McGuinness, K., Hodges, M., & Rutherford, T. (2026). A Survey Tool to Reveal Student Thinking. Supporting the communication skills of English learners and others from marginalized backgrounds is a unique discipline-specific challenge for teachers. Although listening, speaking, reading, and writing can be conceptualized as broad skills, each responds to subject-specific contexts in different ways. For … Read more
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This material is supported by National Science Foundation awards #2300618 and #2300619. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.