School of Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison
A new report from WCER’s WIDA, the third in an annual series, examines aggregate trends in English learner (EL) proficiency and growth since the pandemic. Titled “Examining English Learner Testing, Proficiency, and Growth: Continued Trends since the COVID-19 Pandemic,” the report published in mid-April includes the most recent ACCESS assessment data from the 2022-2023 school year. It’s also …
A story by ‘Wisconsin Life’ contributor Christina Lieffring titled “Choose your own journalism adventure: Teaching media literacy with ‘Headlines and High Water’” on April 9 puts readers, viewers and listeners ringside while students in a class at Marshfield High School play the online educational game from WCER’s Field Day. Produced by Wisconsin Public Radio and PBS Wisconsin, ‘Wisconsin Life’ is a multi-platform project that produces media …
A new research project led by two School of Education faculty members will develop new ways to measure the process and outcomes of equity-centered leadership in schools. The project, called Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning – Mapping Equity Indicators (CALL-MEI), aims to develop new equity indicators, evidence models, and data tools to measure the process …
Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC) evaluator/associate scientist Nicole R. Bowman is one of four guest editors of a special issue of the quarterly journal, New Directions for Evaluation. Bowman, an expert in culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) and a citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation in Wisconsin, also co-authored four articles for the 112-page volume examining the history, legacy, and future of …
Two new reports from the Madison Education Partnership (MEP) look at differences in the experiences of students enrolled in full-day and half-day four-year-old kindergarten (4K) in the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) during the 2022–2023 school year, which was the second consecutive year of the full-day 4K program. Researchers assessed 341 4K students, observed 24 classrooms, and interviewed 23 teachers across …
WCER researchers Bailey Smolarek and Matthew Wolfgram are this year’s winners of the UW–Madison School of Education’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholarship. As leaders of the Student-Engaged Participatory Action Research Center at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), Smolarek and Wolfgram are setting new standards of excellence for high-quality, impactful community-engaged research that exemplifies the Wisconsin Idea. Beginning with their first community-based research …
Nicole Bowman, an associate scientist and evaluator with WCER’s Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC), and a traditional community member and citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation in Wisconsin, has been named one of the state’s 32 most influential Native American Leaders for 2024 by Madison365, an independent news organization covering Black, Latino, Indigenous and Asian American communities in Madison and …
A new partnership between the UW–Madison School of Education and Milwaukee Public Schools aims to combat a shortage of special education teachers in one of the state’s most high-needs school districts by training and placing 36 master’s-level special education teachers in Milwaukee schools over the next five years. The program is the second iteration of …
A lot of work goes into developing an assessment. At WIDA and the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), teams of language testing experts manage all stages of the test development process, from preparing new test content for field testing to measuring the validity and reliability of test content. (Read our recent article: Everything you’ve ever …
Registration Open Through March 21; Proposals for Breakout Sessions due March 1 Registration is open now through March 21 for the 2024 MSAN Institute, a two-day professional learning conference for K–12 teachers, principals, and school district leaders nationwide who want to learn about current research and district practices that further racial equity in schools. To be held April …