Educational Psychologists as Scientist-Practitioners

Abstract

The scientist-practitioner model provided by the Boulder Conference has served as an invaluable training model for clinical psychology. However, the goal of this article is to expand the understanding of the role of the scientist-practitioner model to the domain of educational psychology by providing readers with an understanding of the scope of the traditional educational psychology degree and what the authors, as scientist-practitioners, do in educational psychology. Information presented includes a brief history and definition of educational psychology, as well as a demonstration of the authors’ roles as psychologists and the positions they take as educational psychologists in their communities.