Journal Articles

Recent publications authored by WCER researchers include:

"The Disruptive Power of Policy Erasure: How State Legislators and School Boards Fail to Take up Trans-affirming Policies While Leaning into Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies," Mollie T. McQuillan, Benjamin A. Lebovitz, LaShanda Harbin, Educational PolicyJanuary 27, 2024


"Editors' Notes," Ayesha S. Boyce, Leah C. Neubauer, Nicole R. Bowman, New Directions for Evaluation, February 9, 2024


"What have I done for the cause today? Evaluators, evaluation, and CREA," Leah C. Neubauer, Ayesha S. Boyce, Nicole R. Bowman, New Directions for Evaluation, February 9, 2024


"Rooted in perpetuity: Weaving grandfather teachings as an ongoing journey for CRE, IE, and evaluators," Carolee Dodge Francis, Nicole R. BowmanNew Directions for Evaluation, February 13, 2024


"Measuring returns to experience using supervisor ratings of observed performance: The case of classroom teachers," Courtney Bell, Jessalynn James, Eric S. Taylor, James Wyckoff, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, March 7, 2024


"Setting the stage: A selected oral history of culturally responsive evaluation," Ayesha S. Boyce, Nicole R. Bowman, Melvin E. Hall, Leah C. Neubauer, New Directions for Evaluation, February 2, 2024


"What Do International School Teachers Believe About Multilingualism?" Samantha Olson-Wyman, Esther Bettney Heidt, The International Educator, January 2024


"Take a Page Out of the Community College Playbook: How a Community College Education Prepared Students to Meet Pandemic Challenges," Xueli WangNicole Contreras-GarcíaKelly WickershamTeachers College Record, January 2024


"Surfacing Principals’ Beliefs About Instruction for Students With Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis," Courtney Bell, Hannah Morris Mathews, Kristabel Stark, Nathan D. Jones, Exceptional Children, December 2023


"The Time Politics of Refugee Resettlement and Higher Education in the United States," Matthew Wolfgram, Paul Van Auken, Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, December 2023


"Be(com)ing multilingual listeners: preparing (monolingual) teacher candidates to work with multilingual learners in mainstream classrooms," Gail PrasadEsther Bettney Heidt, Language Awareness, November 2023


"From Testing to Teaching: Equity for Multilingual Learners in International Schools," Jon NordmeyerTeachers College Record, August 2023


"A Critical Examination of Language Ideologies and Policies in an International School in Colombia," Esther Bettney Heidt, Teachers College Record, August 2023


“Teacher Mindsets and Student Sense of Classroom Belonging,” Jaymes Pyne, Eric Grodsky, Katie Eklund, Pattie Schaefer, Elizabeth Vaade, The Journal of Early Adolescence, July 12, 2023


“A randomized controlled trial of an intervention to increase cultural diversity awareness of research mentors of undergraduate students,” Angela Byars-Winston, Jenna Griebel Rogers, Nancy Thayer-Hart, Sherilynn Black, Janet Branchaw, Christine Pfund, Science, May 24, 2023


“LGBTQ+-Inclusive Professional Development in Elementary Schools: Does It Matter to Schoolwide Discipline?” Mollie T. McQuillan, Erin K. Gill and Xue Gong, Journal of School Leadership, May 2023


“Universal tools activation in English language proficiency assessments: A comparison of Grades 1-12 English learners with and without disabilities,” Ahyoung Alicia Kim, Meltem Yumsek, Jason A. Kemp, Mark Chapman, and H. Gary Cook, Language Testing, February 2023


“‘Piling on the Stress’: Low-income Students’ Experiences in a Neoliberal Majoritarian University,” Matthew Wolfgram, Nancy Kendall, Anthropology & Education, March 2023


“LGBTQ+ Students’ Peer Victimization and Mental Health before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Erin Gill, Mollie McQuillan, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, September 2022


“Exploring Student Service Member/Veteran Social Support and Campus Belonging in University STEMM Fields,” Ross Benbow, You-Geon Lee, Journal of College Student Development, November-December 2022