Education

IDS Funded Research Projects

Shamya Karumbaiah: Language Model Biases in Idea Detection During Translanguaging

Ran Liu and Thao Pham: Gender and Racial Inequalities in School-to-Work Linkage: The Interplay Between Horizontal Mismatch and Educational Field Specificity

Mollie McQuillan, Erin Gill, and Benjamin Lebovitz: Whose Rights?: A Case Study of One District’s Organizational Response to an Unsuccessful Parents’ Rights Legal Challenge and the Impact of Students’ Access to Gender-Affirming Supports on Climate, Health, and Academics

Resources

Diversity Science Podcast: Jo Handelsman on How We Can Better Mentor Students in STEM

Affiliate Publications

Examples of research related to education conducted at UW—Madison

Burt, B. A., Stone, B. D., Motshubi, R., & Baber, L. D. (2020). STEM validation among underrepresented students: Leveraging insights from a STEM diversity program to broaden participation. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

Byars-Winston, A., Womack, V.Y., Butz, A.R., McGee, R., Quinn, S.C., Utzerath, E., Saetermoe, C.L., & Thomas, S.B. (2018). Pilot study of an intervention to increase cultural awareness in research mentoring: Implication for diversifying the scientific workforce. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2, 86-94.

Fitzpatrick, M.E., Burrows, S.G., & Yonker, J.A. (2022). An exploratory study of engineering graduate student persistence: Self-efficacy and contextual influences. Journal of Career Development, 1-23.

Harackiewicz, J.M., Canning, E.A., Tibbetts, Y., Priniski, S.J., & Hyde, J.S. (2016). Closing achievement gaps with a utility-value intervention: Disentangling race and social class. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(5), 745-765.