Amanda Goodwin

In the era of COVID-19 and digital learning, IES has identified areas of needed research including exploring how reading with digital devices relates to learning outcomes like reading comprehension. This project team address this need by building understandings of in-the-moment behaviors readers experience (explored via eye-gaze, emotional response, digital behaviors, and highlighting) when reading on a screen or reading on paper to answer questions, which is similar to many classroom and te...

In this project, researchers will develop and test a computer-based test of middle school students' ability to understand parts of words (e.g. roots, prefixes). The ability to use and understand how small parts of words (i.e., morphemes) combine to form words that express different meanings (i.e., morphological awareness) is important for students' ability to learn challenging words that are not used much in everyday language but are used more frequently in school settings. Based on whether ...

In this project, the research team proposes to close gaps in literacy learning opportunities for middle grade (grades 4 through 6) multilingual learners (MLs) by iteratively developing and piloting a curricular approach, called Project TRANSLATE (Teaching Reading and New Strategic Language Approaches to English-learners). TRANSLATE aims to support the reading comprehension development of MLs, who represent a particularly heterogeneous population in terms of English language development level...

The purpose of the project is to develop a computer adaptive, diagnostic assessment of teachable morphological skills for students in grades 3 to 5. The development of morphological skills is essential to students' literacy growth. This is because knowledge of morphemes (for example, root words like nation, prefixes like inter, and suffixes like al) supports students' reading achievement by influencing their ability to decode and access the meaning of multisyllabic words which then supports ...

The University of Miami established the Interdisciplinary Training in Education Research and Advanced Statistical Methods program to train fellows to conduct in-depth research on education issues arising in diverse, urban settings.