Related Media He Len Chung EWING, NJ (06/12/2012)(readMedia)-- He Len Chung, associate professor of psychology at The College of New Jersey, has won the 2012 Jane S. Halonen Teaching Excellence Award given by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.  Chung was awarded under the category of professors in their first five years of teaching at any level and placed within Division 2 of the American Psychological Association. Chung resides >>>

“There are guidelines for preparing manuals from scratch, but none to aid systematic adaptation of interventions for new contexts,” according to Naomi Goldstein, Associate Professor of Psychology at Drexel University. This is a problem for researchers, implementers and providers. There is increasing demand for children’s services to be more evidence-based, but how can we be sure to give programs the best chance of working in a novel setting or with a new population? Goldstein offered a solution at this year’s Society for Prevention Research conference, held in Washington DC. Faced with >>>

While programs to improve students' working memory are among the hottest new education interventions, new studies are calling into question whether exercises to improve this foundational skill can actually translate into greater intelligence, problem-solving ability, or academic achievement. Working memory is the system the mind uses to hold information during decisionmaking and analysis. As much as half of the variation in individual intelligence can be explained by differences in working-memory capacity, research shows. Working memory has >>>