RECENT PUBLICATIONS & FINDINGS
POLICY
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| "Voice, Agency, and Advocacy in Educational Policymaking" |
| This book by Annalee Good draws on a qualitative case study with practicing and pre-service teachers to illustrate norms and routines acting as barriers to teacher involvement in creating policy. It follows teacher pushback against these norms, and details conditions under which teachers can interact in authentic ways with decision-making in schools and the policy arena. Read more. |
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TEACHING PRACTICE
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| "Teaching Academics About Microaggressions" |
| This paper, written by five UW-Madison researchers, including Christine Fabian Bell of WCER's LEAD Center, details a workshop delivered to over 750 faculty and staff and 200 students that used research evidence to teach about microaggressions. Read more. |
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| "Teaching-Focused Social Networks Among College Faculty" |
| Studies show that teaching-focused relationships give teachers access to information, support and "social capital" that can improve student learning. However, little research has focused on how beneficial relationships develop among college faculty until this mixed methods study by Ross Benbow and Changhee Lee. Read more. |
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LABOR MARKET
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| "Inquiry Into Principal-Teacher Race Congruence" |
| In this working paper, researcher Peter Goff and graduate students Minseok Yang and Yasmin Rodriguez-Escutia examine how teachers of color behave in the labor market, and found a principal's race can make a significant difference for teachers of color. Read more. |
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| "Reconsidering College Student Employability" |
| The common view that college's primary goal is to teach students workplace skills has redefined higher education, with universal skills like "grit" and "communication" guiding college curricula. Ross Benbow and Matthew Hora use interviews with college faculty and employers to assess these assumptions. Read more. |
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LANGUAGE LEARNERS
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HIGHER EDUCATION
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| "Documenting the Aims of Higher Education in Wisconsin" |
| Using participatory action research methods, Bailey Smolarek and Matthew Wolfgram teamed up with seven UW‒Madison undergraduates to explore how Wisconsin residents view the goals of higher education. Read more. |
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RESEARCH SUPPORT
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| "A Cyberinfrastructure for Design-Based Research" |
| Design-based research innovations represent a complex mesh of goals, content, technology use, principles of learning, teaching methods and accountability systems that must be woven together. In this paper, Sadhana Puntambekar and her colleagues argue for creating an infrastructure that would encourage and support collective engagement by multiple design-based researchers. Read more. |
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