ForwardED Newsletter
We invite you to learn more about WCER through issues of our newsletter, ForwardED.
Spring 2020
NEWS
- Gloria Ladson-Billings announces new inductees to the National Academy of Education, Penn State News, Feb. 27, 2020
- Wisconsin ACT scores reveal glaring disparities, DPI, UW work to address, The Badger Herald, Feb. 18, 2020
- Teacher-Guided Play Seen as Key to Deeper Student Learning, WCER Communications, Feb. 14, 2020
- Entry-level workers can lose 6% of their wages if they don’t have this, Fast Company, Feb. 1, 2020
- African Americans Take on More Education Debt—And the Payoff Is Complicated, The National Interest, Jan. 28, 2020
- Does America Really Want More Black Teachers? If So, Supporting HBCUs is the Answer, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Jan. 21, 2020
- WIDA Receives $4 Million to Support Multilingual Learners with Cognitive Disabilities, WIDA, Jan. 14, 2020
- WEC Evaluators Recommend Sharing Best Practices as Student Career Planning Spans State, WCER Communications, Jan. 14, 2020
- Education deserts: How geography impacts access to higher ed, University Business, Jan. 13, 2020
- Four from UW–Madison ranked among most influential education scholars, UW-Madison School of Education, Jan. 8, 2020
- Feinstein is lead author on, ‘Three roles for education in climate change adaptation,’ UW-Madison School of Education, Jan. 6, 2020
- From service to science: NIH shifts focus of mentoring network aimed at boosting grantee diversity, Jeffrey Mervis, AAAS, Jan. 6, 2020
Fall 2019
FEATURE STORY:
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & FINDINGS
- “The Consequences of STEM Departure for College Dropout and Degree Completion," You-Geon Lee and Joseph J. Ferrare, Sept. 20, 2019
- "Cognitive Task Analysis for Implicit Knowledge About Visual Representations With Similarity Learning Methods," Martina A. Rau, Blake Mason and Robert Nowak, Aug. 27, 2019
- "Inequality and Opportunity in a Perfect Storm of Graduate Student Debt," Eric Grodsky and Jaymes Pyne, Sept. 20, 2019
- “Relational Trust and Collaborative Structures at Eight Elementary Schools,” Rosie Miesner, lead author, September 2019
- “The Wisconsin Learning-Centered Teacher Evaluation Study: Informing Policy and Practice," Steven Kimball, Jessica Arrigoni, Herb Heneman, Elisabeth Geraghty, Daniel Marlin, and Bradley Carl, August 2019
- "Reappraising Academic and Social Adversity Improves Middle School Students’ Academic Achievement, Behavior, and Well-Being” Geoffrey Borman and Jaymes Pyne, Aug. 13, 2019
NEWS
- MSAN students want more teachers of color in Madison
- Wisconsin Partnership Program Awards $1M to One City Schools and UW-Madison Education Research Team
- New Wisconsin-Minnesota Education Partnership Wins $6.3M Federal Award
- MSAN Student Conference Aims to Empower Next Generation of Equity Leaders
- Fair Pay To Play Hailed As Game-Changer
- Middle School Absences Send Important Signal
- Internships as a High-Impact Practice?
