Faculty:
Carolyn Huie Hofstetter
Lecturer with
Security of Employment
Carolyn
Huie Hofstetter works primarily with the Educational
Leadership Program. She focuses on
evaluation,
assessment, and research methodologies, with special
emphasis on the validity of assessments for English
language learners and adult education students. Prior
to joining UCSD, she was on the faculty at the Graduate
School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
She has served as principal investigator (PI) or
co-PI
on several educational projects, including an evaluation
of a K-5 transitional bilingual education program
(San Jose USD), evaluation of an analytic procedure
to align
content standards with test items (AAAS/Project 2061),
and an evaluation of a professional development program
for mathematics teachers of English learners (LHS/EQUALS).
Her
publications include "Assessing knowledge integration
in science: Construct, measures, and evidence" in
Educational Assessment (with O.L. Liu, H.S. Lee,
M. Linn, in press), "Effects of a transitional
bilingual education program: Findings, issues and
next steps" in Bilingual Research Journal (2004); "Unpacking
the evaluation process: a study of transitional
bilingual education," in Studies in Educational
Evaluation (2004); "Assessment accommodations
for English Language Learners: Implications for policy-based
empirical
research," in Review of Educational Research
(with J. Abedi, C. Lord, 2004); "Math test
accommodation effects for English language learners," in
Applied Measurement in Education (2003); and "Evaluation
utilization revisited" in The International
Encyclopedia of Educational Evaluation (with M.
Alkin, 2003).
Currently
she is overseeing a federally-funded evaluation
of the Striving Readers Initiative at the San
Diego USD, which provides intensive literacy instruction
for middle
and high school students. |
