BernNadette Best-Green is an PhD candidate within the University
of California at Davis’ Graduate Group in Education who
specializes in Language, Literacy, & Culture. Grounded in
culturally sustaining pedagogy (Paris,
2012), BernNadette’s dissertation interrogates the metalinguistic
awareness of African American, Asian, and Latinx youth who attend
school together within the California Central Valley.
Ms. Escobar is a Ph.D. candidate in the School Organization and
Education Policy emphasis area and a graduate student
researcher with the California Education Lab and Office of
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She is a former researcher and
policy analyst for the University of California’s Office of the
President. She is originally from Southern California but has
spent most of her recent time in the Bay Area. She is the first
in her family to obtain a bachelor’s and master’s degree and
soon a doctorate.
M. Çağrı Güzel joined the Graduate Group in Education Ph.D.
program in 2018. His research interests lie primarily in the
fields of second language acquisition, educational drama, and
teacher education. Before coming to University of California,
Davis, Güzel was working as a Language Specialist at Google,
where he provided linguistic expertise on the Google
Assistant, machine learning, and language processing
projects.
I research noncognitive constructs in K12 settings using
computational psychometrics. Drawing on intensive, multi-modal
data this research produces learning analytics offering
individual-level insights and also, in aggregate, inform
teaching and policy. This practice-embedded research foregrounds
the needs of teachers and students, with a critical SES
perspective.
Ph.D. in progress, Emphasis on Language, Literacy, and Culture,
University of California, Davis
Faculty Advisors:
Dr. Yuuko Uchikoshi Tonkovich, primary advisor
M.A. in Linguistics, TESOL, California State University, Fresno
B.A. in Social Education, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai,
Japan
Teaching Experience
Associate Instructor, University of California, Davis,
East Asian Languages and Cultures
First Quarter Japanese
Second Quarter Japanese
Third Quarter Japanese
MA, University of San Francisco | Human Resources and
Organizational Development. Emphasis in Higher Education
structures, STEM diversity, and leadership development.
BS, UC Davis | Agricultural Systems and
Environment. Emphasis in Communications and
Information Systems. McNair Research Scholar, NSF LSAMP/CAMP-
MURALS Research Scholar, and Hugh Edmondson Pathology Research
Fellow, CALESS Member.
AA, Math, Engineering, and Science | Sacramento City College.
Understanding, in detail, the connections between teachers’
mathematical life stories, the role of belief and mathematical
identity as related to teaching mathematics.
Examining the manners in which secondary mathematics
preservice teachers inform the development and implementation of
their instructional practice over the course of their credential
year.
Teacher education
Education
California State University Sacramento
Masters of Arts in Educational Technology (iMET 13)
I am broadly interested in the transition from high school to postsecondary education and the early years of postsecondary studies for socioeconomically disadvantaged students. I want to understand how students from disadvantaged groups navigate higher education curriculum and institutions. Utilizing my training in econometrics, I apply quasi-experimental methods to large institutional datasets. I am specifically interested in understanding socioeconomic status in higher education via poverty, immigration status, and homelessness.
Kait Murray is an educator and researcher of community
leadership whose work focuses on improving the lives of
culturally diverse people in agricultural education, both in and
outside of schools. She is broadly interested in
how culturally diverse students navigate agricultural and
environmental learning (counter)spaces: how they create them,
experience them, transform them, and are transformed by
them.
DJ Quinn has taught at community colleges and four-year
institutions, and has worked
on flipping classrooms, contract grading, and
other student-focused initiatives for increasing retention and
transfer for First-Year Composition. His research interests
live at the intersection of technology and engagement,
and increasing academic access for students from
culturally, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse
backgrounds.
Carolina is a doctoral candidate in the School Organization and
Education Policy emphasis area. During her time at Davis, she has
been a research assistant in the California Education Lab, as
well as a teaching assistant for several School of Education
undergraduate courses. Carolina’s primary research interests
include the role of broad-access public universities in promoting
undergraduate education. She is also interested in undergraduate
mobility and how transfer pathways impact persistence.
“There’s no point in all this scholarship if when we look back
upon our careers nothing has changed and we’ve just become
better at naming the problem.” – Gloria Rodriguez
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
(Robert Frost, 1922)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. candidate at University of California Davis, majoring in
Education in the School Organization & Educational Policy
(SO&EP) program, with a focus on Higher Education, cultural
pluralism and bilingualism. (In progress. Courses taken:
[1])
M.A. in Linguistics, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
(including consortium classes at Georgetown University and the
University of the District of Columbia). (Courses taken: [1])
B.A. in Mathematics (Computer Science option), California State
University, Fresno (including one semester at Ohlone College in
Fremont, CA). (Courses taken: [1])
I am interested in feedback in online courses. I am passionate
about the potential for online courses to make post-secondary
education more accessible for all students. As such I am
dedicated to rigorously studying this context with the hopes of
improving online education.
Education
Ph.D. Candidate in Education
M.A. in Education, University of California, Davis 2012
Single Subject Credential in English, University of California,
Davis 2011
I am interested in working with underrepresented
populations to understand the processes that enhance (or
hinder) their opportunities to access higher education. I am
also interested in studying the benefits of drama and poetry in
culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms for language
acquisition and writing.
Ph.D. Education with an emphasis in Mathematics Education, UC
Davis, expected June 2019.
M.A. Education with a concentration in Educational Technology,
CSU Sacramento, May 2013.
M.Ed. Education, UC San Diego, September 2002.
B.A. Mathematics, UC San Diego, June 2001.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Stevens, M. and Chung, C. (2014, March). The impact of
interactive geometry software on student learning. Paper
presented at the E-Learning and Information Technology Symposium
2014, Tainan, Taiwan.
Erin Winters is a doctoral student and GAANN Fellow in education
with an emphasis in learning and mind sciences,
specializing in educational measurement and
statistics.
Her research considers different approaches for validating the
scores from high stakes and large scale for different uses.
She’s particularly interested in examining the effectiveness of
different statistical approaches for establishing the
instructional sensitivity of tests and assessments, especially as
they relate to research design.
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