- WCER launches $1.5 million internship study of six Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Making the first day of kindergarten a success
- Increasing graduate student debt affects African American students most, study finds
- What I learned when I studied six Chicago schools transforming to personalized learning environments
Summer 2019
Digital View
FEATURE STORY
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & FINDINGS
- "A Look Inside Online Educational Settings in High School: Promise and Pitfalls for Improving Educational Opportunities and Outcomes," Annalee Good, Emily Cheng, Carolyn J. Heinrich, Jennifer Darling-Aduana, American Educational Research Journal, March 27, 2019
- "Education as Design for Learning: A Model for Integrating Education Inquiry Across Research Traditions." Rich Halverson and Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, May 2019
- "Less Than Four Domains: Creating an Overall Composite Score as an Indicator of English Language Proficiency for English Learners with 504 or Individualized Education Plans." Tameka Porter, H. Gary Cook, and Narek Sahakyan, May 2019
- "Exploring Student Perspectives on College Internships: Implications for Equitable and Responsive Program Design." Matthew T. Hora, Emily Parrott, and Pa Her, July 2019
- “Creating Inclusive PreK-12 STEM Learning Environments.” Rita MacDonald
- “The Use of Theory in Research on Broadening Participation in PreK–12 STEM Education." Rita MacDonald
NEWS
- Study Shows Power of Refocusing Student Stress in Middle School Transition, July 29, 2019
- ‘We Care for Dane Kids’ Team, Including WCER’s Graue, Wins 2nd Place, $400K to Raise Family Incomes, July 3, 2019
- $1.8 Million Grant Expands Study of College Internships & How Students of Color Enter Workforce, June 25, 2019
- Study Shows Mixed Test Results For Technology In Classrooms, June 17, 2019
- OPINION: Is This Minority Group Too Small to Have a Voice on Campus? June 6, 2019
- UW-Madison Team Received ACTS Distinguished Educator Award for Research Mentor Training Programs, May 20, 2019
- LEAD Evaluation Affirms Lasting Benefits of the Odyssey Project, May 20, 2019
- Puzzling Over “Game of Thrones” Character Motivations? May 8, 2019
Spring 2019
FEATURE STORY
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & FINDINGS
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“Teachers on the Market: A Typology of Teachers’ Philosophy, Mission, Vision and Values," Working Paper March 2019
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“Women, Community Colleges and STEM Careers," New Directions for Institutional Research, Feb 22, 2019
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"New Survey Instrument Measures Factors in Upward Transfer in STEM Fields," The Review of Higher Education, Winter 2019
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“How Do Two-Year College Students in Beginning STEM View Themselves as Learners?," Teachers Coll Record, Vol121 No4 2019
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"Final Report of the 2018 AAS Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy Graduate Education,” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
NEWS
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WCER Evaluators Find Literacy Program for Low-Income Kids Creates ‘Safe Place’ for Learning, WCER News Apr 25, 2019
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Gloria Ladson-Billings, Educator and Theorist, Named Towson University Commencement Speaker, Baltimore Sun Apr 23, 2019
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First Extensive Study of Long-Term English Learners Finds Significant Differences Across U.S., WCER News Apr 16, 2019
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Why Educational Dreams of Refugees Get Put on the Back Burner, Wiscontext Apr 18, 2019
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Six Reasons You Can’t Design Great Learning Games without Teachers, Medium Apr 11, 2019
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Personalized Learning Advice From a Learning Scientist: 5 Ques K-12 Leaders Should Ask, Ed Week, Apr 8, 2019
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To Chair or Not to Chair?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar 19, 2019
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Thought-Provoking Facts About Black Men Revealed, BlackNews.com, Jan 30, 2019
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Report: Lots of Access to Pre-K, But Quality Sometimes Lacking, Wisconsin Public Radio, Jan 24, 2019
WATCH & LEARN
- Rita MacDonald, an associate researcher at WIDA, introduces a new way to get English learners excited about STEM courses. Watch the Transforming STEM Education video!
Fall 2018
- Making Sense of Big Data
- Apply for Grant Funding in Philosophy!
- "A Festschrift in Honor of Melvin C. Terrell"
- "Race, Economics and the Educational Experiences of Latinx Emergent Bilinguals"
- "Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation and Tribal Governments"
- "How Cognitive/Noncognitive Skills Are Taught, Trained, Rewarded in a Chinese Technical College"
- "Skilled Non-College Occupations in the U.S."
