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Research focuses on teaching and teacher education, cultural diversity, and school-community partnerships.

influence of art making on critical and creative thinking skills; maintaining relevancy in art curriculum with contemporary artists; connecting traditional handwork processes to contemporary art making; community based art education

Walkoe, Janet

My research focuses on the teaching and learning of mathematics, and of algebra in particular. I examine how teachers' attend to student algebraic thinking during instruction and how pre-service teachers can learn to attend productively to student algebraic thinking through the use of video.

Wang, Cixin

Bullying and bullying prevention, school-based mental health services and prevention of mental health problems, mental health literacy, help seeking among culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, parenting practice and family involvement

Wang, Min

language and reading acquisition, cross language and writing system comparisons, second language/bilingual literacy development

Weintrop, David

Computational Thinking & Computational Literacy, Computer Science Education, Broadening Participation in Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Science Education, Educational Technology, Design of Learning Environments

Wentzel, Kathryn

Social and academic motivation at school, peer relationships and school adjustment, teacher-student relationships, goal setting and self-regulation, prosocial behavior.

Wexler, Jade

Reading, adolescents with reading difficulties and disabilities in the content-area (i.e., English language arts, social studies, science) and supplemental intensive intervention setting, multi-tiered systems of support, professional development and coaching for instructional leaders (e.g., literacy coaches) and teachers

Wigfield, Allan

Development and socialization of motivation and gender differences, achievement motivation, self-regulation and learning, motivation for literacy, motivation interventions

Williams, Stacey C.

Dr. Williams' clinical and research interests include induction supports for beginning special education teachers, supportive transitions from preservice preparation to inservice teaching, coaching and mentoring inservice special education teachers, and effective academic and executive functioning support for high school and university students.