Division 5: Education & School Psychology
Welcome to Division 5!
Division 5 aims to help every student achieve the highest possible degree of maturity, including intellectually, emotionally, physically and socially, and how this is influenced by factors ranging from family, school, community, society and culture to diverse teaching methods, curriculum and a school environment that promote curiosity and encourages creativity.
Division 5 Board Members
President: Katariina Salmela-Aro
President-Elect: Vítor Alexandrre Coelho
Past President: Fred Guay
About
In Division 5, our interest is the application of psychology in educational settings. We examine how and why humans learn and achieve and we seek to maximize the effectiveness and quality of educational interventions through the development of scientific models. This also encompasses related factors and processes such as motivation and engagement and the measurement and assessment of these. Educational, instructional and school psychology are scientific and evidence-based disciplines concerned with the development, evaluation, and application of principles and theories of human learning and achievement. As such, our discipline draws on knowledge across educational, medical, psychological, sociological and cognitive science fields.
Work by our Division members aims to help practitioners to make effective decisions about the best instructional strategies to meet the specific needs of their diverse learners. Researchers and practitioners in our field contribute to a wide variety of specialties, such as instructional and curriculum design, organizational learning, classroom management, psycho-educational counseling, educational interventions - all aimed at achieving a better understanding of students and their learning.
Our Division serves as a central and effective platform for educational practitioners, researchers and scholars from different backgrounds and cultures to communicate and exchange their ideas and experiences in various Educational, Instructional and School Psychology studies. It also encourages collaborations with researchers and practitioners in other Divisions of the Association – and beyond.
Currently, members in this division come from : Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, USA.
Division 5: Conferences & Meetings
Student Division
IAAP has a Student Division (Division 15)
Division 5 Whitepaper
UN Sustainable Development Goals – Goal 4 (Quality Education) Target Area: Promoting Literacy and Numeracy
Evidence
Resources
Links to Educational and School Psychology Organizations Posting Employment Opportunities
- European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI) http://www.earli.org/
- Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) http://www.acer.edu.au
- College of Educational and Developmental Psychology, Australian Psychological Society http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/cedp/
- Division 15 Ed Psych American Psychological Association http://www.apadiv15.org
- Division of Educational and Child Psychology, British Psychological Society http://decp.bps.org.uk/
- National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) http://ncme.org/
- Society for Research in Child Development http://www.srcd.org/
- National (US) Association of School Psychologists http://www.nasponline.org/
- Association of Educational Psychologists (UK) http://www.aep.org.uk/
- Japanese Association for Educational Psychology http://www.edupsych.jp/
- International School Psychology Association http://www.ispaweb.org/
International Reports
- OECD Education Reports: http://www.oecd.org/education/
- International Studies Center (TIMMS and PIRLS): http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/
- Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) http://www.oecd.org/pisa/
Public Datasets and Databases
- PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/
- TIMMS (International Maths and Science): http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2011/international-database.html
- Australian Data Archive: http://www.ada.edu.au/
- World Bank http://data.worldbank.org/topic/education
- Harvard Graduate School of Education Dataset Links http://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~willetjo/nces.htm
- American Psychological Association Dataset Links http://www.apa.org/research/responsible/data-links.aspx
- UK Education National Archive Links http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130423140808/http://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/datasets
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/
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