Educational psychology at the millennium: An electronic analysis of doctoral programs

Students and professionals in both education and psychology need current information about doctoral training in educational psychology, because such closely related programs as school psychology, developmental psychology, and counseling psychology are competing with educational psychology for doctoral students and other resources. Moreover, because students and professionals are increasingly using the internet as their source of current information, the primary source of information used in this study was internet web sites for doctoral programs in educational psychology.;This dissertation provides programmatic data on the current doctoral programs in educational psychology, including demographic features (e.g., number of programs, most popular degrees, degree titles, length of programs, location of programs, job market for graduates) and conceptual features (e.g., content areas, conceptual models, primary goals, degree of structure, level of scholarship, and innovative features of programs). Next, the dissertation provides a ranking of top programs in the field of educational psychology based on size of faculty, level of faculty scholarship, and innovativeness of the respective programs. Finally, exemplary program web sites were evaluated and ranked. Finally, this study was framed around the millennium, with purposes of being reflective about the history of educational psychology and predictive about future trends in graduate study in this area.