ERME Newsletter
Summer 2015
Graduation
In This Issue
Graduation
Note From the Department
Chair
Department News
TIMSS and PIRLS update
Professional
Accomplishments
Personal Accomplishments
Deadlines & Fall
Semester Schedule
August 31:
Classes begin
ERME would like to congratulate the following students for
graduating from the ERME Program within the past year:
PhD.
(*click on name for dissertation defense title)
Chen An
Estimating the Effectiveness of City Connects on Middle School
Outcomes
September 2:
New Student
Orientation1-3 pm
September 7:
Labor Day - No classes
September 9:
Last date for graduate
students to drop/add in
UIS
Jiefang Hu
Teacher Evaluation Based on an Aspect of Classroom Practice and on
Student Relationship Analysis Between Student Learning Achievement:
Objectives and Value-Added Modeling
Joshua Littenberg-Tobias
Teaching Citizens: Exploring the Relationships Between
Teacher Professional Learning, Interactive Civics, and Student
Achievement on NAEP Civics
Katherine Shields
Institutional Moderators of the Relationship between College
Remediation and Degree Attainment
Julia Rollison
Methodological Decision-Making in Evaluation: An Examination of
Implications of Using a Stage of Change Outcome Variable
M.Ed.
Emily Atkinson
Margeau Frigon
Johanna Gubler Santander
Yajuan Hou
Loucia Jose
Peiyan Liu
Vanessa Olivacce
Quan Yuan
Note from the Department Chair
Hi everyone:
I hope you are doing well and getting a chance to enjoy some
summer vacation time--especially a few days off for the docs
preparing for their August comps .
A lot has happened in the past year--as you'll see in
thisNewsletter. I want to point out a few particularly important
developments:
a. our department self-study was completed last fall and the
external reviewers visited during the winter and we received their
report in the spring. We are very pleased with the report because
it supports the proposals and initiatives we suggested in the selfstudy.
b. through the self-study we proposed a Certificate in Institutional
Research (Dr Mike Russell is the director) and a Master of Science
in Applied Statistics and Psychometrics (Dr Henry Braun is the
director). Both initiatives have been extremely well received and
our current count of incoming masters students (both MEd and
MS) is 23 students!
c. another well-received initiative on our part was the creation of
the new Mixed-Methods course developed by Dr. Saenz. The
inaugural spring class was so popular across the other LSOE
September 20:
ERME/C&I potluck
(current students, alumni,
and faculty should have
received the invitation via
email on 7.13.15)
October 12:
Columbus Day - No classes
departments (and the university) that we will now offer it every
spring.
d. other proposals and initiatives are now in the planning stages.
For example, how to offer a Research Consulting Lab/Workshop
that was piloted this past year and was well received by students
and faculty across LSOE.
In other news, I will be on leave this coming spring and Dr Laura
O'Dwyer will serve as Acting Chair during that period. My leave
necessitated some curriculum and scheduling changes so we
welcome the addition of Dr Susan (Gilmor) Lyons, Dr Marji
Warfield, and Ryan Auster (ERME doctoral candidate) as part-time
faculty for this coming year.
It is nice to have the Newsletter up and running again and we hope
to send issues out on a more regular basis now--so please stay
part of the broad ERME community and share with us
items/pictures of interest in your lives and professional roles!
Sincerely,
Larry
Some photos of ERME travels this Spring/Summer. Can you guess any of the
locations? Answers to be revealed in next issue!
