M2-Si Grant

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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) received an almost $3 million U.S. Department of Education’s 2022 Competitive Grants for State Assessments. Partnering with the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) the team will build a Multilingual Multimodal Science Inventory (M2-Si) e-portfolio assessment that educators can use to adjust instruction and that is intended to increase proficiency of students in grades 3-5 science. Multilingual learners are at the center of the inventory design, which aims for a “bridge to educational equity” (Gottlieb, 2016). The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that educators learn what students know and can do in science, without limiting teachers’ understanding to what students know and can do in science in English.

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DPI Grant Team

  • Principal Investigator: Ivanna Mann Thrower Anderson, Multilingual Learner (ML)/Title III Consultant
  • Senior Science Advisor: Dr. Charles Aiken, Section Chief, Mathematics, Science and STEM
  • Science Advisor: Dr. Debra Hall, K-5 Science Consultant

CAL Grant Team

  • Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Keira Ballantyne, Vice President, Programs & Development
  • Test Development Manager: Dr. Amy Burden
  • Senior Research Assistant: Brittany York  

Senior Advisors

  • Dr. Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Professor, Educational Research Methodology (ERM), University of North Carolina at Greensboro  
  • Dr. Margo Gottlieb, Co-Founder and Lead Developer, WIDA at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research 

Technical Working Group (TWG)

  • Coleen Carlson, Research Assistant Professor, Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics (TIMES), University of Houston
  • Dr. Mariana Castro, Deputy Director for the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
  • Dr. David Crowther, Professor of Science Education and Director of the Raggio Research Center for STEM Education, University of Nevada, Reno  
  • Dr. David Francis, Director, Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics (TIMES), University of Houston 
  • Dr. Ye Jane He, Professor, Teacher Education and Higher Education, School of Education, UNC Greensboro 
  • Peggy McLeod, Consultant 
  • Dr. Diep Nguyen, President and CEO, Center for Applied Linguistics 
  • Pat Taylor, Research Assistant Professor, Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics (TIMES), University of Houston

Special thanks to:

  • Dr. Joel Gómez, 2017 - 2024 President and CEO, Center for Applied Linguistics 
  • Dr. Margaret Heritage, Educational Consultant, Heritage Consulting 

Grantees are required to share information on findings resulting from the CGSA program through presentations at national conferences, publications in refereed journals, or other products disseminated to the assessment community. The M2-Si Team dissemination efforts through presentations, publications, and webinars are available for review via the links below. These links are updated as new materials are available.

 

Contact Us

Ivanna Mann Thrower Anderson, Multilingual Learner (ML)/Title III Consultant, NCDPI (Principal Investigator)  

Dr. Keira Ballantyne, Vice President, Programs & Development, CAL (Co-PI)

 

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