Spring 2027

Current Topics in Educational Psychology

Current Topics in Educational Psychology covers current issues in the field of educational psychology.

offering recorded1–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Craig AlbersDavid KaplanDavid Shaffer +1 more

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=45 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.96 GPA, 98.5% A/AB (n=67 letter grades).

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
EDPSYCH 711

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.77 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DAVID KAPLAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2014, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

DAVID SHAFFER is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
SEM 005Online Only0 / 270
SEM 012Classroom Instruction0 / 200
SEM 002Classroom Instruction0 / 100
SEM 009Classroom Instruction0 / 200
SEM 013Classroom Instruction0 / 300
SEM 014Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=45 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.96 GPA, 98.5% A/AB (n=67 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Current issues in educational psychology

Grades

Historical instructor

Spring 2027 · Projected

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– average GPA

Approximate 80% prediction interval

About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.03 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

GPA

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letter grades

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
EDPSYCH 711 · Spring 2027

Current Topics in Educational Psychology

Recorded 2026-10-14
EDPSYCH 711 · Spring 2027

Current Issues in Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
EDPSYCH 711 · Spring 2027

Academic Writing Learning Sci

Recorded 2026-10-14
EDPSYCH 711 · Spring 2027

Research Methods

Recorded 2026-10-14
EDPSYCH 711 · Spring 2027

Apl Longitudinal Data Analysis

Recorded 2026-10-14
EDPSYCH 711 · Spring 2027

Naturl Lang Process for Soc Sc

Recorded 2026-10-14
EDPSYCH 711 · Spring 2027

Quantitative Ethnography

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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