University of Wisconsin–Madison
Race and Ethnicity Education (2025) Authors: Amanda Lockett and Janean Dilworth-Bart Abstract: Research exploring relations between parental involvement in their children’s school experiences and their resulting performance is critical to understanding how school-level procedures and higher level academic policy can better support the involvement needs and preferences of a diverse parent population. Yet, findings in this …
Cell (2023) Authors: Alfred Mays, Angela Byars-Winston, Antentor Hinton, Jr., Theanne N. Griffith, Marcus Lambert, et al. Abstract: We are 52 Black scientists. Here, we establish the context of Juneteenth in STEMM and discuss the barriers Black scientists face, the struggles they endure, and the lack of recognition they receive. We review racism’s history in …
The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching (2025) Authors: Stephanie House, Angela Byars-Winston, Ellyssa Eiring, Sylvia Hurtado, You-Geon Lee, Richard McGee Abstract: The Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM) workshop was developed to help biomedical faculty gain awareness and skills to work more effectively with racially and ethnically minoritized mentees. The purpose of this paper is to present …
Protocols.io (2024) Authors: Ellyssa Eiring, Angela Byars-Winston, Stephanie C. House, You-Geon Lee, Richard McGee, Remi F. Jones, Sylvia Hurtado, Amanda Carrasco Abstract: Research mentoring relationships are critical for developing the next generation of scientists. However, research mentors have seldom recognized how cultural differences can influence mentoring relationships, particularly for individuals from backgrounds historically underrepresented in …
IDS affiliate Shamya Karumbaiah was recently awarded a Spencer Foundation Grant to study how generative AI educational tools can better support multilingual learning. Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Educational Psychology, is a computer scientist and learning scientist whose work focuses on using human-centered AI to improve learning outcomes for …
Alzheimer’s and Dementia (2025) Authors: Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, Adam M. Brickman, Jennifer J. Manly, Koit Hung, Michael J. Culbertson, John Robert Warren Abstract: INTRODUCTION Educational attainment is associated with midlife cognitive functioning. However, degree attainment is the culmination of complex and unequal processes involving students’ backgrounds, the opportunities that schools provide them, and their …
The number of young people enrolling in college who have psychiatric disabilities has grown in recent years, with these students now making up around 20% of all students with disabilities. Students with psychiatric disabilities are significantly less likely to graduate college than those with other disability types and students without disabilities. For students with psychiatric …
Educational Researcher (2025) Authors: Joseph Cimpian and Mollie McQuillan Abstract: Recent data show rising suicidality among high school girls. We posit this increase may be related to an overlooked factor: more girls identifying as LGBQ. Using four cohorts of national Youth Risk Behavior Survey data (N = 22,562 females, N = 22,130 males), we found that LGBQ identification …
Journal of Postsecondary Education & Disability (2024) Authors: Kyesha Isadore, Angélica Galván, Amber O’Shea Abstract: Research suggests that racially/ethnically minoritized (REM) students with psychiatric disabilities are less likely to receive support services, have poorer therapeutic outcomes, and experience higher levels of anxiety, depression, and suicidality than their non-REM college-aged peers without psychiatric disabilities. This study …
Computation and Language (2024) Authors: Anand Syamkumar, Nora Tseng, Kaycie Barron, Shanglin Yang, Shamya Karumbaiah, Rheeya Uppal, Junjie Hu Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) offer promise in generating educational content, providing instructor feedback, and reducing teacher workload on assessments. While prior studies have focused on studying LLM-powered learning analytics, limited research has examined how effective …