coe-staff: Article of the year in Behavioral Disorders

[Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann]

Dear COE Faculty and staff,

Please join us in congratulating the three COE faculty associated with the Educational and Community Supports (ECS) unit, for receiving an Article of the Year award for 2016 in the journal Behavioral Disorders for a study on equity in school discipline:

Smolkowski, K., Girvan, E. J., McIntosh, K., Nese, R. N. T., & Horner, R. H. (2016). Vulnerable decision points in school discipline:  Comparison of discipline for African American compared to White students in elementary schools. Behavioral Disorders, 41, 178-195.

You can read the full award-winning article here:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.17988/bedi-41-04-178-195.1

Abstract: Racial disparities in rates of exclusionary school discipline are well documented and seemingly intractable. However, emerging theories on implicit bias show promise in identifying effective interventions. In this study, we used school discipline data from 1,666 elementary schools and 483,686 office discipline referrals to identify specific situations in which disproportionality was more likely. Results were largely consistent with our theoretical model, indicating increased racial and gender disproportionality for subjectively defined behaviors, in classrooms, and for incidents classified as more severe. The time of day also substantially affected disproportionality. These findings can be used to pinpoint specific student–teacher interactions for intervention.


Congratulations, colleagues!

Dianna


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