It was 1945. WWII had just ended and segregation was still in effect in American schools, when the U.S. government embarked on a mission to reform the Japanese education system to a democratic state. A group of 27 committee members, all educators, were pulled together to help. It took one member, the only black person on the team, to point out how […]
Catherine Case, Steven Foti, and Douglas Whitaker were selected to receive the University of Florida’s Icubed Graduate Student Mentoring Award for the work they did with AP Statistics at PK Yonge in the 2013-2014 academic year. The Graduate Student Mentoring Award recognizes graduate students at the University of Florida who take time to help others succeed as graduate or undergraduate students or in K-12 classrooms (i.e., working with K-12 students and/or teachers). The award is particularly designed to acknowledge the mentoring contribution from the graduate students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, including SBE (Social, Behavioral and Economic) sciences.
Catherine, Steven, and Douglas are doctoral students specializing in Statistics Education under the mentorship of Dr. Tim Jacobbe. They will receive this award on October 28th at UF’s Graduate Student Research Day, where they will also be presenting.
Douglas Whitaker, a PhD student specializing in Statistics Education, has been selected as a Fellow for the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) for the 2014-2015 academic year. Congratulations, Doug!
His students are not only apprentices, they’re part of the team The School of Teaching and Learning has a principle of scholarship that blurs the lines between faculty research and teaching. In the work of Tim Jacobbe, the school’s associate professor of mathematics and statistics education, graduate students participate as colleagues, learning from their experiences […]
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2014
Specialization Area & Faculty Mentor: Educational Technology; working with Dr. Pasha Antonenko
Primary Research Interests: Creating and developing technology-enhanced learning environments in educational settings; Professional development learning facilitated by technology outside K-16 settings; Increasing access to math and engineering in K-12 and post-secondary settings; Collaborative learning enhanced by technology in the classroom.
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2014
Specialization Area & Faculty Mentor: ESOL/Bilingual Education; working with Dr. Maria Coady.
Primary Research Interests: English language learning among native speakers of Spanish and Mandarin Chinese; Online and software-based language teaching methods; Professional development and profession-specific assessment instruments.
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2014
Specialization Area & Faculty Mentor: Statistics Education; working with Dr. Tim Jacobbe
Primary Research Interests: Developing assessments that emphasize conceptual understanding of statistics; Community outreach to promote a more statistically-literate society.
Recent Conference Presentation: Tim Jacobbe, Catherine Case, Douglas Whitaker & Steven Foti, “Establishing the Validity of the LOCUS Assessments through an Evidence-Centered Design Approach.” International Conference on Teaching Statistics. Flagstaff, AZ. July 2014.
Experience of a current student Just back from a conference in Illinois, where she spoke about the social theory of reflexivity in education, Lindsay Vecchio sat down for an interview to share a bit about her experience as a student at the University of Florida. Vecchio, a Ph.D. student in the School of Teaching and Learning […]
Natalie King, a doctoral student in the School of Teaching & Learning, has received a 2013 Graduate Student Mentoring Award from the University of Florida Graduate School and the Innovation through Institutional Integration, or I-Cubed. The award was established in 2012 to recognize graduate students at UF who take time to help others succeed as graduate or undergraduate students […]
Kenneth Noble, a PhD student specializing in social foundations of education, has received the History of Education Society’s Henry Barnard Prize for the best essay written by a graduate student. Kenneth’s essay, “‘A more meaningful democracy than we ourselves possess’: Charles S. Johnson and the Education Mission to Japan, 1945-1952,” was featured at the 2013 […]
Elizabeth Washington has been smitten with social studies and civics education since her 11th-grade American History class. She remembers dressing up as Eleanor Roosevelt for American Heritage Day as a class assignment and never looking back on her way to becoming a state and national thought leader in civics education. “That definitely jump-started me and […]
Julie Brown, a UF doctoral fellow in curriculum and instruction, has been named as one of six Jhumki Basu Scholars by the National Association for Research in Science Teaching’s Equity and Ethics Committee. Brown is a former high school science teacher and P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School’s elementary science coordinator. At UF’s College of Education, […]
Kenneth Noble, a PhD student specializing in Social Foundations of Education, has won the History of Education Society’s Henry Barnard Prize for the best essay by a graduate student for his research paper, “‘A more meaningful democracy than we ourselves possess’: Charles S. Johnson and the Education Mission to Japan, 1945-1952.” The History of Education […]
Kathleen Adkins, Jamey Burns, Leigh Farrington, & Cheryl Gaston, “Raise Student Achievement with Classroom Equity Audits.” Florida Association of School Administrators. Tampa, FL. June 2013. Diedre Houchen, “The State of African Americans in higher education: A review of the literature.” ISAAC Conference on Research Directions Third Bi-Annual Empirical Research Conference on African American Education. Hilton […]
Lauren Tripp, a doctoral candidate in curriculum, teaching and teacher education, was recently honored by the Association for Academic Women as an emerging scholar for her dissertation research. The association named Tripp as a finalist in its Emerging Scholar competition and will reward her with a $1,000 cash award. The award was created to honor outstanding […]
Julie Brown, a PhD student specializing in Science Education, has been named a 2013 Jhumki Basu Scholar from the Equity and Ethics Committee of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). In recognition of this honor, Julie will participate in the Equity and Ethics Pre-conference Workshop at this year’s NARST meeting in Puerto […]
Rose Pringle is the Co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation grant designed to transform science teaching and learning in middle schools. The grant, known as U-FUTuRES (University of Florida Unites Teachers to Reform Education in Science), will accomplish this by training a cohort of 40 science teacher leaders over two years with continued support […]
Rachel Wolkenhauer is a Ph. D. candidate in Curriculum, Teaching, and Teacher Education. Rachel has a passion for practitioner inquiry as it relates to professional development and teacher preparation. It is a passion deeply rooted in her work as a student in the School of Teaching and Learning. Rachel first learned of practitioner inquiry as […]
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Summer 2009.
