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2021 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION NEWS

JANUARY

Dean Richard Arum presents ways to transform higher education into more just, equitable environments (Read more)
MAT Single Subject Coordinator Acacia Warren leads ISTE workshop on PBL & STEAM (Read more)
Associate Deans for Access initiative, Center for Educational Partnerships (CFEP) & Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) partner to encourage college attendance among first-gen students at local high schools in Orange & Los Angeles counties (Read more)

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2020 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION NEWS

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Dean Richard Arum: The cost of providing instruction has not decreased, if anything there is an added cost to moving instruction. CNBC Online
Dr. Acacia Warren & UCI Teacher Academy offer free online PBL and STEAM workshops for K-12 educators
MAT Program and CalTeach Program host online panel discussion for candidate job market preparation
Prof. Elizabeth Pena: Language & Literacy Together: Supporting Grammatical Development in Dual Language Learners with Risk for Language & Learning Difficulties - Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
Prof. Ahn: S tudies show a negative impact on student achievement when K-12 students move to online formats - Journalist's Resource
Prof. Duncan: The weight of the evidence shows additional resources help kids - New York Times
Prof. Villavicencio: School closures could have long-term impacts on students' educational outcomes, mental health - Newsweek
Alumna Jin Kyoung Hwang publishes: The Relationship Among Home Language Use, Parental Beliefs, and Spanish-Speaking Children's Vocabulary - International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Online Learning Research Center featured - Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
Alum, publisher providing free materials for kids during school closures - Daily Pilot
Dean Richard Arum writes in op-ed: What is a College Education in the Time of Coronavirus? - New York Times
Prof. Di Xu discusses online learning - Seattle Times
School of Education Online Learning Research Center featured - Campus Technology
UCI’s graduate program in education shines in U.S. News & World Report rankings: 10th among U.S. public Schools of Education; 20th nationally
Professor Mark Warschauer elected to National Academy of Education

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SEPTEMBER

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development awarded Associate Professor Stephanie Reich a two-year grant to research how screen media influence children’s development (Read more)

OCTOBER

Association for Psychological Science selects Professor Sandra Simpkins Fellow of the Association in recognition of her “sustained outstanding contributions to the advancement of psychological science" (Read more)
NSF awards Assistant Professor Shayan Doroudi a two-year, $300,000 EAGER grant to study the potential role of non-researchers in advancing scientific research (Read more)
UC team receives $1M grant from NSF to develop improved telepresence robots for children with medical conditions and disabilities (Read more)

november

Spencer Foundation awards Assoc. Prof. June Ahn grant to help school partners address the needs of housing-insecure and foster youth in Orange County (Read more)
UCI School of Education Dean Richard Arum presents proposal to ensure that traditional colleges and universities, as well as federal college funding programs, respond to the acute learning needs brought on by the pandemic (Read more)
IES awards Dist. Prof. George Farkas grant to analyze racial disproportionality in special education services (Read more)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards Assoc. Prof. June Ahn a three-year, $500,000 grant to identify factors that motivate youth toward occupational careers (Read more)

DECEMBER

The UCI School of Education hosted its annual Ph.D. Poster Session on November 13 via a virtual space for the first time in its history (Read more)
WATCH: Dean Richard Arum, team, present updated findings to Next Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project (Read More)

2021 IN THE NEWS

JANUARY

Postdoctoral scholar Elizabeth Mendoza is co-author of letter offering suggestions on how to help strengthen teaching in support of Black lives Inside Higher Ed
Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio asserts that classroom suspension not only results in loss of instructional time but also affects feelings of support and belongingness PIX11

