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National Hispanic Heritage Month

September 27, 2022

A Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and founding member of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities, the University of California, Irvine strives to be a national leader and global model of inclusive excellence. At the School of Education, our nationally recognized faculty have advanced this commitment through their research, efforts and engagements to uplift Latina/o/x communities and students.

Here is a snapshot of the School of Education’s leading efforts to improve education equity, access and outcomes for Latina/o/x communities and students.

Navigate to citations, studies, articles and engagements.

Professor Rossella Santagata (left) and doctoral student Patricia Fuentes recruit parents to participate in a Spanish-language focus group, a component of Santagata's grant "Reducing Inequalities in Opportunities to Learn Mathematics through Adaptive Teacher Professional Development."

Citations:

Professor Gustavo Carlo

Bicultural stress and internalizing symptoms among U.S. Latinx youth: The moderating role of peer and parent support. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
Cultural mechanisms linking mothers’ familism values to externalizing behaviors among Midwest U.S. Latinx adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
Culture-related adaptive mechanisms to race-related trauma among African American and U.S. Latinx youth. Adversity and Resilience Science
Latinx adolescents’ perspectives on romantic relationships and sexuality: Exploring the roles of parents and siblings. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Reducing youth ingroup favoritism to address social injustice. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
U.S. Mexican-origin young adults’ mental health relative to interpersonal stressor transitions from childhood to adolescence. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Professor Gustavo Carlo and Postdoctoral Scholar Zehra Gülseven

Direct and indirect effects of parental involvement, deviant peer affiliation, and school connectedness on prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a youth. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Postdoctoral Scholar Zehra Gülseven and Professor Gustavo Carlo

The intervening role of anxiety symptoms in associations between self-regulation and prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a college students. Journal of American College Health
Parenting and prosocial behaviors in Nicaraguan adolescents: The roles of prosocial moral reasoning and familism. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Studies:

Professor Gustavo Carlo

The Cultural Resiliency and Learning Center (CRLC)

Professor Young-Suk Kim

Crosslinguistic transfer of higher order cognitive skills and their roles in writing for English-Spanish dual language learners. Journal of Educational Psychology
Inferencing skill and attentional control account for the connection between reading comprehension and mathematics. Frontiers in Psychology. Frontiers in Psychology

Professor Rossella Santagata

Reducing Inequalities in Opportunities to Learn Mathematics through Adaptive Teacher Professional Development. WT Grant Foundation (Co-PI: Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio)

Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio

Improving the Experiences and Outcomes of Immigrant Youth: An Examination of the Internationals Network for Public School. WT Grant Foundation

Articles:

Professor Liane Brouillette

Are We Teaching Children to Read Too Early? Teachers College Press
The Arts, the Common Core, and English Language Development in the Primary Grades. Teachers College Record
Boosting Language Skills of English Learners Through Dramatization and Movement. The Reading Teacher

Professor Liane Brouillette and Professor Emeritus George Farkas

Effect of a Performing Arts Program on the Oral Language Skills of Young English Learners. Reading Research Quarterly

Professor Gustavo Carlo

Kindness towards all: Prosocial behaviors to address U.S. Latinx youth social inequities. Advances in Child Development and Behavior
The social development of immigrant children: A focus on Asian and Latino/a children in the United States. Handbook of Childhood Social Development
Development, culture, and neurobiology of moral emotions in ethnic/racial minority children: A case study of U.S. Latino/a children. The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development
Methodological issues in cross-cultural research on prosocial and moral development. Conducting research in developmental psychology: A topical guide for research methods across the life span
Promocion de las tendencias prosociales en la juventud Latino/a [Promotion of Prosocial Tendencies in Latino/a Youth]. Revista Argentina de la Ciencias de Comportamiento [Argentinian Journal of the Behavioral Sciences]
COVID-19: Let’s not forget the children. The Providence Journal

Dean Frances Contreras

Cultivating The Chicano/Latina/O/X Faculty Pipeline Across Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Systems: The Potential Role Of HSRIs In Transforming The Professoriate. Journal for Leadership, Equity, and Research
Becoming “Latinx responsive”: Raising institutional and systemic consciousness in California’s HSIs. American Council on Education
The Role of HSIs in Cultivating a Critical Mass of Latinx Teachers and Teachers of Color: The Case of California (chapter). Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers

Doctoral Student Ta-Yang (Diane) Hsieh and Professor Sandra Simpkins

Longitudinal associations between parent degree/occupation, parent support, and adolescent motivational beliefs in STEM. Journal of Adolescence
The patterns of adolescents’ math and science motivational beliefs: Examining within-racial/ethnic group changes and relation to STEM outcomes. AERA Open

Associate Professor Jade Jenkins and Professor Stephanie Reich

Head Start Family Services: Family characteristics as predictors of service use by Latinx families. Children and Youth Services Review

Professor Stephanie Reich

Risks and Protective Factors of Hispanic Families and Their Young Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Children
Parents’ Beliefs About the Benefits and Detriments of Mobile Screen Technologies for Their Young Children’s Learning: A Focus on Diverse Latine Mothers and Fathers. Frontiers in Psychology

Professor Sandra Simpkins

Making the decision to participate in organized after-school activities: Perspectives from Mexican-origin adolescents and their parents. Journal of Adolescent Research
Promoting adolescents’ math motivational beliefs through competence support: Culturally responsive practices in an afterschool program context. Contemporary Educational Psychology (in press)
Promoting Latino adolescent motivational beliefs and activity engagement in organized after-school activities. Applied Developmental Science

Doctoral Student Stephanie Soto-Lara and Professor Sandra Simpkins

Parent support of Mexican-descent high school adolescents' science education: A culturally-grounded framework. Journal of Adolescent Research

