Journal Articles
Recent publications authored by WCER researchers include:
“Do Peers’ Skills Matter for Learning in Preschool Classrooms? Within- and across-Classroom Differences in the Relationship between Peers’ Academic Skills and Individual Skill Gains,” Rebecca Bier, Elizabeth Vaade, Culleen Witthuhn, American Educational Research Journal, May 2025
“Measuring STEM Instructors’ Learning of and Growth in Inclusive Teaching: Development and Evaluation of the STEM Faculty Inclusive Teaching Survey (FITS),” Vanessa Johnson-Ojeda, Lucas B. Hill, SuYeong Shin, Alessandra M. York, Regina F. Frey, Life Sciences Education, January 2025
“Developing as Inclusive Instructors through High-Engagement Professional Development,” Lucas B. Hill, Rob Loren Hill, Regina F. Frey, Diamond Buchanan, Inclusive Higher Education, February 2025
“Faculty case studies on learning to teach inclusively in undergraduate STEM education,” Lucas B. Hill, Diamond Buchanan, Sara E. Woods, Regina F. Frey, Frontiers in Education, April 2025
“International School Teachers’ Language Ideologies: An Exploration through Methodological Pluralism,” Esther Bettney Heidt, Samantha Olson-Wyman, Journal of Research in International Education, April 2025
“‘Life Gets in the Way’: Community College Students’ Perspectives on Holistic Supports for Navigating Academic and Personal Complexities,” Amy Prevost, Xueli Wang, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, April 2025
“Speaking task design and complexity and fluency features of adolescent English learners,” Mark Chapman, Meg Montee, Tina Wang, Gordon Blaine West, Jason Kemp, Alicia Kim, Language Testing, March 2025
"Exploring the Multimodality of Emerging Writing by Multilingual Kindergarteners," Gordon Blaine West, Jeanne Beck, Early Childhood Education Journal, March 2025
“'Let’s Lift You Up Rather Than Just Getting You Off the Ground:' A Transformative Qualitative Study of Community College Student Mental Health and Success,” Xueli Wang, Kelly Wickersham, Nicole Contreras-García, Peiwen Zheng, Teachers College Record, February 2025
“Scaling evidence-based interventions: Examining factors promoting and limiting the dissemination of research mentor training,” Kimberly Spencer, Melissa McDaniels, So Hee Hyun, Jenna Griebel Rogers, Emily Utzerath, Christine Pfund, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, February 2025
“Supporting first-generation graduate students,” Bailey B. Smolarek, Nature Reviews Psychology, March 2025
"Student Service Member/Veteran Engagement with University Military-Focused Student Services: A Mixed Methods Study," Ross J. Benbow, You-Geon Lee, Innovative Higher Education, February 2025
"Using Text Mining to Illuminate How Community and Technical Colleges Adapt During COVID-19," Xiwei Zhu, Peiwen Zheng, Xueli Wang, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, May 2024
"Rising to the occasion—How community college faculty adjust instructional approaches and student supports amid the COVID-19 pandemic," Xiwei Zhu, Xueli Wang, Community College Review, December 2024
“'If we could look at kids as a whole': Teachers negotiating science of reading approaches with multilingual learners,” Emily Zoeller, Mariana Castro, NABE Journal of Research and Practice, January 2025
"Measuring STEM Instructors' Learning of and Growth in Inclusive Teaching: Development and Evaluation of the STEM Faculty Inclusive Teaching Survey (FITS)," Vanessa Johnson-Ojeda, Lucas B. Hill, SuYeong Shin, Alessandra M. York, and Regina F. Frey, CBE-Life Sciences Education, January 2025
“'It Was Supposed to Be an Internship': The Consequences of Semiotic Ambiguity for Labor and Learning in the New Economy,” Matthew Wolfgram, Jonathan Larson, Signs and Society, January 2025
"Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Operationalizing the Inclusive Professional Framework to Develop STEM Faculty Change Agents," Selyna Pérez Beverly, Quintana M. Clark, Lucas B. Hill, Donald L. Gillian-Daniel, Education Sciences, January 2025
"'Refining' Our Understanding of Early Career Teacher Skill Development: Evidence From Classroom Observations," Brendan Bartanen, Courtney Bell, Jessalynn James, Jim Wyckoff, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, January 2025
"The Reading Journey of Zion—A Case Study of Race in the Context of Special Education," Shawn Anthony Robinson, Kenneth J. Neat, Urban Education, October 2024