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2020 IN THE NEWS

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Professor Elizabeth Peña publishes article on identifying developmental language disorder in school age bilinguals (Read more)
Research affiliate Christian Fisher, fourth-year doctoral student Renzhe Yu, Assistant Professor Rachel Baker, & Professor Mark Warschauer author article analyzing the challenges and potential benefits of mining big data (Read more)
Professor Emerita Carol Booth Olson is lead author on article detailing findings from trial of professional development program to enhance secondary students’ academic literacy (Read more)
Professor Gustavo Carlo publishes article analyzing relations between stress, coping strategies, & prosocial behavior in U.S. Mexican college student (Read more)
Article by Professor Emerita Deborah Lowe Vandell & Smith College President Kathleen McCartney explains how scarcity of quality child care during the pandemic has brought into sharp relief that families lack access to quality child care & even when they can find it, they often cannot afford it Newsweek
Longitudinal research by doctoral candidate Christopher Wegemer and Chancellor’s Professor Emerita Deborah Lowe Vandell sheds light on how the dynamics of early childhood shapes adult political orientations Psychology Today
Fifth-year doctoral student Yenda Prado is working with Orange County Educational Advancement Network (OCEAN) to scale up her summer pilot program & deliver academic instruction through pod learning groups facilitated by UCI School of Education “fellows” to affiliate K-12 schools ScienceNews
Professor Mark Warschauer quoted: "Online learning works well for 'highly motivated' children “with strong autonomous learning & technical skills, & a good technology setup at school. It doesn’t work well for those who lack it.” Yahoo!Life

OCTOBER

Alumna Melissa Callahan (Ph.D. ‘18) contributes article: “Am I Too Diverse for Academia?” Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Programs & funding streams proposed by Dean Richard Arum & Stanford professor Mitchell Stevens designed to expand & equalize access to postsecondary education, reduce reliance on in-person instruction, & develop a "cumulative science" of adult learning Inside Higher Ed
Professor Mark Warschauer believes schools and educators deserve credit for improvements in online learning while acknowledging continuing challenges for distance education The Mercury News
Associate professor Susanne Jaeggi, project scientist Anja Pahor, professor Aaron Seitz (UCR), with support from NIH, are recruiting 30,000 volunteers test why and for whom brain training works, and under which conditions Scientific American
Distinguished Professor Greg Duncan's research finds that programs that give families cash result in better learning outcomes & higher future earnings, dramatically improving the lives of children decades later Vox

NOVEMBER

Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio shares teacher-recommended tools for online learning Education Week
Dean Richard Arum's Learning Opportunity Credits proposal cited in Chronicle of Higher Education
Jim Klipfel (Teacher Credential ’93), Saugus High School Social Studies Teacher, is the second UCI alumnus selected as one of the five 2021 California Teachers of the Year Los Angeles Daily News
Alumna Laura Gomez (Teacher Credential ‘95) honored as one of five 2021 California Teachers of the Year Orange County Register

DECEMBER

Chancellor's Professor Emerita Deborah Lowe Vandell comments: "2020 has highlighted serious systemic inequities in many spheres of our lives" APA Special Report

2021 PUBLICATIONS

JANUARY

Professor Elizabeth van Es publishes article on teacher noticing (Read more)
Alumna Priyanka Agarwal (Ph.D. ’19) contributes chapter to new publication Stem & the Social Good: Forwarding Political & Ethical Perspectives in the Learning Sciences (Read more)
Doctoral candidate Taylor Gara, Distinguished Professor George Farkas, Professor Liane Brouillette publish article analyzing potential reductions in art education resulting from implementation of No Child Left Behind (Read more)
Postdoctoral research fellow Mark Vincent B. Yu, fifth-year doctoral student Stephanie Soto-Lara, Professor Sandra Simpkins publish article analyzing peer influence on Latinx youth participation in afterschool activities (Read more)
Assistant Professor Fernando Rodriguez is first author of article on the effects of spacing and self-testing in two senior-level college courses (Read more)
Professor Mark Warschaer, fourth-year doctoral student Sharin Jacob, third-year doctoral student Undraa Maamuujav contribute chapter to new publication The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes (Read more)
Fourth-year doctoral student Edward Chen, fourth-year doctoral student Sirui Wan, Associate Professor Drew Bailey publish article reviewing ANS training literature addressing symbolic math performance (Read more)
Alumnus Osman Umarji (Ph.D. ’19) is lead author of article analyzing the impact of student perceptions of teacher caring on students’ math motivation (Read more)
Alumna Tara Barnhart (Ph.D. '16) publishes article recommending rethinking mentoring practices for pre-service & early-service teachers during the current pandemic (Read more)
Second-year doctoral student Joseph Montoya publishes paper investigating postsecondary community technical education work pathways in Silicon Valley (Read more)
Professor Gustavo Carlo publishes article assessing association between parents’ implicit racial attitudes & their children’s sympathetic bias (Read more)
Alumna Tarana Khan (Ph.D. ’19) publishes article on PBS family math engagement program co-designed with families in Compton, California (Read more)
Alumnus Alex Lin (Ph.D. ’14), Prof. Sandra Simpkins publish article analyzing decision-making among Mexican-origin parent-adolescent dyads about enrolling in after-school activities (Read more)
Professor Gustavo Carlo publishes article summarizing research on prosocial behaviors during adolescence (Read more)
Project Scientist Anja Pajor, WPM Lab Manager Rachel N. Smith-Peirce, Alumnus Austin Moon, Associate Professor Susanne M. Jaeggi publish article exploring how WM training might facilitate transfer to untrained tasks (Read more)

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2020 PUBLICATIONS

MAY

Professor Elizabeth Peña explores grammatical development in Dual Language Learners with risk for language & learning difficulties Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
Assistant Professor Andres Bustamante & alumnus Kreshnik Begolli examine ability of game Parkopolis to foster STEM language & interaction in young children Developmental Psychology
Associate Professor Susanne Jaeggi & colleagues publish article assessing impact of adaptive training on brain activity and working memory load Neuroimage
Associate Professor Di Xu & colleagues publish article on summer session enrollment patterns & student performance in face-to-face & online classes The Internet and Higher Education
Second-year doctoral student Hye Rin Lee & colleagues publish cautionary note on self-related beliefs in motivational measures Journal of Educational and Psychological Research
Associate Professor Stephanie Reich authors new textbook on contemporary social issues: climate change, affordable housing and homelessness, and immigration Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being
Associate Professor Drew Bailey examines evidence for persistence and fadeout from educational interventions Psychological Science in the Public Interest
The Chicana/o/x Dream, new book by Professor Gilberto Conchas, chronicles experiences of first-generation, Mexican-descent college students Harvard Education Press
Fourth-year doctoral student Jane S. Nazzal & colleagues publish new article analyzing differences in academic writing across four levels of community college composition courses Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Assistant Professor Nia Dowell & colleague explore the relationship between emergent sociocognitive roles, collaborative problem-solving skills and outcomes Journal of Learning Analytics
Fifth year doctoral student Miguel Abad examines infrapolitical maneuvers in the era of college and career readiness Anthropology and Education Quarterly
Professor Elizabeth Peña explores English Semantics Measure for identifying Developmental Language Disorder in Spanish–English Bilinguals Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Assistant Professor Andres Bustamante asks: Are our preschool teachers worth more than they were two months ago? Brookings Institute Education Blog
New article by Alumnus Peter McPartlan illustrates how adolescents use ability feedback to promote a positive self-concept of ability in mathematics Journal of Early Adolescence

JUNE

Article on middle school girls of color developing STEM identities, co-authored by Assoc. Prof. Hosun Kang, Prof. Sandra Simpkins & colleagues, one of Science Education Journal's top-10 percent most downloaded articles of 2019 Wiley Online Library
Professor Young Suk Kim contributes chapter on an interactive dynamic literacy model for reading-writing relations Reading Writing Connections: Toward Integrative Literacy Science
Fifth-year doctoral student Vicky Chen, Professor Emerita Carol B. Olson & UCI Writing Project Director of Research Huy Quoc Chung publish on characteristics of secondary students’ on-demand analytical essay writing Journal of Writing Assessment
Second-year doctoral student Daniela Alvarez-Vargas is lead author, with third-year doctoral student Sirui Wan, Associate Professor Drew Bailey of article on researchers’ ability to communicate causal interpretations to readers PsyArXiv
Postdoctoral scholar Christine R. Starr publishes article about science practices in classrooms predicting increases in UGs’ STEM motivation, identity & achievement Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Fourth-year doctoral student Christopher Wegemer & Chancellor's Professor Emeritus Deborah Lowe Vandell publish article on parenting, temperament, & attachment security as antecedents of political orientation Developmental Psychology
Alum Dr. Jenell Krishnan, Prof. Rebecca Black, Prof. Emerita Carol Booth Olson publish article exploring teachers' formative assessment for online collaborative writing Reading and Writing Quarterly
Assoc. Prof. Kylie Peppler, first-year doctoral student R. Mishael Sedas, Analyst Specialist Maggie Dahn (UCI Informatics) publish article on minoritized youth and maker practices Education Sciences
Third-year doctoral student Ha Nguyen, Professor Mark Warschauer document impact of project‐based introductory engineering course on students' subsequent academic success Journal of Engineering Education
Fifth-year doctoral student Vicky Chen’s explores representations of autism in online Harry Potter fanfiction Journal of Literacy Research
Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles publishes article on linkages between expectancies, values, performance, and choice Educational Psychology Review

