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New Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences features LIFE/EDPSY colleagues

Cambridge University Press has just published its new Handbook of the Learning Sciences, and the major foundations chapter ("Foundations and Opportunities for an Interdisciplinary Science of Learning") was co-written by John Bransford, Phil Bell, Reed Stevens, Nancy Vye and other LIFE colleagues from the UW, Stanford University and SRI.

The LIFE Center

The National Science Foundation recently awarded an interdisciplinary UW research team $24.9 million to develop one of a handful of new centers across the US to investigate deeply into issues of human learning and to help create environments that will optimize future learning in the broadest sense. Many of the key figures in the development of the LIFE Center proposal and project are based here in the Area of Educational Psychology, including the director, Professor John Bransford. Other core contributors are Associate Professor Philip Bell, Associate Professor Reed Stevens, as well as a number of other colleagues across the UW campus, Stanford University and SRI International in Menlo Park, CA.

For More Information:

- Visit the Life Center website.
- Read a University Week article about the project.
- Read the award announcement on the National Science Foundation website.

Educational Psychology Newsletter

Download a pdf version of the Autumn Quarter 2005 Newsletter.

If you would prefer a hard copy of the newsletter, please contact Jon Organ at the front desk in 312 Miller.

Previous Newsletters (pdf files)

Spring Quarter 2005 Newsletter.

Winter Quarter 2005 Newsletter.

Recently Published Books and Chapters by EDPSY Faculty

Phil Bell co-edited (as well as writing a number of chapters in) a newly-released book, Internet Environments for Science Education, published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (see here for information on how to obtain the book directly from the publisher).

Sue Nolen and Cathy Taylor co-authored a textbook entitled Classroom Assessment: Supporting Teaching and Learning in Real Classrooms, just published by Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall.

Deborah McCutchen co-authored (with former Human Development and Cognition Ph.D. advisee David Holliway) a chapter in the recently published Kluwer Academic Publishers book, Studies in Writing, Volume 13: Cognitive and Instructional Processes. Their chapter is entitled, "Audience Perspective in Young Writers Composing and Revising. Reading as the Reader."