Much of the literature that examines critical science agency (CSA) focuses on how students enact their CSA to support knowledge construction and agentic action. Few studies, however, address how science curricula can be specifically designed to support students in exercising their CSA. In this study, I examine features of a community-based science ...
Although improving racial equity in critical college courses such as introductory statistics is a laudable goal, making research-based progress toward that aim in a scalable manner remains a challenge. To translate psychological insights to benefit racially marginalized students, we implemented the “Better Book” approach, where instructors, researc...
This thesis reports on a qualitative study that examines the hierarchical construction of the schooling field, and teachers' identities in subordinated parts of the field. It offers a reconceptualisation of 'disadvantage' in educational contexts as subordination, where agents within the schooling field are subjected to forms of symbolic suffering a...
BackgroundSchool-based health centers (SBHCs) are ideal settings to address social needs of youth and families. Case managers can play a vital role in social care interventions.MethodsWe piloted a program to incorporate a Case Manager into the care team of 1 SBHC serving 2 local schools with over 900 students and their surrounding communities. This...
This dissertation is comprised of three articles that explore policies and practices to improve college and career readiness in the state of California, with a focus on reducing racial and socioeconomic inequality. The articles range from broadly exploring the role of charter schools in preparing student for better college enrollment outcomes, exam...
The aim of this article is to explore the interrelationships between a national government andthe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in terms of the powerand legitimization of education reforms, here based on the reciprocal dependence of the twoactors. Although the current case study only analyses the shifting relationshi...
The Los Angeles Unified School District has undertaken an experiment in the education of immigrant students learning English. Over the 2021-2023 school years, the district opened three new high school Academies for recently-immigrated students explicitly tasked with centering their home languages to support their success in school. The students and...
Indigenous-language immersion (ILI) is a form of schooling where all, or nearly all, classroom instruction in every subject area is conducted in an Indigenous language. This dissertation comprises three case study comparisons of neighboring pairs of ILI and English-medium school programs. The first case study examines two elementary schools in the ...
This dissertation examines various facets of school climate and discipline in three studies. In Study 1, I look at racial disproportionalities in student arrests, particularly with school police presence. This study extends Homer and Fisher’s (2020) work, which finds higher arrest rates and stronger effects of police presence for Black than White s...
Prior work has shown that many undergraduate students have misconceptions about genetic inheritance, even after they take genetics courses. Visual representations, such as pedigree diagrams, are commonly used in genetics instruction, and they help students quickly visualize the phenotypes of multiple generations. In Study 1, we examined whether pre...