JULY

Professor Elizabeth Peña publishes article on bilingual children's receptive and expressive responses to a novel category sorting task American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Alumna Nancy Tsai (PhD ’18), Associate Professor Susanne Jaeggi, Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles & colleagues publish article on the influence of early adolescent stress on later adolescent anxiety Frontiers in Psychology
Assistant Project Scientist Anja Pahor & Associate Professor Susanne Jaeggi publish article on methods to estimate user skill level & predict appropriate task challenges Frontiers in Science
Third-year doctoral student Ha Nguyen (first author), Associate Professor June Ahn & colleagues publish article on crowdsourcing tasks Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale
Fifth-year doctoral student Stephanie Soto-Lara is first author with Professor Sandra Simpkins of an article on parent support of Mexican-descent high school adolescents' science education Journal of Adolescent Research
Professor Elizabeth Peña publishes article about using comprehensive assessment when making diagnostic decisions for dual language learners American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Fourth-year doctoral student Dandan Yang is first author, with fifth-year doctoral student Elham Zargar, postdoctoral scholar Ashley Marie Adams, project scientist Stephanie Day, Chancellor’s Professor Carol Connor, of an article on the use of stealth assessment in a digital reading platform Assessment for Effective Intervention
Alumna Wendy Ochoa (PhD '19), Associate Professor Stephanie Reich, Distinguished Professor George Farkas publish article assessing how caregivers’ mobile device use influenced quality of interactions with their children Academic Pediatrics
Second-year doctoral student Yiwen Lin, fourth-year doctoral student Renzhe Yu, Asst. Prof. Nia Dowell publish article on gendered linguistic signals of performance and experience in online STEM courses AIED 2020: Artificial Intelligence in Education
Fourth-year doctoral student Renzhe Yu, Alumna Qiujie Li, Dr. Christian Fischer, Assoc. Prof. Di Xu, & Assist. Prof. Shayan Doroudi publish article examining what data are useful for predicting college success Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM ’20)
Alumna Veronica Ahumada-Newhart & Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles publish article exploring the use robotic avatars to benefit children homebound by illness Technology, Mind, and Behavior
Professor Rossella Santagata publishes article on benefits of using video in teaching Italian Journal of Educational Technology

AUGUST

Project scientist Anja Pahor asserts: "A personalized approach to brain training could be beneficial" BOLD
Alumnus Osman Umarji (Ph.D. ‘19), associate project scientist Stephanie Day, fifth-year doctoral student Ying Xu, fifth-year doctoral student Elham Zargar, fourth-year doctoral student Renzhe Yu, & Chancellor’s Professor Carol Connor publish article on elementary students’ in-the-moment reading behaviors with an online choose-your-own adventure e-book Reading and Writing
Postdoctoral researcher Mark Vincent B. Yu is first author of the chapter: "Supporting Youth Purpose in Adolescence: Youth-Adult Relationships as Ecological Assets" The Ecology of Purposeful Living Across the Lifespan
Fourth-year doctoral student Yucheng (Ruby) Cao publishes article on effectiveness of an educational game design in improving elementary students’ math learning Cognitive Cities
Assistant Professor Shayan Doroudi is co-author of an article probing learning scientists’ beliefs about learning & science The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
Fourth-year doctoral student Renzhe Yu and UG Catherine Kung publish article examining five commonly used machine learning models in student success prediction Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale
Associate Professor Susanne Jaeggi publishes with colleagues from Finland on brain activity associated with working memory training in adults with attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder Human Brain Mapping
Assistant Professor Shayan Doroudi contributed an article on mastery learning heuristics in new publication Artificial Intelligence in Education
Assistant Professor Jade Jenkins publishes on the local deterrence effect of immigration raids on Hispanic Head Start enrollment American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings
Second-year doctoral student Jonathan Montoya is first author of an article exploring whether Project-based Learning is a feasible method for woman-focused Career and Technical Education 8th International Research Symposium on PB
Fourth-year doctoral student Sharin Jacob; third-year doctoral student Ha Nguyen; second-year doctoral student Leiny Garcia; Debra Richardson, professor emerita & founding dean of the UCI School of Information & Computer Science; & professor Mark Warschauer publish article analyzing how enactment of inquiry-based learning can be applied to computer science education ResearchGate
Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles publishes with Janice Templeton on retention predictors for Native American college students Future Review: International Journal of Transition, College, and Career
Third-year doctoral student Ha Nguyen, second-year doctoral student Leiny Garcia, fourth-year doctoral student Sharin Jacob, Professor Emerita Debra Richardson (ICS), & Professor Mark Warschauer publish article on teachers’ use of Flipgrid to promote computer science language RESPECT 2020

