conceptual Challenges for Methodologies Used to Ensure Fairness and Equity in Assessments, Measures, and Surveys
Time: 11am-12pm, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019 Location: Scarfe Building Room 2415 Moderator: Dr. Anita Hubley (Professor, MERM, ECPS) Presenter: Dr. Bruno Zumbo (Professor, MERM, ECPS) Dr. Zumbo will discuss the concepts and methods that are used to ensure fairness and equity in assessments, measures, and surveys. He will also talk about the challenges that informed […]
Statistical Analysis with R (Basic R Programming) Workshop
The focus of this workshop will be on how to manipulate data using the R program and how to install and use R “packages”. No prior experience with R is necessary but participants should download R and R studio on their laptops. The workshop is open to students in all the ECPS programs, but confirmation […]
Congratulations to ECPS Associate Professor Robinder Bedi
Congratulations to ECPS Associate Professor Robinder Bedi for being awarded a grant from The Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race (Division 45 of the American Psychological Association) in its inaugural small research grants program. Dr. Bedi’s project: “Yatra” (The Journey): Integrating Family Yoga into a Group Counseling: Program for South Asian Men […]
Congratulations to ECPS Professor Anita Hubley
Congratulations to ECPS Professor Anita Hubley for becoming the Associate Editor of Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences (MISS). MISS is a BioMed Central (BMC) interdisciplinary scholarly journal for the social sciences published by Springer Press. The journal publishes high-quality, open access measurement instruments intended for scientific use across various disciplines (e.g., sociology, psychology, education, […]
Welcome Dr. Cynthia Glidden-Tracey
We are pleased and excited to welcome Dr. Cynthia Glidden-Tracey Dr. Cynthia Glidden-Tracey will join us as a tenure – track Instructor in Counselling Psychology on January 1, 2019. Dr. Glidden-Tracey previously held an appointment as the clinical faculty of the Arizona State University Counseling and Counseling Psychology programs in the USA. Bio: Cynthia Glidden-Tracey specializes […]
Welcome Dr. Surita Jhangiani
We are pleased and excited to welcome Dr. Surita Jhangiani! As announced at the November department meeting, Dr. Jhangiani will join us as a tenure – track Instructor in Human Development, Learning and Culture on January 1, 2019. Dr. Jhangiani is already a valued member at ECPS where she has served as a 12 month […]
Holiday Greetings
Happy Holidays from ECPS! Music: Oh Christmas Tree (Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0) Animation: Videezy
Congratulations to ECPS Assistant Professor Vicki Knight
Congratulations to ECPS Assistant Professor Vicki Knight for winning the 2019 Research Award by the Division on Autism & Developmental Disabilities (DADD) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). The Council is a organization composed of researchers and practitioners committed to enhancing the quality of life of individuals, especially children and youth, with autism, intellectual disability, and other developmental disabilities. This […]
Congratulations to ECPS Professor and Distinguished University Scholar Bruno D. Zumbo
In 2018, Bruno D. Zumbo, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, was honored with the distinction Pioneer in Quality of Life Research by the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) for having made substantial contributions to measurement and research methodology impacting on the field of Quality of Life […]
School Psychology Awareness Week 2018
Unlock Potential. Find Your Password! National Association of School Psychologist Statement During the week of November 12-16, 2018, schools throughout North America will celebrate National School Psychology Awareness Week to highlight the important work school psychologists and other educators do to help all students thrive. Each year, the National Association of School Psychologists designates a […]
Power Analysis Workshop
Time: 10am-12pm, November 22, 2018 (Thursday) Location: Scarfe Library Block Room 278 Presenters: Ryan Ji (Ph. D. student, MERM program, UBC), Ben Hives (M.Sc. student, School of Kinesiology) Outline of the workshop: Power Analysis is used to determine an adequate sample size needed to detect a given effect size for a planned study. It can also […]
Congratulations to ECPS Associate Professor Sterett H. Mercer
Congratulations to ECPS Associate Professor Sterett H. Mercer for winning the Shapiro Mid-Career Scholar Award from the Society for the Study of School Psychology (jointly with Milena Keller-Margulis at University of Houston). The award will provide two years of funding to work with a mentor, Steve Graham at Arizona State University, on advancing our programmatic work […]
Congratulations to ECPS Assistant Professor Vicki Knight
Congratulations to ECPS Assistant Professor Vicki Knight for winning the 2018 UBC Hampton New Faculty Grant for her research Enhancing communication and coding of children with ASD and their peers through shared interests in robotics. The award is designed to provide start-up funding to new scholars seeking to establish their initial research programs. For more information […]
Congratulations to Aloysius Anyichie!
Congratulations to Aloysius Anyichie, ECPS’ HDLC Ph.D. Candidate, for being awarded the Studying and Self-Regulated Learning SIG of AERA’s 2018 Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA). The award recognizes Aloysius Anyichie and co-author Dr. Deborah Butler for their contribution to the field of education through their paper Culturally Responsive Teaching and Self-Regulated Learning: An Integrated Approach to Supporting […]
Innovations in Educational Neuroscience –Transforming Practice through Emerging Research
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018 Time: 8:30am – 4:00pm Location: Jack Poole Hall, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre UBC 6163 University Blvd This special event brings together scholars, educators, students, and practitioners from across several disciplines. We will hear about the latest science and practice in the new field of Educational Neuroscience and look for […]
Research Talk: Response Process as a Source of Validity Evidence
Time: 11am-12pm, October 25, 2018 (Thursday) Location: Scarfe Library Block Room 278 Moderator: Vicki Knight (Assistant Professor, Special Education, ECPS) Speaker: Anita Hubley (Professor, MERM, ECPS) Abstract: What are people doing, thinking, or feeling when completing measures or tasks? Response processes are an opportunity for us to better understand the meaning of scores. Dr. Hubley will […]