WCER Working Papers
The WCER Working Paper Series shares research in progress, early findings, and methodological developments from WCER researchers. These papers are intended to support timely dissemination and encourage discussion among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
This series reflects WCER’s commitment to advancing knowledge and supporting evidence-informed decision making.
WCER accepts submissions from UW–Madison researchers with a connection to the WCER mission.
Browse the WCER working papers below, dating back to 2020, covering a wide range of topics investigated by WCER researchers and others at UW–Madison advancing education research.
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Collaborating in Context: Relational Trust and Collaborative Structures at Eight Elementary Schools
Authors: H. Rose Miesner, Elizabeth E. Blair, Chiara C. Packard, Maria Velazquez, Lyn Macgregor, Eric Grodsky September 2019, 26 pp. Abstract: Teacher collaboration is a key factor in improving instructional quality and promoting student achievement. Though research attests to…
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The Wisconsin Learning-Centered Teacher Evaluation Study: Informing Policy and Practice
Authors: Steven Kimball, Jessica Arrigoni, Herb Heneman, Elisabeth Geraghty, Daniel Marlin, Bradley Carl, Curtis Jones, Elizabeth Cain, Anthony Milanowski, Katharine Rainey August 2019, 36 pp. Abstract: Major teacher evaluation changes have occurred across the nation during the past decade.…
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Exploring Student Perspectives on College Internships: Implications for Equitable and Responsive Program Design
Authors: Matthew T. Hora, Emily Parrott, Pa Her July 2019, 31 pp. Abstract: Internships are a widely touted co-curricular activity that may enhance students’ employability, their future wages, and employer talent needs. However, how students themselves understand and conceptualize…
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Education as Design for Learning: A Model for Integrating Education Inquiry Across Research Traditions
Authors: Rich Halverson, Erica Rosenfeld Halverson May 2019, 23 pp. Abstract: How can we see education research as a coherent body of inquiry? The naturally occurring diversity of epistemologies and methods gives education research the appearance of discord. In…
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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
Authors: Tameka Porter, H. Gary Cook, Narek Sahakyan May 2019, 16 pp. Abstract: The authors illustrate models and procedures that can be applied to calculate overall composite scores in order to identify an indicator of English language proficiency, based…
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Teachers on the Market: A Typology of Teachers’ Philosophy, Mission, Vision, and Values
Authors: Peter Goff, Xin Xie, Minseok Yang, Lena Batt, Lydia Gandy-Fastovich, Yasmin Rodriguez-Escutia, Hyunwoo Yang, Eunji You March 2019, 26 pp. Abstract: This study develops, validates, and applies a typology of teachers using labor market data. We construct our…
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Problematizing College Internships: Exploring Issues with Access, Program Design, and Developmental Outcomes in Three U.S. Colleges
Authors: Matthew T. Hora, Zi Chen, Emily Parrott, Pa Her March 2019, 27 pp. Abstract: Internships for college students are widely promoted as a “high-impact” practice, yet the academic literature is limited by terminological imprecision, lack of data on…
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Product Discovery Report for a Visual Data Management System
Author: Caktus Group December 2018, 78 pp. Abstract: This report is a companion piece to WCER working paper 2018-14, “A Cyberinfrastructure for Design-Based Research: A Collaborative Design Project Proposal.” That paper stressed that the educational research community would be…
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A Cyberinfrastructure for Design-Based Research: A Collaborative Design Project Proposal
Authors: Sharon J. Derry, Alan Hackbarth, Sadhana Puntambekar December 2018, 21 pp. Abstract: Like numerous others before us, we argue that the educational research community would be well served by a mutually created cyberinfrastructure that encourages and supports engagement…
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Through the Labor Market Looking Glass: An Inquiry into Principal-Teacher Race Congruence
Authors: Peter Goff, Yasmin Rodriguez-Escutia, Minseok Yang October 2018, 26 pp. Abstract: Representative bureaucracy suggests that supervisors are representative of their employees, based in part on shared values and identity. In education, we often observe representative asymmetries among school…
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