SEPTEMBER

Associate Professor Penelope Collins and alumna Tien Thuy Ho (Ph.D. ‘19) contribute encyclopedia chapter on bilingualism and bilteracy Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology
Alumna Jessica Tunney (Ph.D. ’19) publishes article on promoting heterogeneity in STEM learning Cognition and Instruction
Postdoctoral scholar Amy Pratt, Professor Elizabeth Peña, Professor Lisa Bedore publish article exploring the use of sentence repetition in identifying developmental language disorders Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles publishes article exploring cross-domain trajectories of students’ ability self-concepts & intrinsic values in math & Language Arts Child Development
Associate Professor June Ahn publishes article detailing a district-level initiative to implement K12 computer science education Computer Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor Brandy Gatlin-Nash publishes article on linguistic differences and learning to read for nonmainstream dialect speakers Perspectives on Language and Literacy
Postdoctoral research fellow Mark Vincent B. Yu, doctoral candidate Yangyang Liu, fifth-year doctoral student Ta-yang (Diane) Hsieh, third-year doctoral student Glona Lee, Professor Sandra Simpkins, & Assistant Professor of Teaching Alessandra Pantano publish an article about collaborative learning and adolescents’ developmental experiences in afterschool programs Applied Developmental Science
Associate Professor Stephanie Reich & alumna Melissa Callaghan (PhD ‘18) publish article examining the presence of feedback in 76 digital games for preschoolers Journal of Children and Media
Second-year doctoral student Yiwen Lin, fourth-year doctoral student Renzhe Yu, Assistant Professor Nia Dowell publish article on cognitive linguistic features significantly predicting female’s likelihood of passing an online chemistry course Artificial Intelligence in Education
Postdoctoral scholar Amy Pratt, postdoctoral scholar Ashley Adams, Professor Elizabeth Peña publish article exploring the accuracy of a parent and teacher report designed to measure developmental language disorder in bilingual children Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
Doctoral candidate Ying Xu, alumna Joanna Yau (Ph.D. ’19), Associate Professor Stephanie Reich publish article analyzing how use of touchscreen media impacts learning in early childhood Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
Doctoral candidate Remy Pages is first author of article on research replicating and extending earlier assessment of Head Start’s life cycle skill formation impacts Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

OCTOBER

Professor Gustavo Carlo publishes article on the impact of fathers’ residency on children’s academic skills in pre‐kindergarten (Read more)
Professor Sandra Simpkins, fourth-year doctoral student Kayla Puente publish article analyzing adolescents’ reasons for participating in organized activities (Read more)
Director of UCI’s CalTeach Program Doron Zinger (PhD ‘18), Professor Judith Haymore Sandholtz publish article on science instruction in high-need rural schools (Read more)
Fourth-year doctoral student Su Jiang, Professor Sandra Simpkins, and Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles publish article analyzing math and science motivation and subsequent STEM course choices and achievement (Read more)
Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio publishes report analyzing two Center for Racial Justice in Education programs designed to build teacher capacity to interrupt racism in schools (Read more)
Professor Gustavo Carlo publishes article on the effects of community violence on immigrant young adults (Read more)
Doctoral candidate Carlos Sandoval, Professor Elizabeth van Es, Assistant Professor Shanyce Campbell, Professor Rossella Santagata publish article on equity in teacher preparation programs (Read more)
Lecturer Viet Vu (Ph.D., '17), fifth-year doctoral student Yenda Prado, alumna Soobin Yim (Ph.D., '17), alumna Phuong Le (B.S., '19) contributed a chapter on digital storytelling to the new publication Learning Critical Thinking Skills Beyond 21st Century for Multidisciplinary Courses: A Human Right Perspective in Education (Read more)
Alumna Wendy Ochoa (Ph.D. ‘19), Associate Professor Stephanie Reich publish article about benefits & detriments of young children's mobile screens use & diverse Latine parents (Read more)

