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Research Biography

My scholarship centers around intersections of education and equity, focusing on mathematics achievement, instruction, and reform.  I have studied these issues in both quantitative and qualitative ways, with my most recent work focusing on large-scale trends related to social class, race/ethnicity, and gender, using NAEP and ECLS-K data.  My work on identifying powerful SES-related indicators also spurred a line of research on public-private school differences in instruction and mathematics achievement.

Through these and other studies, I have illuminated inequities in diverse students' experiences at home, in the mathematics classroom and in their mathematics outcomes. My findings challenge the field to attend to the struggles that marginalized students, parents, and their teachers face daily.  I also write about the nature of education research, itself, analyzing the ways in which education researchers approach and avoid difficult  issues of socioeconomic disparities.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy, Michigan State University, 1996
  • M.S., Mathematics, Michigan State University, 1991
  • B.S., Mathematics/Secondary Education, Northern Michigan University, 1989

Key Professional Appointments

  • Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010--
  • Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2010
  • Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Iowa State University, 1999-2004
  • Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Buffalo State College, 1997-1999

Activities & Honors

  • Member, AERA Grants Governing Board, 2010- present
  • Editorial Board Member, Educational Researcher, 2010-2012
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award, Educational Researcher, American Educational Research Association, 2010
  • Fulbright Scholar Award, A Study of Mathematics Instructional Reform in Ireland. US Department of State, $23,000, Fulbright Program, 2010
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2008
  • Advisory Board Member, Scaling Up Mathematics Achievement (SUMA) at the University of New Mexico, 2007-2011
  • Editorial Board Member, Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2006- present
  • Distinguished College Scholar, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2007
  • Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2009
  • Chair, Editorial Panel, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2005-2006
  • Chairperson, Research Using NAEP Data Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association, 2003-2007
  • Member, Editorial Panel, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2003-2006
  • Thomas N. Urban Research Award, Iowa Academy of Education, First in the Nation in Education lll, 2001

Grants

  • Principal Investigator, UIUC Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Mathematics Education, Institute of Education Sciences, 2010
  • Principal Investigator, A Longitudinal Study of Gender and Mathematics Using ECLS Data, Institute of Education Sciences, 2008
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Mathematics Science Partnership: Sense-Making in Science and Mathematics, Illinois State Board of Education, 2007
  • Principal Investigator, A New Look at School Type, Mathematics Achievement and Equity, U.S. Department of Education, 2005
  • Co-Principal Investigator, A Closer Look at Mathematics Achievement and Instructional Practices: Examinations of Race, SES, and Gender in a Decade of NAEP Data, U.S. Department of Education, 2002

Selected Publications

  • Robinson, J. P., & Lubienski, S. T. (2011). The development of gender achievement gaps in mathematics and reading during elementary and middle school: Examining direct cognitive assessments and teacher ratings. American Educational Research Journal, 48(2), 268-302.
  • Lubienski, S. T. (2011).   Mathematics education and reform in Ireland: An outsider’s analysis of Project Maths. Bulletin of the Irish Mathematical Society, 67. 27-55.
  • Lubienski, S. T., & Crane, C. C. (2010). Beyond free lunch: Which family background measures matter? Education Policy Analysis Archives. 18(1), http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/756.
  • Lubienski, S. T. (2008). On “gap gazing” in mathematics education: The need for gaps analyses. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 39(4), 350-356.
  • Lubienski, S. T., Lubienski, C., & Crane, C. C. (2008). Achievement differences among public and private schools: The role of school climate, teacher certification and instruction. American Journal of Education, 151(1), 97-138.  

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