Thursday, June 3
10:30-12:00pm EST
Quantitative Track
Title: Examining Discipline from an Intersectional Lens
Abstract: This presentation will provide steps to analyze and interpret school discipline data from an intersectional lens considering both race and gender. Participants will be exposed to quantitative application of intersectional analyses as it relates to educational disparities and how to conceptualize research question based on intersectional theory within education to drive questions related to discipline disparities.
Presenters:
Dr. Jamilia Blake
Professor, Educational Psychology
Texas A&M University
Dr. Siqi (Lucy) Chen
Psychometrician
Pearson
Biographies:
Jamilia Blake, PhD (she/her) is an award-winning and published licensed psychologist and a tenured professor at Texas A&M University. She has been with Texas A&M since 2007, where she has achieved numerous accolades including Texas A&M University’s Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence and College of Education and Human Development Transforming Lives Faculty Fellowship for her teaching and mentoring.
Dr. Blake’s research examines the developmental trajectory of peer-directed aggression, bullying, and victimization in socially marginalized youth and racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline. She is author to more than 40 publications and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Blake has published studies examining the social and psychological consequences of aggression and victimization for African-American girls and students with disabilities and the disparate impact of school discipline for African-American girls. Her work on the inequitable discipline experiences of Black girls has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, on NPR, and CBS. She is the co-PI of a federally funded grant to examine the relation between school discipline and disproportionate minority contact in juvenile justice centers for immigrant youth. Dr. Blake is the lead researcher for the Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood and the lead author for the follow-up work Listening to Black Women and Girls: Lived Experiences of Adultification Bias reports. Dr. Blake teaches graduate courses at Texas A&M University in child assessment, child therapy, and factors that contribute to racial/ethnic educational disparities.
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Siqi (Lucy) Chen (she/her) is currently working as a Psychometrician in Pearson Clinical group. She earned her Ph.D in Research, Measurement and Statistics from Texas A&M University. Dr. Chen’s research interest lies in the area of applying quantitative and machine learning methods to improve educational evaluations and assessments.
