The Combined Program in Education and Psychology (CPEP) Graduate Program at the University of Michigan, an Interdisciplinary program of Rackham Graduate School, the School of Education, and the Psychology Department
Faculty and students in CPEP are a community of scholars committed to the use and application of psychological science to understanding and solving educational problems. The program focuses on research and training in four general areas.
They are:
- Human development in the context of schools, families, and communities which focuses on issues of child and adolescent development in context; understanding cognitive, social, motivational, and emotional development across the life-span , and the role of teachers, classrooms, schools, parents, and peers in fostering optimal and adaptive development.
- Cognitive and learning sciences which focuses on basic cognitive processes such as memory and thinking; cognition and instruction in school content areas, particularly literacy, math, and science; and the development and use of innovative technologies to foster cognition and learning.
- Motivation and self-regulated learning which focuses on the development of achievement motivation in school contexts; the interaction of motivation and cognition in learning; and the development of self-regulatory processes for learning.
- Resilience and development which focuses on the development of resilience, self, identity, and achievement in different ethnic groups such as identity development in African American students; and understanding how some students who may be at risk for optimal development overcome the odds to be successful in school contexts and in life.
