Dr. Stephanie Cawthon will present her paper, “Myth Busting With Data: Longitudinal Models of Reading and Mathematics Achievement in Deaf Students,” at the 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in San Diego on April 21-26 — the world’s largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies.
Peer-reviewed and selected among more than 10,000 submissions, her paper was placed in the Longitudinal Studies Paper Session on Monday, April 25, at 8:00am.
Also, Dr. Cawthon is a panelist at the Invited Speaker Session, Connecting Theory to Praxis: How Critical Race Theory Informs Educational Practitioners Working With Marginalized Student Populations, on Saturday, April 23, at 8:00am and is the discussant at the Inclusion and Accessibility in Educational Assessment SIG Paper Session on Monday, April 25, at 11:30am.
Myth Busting with Data: About the Paper
Deaf students often experience systemic barriers to academic success and low expectations of what they know and can do. Longitudinal data analysis is critical to understanding how academic achievement for deaf students progresses over time and where they may need additional support on their academic journey to achieve at the level of their hearing peers.
This study provides an analysis from NWEA MAP® Growth™ data from grades 2-8 across seven reading and mathematics domains over a period of five years. Results indicate that both deaf and hearing students continue to build skills through this period, and that deaf students, in particular, do not plateau in the early elementary grades.
It was co-authored by Dr. Stephanie Cawthon, The University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Elizabeth Barker, NWEA; Dr. Johny Daniel, Boston University; and Dr. North Cooc, The University of Texas at Austin.