教育心理学集中度旨在培训希望促进学生在教育环境中取得成功的研究型博士生。博士生将在发展心理学，认知，社会心理学和动机，评估以及多样性方面整合理论和研究，以更好地在学校或类似学校的环境中学习学习。完成原始研究（论文组成部分）：学生将设计，实施，分析和捍卫原始研究。一旦学生通过招股说明书听证，他或她将收集并分析数据并完成撰写论文的最后两章。学生有一个至少由四名教师组成的委员会。通常，它由主席，方法学家，主题专家和教育学院外部的专家组成。每个委员会成员独立审查学生的工作。一旦论文答辩发生，委员会将讨论他们对学生
The educational psychology concentration is designed to train research-oriented doctoral students who want to promote the success of students in educational environments. Doctoral students will integrate theory and research in the areas of developmental psychology, cognition, social psychology and motivation, assessment, and diversity to better study learning in schools or school-like settings. Complete an original research study (dissertation component): Student will design, implement, analyze and defend an original research study. Once a student passes the prospectus hearing, he or she will collect and analyze the data and finish writing the last two chapters of their dissertation. Students have a committee of a minimum of four faculty members. Typically, this consists of a chair, a methodologist, a subject-matter expert and an expert outside of the School of Education. Each committee member independently reviews the student's work. Once the dissertation defense has occurred, the committee discusses their thoughts on the quality of the student work. Once all members agree, the student is granted a Ph.D., therefore, inter-rater reliability is extremely high.