How to become an educational psychologist

Official title: Educational psychologist

Also called: School psychologist

Educational psychologist provides psychological and emotional support to students in need. He/she specialises in the provision of direct support and interventions to students, conducting psychological testing and assessment, and consulting with families, teachers and other school-based student support professionals, such as school social workers and educational counsellors, about the students. He/she investigates learning and teaching, and develops psychological techniques to foster the development and skills of individuals and groups in educational settings.

Main tasks

• Planning and carrying out tests to measure mental, physical and other characteristics such as intelligence, abilities, aptitudes and potentialities, interpreting and evaluating results, and providing advice
• Analysing the effect of heredity, social, occupational and other factors on individual thought and behaviour
• Conducting counselling or therapeutic interviews with individuals and groups, and providing follow-up services
• Maintaining required contacts, such as those with family members, educational authorities or employers, and recommending possible solutions to, and treatment of, problems
• Studying psychological factors in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illnesses and emotional or personality disorders, and conferring with related professionals
• Preparing scholarly papers and reports
• Formulating achievement, diagnostic and predictive tests for use by teachers in planning methods and content of instruction

Ways in

• University: Psychology degrees, Offered by 1 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Clinical psychologist
• Industrial/Organisational psychologist
• Social worker (general)
• Medical social worker
• Youth work professional
• Counsellor (rehabilitation)

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Questions people ask

How do I become an educational psychologist?

Ways in include: Psychology degrees.

Will AI change the work of an educational psychologist?

Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026