Division 5: Education & School Psychology

Welcome to Division 5: Education & School Psychology

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.

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

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Student Division

IAAP has a Student Division (Division 15)

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Division 5 Whitepaper

UN Sustainable Development Goals – Goal 4 (Quality Education) Target Area: Promoting Literacy and Numeracy

Evidence

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Resources

Links to Educational and School Psychology Organizations Posting Employment Opportunities

International Reports
Public Datasets and Databases