ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the graduate training needed to prepare future educational psychologists. It explores a working definition of educational psychology and discusses the types of jobs occupied by educational psychologists as well as other employment possibilities their students might consider in the future. It also discusses ideas for altering and improving graduate training programs so that they can be more responsive to student needs and the evolving roles that educational psychologists are filling and could be filling in modern society. The continued robust growth and development of psychologists' profession is predicated upon their continuing commitment and responsiveness to the evolution of their field and the roles they can play in improving education and training, regardless of the contexts in which they occur. Educational psychologists on the staffs of medical, dental, and law schools are often involved in optimizing the teaching/learning process or in the design, development, and management of learning assistance centers.
