PhD in Educational Psychology

Upon entrance to the graduate program, each student is assigned a temporary advisor to facilitate the student’s progress through the program. Initial assignment or choice of a temporary advisor in no way obligates the student to select the temporary advisor as his/her program advisor or to include the temporary advisor as his/her dissertation (PhD) committee member. Likewise, the temporary advisor has no obligation to serve on the student's dissertation committee. The system of temporary advisors is merely a way of identifying a specific faculty member the student can call upon for advice. The temporary advisor can be changed at any time, by mutual consent.

In order to maintain a close working relationship between the students and the faculty, students are required to undertake self-assessment activities every semester. After completing a written self-assessment, students meet with the EDEP faculty at the end of each semester to review and direct progress toward their degrees.

Students who have successfully defended their dissertation proposal are not required to attend these meetings.

Each student works closely with members of the graduate faculty to define an individual program of study. A typical program spans three to five years of concentrated study within the broadly defined discipline of educational psychology.

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