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James Leach
Professor
My research and development projects have focused on the relationship of career and technical education to training and development in the private sector, including the direction of research projects of local, state, and national scope within these areas. An important goal of this research has been to determine the knowledge base required for success as a technical educator in business and industry settings and to initiate discussion of the related important policy implications. A related objective is to identify and study the nature (in addition to professional knowledge) of exemplary technical educators working in the private sector.more information...
Adrienne Lo
Assistant Professor
My research in linguistic anthropology explores how Korean American children who attended classes at community based educational organizations in a multiethnic community in California were socialized to culturally specific frameworks of language, morality, and emotion. Using discourse analysis of classroom interactions, I examine how second generation students were positioned as moral subjects through narratives, codeswitching, evidential frameworks, and epistemic particles.more information...
Michael Loui
Affiliate
Together with undergraduate and graduate students, Professor Loui conducts research in ethics in engineering and computing, and in the scholarship of teaching and learning. They have studied the student learning outcomes of an elective course on professional ethics, and the effectiveness of peer-led team learning in a large freshman course. Professor Loui's current research projects include the assessment of role-play scenarios for teaching responsible conduct of research, and the development of concept inventories for three fundamental subjects in computer science.more information...
Christopher Lubienski
Associate Professor
Chris Lubienski's research centers on public and private interests in education, including the use of market mechanisms such as choice and competition to improve schooling, especially for disadvantaged children. His work examines reforms and movements such as vouchers, charter schools, tuition tax credits, and home schooling that seek to decentralize and deregulate educational governance. He focuses on outcomes anticipated by reformers in areas such as increased innovation and higher levels of achievement, exploring the frequent disconnect between research findings and policy advocacy. He is currently investigating the organizational behavior of schools and districts in local education markets in metropolitan areas.more information...
Sarah Lubienski
Associate Professor
Dr. Sarah Lubienski's scholarship centers around intersections of education and equity, focusing on mathematics achievement, instruction, and reform. Through quantitative studies of NAEP and ECLS-K data, as well as qualitative studies of classrooms, she examines inequities in diverse students' mathematics learning experiences and outcomes. Dr. Lubienski has served as the chairperson of both AERA's NAEP Studies SIG and the Editorial Panel for the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. She currently co-directs an Illinois Math-Science Partnership and was recently awarded IES funding for a study on gender, race/ethnicity, and SES in ECLS-K mathematics data.more information...