Publications
Siebert, J. M., Bell, P., Gutiérrez, N., Zegers, M., Falke, E., Domingue, B., … Gorno-Tempini, M. L. (2024, April 10). Differences in Reading Screening Accuracy by Percentile Cutoff and English Proficiency: Feature Selection and Group-wise Prediction Evaluation (Preprint). EdArxiv. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/kswau
Duran, L., Siebert, J., Zegers, M., Gutiérrez, N., Pei, F., Catts, H., Petscher, Y., & Gorno-Tempini, M. (under review). The Difference Between English Learners’ and English-only Students’ Performance and Growth on Commonly Used Reading Screening Tasks. Journal of Learning Disabilities
Ramamurthy, M., Kanopka, K., Richie-Halford, A., Domingue, B., Pei, F., Bell, P., ... & Yeatman, J. D. (in preparation). Design and Validation of a Rapid Visual Processing Measure for Screening Reading Difficulties in Early Childhood. Preprint
Ramamurthy, M., Richie-Halford, A., Kanopka, K., Hartsough, A., Osuna, K., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., & Yeatman, J. D. (2023). Can a gamified, rapid, online assessment of letter encoding ability in kindergarten and first grade children predict future reading development?. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5858-5858.
Conferences
Duran, L., Siebert, J., Zegers, M., Gutiérrez, N., Pei, F., Catts, H., Petscher, Y., & Gorno-Tempini (May, 2024). Innovations in bilingual expressive vocabulary screening using conceptual scoring. Society for Research on Child Development Anti-Racism Summit. Panama City, Panama.
Zegers, M. (April, 2024) Parental involvement and Multitudes project:Inspiration from Latino/e families and LAC. Presentation as part of a mini- conference for educators, administrators, researchers and clinicians hosted by UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Supporting Dual Language Learners in Early Education Programs. Berkeley, CA.
Siebert, J., Jasso, J., Zegers, M. (April 2024) Linguistically Equitable Reading Screening: Bias Analyses and Universal Item Design. Presentation as part of a symposium at the annual conference of the National Council on Measurement in Education. Philadelphia, PA.
Durán, L., Zegers, M., Zopluoglu, C., Pei, F., & Gorno-Tempini (July, 2023) It’s more than just the score: Understanding the critical role of language proficiency in the identification of dyslexia in multilingual students. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Pt. Douglas, Australia
Durán, L., Zegers, M., Zopluoglu, C. (February, 2024). Conceptual scoring of expressive vocabulary in a new bilingual universal screening measure. Pacific Coast Research Conference. San Diego, CA
Catts, H.W. (November, 2022). Challenges in the early identification of dyslexia. Presentation as part of a symposium at the annual conference of the International Dyslexia Association, San Antonio, TX.
Upcoming Presentations
Ramamurthy, M. (August 2024). Visual Measures as a Language-agnostic Early Identification Measures of Reading Challenges. European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP. Aberdeen, Scotland.
Zegers, M. (August 2024). Use of Narrative Story Production assessment in a Universal Screener. Poster presentation for the Society for the Study of Measurement. San Diego, CA.
Siebert, J. (October 2024). Assessing early language and literacy development in California’s linguistically diverse population: An iterative random forest approach to task selection. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Copenhagan, Denmark.
Gutierrez, N. (October 2024). Assessing early language and literacy development in California’s linguistically diverse population: Exploring Relationships and Predictive Power of Early Literacy Measures on Word Reading Across Language Proficiencies. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Copenhagan, Denmark.
Bell, P., Pospisil, M., Zegers, M. (November, 2024) Considerations for Multilingual Learners: Insights from the Multitudes Project. Presentation as part of the annual conference of California Educational Research Association Uplifting Research Through Purpose, Practice and People. San Francisco, CA.