This year, the Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award for an outstanding thesis goes to Dr. Victoria Rolfe, and the Richard M. Wolf Memorial Award for outstanding paper goes to Dr. Evi Konstantinidou.
Dr. Victoria Rolfe received the Bruce H. Choppin Award for her PhD thesis, Exploring socioeconomic inequality in educational opportunity and outcomes in Sweden and beyond. The thesis explored a network of educational inequalities relating to student achievement. Theoretically grounded in the understanding of curricula as experiences, the thesis investigated how outcomes are influenced by actions in the classroom in various social contexts.
This year, the Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award for an outstanding thesis goes to Dr. Victoria Rolfe, and the Richard M. Wolf Memorial Award for outstanding paper goes to Dr. Evi Konstantinidou, for her paper, titled Teaching with technology: A large-scale, international, and multi-level study of the roles of teacher and school characteristics. Her paper examines the extent to which key teacher-, school-, and country-characteristics explain teaching practices, with the emphasis on developing students’ digital and computational thinking skills in classrooms. Using data from both ICILS 2018 assessments (i.e., CIL & CT), the study took an international perspective on the teaching practices with technology using multilevel structural equation modeling and regression trees.
For further reading, please see the recent IEA Insider 2022 article on the IEA Award winners here.
The awards are available annually. The deadline for applications is 31 March of each year and should be submitted via email to secretariat@iea.nl.