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Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
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Faculty Research Profiles: Colleen Vojak
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Vst Project Coordinator
Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
171 Children's Research Center
51 Gerty Dr. MC 670
Research Biography
My recent research focus has been on the development and use of online educational technologies for writing assessment. I currently coordinate The Assess-As-You Go Writing Assistant: A Student Work Environment that Brings Together Formative and Summative Assessment, a U.S. Department of Education grant that involves the development and testing of a new online writing environment that delivers formative and summative assessment information to students and teachers.
Past research interests have been in the areas of religion and education; autonomy facilitating curriculum; the influence of market ideology and media on student academic integrity; and the stigmatization of social service language. I am co-author of the Institute of Education Sciences grant 'Assessing Complex Performance: A Postdoctoral Training Program Researching Students Writing and Assessment in Digital Workspaces' (award amount: $659,375; dates: 2011-2014). In 1998 I also co-authored a grant from the Illinois Arts Council for a Mural Painting Project with artist Glen Davies at Westview School (award amount: $15,500).
Degrees
- Ph.D., Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006
- M.Ed., Counseling, University of Maine, Orono, 1984
- B.S., Special Education, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, 1975
Key Professional Appointments
- Visiting Project Coordinator, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2009--
- Adjunct Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006--
- Agora Program Coordinator, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2006
- Stanford-Illinois Summer Institute Coordinator, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2005
- Teaching Assistant, Foundations of Education, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001-2005
- Self-Help Information Center Administrator, Counseling Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1990-1996
- Housing Administrator, Residential Life, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1988-1990
Selected Publications
- Vojak, Colleen, Sonia Kline, Bill Cope, Sarah McCarthey and Mary Kalantzis. “New Spaces and Old Places: An Analysis of Writing Assessment Software,” Computers and Composition (September 2011).
- Cope, Bill, Mary Kalantzis, Sarah McCarthey, Colleen Vojak and Sonia Kline. “Technology-Mediated Writing Assessments: Principles and Processes,” Computers and Composition (September 2011).
- Vojak, Colleen. “Choosing Language: Social Service Framing and Social Justice,”
The British Journal of Social Work 39, no. 5 (2009): 936-949.
- Vojak, Colleen. “What Market Culture Teaches Students About Ethical
Behavior," Ethics and Education 1, no. 2 (October 2006): 177-95.
- Vojak, Colleen and Walter Feinberg. “Book Review: Liberal Pluralism: The
Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice,” by William
Galston, Theory and Research in Education 2, no. 2 (2004): 189-94.
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