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GSE Profiles
Staff Contact:
Amy Dray
Post-Doctoral Scholar
Sponsor: Mark Wilson
Office: 3602 Tolman Hall
Phone: 510-643-1992
Email: adray at berkeley.edu
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Amy Dray is an IES Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantitative Methods and Assessment. Her research examines the connections between the social and academic competencies of children and adolescents. Specifically, she is interested in how reading and writing about social issues may help children make meaning of their own life experiences, and how understanding social experiences in their own lives might translate into better reading comprehension and writing skills. Her postdoctoral research connects this line of work to assessment and quantitative methods in the areas of language and literacy, social development, and social and emotional learning.
Ed.D., Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Ed.M., Risk and Prevention, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
B.A., Bryn Mawr College
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•Striving Readers Assessment and Evaluation. University of California, Berkeley and San Diego Unified Public Schools. M. Wilson
•Assessing Data Modeling. University of California, Berkeley and Vanderbilt University. M. Wilson
•Group for the Study of Interpersonal Development. 1998-2007. Harvard Graduate School of Education. R. Selman
•Project IF, Study of School-based Intervention and Prevention Programs. 2000-2005. Harvard Graduate School of Education. M. Nakkula
•Project Aspire, 2000-2003. Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Judge Baker Children's Center, Children's Hospital. R. Selman and W. Beardslee
•Early Head Start National Research and Evaluation Project. 1998-2000. Harvard Graduate School of Education. C. Snow, B. Pan, and C. AyoubTeaching Fellowships
•Risk and prevention, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2005 & 2006
•Research design, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2005
•Longitudinal data analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2004
•Family-based prevention strategies for at-risk children, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2004
•Applied data analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003
•Intermediate statistics, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003
•Promoting the ethical awareness of children and adolescents, 2002
•The growth of interpersonal development, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2001Classroom Teaching
6th grade Math teacher, Edwards Middle School, Charlestown, MA
Professional
Educational sales and marketing coordinator, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
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E-298, Directed Group Study for Graduate Students in Assessing Data Modeling
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Articles (Refereed Journals, Proceeding)Dray, A.J., Selman, R.L., Schultz, Lynn Hickey (in press). Communicating with intent: A study of social awareness and children's writing. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.Selman, R.L. & Dray, A.J. (2006). Risk and prevention. In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Series Eds.) & K. Anne Renninger & I.E. Sigel (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology: Vol. 4. Child Psychology in Practice (6th ed., pp. 378-419). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Book ChaptersDray, A.J. & Selman, R.L. (2003). The power of persuasion: Who is the audience and where does it stand? In R.L. Selman, The Promotion of Social Awareness (pp. 251-266). New York: Russell Sage.Selman, R.L. & Dray, A.J. (2003). Bridging the gap: Connecting social awareness to literacy practice. In R.L. Selman, The Promotion of Social Awareness (pp. 231-250). New York: Russell Sage.
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Invited• Dray, A.J. (2007, October). Understanding ignorance: A study of social development and diversity in children's understanding of a story of discrimination. Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research seminar, University of California, Berkeley.
•Dray, A.J. (2007, March). Blending qualitative and quantitative methods. Psychological Studies in Education seminar, University of California, Los Angeles.
•Dray, A.J. (2006, May). A study of social awareness and reading comprehension across sociocultural contexts. Cross University Mentoring Conference, Fordham University, New York, NY.
PapersChaired Symposia
•Brown, N., Wilson, M., Dray, A.J., Lee, Y. (2008, April). Assessing literacy practice in the classroom: The BEAR Assessment System. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
•Dray, A.J., Mistry, R., Bailey, A., & Selman, R.L. (2007, November). Understanding ignorance: Children's comprehension of a story of discrimination. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education, New York, NY.
•Dray. A.J. (2006, March). The development of early adolescents' social and academic competence: A study of the connection between literacy and social skills. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.
•Dray, A.J. (2005, April). The meaning children make of multicultural literature: A study of social awareness and reading comprehension. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.Paper and Poster Presentations
•Dray, A.J. (2006, April). The meaning children make of multicultural literature: A study of social development and reading comprehension. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Reading Association, Chicago, IL.
•Dray, A.J. (2005, November). Understanding multiculturalism: Is it a matter of social awareness or literacy? Paper presented at the meeting of the Association of Moral Education, Cambridge, MA.
•Dray, A.J. (2004, April). Communicating with intent: A study of social cognition in children's writing. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
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AERA Institute on Statistical Analysis Travel Grant, April 2007
Harvard Graduate School of Education Summer Fellowship, 2005
Harvard Graduate School of Education Doctoral Research Grant, 2004-2005
Spencer Foundation Research Training Grant, 2002-2005
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ConsultanciesResearch and curriculum consultant, Voices Reading Program, Zaner Bloser Publishing
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American Educational Research Association
Society for Research in Child Development
Society for Resarch on Adolescence
Association for Moral Education
International Reading Association
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Adolescence
Assessment and Educational Measurement
At-Risk Youth
Diversity
Literacy
Multicultural Education
Quantitative Methods
Reading Development
Social and Emotional Development
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