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Elise Cappella

Vice Provost for University-wide Initiatives and Graduate Education, Professor

Applied Psychology

(212) 992-7685

Elise Cappella is Vice Provost for University-wide Initiatives and Graduate Education and Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt’s School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is co-Director of NYU’s Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training (IES-PIRT) program dedicated to training the next generation of education scientists and leaders. Dr. Cappella’s research focuses on understanding and promoting social-emotional and academic learning and behavioral and mental health among students in pre-k to 8th grade. In partnership with school districts and community organizations serving students of color from low-income families, she studies school and afterschool climate, teaching practices, peer relationships, and social and behavioral interventions for students with emotional or behavioral difficulties. Dr. Cappella’s research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, Spencer Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, and Foundation for Child Development. The ultimate goal of her work is to enable more education settings to create equitable opportunities for positive development for students with diverse strengths and needs. Dr. Cappella is a former fourth grade teacher with a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a doctorate in Clinical and Community Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Programs

Psychology and Social Intervention

Prepare for a career as a social scientist, with strong quantitative training and exposure to interdisciplinary methods to examine setting-level phenomena.

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Human Development Research and Policy

The Human Development Research and Policy program prepares students to pursue careers as research project directors, research coordinators, and more.

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Courses

IES-Predoctoral Inderdisciplinary Training on Causal Inference in Education

In keeping with recent federal Institute of Education Sciences funding for an interdisciplinary predoctoral training program, this graduate seminar focuses on experimental and quasi-experimnetal approaches to causal inference in education sciences. Through both internal research presentations from NYU faculty and presentations by outside research scientists, seminar topics will include introduction and consolidation of students' advanced understanding of the concepts of internal, external, construct, and statistical validity.
Course #
APSY-GE 3901
Credits
0 - 1
Department
Applied Psychology

Practicum in Intervention-Research or Policy-Research I

This two-semester course is an integral part of the PSI doctoral program. Practicum site experiences involve activities along a continuum of intervention development, implementation, and/or evaluation, and occur in a setting that is action-oriented, not research-oriented. Students engage in required fieldwork relating to activities such as refining a logic model or conducting a needs assessment, collaborating to conceptualize or implement an intervention, planning and facilitating a process or outcome evaluation, or engaging in policy analysis and dissemination.
Course #
APSY-GE 2827
Credits
3
Department
Applied Psychology

Practicum in Intervention-Research or Policy-Research II

This two-semester course is an integral part of the PSI doctoral program. Practicum site experiences involve activities along a continuum of intervention development, implementation, and/or evaluation, and occur in a setting that is action-oriented, not research-oriented. Students engage in required fieldwork relating to activities such as refining a logic model or conducting a needs assessment, collaborating to conceptualize or implement an intervention, planning and facilitating a process or outcome evaluation, or engaging in policy analysis and dissemination.
Course #
APSY-GE 2828
Credits
3
Department
Applied Psychology

Social Intervention in Schools and Communities

This course will introduce students to issues in the design, implementation and evaluation of social interventions aimed at addressing social problems such as delinquency, lags in early learning, youth unemployment, poverty and its effects on human development, and so on. Students will become familiar with a range of problems and programs, and will study one program in depth across the semester with a small team of classmates.
Course #
APSY-UE 1270
Credits
4
Department
Applied Psychology