The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has released videos honoring its 2020 award recipients, including UW–Madison’s Annalee Good and Huiping “Emily” Cheng.
Good is an assistant scientist with the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), the co-director of WCER’s Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative, and director of the WCER Clinical Program. Cheng is an associate researcher in the Value-Added Research Center (VARC) housed within WCER.
Good and Cheng are co-recipients of the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award for the most outstanding research article in an AERA journal, along with Carolyn J. Heinrich and Jennifer Darling-Aduana of Vanderbilt University.
The video, which describes their award-winning article, “A Look Inside Online Educational Settings in High School: Promise and Pitfalls for Improving Educational Opportunities and Outcomes,” is available for viewing on the AERA YouTube channel, here.
“I believe research can be a change agent, either towards justice or getting in the way of it — there is no neutral,” remarked Good in the video.
Cheng said, “By studying the real impact of online course-taking, we can more effectively help students to catch up with their peers.”
The article was originally published in the American Educational Research Journal in December 2019.