Jeremy Miciak

The purpose of this study is to improve understanding of the factors related to specific learning disabilities (SLD) identification and student academic outcomes. Students with SLD represent the largest group of students receiving special education and related services in the United States. However, few studies have examined the SLD identification process and its implications for improving outcomes for students at significant risk for SLD. Presently, there is very little evidence for the eff...

The purpose of this project is to explore English reading risk among adolescent newcomer English learners (ELs) across their first 2 years of enrollment in U.S. middle schools. A newcomer EL is defined as a student who initially enrolls in a U.S. school without completing a prior year of instruction in a U.S. school and is classified as limited English proficient at school entry. Few studies have examined reading risk with this population and existing risk models may not be useful due to the...

The Principal Investigator (PI) will conduct a program of research for improving outcomes of English learners (EL) at risk for learning disabilities (LD) while participating in mentoring and training activities to develop expertise related to research with ELs, complex mediation analyses, regression discontinuity designs (RDD), and the application of mediation frameworks to RDDs. The PI intends to investigate the extent to which cognitive and linguistic factors (i.e., vocabulary/background k...