Postdoctoral Scholar Christine R. Starr, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Nestor Tulagan and Professor Sandra Simpkins

Black and Latinx adolescents’ STEM motivational beliefs: A systematic review of the literature on parent STEM support. Educational Psychology Review

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Nestor Tulagan, Doctoral Student Kayla Puente and Professor Sandra Simpkins

Black and Latinx adolescents’ STEM motivational beliefs: A systematic review of the literature on parent STEM support. Educational Psychology Review

Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio

“What’s Going to Happen to Us?” Cultivating Partnerships with Immigrant Families in an Adverse Political Climate. Harvard Educational Review

Engagements and Activities

The School of Education hosted the systemwide UC Chicano/Latino Advisory Council at UCI on August 30 – September 1, 2022. The Council provides input to UC leadership on approaches to address the lack of representation of Chicanos/Latinos in senior faculty and administrative positions, and it recommends strategies for improving Chicano/Latino student success along the educational pipeline.

Professor Gustavo Carlo

A rose is not a rose: Prosocial development across cultures. Invited Talk to Moral Development Workshop, UCI, Irvine, CA.
Cultural mechanisms and socioemotional development in diverse youth. Invited Talk to International Research on Emotions Conference, USC, Los Angeles, CA.
Cultural socialization of prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a youth. Invited talk to Department of Psychological Science, UCI, Irvine, CA.
Prosocial behaviors as a marker of health and enhancer of well being. The importance for health professionals. Invited talk to University of Granada, Ceuta, Spain.
Prosocial development in contexts of risk and vulnerability. Invited talk to University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
The family as a cultural asset for ethnic/racial minority youth: Studies on Latinx families. Invited keynote talk to the California Training Institute (CalTrin), San Diego, CA.

Dean Frances Contreras:

Journal of Latinos and Education (lead editor)
Keynote speaker, La Bienvenida, the largest welcome event for the Latinx community at UCI, hosted by the UCI Latinx Resource Center, Sept. 23, 2022
Keynote speaker, "Becoming Latinx Conscious & Responsive," Counseling Latin@s for Equity & Engagement at Orange Coast College (CLEEO) Summit, Oct. 11, 2022, 3-4 p.m. PT via Zoom
Speaker, UCSD’s 2nd Annual Latinx Heritage Month Commemoration Event, Oct. 28, 2022

Professor Young-Suk Kim

Institute of Education Sciences Blog (October 2022)

Doctoral Student Fuko Kiyama and Professor Sandra Simpkins

Examining the relations between perceived parental outreach and satisfaction and Latinx parents’ support in organized activities [Poster presentation]. Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Doctoral Student Kayla Puente and Professor Sandra Simpkins

Examining associations between parent support, Latinx adolescent science motivation and STEM job expectations [Paper presentation]. Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Latinx family support in science and its links to adolescents’ science intrinsic and utility values [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, United States.
A retrospective analysis of family support and science values in high school among Latina undergraduate science students [Poster presentation]. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, United States.

Doctoral Student Perla Ramos Carranza and Professor Sandra Simpkins

Benefits and challenges of adolescents’ participation in organized activities for Mexican-origin families [Paper presentation]. Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Professor Rossella Santagata

Theater of Resilience: Engaging UCI and Local Communities in Collaborative Writing and Performance (PI: Santagata; Program Director: Research Associate Joseph Jenkins; Collaborator: Professor Gustavo Carlo). Video

Professor Sandra Simpkins

UC-Links: Simpkins’ research group has partnered and published quantitative and qualitative research with its partners on culturally responsive programming, how staff support positive youth development, and how to support best practices in after school.
UCI Math CEO: Simpkins’ research group has partnered with Math CEO in order to support Latinx middle-schoolers’ math motivation as well as their aspirations to go to college and pursue STEM
OC Family Workshops: Simpkins’ research group has focused on community outreach efforts to local Latinx families in Orange County, CA. Her research group has collaborated with local after-school programs to design and facilitate bilingual, interactive workshops, as well as educational videos and booklets, aimed at helping Latinx families support adolescents’ learning.

Postdoctoral Scholar Christine R. Starr, Doctoral Student Yannan Gao, Associate Project Scientist Anna-Lena Dicke, Postdoctoral Scholar Charlott Rubach, Doctoral Student Glona Lee, Associate Project Scientist Nayssan Safavian, Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles and Professor Sandra Simpkins

Parent gender stereotypes about math predict girls’, but not boys’, math motivational beliefs: Findings from four U.S. datasets [Poster presentation]. Gender & STEM Network, München, Germany.

Postdoctoral Scholar Christine R. Starr, Doctoral Student Perla Ramos Carranza and Professor Sandra Simpkins

What kinds of social support relate to persisting and developing an interest in STEM among potential first and continuing generation high school students? [Symposium paper]. In C. Starr (Chair), Promoting Possibilities for First-Gen students: Capitalizing on First Generation Students’ Strengths to Promote Academic and STEM Motivation. Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Nestor Tulagan, Doctoral Student Stephanie Soto-Lara, Doctoral Student Kayla Puente and Professor Sandra Simpkins

“I want to show him not to give up”: Latinx parents’ math supports for adolescents’ math challenges [Symposium paper]. In M. Ell (Chair), The Many Facets of Parent-Adolescent Socialization: Topics in Emotion, Academics, Gender, and Race. Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Nestor Tulagan, Doctoral Student Stephanie Soto-Lara and Professor Sandra Simpkins

Creating parent-informed resources to address educational challenges. University Community Links, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.

Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio

Panelist, Hispanic Heritage Month colloquium, hosted by the Orange County Department of Education, Sept. 19, 2022, Recording available online