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Congratulations to Joan Herman, Alison Bailey and Felipe Martinez for their editing work on the Special Issue of Educational Assessment that addresses fairness in assessment. You can find all articles of the special issue here.

Herman, J. L., Bailey, A. L., & Martinez, J. F. (2023). Introduction to the Special Issue: Fairness in Educational Assessment and the Next Edition of the Standards. Educational Assessment, 28(2), 65–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627197.2023.2215979

Randall, J. (2023a). It Ain’t Near ‘Bout Fair: Re-Envisioning the Bias and Sensitivity Review Process from a Justice-Oriented Antiracist Perspective. Educational Assessment, 28(2), 68–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627197.2023.2223924

Bennett, R. E. (2023b). Toward a Theory of Socioculturally Responsive Assessment. Educational Assessment, 28(2), 83–104. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627197.2023.2202312

Randall, J. (2023b). Response to Solano-Flores: How Serious are We About Fairness in Testing and How Far are We Willing to Go? Educational Assessment, 28(2), 118–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627197.2023.2212900

Bennett, R. E. (2023a). Let’s Agree to (Mostly) Agree: A Response to Solano-Flores. Educational Assessment, 28(2), 122–127. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627197.2023.2215978

Solano-Flores, G. (2023). How Serious are We About Fairness in Testing and How Far are We Willing to Go? A Response to Randall and Bennett with Reflections About the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. Educational Assessment, 28(2), 105–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627197.2023.2226388

Herman, J. L., Martínez, J. F., & Bailey, A. L. (2023). Fairness in Educational Assessment and the Next Edition of the Standards: Concluding Commentary. Educational Assessment, 28(2), 128–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627197.2023.2215980

The language and literacy group welcomes Edwin Zamora who completed his first year as a PhD student. Edwin is also the recipient of the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship which provides multi-year financial support for promising doctoral students. Congratulations and welcome!

Dr. Alison L. Bailey and former Language & Literacy Research Group member Dr. Kelly R. Kimberly are the recipients of the AERA Division E Human Development Distinguished Research Award 2022, given to recognize their research:

KR Kelly & AL Bailey (2021). Narrative story stem methodologies: Use and utility of quantitative and qualitative approaches across the lifespan. Narrative Inquiry 31 (1), 163-190. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ni.20088.kel

Their research  innovatively synthesized cross-disciplinary research about narrative story stem methodologies (NSSM) and provided the first comprehensive review of this narrative methodology.

Congratulations to Alison and Kelly on this well-received award!

Our research group is pleased to welcome a new PhD student  Dominique Callahan. We’re wishing you all the best in the school year!

Members of the Language and Literacy Research Group will be presenting their work at the annual meetings of the 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting.

Alison L.  Bailey will participate as a Discussant in the Computational Thinking, Languages, and Literacies symposium session on Sun, April 24, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (Mon, April 25, 5:30 to 7:00am CST), Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: North Building, Lobby Level, Marriott Grand Ballroom 6.

Alison L.  Bailey, Mikyung Kim Wolf, Anahit Pogossian and Laura Ballard will present The Pragmatic Arrangements of ELP Standards and Assessments: Content Analyses and Teacher Perceptions on Mon, April 25, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (2:30 to 4:00pm PDT), Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 3rd Level, Seaport Tower, Cortez Hill C.

Eve Ryan, Alison L.  Bailey, Michelle Lynn Luna and Clemence Darriet will present “Progression of French Oral Language in a U.S. Dual-Immersion Program: Descriptive and Bayesian Approaches” on Sun, April 24, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Upper Level, Sails Pavillion.

Mikyung Kim Wolf, Hanwook (Henry) Yoo, Laura Ballard, Florencia Tolentino and Alison L. Bailey will present Understanding the Relationship Between English Language Proficiency and Academic Performance of English Learners on Mon, April 25, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (Tue, April 26, 5:30 to 7:00am CST), Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 3rd Level, Seaport Tower, Cortez Hill C.

Janet Cerda and Clemence Darriet will present The Road to Dynamic Multilingualism: A 10-Year Historical Case Study of a Community School’s Development on Sat, April 23, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (Sun, April 24, 2:30 to 4:00am CST), San Diego Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B.

Clemence Darriet and Janet Cerda will present Translanguaging and Instruction in a Growing Middle/High School Dual-Language Program on Mon, April 25, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (Tue, April 26, 2:30 to 4:00am CST), Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: North Building, Lobby Level, Marriott Grand Ballroom 6.

Congratulations to this year’s graduate, Laura Machado and Junyao Zhang who successfully received their M.A. in Education. Congratulations!

 

Members of the Language and Literacy Research Group will be presenting their work at the annual meetings of the 2021 Virtual American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting.

Yawen Yu, Alison L.  Bailey and Rashmita Mistry will present “Academic Performance of First-Graders in a Dual Language Immersion Program: Roles of Self-Concept and Gender” on Mon, April 12, 4:30 to 6:00pm EDT at Identity Development in Bilingual and Dual-Language Settings Paper and Symposium Session.

Mikyung Kim,  Alison L. Bailey, Laura Ballard, Yuan Wang & Anahit Pogossian “Understanding the Language Demands in Academic Content and English Language Proficiency Standards for English Learners” on Thu, April 8, 2:00 to 3:00pm EDT at Curriculum and Instruction Roundtable Session.

Clémence Darriet and Lucrecia Santibañez “Predicting Dual Language Program Emergence in Los Angeles County” on Fri, April 9, 10:40am to 12:10pm EDT at Academic Achievement and Educational Opportunities of Emergent Bilinguals Research Paper and Symposium Session.

Alejandra Martin. Spanish-English Kindergarten Students’ Expressed Feelings, Coping Strategies, and Observable Interactions of Social and Behavioral Events. on Friday, April 9, 9:20-10:20am (PDT) at Examination of Social Emotional Learning with Children Roundtable Session.

 

Congratulations to this year’s graduate, Karla Rivera-Torres who successfully defended her dissertations and received her PhD. Congratulations!

Our research group is pleased to welcome a new PhD student, Juno Yingzhi Dong and a master student Laura Machado. We’re wishing you all the best in the school year!

Members of the Language and Literacy Research Group will be presenting their work at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco, California.

Anahit Pogossian, & Alison Bailey will present “Parental Reasoning for Child Enrollment in Armenian Dual Language Immersion Programs” in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 18, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Marriott Marquis San Francisco, Floor: Fourth Level, Yerba.

Alison Bailey, Alejandra Martin, Anahit Pogossian, Marlen Quintero Perez and others will present “Early Literacy and Oral Language Ties: Extending the range of human-computer interface for early assessment” on Sunday, April 19, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Moscone Center, Floor: South Building, Exhibition Level, Moscone Hall A.

Alison Bailey, Yawen Yu, Rashmita Mistry, Alejandra Martin, & Kate Griffin will present “A Longitudinal, Cohort Analysis of the Academic Performance of Spanish-English Dual Immersion Elementary Students” on Monday, April 20, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Floor: Grand Ballroom Level, Grand Ballroom B.