A new study from UW-Madison’s Xueli Wang and Seo Young Lee examines the psychometric properties of a new survey measuring factors of STEM student transfers from two- to four-year colleges. Measuring factors include things like initial attitudes toward math and science, self-efficacy in math and science, active learning, and transfer oriented interaction. This study was …
UW-Madison’s Michael Apple has recently co-authored and released two new books. “Re-imagining Education for Democracy,” with Stuart Riddle, and “Critical Studies of Education in Asia: Knowledge, power, and the Politics of Curriculum Reforms,” with Leonel Lim, were both published by Routledge. Both works examine the limits and possibilities of creating more critically democratic educational policies and practices, and …
UW–Madison researchers, including several with ties to the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, recently published a study on the effectiveness of activity trackers, including Fitbits, with JMIR Publications’ mHealth and uHealth. Diana Dorn and Jessica Gorzelitz are both graduate students with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, while Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, Kelli Koltyn and …
UW-Madison’s Sara Goldrick-Rab is the lead author of a new report titled, “Hungry to Learn: Addressing Food & Housing Insecurity Among Undergraduates.” The paper begins by noting: “According to a new survey of more than 4,000 undergraduates at 10 community colleges across the nation, half of all community college students are struggling with food and/or housing …
John Diamond has spent more than a decade examining various aspects of academic disparities in schools and conducting in-depth research into the hot-button issue that’s commonly referred to as the racial achievement gap. And over the years, one theme in Diamond’s investigations has consistently emerged. “This is a very complex problem and there aren’t simple answers,” …