About the WIDA Research Team

Mission

To provide timely, meaningful, and actionable research that promotes educational equity and academic achievement for linguistically and culturally diverse students.

Partners

We develop our annual research agenda under the guidance of the WIDA Consortium Board Research Subcommittee members listed below.

Name	State
Grace Gray	Alaska
Jasmine Carey	Colorado
Carol Johnson	Georgia
Cori Yochim Alston	Georgia
Melodee Davis	Georgia
Andy Wiegand	Hawaii
Boon Lee	Illinois
Barry Pedersen	Illinois
Seon Hwa Eun	Illinois
Chris Williams	Kentucky
Sharon Prestridge	Mississippi
Helga Fasciano	North Carolina
Nadja Trez	North Carolina
Kerri Whipple	North Dakota
Susan Morgan	New Hampshire
Bob Measel	Rhode Island
Robert Fugate	Virginia
Judy Radford	Virginia
Jim McCobb	Vermont
Jacqueline Iribarren	Wisconsin
Phil Olsen	Wisconsin

Research team members work closely with researchers from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), and draw support and information from other WIDA staff and research organizations to accomplish the team mission.

Research Theme for 2013

3D: Dialog, Discovery & Dissemination

We're learning much from the research we're doing on the ACCESS for ELLs data your state provides. Thank you for allowing us to help answer your questions. This year's focus is 3D. Put on your glasses and join us in dialog, discovery and dissemination. We want to be talking more with you and other ELL practitioners to understand their questions and insights. We'd like to be involved in the discovery of how to better serve the ELL students under our charge, and we want to disseminate, to share, what we're learning. So keep an eye out for research bulletins, conversations, conference presentations, reports, and peer reviewed publications from our team. Give us a call or drop us a note. Let us share what we're learning.

Recent Communications

The Framework for English Language Proficiency Development Standards corresponding to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards

National Evaluation of Title III Implementation Supplemental Report— Exploring Approaches to Setting English Language Proficiency Performance Criteria and Monitoring English Learner Progress

Submitted to
U.S. Department of Education Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development Policy and
Program Studies Service

Prepared by
Gary Cook, Wisconsin Center for Educational Research
Robert Linquanti, WestEd
Marjorie Chinen, American Institutes for Research
Hyekyung Jung, American Institutes for Research

American Institutes for Research Washington, DC
2012