- "Equal-Sign Knowledge at Second Grade Predicts Fourth-Grade Algebra Competence"
- "College Attendance Among Low-Income Youth in Wisconsin High Schools"
- "Examining Faculty Reflective Practice"
- UW–Madison to Co-Lead $10 Million NSF Grant to Cultivate a More Diverse, Inclusive STEM Faculty
- Research Suggests Games Can Build Empathy
- Vlach, Matthews Earn Understanding Human Cognition Awards from McDonnell Foundation
- MEP Receives New Grant to Assess, Improve 4K Instruction
- Tom Carpenter, Transformer of Child-Centered Math Teaching, Dies at 78
- Mathieu Appointed to National STEM Education Advisory Panel
Summer 2018
- Speaking Up for Special Students
- "The Effects of Doctoral Teaching Development"
- "Exploring Pre-College Engineering Courses in Choosing STEM Majors"
- "Social Networks and Skills Instruction: A Pilot Study"
- "Reconsidering College Student Employability"
- "Reframing the Skills Shortage"
- "Supply and Demand for Public School Teachers in Wisconsin"
- "Epistemic Network Analysis in Trauma Team Communication"
- NSF grant will engage girls in science and technology
- International Society of Learning Sciences Recognizes Nathan, Puntambekar
- New grants explore how college students transition to work
- National Academies of Sciences develops methods to monitor STEM education
- Madison Education Partnership’s first public meeting reveals 4-K results
- Academic society honors Nicholas Hillman
- Cha Kai Yang and Miguel Hernandez Bolanos, ALTELLA Team Members
Winter 2018
- See the World Through Siftr
- "A New Approach to Mentoring for Research Careers"
- "Kindergarten Readiness in Wisconsin"
- "Madison Metropolitan School District 4K Program: Patterns of Enrollment"
- "Hiring as Cultural Gatekeeping into Occupational Communities"
- "Labor Market Dynamics in Rural and Non-Rural School Districts"
- "Momentum Through Course-Completion Patterns Among Two-Year College Students Beginning in STEM"
- "Gaining Insight by Transforming Between Temporal Representations of Human Interaction"
- "How Do Sense-Making Skills and Perceptual Fluency Relate to Learning of Chemistry?”
- "An Emoji Is Worth a Thousand Variables"
- "Implementing a Framework for Early Algebra"
- "The Hands and Head of a Surgeon”
- "Tracking Health Inequalities From High School to Midlife"
- Haley Vlach, Director of the Learning, Cognition and Development Lab at WCER
Fall 2017
- The CALL for Improved Learning
- “How do Students Learn to See Concepts in Visualizations?"
- “Pulling Pre-K Into a K-12 Orbit: The Evolution of Pre-K in the Age of Standards”
- “Portraits of Principal Practice: Time Allocation and School Principal Work”
- “The Case of Ratio”
- “A Learning Progression for Elementary Students’ Functional Thinking”
- “The Bubbler as Systemwide Makerspace: How Making Became a Core Service of Public Libraries”
- “Arizona’s Rising STEM Occupational Demands and Declining Participation in the Scientific Workforce”
- “How Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills are Taught, Trained, Rewarded in a Chinese Technical College”
- “Educational Goods: Values, Evidence and Decision-Making”
- “Learning With Visuals,” a vlog by Martina Rau
- Calling All Graduate Students: WIN CASH!
- Matt Hora on producing research that makes a difference
Summer 2017
Please enjoy the latest issue of ForwardED, the digital newsletter from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, part of UW–Madison’s School of Education since 1964.
You’ll learn about one of WCER’s newest projects—the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research—and how CIMER is taking STEMM mentoring by storm. We are also excited to tell you about the first-ever Teacher Speakout!—a unique gathering of teachers, researchers and policymakers. In addition, our video spotlight features Jerlando F.L. Jackson, a professor in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis and director of Wisconsin’s Equity & Inclusion Laboratory.
We welcome your feedback and story ideas for future issues. Please feel free to reach out directly to me, the editor or any of our researchers.
Robert Mathieu
Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
- Strength in Numbers: the power of research mentoring
- Rural Teachers Speak Out!
