The development of assessments as part of the funded LOCUS project is described. The assessments measure students' conceptual understanding of statistics as outlined in the GAISE PreK-12 Framework. Results are reported from a large-scale administration to 3,430 students in grades 6 through 12 in the United States. Items were designed to assess…

Students of color, particularly African American male students were less likely to have rich, engaging, and positive experiences in traditional classroom settings prior to the pandemic. With the onset of COVID-19, classrooms shifted from traditional settings to virtual ones immediately, forcing teachers and students to navigate newly virtual…

First Language (L1) has been assumed to play a role in Second Language ability (Bachman & Palmer, 1996). However, the interplay between them across skill, task, or scoring criteria is more complex (Hamp-Lyons & Davies, 2008). Using Many-Facets Rasch Measurement, this study investigates the main effects of examinee ability, rater severity,…

Objective: Mental illness is a growing public concern, particularly for persons in higher education. This research aims to distinguish mental health and stigma experiences between three academic communities: undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members. Methods: The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with nineteen…

The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), American Counseling Association (ACA), and American School Counselor Association (ASCA) are the leading professional organizations in the field of counselor education that guides master's level school counselor education. Cultural, multicultural, and social…

The global COVID-19 health pandemic caused major interruptions to educational assessment systems, partially due to shifts to remote learning environments, entering the post-COVID educational world into one that is more open to heterogeneity in instructional and assessment modes for secondary students. In addition, in 2020, educational inequities…

This study aimed to determine the gender lens of Senior High School educators and learners in General Biology, particularly on The Cell's content standards. The content standards that exhibited most biases were identified. The Gender Lens Instrument in Biology, a validated and reliability-tested tool (Cronbach's [alpha] = 0.81) was used to…

This study examines the impact of distance learning via Zoom on Arab students in Hebrew academia in Israel, from an academic and socio-individual level. The qualitative research methodology implemented in this study is based on in-depth interviews with 28 male and female master's students in two academic institutions in Israel. The findings show…

This chapter explores the concept of identity-conscious advising and coaching to support the development of First-Generation Black Male College Students during their undergraduate experience. Advising and coaching represent foundational practices colleges and universities use to support student success. Much like other aspects of education,…

In this short paper, I will give examples of critiques of the new US administration members, including Devos, that are either practical critiques that highlight rights without justice or single axis critiques that hinge on one marginalized identity, both of which are necessary but not enough on their own. I conclude by calling for these arguments…

Critical scholars of race maintain that racism that is not clearly seen every day is the most dangerous kind. Notwithstanding "invisible" racism qua racism without racists--per some race scholars--explorations on mechanisms of Whiteness in the Trump era must be had. One mechanism is perpetuating epistemological racial ignorance. However,…

Initially written in the form of an essay, this letter is written to my children from a place called Land. It unveils the entanglements coloniality creates in young, racialized, and gendered lives through the colonial logics structuring childhood, memory, and borders. From a diasporic perspective, Land emerges as "flesh" rooted in the…

If we are to understand 'equal educational opportunity' to mean education that is freely available to all citizens irrespective of their age, race, sex, religion, ethnic origin and unrelated to ability, performance, and qualification; then the questions posed by this conference are relative. What counts as educational opportunity, for whom has it…

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States was brought to a virtual standstill. National, state, and local governments, as well as the private sector, took stark measures to stem new cases of COVID-19 and "flatten the curve." Among these measures were the closure of in-person classes at schools and universities and…

Young children with and without disabilities who are bilingual or in the process of learning multiple languages have many strengths; however, educational policies and bias related to bilingualism for children from linguistically minoritized groups have typically included deficit-based views. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify…