Specializing in educational and psychological assessments, Jamal
Abedi’s research focuses on testing for English language learners
and issues concerning the technical characteristics and
interpretations of these assessments. Abedi is the author of many
publications in the assessment of and accommodations for
English-language learners. He is on the advisory committees for
several major assessment organizations and advises a number
of states on testing for English learners and children with
disabilities.
PhD School of Education, University of California, Davis,
2018
Dissertation: Effective Teaching of Latinx Students in Hope
Valley.
Committee: Karen Watson-Gegeo (Chair), Danny Martinez, Allyson
Tintiangco-Cubales, Chris Faltis.
MA Applied Linguistics Department, University of Massachusetts,
Boston, 2009
B.S. W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University,
1999
Certificates
2004 Teaching Credential, School of Education, Sonoma State
University, 2004
Cati V. de los Ríos is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Education. She has taught in California and Massachusetts
public schools. Cati’s research explores the intersections
of adolescent bi/multilingual
literacies, translanguaging, ethnic studies, and
teacher education. Her scholarship draws from
ethnographic and participatory methodologies and is informed by
sociocultural, critical, and translingual orientations
of language and literacy.
Faculty ProfileEMPHASIS AREA: LLC. Academic language; Academic literacy; English learners; Language development and socialization; First- and second-language writing
I research the relationship between students’ everyday uses of
language (English and Spanish) and their engagement in
school-based uses of language and literacy. Some schools identify
bilingual adolescents as “limited” in their English proficiency
even though they use sophisticated literacy repertoires outside
of school; other learners are deemed ”fluent” in English but
still struggle with the language and literacy demands
of their academic coursework.
Margarita Jimenez-Silva is an associate professor and director of
teacher education at the School of Education in University of
California, Davis. Her research focuses on preparing and
supporting teachers to work with culturally and linguistically
diverse learners, especially in addressing emergent bilinguals’
linguistic and academic content development. More specifically,
her research strands include teacher education pedagogy and
curriculum, educational policy, and family/community engagement.
Faculty ProfileEMPHASIS AREA: LLC. Adolescent Language and Literacy; English Education; Linguistic Anthropology of Education; Sociocultural Approaches to Learning; Discourse Analysis; Black and Latina/o Youth Interactions; Ethnography
Faculty ProfileEMPHASIS AREA: LLC. Early literacy; English learners; Bilingualism and bilingual education; Educational television and multimedia; Language acquisition
Early Literacy; English Learners; Bilingualism and Bilingual
Education; Educational Television and Multimedia; Language
Acquisition; Literacy development; Quantitative methods;
Sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics.