NOVEMBER

Alumnus Ryan W. Lewis (Ph.D. ’18), Associate Professor Drew Bailey publish article on the practical effectiveness of Latent Class Analysis for identifying patterns of student knowledge (Read more)
Third-year doctoral student Ha Nguyen, Professor Rossella Santagata publish article on the implications of teacher modeling of computer use for student learning in classroom interactions (Read more)
Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles publishes article assessing changes in general anaesthesia rates for caesarean section during the peak of pandemic in the north-west of England (Read more)
Professor Young-Suk Kim publishes article exploring exploring children’s letter-name acquisition (Read more)
Postdoctoral scholar Zehra Gülseven, Professor Gustavo Carlo publish article exploring links between both sociocognitive and socioemotive traits and prosocial behaviors (Read more)
Associate Professor Lindsey Richland publishes article assessing the presence of higher relational responding in children (Read more)
Associate Professor Lindsey Richland publishes article assessing the presence of higher relational responding in children (Read more)
Fourth-year doctoral student Melissa S. Dahlin, Dr. Guadalupe Díaz, Assistant Professor Jade M. Jenkins, Professor Stephanie M. Reich publish article on the use of Head Start family services by Latinx families (Read more)
Associate Professor Drew Bailey, Distinguished Professor George Farkas publish article on bidirectional relations between reading & mathematics achievement (Read more)
Professor Sandra Simpkins publishes article exploring culturally responsive organized activities (Read more)
Project Scientist Anja Pahor publishes article on variations of an N-Back task, a working memory updating task (Read more)
Director of UCI’s CalTeach Program Doron Zinger (Ph.D. ‘18), Dr. Therese Shanahan, CalTeach Master Teacher/Math Coordinator Kris Houston publish article on early career teacher resilience (Read more)
Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio is first author of article examining the role of teacher collaboration (Read more)
Postdoctoral scholar Jissel B. Anaya, Professosr Elizabeth D. Peña publish article on vocabulary development in school-aged bilinguals (Read more)
Professor Gustavo Carlo, postdoctoral scholar Zehra Gülseven publish article exploring parental involvement and adolescent prosocial behaviors, deviant peer affiliation and school connectedness (Read more)
Professor Sandra Simpkins, alumnus Nestor Tulagan (Ph.D. ’20), third-year doctoral student Glona Lee, Chancellor’s Professor Emerita Deborah Lowe Vandell publish article on youth’s self-management skills and subsequent academic success (Read more)
Associate Professor Di Xu, doctoral candidate Ying Xu publish article about ambivalence toward distance learning in higher education (Read more)
Fourth-year doctoral student Kimberly Telfer-Radzat contributes chapter describing shift from screen-free to full digital during worldwide pandemic (Read more)

DECEMBER

Doctoral candidate Yangyang Liu, Professor Sandra Simpkins, Chancellor's Professor Emerita Deborah Lowe Vandell publish article assessing the impact of children’s conflictual relationships with teachers & afterschool staff (Read more)
Professor Gustavo Carlo publishes article examining associations between family conflict and children's subsequent behaviors (Read more)
Associate Professor Susanne Jaeggi publishes article on action video game players “learning to learn" (Read more)
Fourth-year doctoral student Jennifer Renick, Professor Stephanie Reich publish article exploring how students’ school perceptions relate to sense of school belonging (Read more)
Doctoral candidate Yangyang Liu, Chancellor’s Professor Emerita Deborah Lowe Vandell, Professor Sandra Simpkins publish article documenting ways in which organized activities support moral and civic character (Read more)
Postdoctoral researcher Ninger Zhou, third-year doctoral student Ha Nguyen, Research Affiliate Christian Fischer, Professor Emerita Debra Richardson, Professor Mark Warschauer publish article on the teaching of computer science in high school (Read more)
Second-year doctoral student Nickolina Yankova, Associate Professor Kylie Peppler publish article promoting the benefits of aligning craft & activism (Read more)
Professor Young-Suk Grace Kim publishes article on discourse comprehension in oral language (Read more)
Professor Gustavo Carlo publishes article on the impact of acculturative stress on Latinx college students (Read more)

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Award-winning Author and UCI Alum Roberto G. Gonzales will Deliver Inaugural Lecture at Dean's Equity and Inclusion Speaker Series

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The Writing Research to Improve Teaching & Evaluation (WRITE) Center celebrates its official launch

DECEMBER