Department News
ERME New Offerings
The ERME Department is pleased to introduce two new programs this
fall: a master of science (M.S.) degree in applied statistics and
psychometrics and a course of study that leads to a certificate in
institutional research (IR). The new curricula will train and prepare
students for careers in the rapidly expanding worlds of data and
research. To learn more about these program, visit: ERME new
offerings
Alumni Panels
The ERME Alumni Panels were held on Friday, May 8th. Panel
members were:
PhD Alumni Panel
Sarah Enterline
Vice President of Research and Evaluation at K12 Insight
Jessica Greene
Director, Institutional Research & Assessment at BC
Ismael Carreras
Client- Facing Marketing Scientist at Maguire Associates
Craig Hoyle
Senior Research Associate at Education Development Center
M.Ed Alumni Panel
Nina Zockoff Culbertson
Senior Research Associate at Rennie Center for Education Research &
Policy
Samantha Ricker
Research & Development Associate at Edumetrics
Julia Casasanto-Ferro
Researcher at American Institutes for Research
Ben Sexton
Founder at Sexton Prep and Tutoring
We would like to thank our dedicated alumni for taking time out of their
busy schedules to share candid advice with our current students!
AERA/NEERO Recap
The Annual Meeting of American Education Research Association
(AERA) took place in Chicago, Illinois on April 16-20. Many ERME
faculty, students, and alumni presented their research at the AERA
conference. For a listing of this year's conference presentations, please
view: ERME at AERA 2015 booklet
Also, many ERME faculty, students and alumni attended the New
England Educational Research Organization (NEERO). For more
information, please view the
2015 NEERO program
Update your Information
ERME students and alumni-- I've created a google form to better
streamline the process of updating the website and newslettercontent.
Please use the form
(http://goo.gl/forms/1WGC4fUpdG)
for any of the following updates:
1. new email address
2. newsletter submissions (next newsletter will come out late Oct/early
Nov)
3. new job title/description
4. new location
If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email.
Thank you!
Jillian Gomolka
TIMSS and PIRLS update
TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center is pleased to announce
ePIRLS, an innovative, computer-based extension of PIRLS in
2016. ePIRLS measures how well fourth graders in participating
countries read and comprehend online information in an environment
that looks and feels like the Internet. It was developed in response to
the increasing emphasis of online informational reading in curricula
around the world.
In Spring 2015, 13,700 students from 15 countries took part in the
ePIRLS field test.
Update by: Shirley Goh
Professional Accomplishments
Faculty
Dr. Henry Braun
Braun, H. (2015) The relationship of problem solving in technologyrich environments to literacy and numeracy: Insights from PIAAC.
Braun, H. (2014) Merits of international assessments. Quality
Assurance in Education, 22(4), pp. 332- 334. (2014).
Dr. Nathaniel J. S. Brown
Brown, N. J. S., Afflerbach, P. P., & Croninger, R. G. (2014).
Assessment of critical-analytic thinking. Educational Psychology
Review, 26, 543-560
Dr. Zhushan "Mandy" Li
Bottema-Beutel, K. & Li, Z. (2015). Adolescent judgments and
reasoning about the exclusion of peers with social disabilities.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. DOI:
10.1007/s10803-014-2348-7
Li, Z. (2015). A generalized formula for the power of the
MantelHaenszel test for differential item functioning. Applied
Psychological Measurement.
Dr. Larry Ludlow
Ludlow LH, & Klein, K (2014). Suppressor variables: The difference
between "is" versus "acting as". Journal of Statistics Education,
22(2), 1-28.
Sinnema C, Robinson V, Ludlow LH, & Pope D. (2015). How
effective is the principal: Discrepancy between teachers' and
principals'
perceptions of principal effectiveness. Educational
Assessment,
Evaluation and Accountability. DOI 10.1007/s11092014-9209-y
Nezhnov P, Kardonova E, Vasilyeva M, & Ludlow LH.
(2015). Operationalizing level of academic mastery based on
Vygotsky's theory: The study of mathematical knowledge. Educational
and Psychological Measurement, 75 (2), 235-259.
Dr. Laura M. O'Dwyer
O'Dwyer, L. M., & Bernauer, J. A. (2014). Quantitative research for
the qualitative researcher. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.
