Curriculum Alignment
Develop new tools for teachers to tailor curricular materials based on student performance and demographic background
Early Warning System
Integrate data about school climate and students’ socio-emotional learning (e.g., Student Thriving Index) in an early warming system to inform school practice
Publications
- Chen, Z., Chen, B., Konstan, J., & Varma, S. (2023, April). Quantifying Culturally Relevant Curriculum and Examining its Relationships with Students’ and Teachers’ Race/ethnicity and Gender [Roundtable]. Paper to be presented at the American Educational Research Association 2023 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States.
- Su, M., Olson, L. A., Jarratt, D. C., Varma, S., Konstan, J. A., Keller, R., & Chen, B. (2023, April). Integrating School Climate Factors in a K-12 Early Warning System: An Exploratory Study [Roundtable]. Paper to be presented at the American Educational Research Association 2023 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States.
- Chen, Z., Chen, B., Konstan, J., & Varma, S. (2022, September 21-24). The Elephant in the Room: Potential Selection Biases in Educational Digital Big Data. Paper to be presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), Arlington, Virginia. https://sree.confex.com/sree/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/4170
- Su, M., Olson, L. A., Jarratt, D. C., Varma, S., Konstan, J. A., Keller, R., & Chen, B. (2022). Re-envisioning a K-12 early warning system with school climate factors. In Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 405–408. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491140.3528670
- Chen, Z., Varma, S., Rudduck, I., Helen, W., & Eckerstorfer, S. (2022, March 17-19). A Novel Natural Language Processing Approach for Investigating and Quantifying Cultural Competencies in Curriculum. Poster presentated at the Association for Education Finance and Policy 47th Annual Conference, Denver, CO, United States.