Program Area & Faculty Mentor: ESOL/Bilingual Education; working with Dr. Ester de Jong
Primary Research Interests: Academic language in dual language programs: teachers’ understanding.
Courses Taught at UF: TSL 4324, “ESOL Strategies for Content Area Teachers”
Recent Conference Paper Presentation: Ester de Jong & Katherine Barko-Alva, “Academic Language in Theory, Policy, and Practice.” American Educational Research Association. Philadelphia, PA. April 2014.
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2013
Specialization Area & Faculty Mentor: Curriculum, Teaching, & Teacher Education; working with Dr. Elizabeth Bondy
Primary Research Interests: Fostering the development of culturally responsive science educators through ongoing professional development in high-poverty urban schools and communities; Service learning and leadership development in pre-service and in-service teacher education; Science in informal settings.
Recent Conference Paper Presentation: Brittney Beck, “Improving a university-based middle school mentoring program through explorations of inquiry in the mentoring relationship.” Florida League of Middle Schools Conference. Sarasota, FL. June 2013.
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2013
Specialization Area & Faculty Mentor: Statistics Education; working with Dr. Tim Jacobbe
Primary Research Interests: Assessment of conceptual understanding of statistics; Teacher preparation to teach statistical concepts.
Courses Taught at UF: STA 3024, “Introduction to Statistics II”
Recent Conference Paper Presentation: Tim Jacobbe, Catherine Case, Douglas Whitaker & Steven Foti, “Establishing the Validity of the LOCUS Assessments through an Evidence-Centered Design Approach.” International Conference on Teaching Statistics. Flagstaff, AZ. July 2014.
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2010
Program Area: Curriculum, Teaching, & Teacher Education; working with Dr. Dorene Ross & Dr. Sevan Terzian
Primary Research Interests: African American education and pedagogy; History of Education—segregated schooling; Africana methodologies.
Courses Taught at UF: EDG 4930, “Race, History, and Public Schooling in the United States”
Recent Conference Paper Presentation: Diedre Houchen, “The State of African Americans in Higher Education: A Review of the Literature.” ISAAC Conference on Research Directions; Third Biannual Empirical Research Conference on African American Education. Hilton Head, SC. May 2013.
Recent Scholarly Publication: Linda Behar-Horenstein, Cirecie West-Olatunji, Thomas Moore, Diedre Houchen & Kellie Roberts, “Resilience post-tenure: The experience of an African American Woman in a PWI,” Florida Journal of Educational Administration and Policy 5 (January 2013): 68-84.
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2012
Primary Research Interests: Middle grades education; Science Education; Qualitative research methods; African American girls; STEM fields; Science curriculum.
Courses Taught at UF: SCE 4113, “Elementary Science Content”; SCE 6947, “Practicum in Secondary Science Teaching and Assessment.”
Recent Conference Paper Presentation: Natalie King, Rose Pringle, & Jennifer Mesa, “Negotiating Rigor and Best Practices: Designing an Effective Physical Science Content Course for Middle School Science Teachers.” Southeastern Association for Science Teacher Education Conference. Macon, GA. October 2013.
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2013
Specialization Area & Faculty Mentor: Mathematics Education; working with Dr. Tim Jacobbe.
Primary Research Interests: Differentiated instruction in the mathematics classroom; Collaboration in the mathematics classroom; Mathematics teacher professional development; Pre-service teacher math content knowledge.
Courses Taught at UF: MAE 3221, “Mathematics Content and Methods for Teaching Mathematics in the Inclusive Elementary Classroom, Part I”
Recent Conference Presentation: Orhan Kaplan, Thomasenia L. Adams, & Carolyn Mitten, “Barriers to efficiently incorporating Common Core Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) in mathematics instruction: An exploratory study.” Southeastern Regional Association of Teacher Educators. Sarasota, FL. October 2013.
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2009
Program Area & Faculty Mentor: Reading Education, working with Dr. Zhihui Fang.
Primary Research Interests: Adolescent literacy and how students from diverse backgrounds develop their literacy skills in content areas.
Courses Taught at UF: TSL 3520, “ESOL Foundations: Language and Culture in Elementary Classrooms”; RED 3312, “Content Area Literacy” (co-taught with Dr. Fang); RED 5337, “Teaching Reading in Secondary Schools” (co-taught with Dr. Fang).
Recent Conference Paper Presentation: Zhihui Fang, Yang Qi, Julie Bader & Suzanne Coatoam, “Writing a Report: A Study of Preadolescents’ Use of Informational Language.” American Association for Applied Linguistics. Dallas, TX. March 2013.
Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2012
Specialization Area & Faculty Mentor: Statistics Education; working with Dr. Tim Jacobbe.
Primary Research Interests: Statistics education in grades 9-12.
Courses Taught at UF: STA 2023, “Introduction to Statistics I”; STA 3024, “Introduction to Statistics II”; MAE 5347, “Teaching K-8 Math Methods” (co-taught with Rhonda Williams).
Recent Conference Presentation: Doug Whitaker & Catherine Case, “LOCUS Pilot Study and Preliminary Findings.” Joint Statistical Meetings. Montreal, QC. August 2013.