- "Quantitative Ethnography"
- Institutional data systems limit impacts on teaching improvement
- Accountability for recently arrived English learners
- Education technologies improve collaborative learning in undergrad chemistry
- New research center improves career readiness of college students
- The Discussion Project encourages students to talk across racial lines
- Research-to-practice partnership to enrich local education
- Video game about bias honored with national award
- Jerlando Jackson on Wisconsin’s Equity & Inclusion Laboratory
Spring 2017
Welcome to the spring issue of ForwardED, the digital newsletter from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, part of UW–Madison’s School of Education since 1964.
In this issue, you will learn about Gear Learning, a new education game development group at WCER. Also, read about a workshop for faculty and staff on how to make classrooms more inclusive for underrepresented students. And in our featured video, meet Percival Matthews, an assistant professor of educational psychology who focuses on math education.
We encourage your input and ideas for future issues. Please feel free to contact me directly, or the editor and any of our researchers.
Robert Mathieu
Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
- Education Game Group Seeks Partners to Bring Learning to Life
- 'You're so Pretty. For a Black Girl.'
- “Beyond the Skills Gap: Preparing College Students for Life and Work”
- “Reading Students’ Lives: Literacy Learning Across Time”
- “Rethinking Case Study Research: A Comparative Approach”
- Should colleges or universities share the financial risk of students not earning a degree or credential?
- “The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice”
- Why women from two-year colleges transfer into four-year STEM programs
- Branchaw, Grodsky and Pfund contribute to National Academy of Sciences report on undergraduate research experiences
- $2 million grant will improve career pathways
- School of Education’s Hess and McAvoy win distinguished education award
- Ladson-Billings, Brown named two of 44 most influential African Americans in Wis.
- Percival Matthews on how Students Learn About Numbers, the Equals Sign and More
Winter 2016
The holidays are upon us, and with them comes the latest issue of ForwardED, the digital newsletter from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's School of Education since 1964.
We include the most recent education research findings, publications and news from WCER, along with a story on how we are reaching out to help rural schools. We also introduce you to Sadhana Puntambekar, an educational psychology professor, in our featured video.
We welcome your feedback and story ideas. Please feel free to contact me directly, or the editor and any of our researchers.
Robert Mathieu
Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
- Going the Country Mile
- The Force of the GEDI
- Promoting Academic Achievement with Training in Inclusive Teaching
- Education and Youth Agency: Qualitative Global Case Studies
- How New Media Technologies Can Change Learning in Public Schools
- Teaching About Political Parties and Ideology Beyond State Standards
Summer 2016
With summer in full swing, we hope you will enjoy the second issue of ForwardED, the digital newsletter from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Education since 1964. We include the latest education research findings from WCER, along with stories on an innovative educational dance program and new thinking on the skills gap. We will also introduce you to Beth Graue, an early childhood education expert, in our featured video.
We welcome your feedback and story ideas for future issues. Please feel free to reach out directly to me, or to the editor and any of our researchers.
Robert Mathieu
Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
- Motion Meets Emotion
- Skills Gap Re-Examined
- Giving Voice to Minority Students
- The Delta Program is Creating a Better STEM Faculty
- Teaching Prep in Grad School Benefits STEM Education
- Increasing Undergrad STEM Persistence with Early Exposure to Research
- Gender, Belonging in Undergrad Computer Science
- Biology Scholars Program: An Evidence-Based Model for Faculty Development
Spring 2016
We'd like to introduce you to "ForwardED," a newsletter from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, part of UW–Madison’s School of Education since 1964. WCER is home to more than 500 researchers, staff and graduate students dedicated to improving learning for all students through innovative ideas and research. Through this newsletter, we’ll share the latest WCER news and discoveries. We encourage you to share "ForwardED" with your colleagues—and suggest topics you’d like us to cover. Also, feel free to reach out directly to me or any of our researchers.
Robert Mathieu
Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