O'Dwyer, L.M., Wang, Y., & Shields, K.A. (2015) Teaching
for Conceptual Understanding: A Cross-national Comparison of
the Relationship between Teachers' Instructional Practices and
Student Achievement in Mathematics. Large Scale Assessment.
Dulaney, A., Vasilyeva, M., & O'Dwyer, L.M. (2015). Individual
differences in cognitive resources and elementary school mathematics
achievement: Examining the roles of storage and attention. Learning
and Individual Differences. 37, 55.63.
Alumni
Yun Xiang ( PhD 2009) is the Director of Institutional Research Office
at Becker College. Also, she recently published "Propensity Score
Stratification Using Examine Charter School Achievement Effects" in
Journal of School Choice.
Rachel Kay ( PhD 2011) started working at MIT as the Director of
Admissions Research and Analysis in January 2015.
Nina Zockoff Culbertson ( MEd 2011) accepted the Visiting Fellow
position with Education Pioneers for the summer. This
fellowship(http://www.educationpioneers.org/what-wedo/programs/graduate-school-fellowship) brings together current
graduate students and those working full time to develop diverse
leaders in the field of education.
Todd Reeves ( PhD 2011) had a paper accepted into publication:
Reeves, T. D., & Honig, S. L. (2015). A classroom assessment data
literacy intervention for pre-service teachers. Teaching and Teacher
Education, 50, 90-101.
Yves Salomon-Fernandez (PhD) has been named Interim President
of Massachusetts Bay Community College, and will assume the new
post on August 17th.
Current Students
Andrea Humez ( ERME PhD) presented parts of her dissertation
research at the Spring Association for Education Finance and Policy
(AEFP) and New England Educational Research Organization
(NEERO) conferences, and co authored presentations for the National
Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) research session and
AEFP conferences.
Ryan Auster ( ERME PhD) won the "Donald J. White Teaching
Excellence Award" for his teaching efforts in Intermediate Statistics.
Personal Accomplishments
Baby Announcements
ERME PhD student Apryl Clarkson (Holder) and her husband Ben are
happy to announce the arrival of their healthy and happy baby girl
Charlotte Anita Clarkson! She was born on Monday, May 25th
, weighing 9 lbs 4 oz, and measuring 20.5 in! Mom and dad are tired
but in love.
Rachel Kay (PhD 2011)'s son turned two in June!
Wedding Announcements
ERME PhD student Clair Johnson writes, "I am happy to announce
that I successfully tied the knot with Joe Maffei on September 27, 2014
in New Jersey. In March we relocated to San Diego, and have been
enjoying a very sunny married life on the west coast (literally and
figuratively!)."
ERME PhD Alum (2015) Chen An said, "I got married and successfully
defended my dissertation in May 2015. Thank you so much for the
support and encouragement from ERME fellows and faculty members!"
ERME PhD student Caroline Vuilleumier and her husband Derek
Welch were married in August 2014 in Ridgefield, CT. They met as
undergraduates at BC, and many fellow Eagles were in attendance on
the big day. Caroline and Derek will be honeymooning in New Zealand
this January.
Marathon Announcements
Jillian Gomolka (ERME MEd
student) ran the Boston Marathon
this April. With the support of friends,
family, colleagues, and her network,
she was able to raise $5,522 for the
Traveling Programs at the Museum
of Science.
Ryan Auster (ERME PhD student) also successfully completed the
Boston Marathon this year under the Museum of Science's Team as
well. He has run with the team for the past three years, and has raised
more than $11,000 for the Museum of Science's Traveling Programs
Department in the process. He writes, "As a researcher at the Museum,
it's nice to see that money go to good use."
Contact ERME at Boston College
Dr. Larry Ludlow, larry.ludlow@bc.edu, Department Chair
Jillian Gomolka, jillian.gomolka@bc.edu
formatting by Yuhwa Hong, ERME student
Boston College, Lynch School of Education
Campion Hall, Room 336
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 617-552-2072
www.bc.edu/erme