Education And Psychology

The conference is the world’s largest gathering of education scholars and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative research. Read More

New findings from an ongoing 45-year Vanderbilt study reveal that patterns found in test scores and a psychological assessment measuring the personal values of nearly 700 intellectually gifted adolescents were highly predictive of the distinct fields of eminence they would occupy by age 50. Read More

Disability identity advocates say euphemisms for the word 'disability' diminish and erase disability from the picture. Read More

Some of the leading efforts to understand the changing nature of public higher education, and implement policies to address those shifts, are being directed by Peabody faculty and alumni. Read More

Vanderbilt education researchers will present their work at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting in Toronto April 5–9. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development is ranked 6th among education schools in America. Read More

This year’s survey, open from March 5 to April 19, 2019, includes topics such as educator evaluations, school climate and professional learning. Read More

Vanderbilt neuroscientist James R. Booth is making available the largest known neuroimaging dataset on math development. His goal is to support the work of other researchers working to understand how arithmetic skills develop in childhood. Read More

A new book by H. Richard Milner IV is a practical guide for teachers serving the needs of a wide array of learners Read More

A new research brief from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance finds that principal quality varies greatly from school to school in Tennessee and effective principals are not distributed equally in schools across the state. Read More

Knowing which neurons are involved in the eye signal blending process also opens the door to targeted brain therapies that reach well beyond eye patches. Read More

Vanderbilt professor Ebony O. McGee studied the collegiate experiences and academic and career decisions of 61 Black, Latinx and Asian advanced undergraduate STEM college students. Read More

Psychiatrists diagnose people with schizophrenia, ADHD, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses by spending time with them, looking for the particular behavior symptoms of each. What follows can be a hit-or-miss series of medications and dosages until disruptive behaviors go away. By deciphering the circuitry of the medial frontal cortex… Read More

Peabody College's Douglas Fuchs and Lynn Fuchs served as guest editors of the January issue of "Exceptional Children." Read More

Vanderbilt University has increased its presence in "Education Week’s" annual listing of the most influential public scholars in education. Read More

There may be a "sensitive period" in which stress is more likely to affect brain development in adolescence, according to Kathryn L. Humphreys, assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt and lead author of a new study. Read More

The practice of separating immigrant children from their parents is very likely to lead to negative effects on emotional and mental health in adolescence. Read More

Ansari will challenge the common assumption that symbols for numbers acquire their meaning by being mapped onto the pre-existing, phylogenetically ancient system for the approximate representation of non-symbolic numbers. Read More

Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Peabody College have established a transinstitutional Policies for Action Research Hub to better understand and develop recommendations to address the needs of some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable children, including those in immigrant families and with prenatal exposure to opioids. Read More

Vanderbilt is developing an instructional approach that leverages students’ first language to comprehend English language texts more effectively. Read More