Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, senior research associate in the Department of Educational Psychology’s school psychology program and co-director of the department’s IGDILab, and Kelsey Will, graduate student in the psychological foundations of education program and graduate research assistant in IGDILab, recently traveled to Brighton, United Kingdom to present research on early childhood assessment. Wackerle-Hollman and Will presented three times at the joined conferences of the Society for Text & Discourse (ST&D) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR).

Will presented “Investigating the role of disability status in early language and literacy assessment performance” research she conducted with IGDILab colleagues Wackerle-Hollman, Qinjun Wang, and Professor Scott McConnell as part of their work on the IGDI-APEL project.

Wackerle-Hollman presented “Comparing the key position and item difficulty relationship in alphabetical knowledge and phonological awareness measures” conducted with IGDILab colleagues Wang, McConnell, and Jose Palma. She also presented on “The performance of Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers on the Spanish and English progress monitoring measures.”

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