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Research Assistant Nguyen Nancy Vo wins Psi Chi Regional Research Award at 2022 Western Psychological Association Conference

6/23/2022

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Nancy Vo (Psychology '22) presented her departmental honors project, "Individual versus Collaborative Active Learning: Impact on Actual Learning, Perceived Learning, and Motivation," at the Psi Chi poster session during the 2022 Western Psychological Association conference. Vo won Psi Chi's Regional Research Award for her project, which had three main findings:

  • The collaborative group had a slight increase in motivation and judgment of value of class time while the individual group had a slight decrease.
  • Subjective knowledge increased for both groups when comparing pre to post.
  • Although the collaborative group had a higher judgement of learning, their actual learning performance was relatively comparable to the individual group.

Congratulations Nancy!

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Dr. Strickland-Hughes Awarded the Stephen E. Corson Award

9/23/2021

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For the 2021-2022 academic year, Dr. Carla Strickland-Hughes was awarded the Stephen E. Corson Award. The award committee reviewed applications with letters of support from students and peers. Additionally, they were impressed with signs of innovation across Strickland-Hughes' teaching, including intergenerational discussion activities, introduction of specifications grading, and collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning.

The Stephen E. Corson Award was established in 2004 by the Reverend John E. Corson, former Pacific Regent, and Sylvia Bradbury Corson, in memory of their son, Stephen Edmund Corson, who passed away at the age of 38. The award is given each year to one faculty member in the College of the Pacific who has distinguished himself or herself in the teaching of freshmen students.
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Post-baccalaureate Researcher Carmen Huang Featured in Pacific Newsroom Article

9/23/2021

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On August 2, 2021, Pacific Newsroom published an article on the work that post-baccalaureate researcher and UOP alumna, Carmen Huang '20, conducted with Principal Investigator, Dr. Carla Strickland-Hughes. The article describes that virtual and remote work that Huang partook in, both in the Aging and Cognitive Training (LAB) and independently.

You can access and read the article here: ​https://www.pacific.edu/pacific-newsroom/pacific-alumna-will-present-research-remote-learning-national-convention.

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Carmen Huang's Honors Research Project on COVID-19 Stress and Student Self-Efficacy

12/15/2020

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Research assistant Carmen Huang conducted a two-part study on  the relationships between stress and student self-efficacy in the broader context of the COVID-19 pandemic for her Honors research project. Student self-efficacy is one's confidence to do well in school, and she was particularly interested in academic self-efficacy, one's confidence to perform well in academics, and online learning self-efficacy, one's confidence to perform well in an online class. She was also interested in examining social status, especially one's subjective social status, which is the social group that one identifies themselves as. Aside from student self-efficacy and subjective social status, she also examined their physiological states, such as stress and anxiety. 

She presented her initial findings for the first part of her study on Thursday, December 10th. You can learn more about the purpose. methodology, and findings of the study from the recorded presentation above! 
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Dr. Rachel Wu (PI) and Dr. Strickland-Hughes (Co-PI) Awarded NSF RAPID Grant to Study Impact of Social Distancing Across Adulthood

6/1/2020

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The Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) division of the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a RAPID grant for COVID-19 related research to Dr. Rachel Wu (PI) and Dr. Carla M. Strickland-Hughes (Co-PI) for the amount of $132,474. The title of the proposed research is Older Adults' learning and adaptation as resilience processes to counter social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional details available on the Pacific Newsroom.

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