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Shakhnoza Kayumova

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Shakhnoza Kayumova

Professor

Education

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508-910-9033

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Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Strategic forum examining parent engagement and community partnerships in education Analyzes best practices for involving families in children's education and civic participation to improve schools. Showcases regional and state initiatives, evaluating their effectiveness and replication potential. Emphasizes developing sustainable family-community partnerships supporting school missions and educational leaders' roles in community organizing for school improvement.

Strategic forum examining parent engagement and community partnerships in education Analyzes best practices for involving families in children's education and civic participation to improve schools. Showcases regional and state initiatives, evaluating their effectiveness and replication potential. Emphasizes developing sustainable family-community partnerships supporting school missions and educational leaders' roles in community organizing for school improvement.

Strategic forum examining parent engagement and community partnerships in education Analyzes best practices for involving families in children's education and civic participation to improve schools. Showcases regional and state initiatives, evaluating their effectiveness and replication potential. Emphasizes developing sustainable family-community partnerships supporting school missions and educational leaders' roles in community organizing for school improvement.

Strategic forum examining parent engagement and community partnerships in education Analyzes best practices for involving families in children's education and civic participation to improve schools. Showcases regional and state initiatives, evaluating their effectiveness and replication potential. Emphasizes developing sustainable family-community partnerships supporting school missions and educational leaders' roles in community organizing for school improvement.

Students will examine the role(s) that the goal of eliminating the minority achievement gap has had throughout the ages in eliciting change and reform in contemporary American Education. They will also critically reflect on whether the focus on the minority achievement gap is still useful or whether a new paradigm shift is needed or is taking place in American schools, particularly that of benchmarking ourselves against other countries performance on educational efficacy to maintain or improve our international competitiveness and strategic advantages.

Students will examine the role(s) that the goal of eliminating the minority achievement gap has had throughout the ages in eliciting change and reform in contemporary American Education. They will also critically reflect on whether the focus on the minority achievement gap is still useful or whether a new paradigm shift is needed or is taking place in American schools, particularly that of benchmarking ourselves against other countries performance on educational efficacy to maintain or improve our international competitiveness and strategic advantages.

Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.

Focuses on developing the dissertation proposal, including conducting a full literature review, identifying the theoretical perspectives and relevant research framing the proposed dissertation research, a clear statement of the research questions and significance of the problem, a description of the research methods and design, and a work plan that identifies how data will be collected and analyzed.

Focuses on developing the dissertation proposal, including conducting a full literature review, identifying the theoretical perspectives and relevant research framing the proposed dissertation research, a clear statement of the research questions and significance of the problem, a description of the research methods and design, and a work plan that identifies how data will be collected and analyzed.

Focuses on developing the dissertation proposal, including conducting a full literature review, identifying the theoretical perspectives and relevant research framing the proposed dissertation research, a clear statement of the research questions and significance of the problem, a description of the research methods and design, and a work plan that identifies how data will be collected and analyzed.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Strategic forum examining parent engagement and community partnerships in education Analyzes best practices for involving families in children's education and civic participation to improve schools. Showcases regional and state initiatives, evaluating their effectiveness and replication potential. Emphasizes developing sustainable family-community partnerships supporting school missions and educational leaders' roles in community organizing for school improvement.

Students will examine the role(s) that the goal of eliminating the minority achievement gap has had throughout the ages in eliciting change and reform in contemporary American Education. They will also critically reflect on whether the focus on the minority achievement gap is still useful or whether a new paradigm shift is needed or is taking place in American schools, particularly that of benchmarking ourselves against other countries performance on educational efficacy to maintain or improve our international competitiveness and strategic advantages.
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Research

Research awards

  • $ 125,000 awarded by SouthCoast Community Foundation for College Now, Empowering Women (and girls) in Stem, Student Media Collaborative
  • $ 201,402 awarded by State University of N.Y. at Buffalo SUNY for STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming STEM via Bikes
  • $ 27,030 awarded by Eduscape Partners, LLC for Computational Thinking Counts in Elementary Grades: Powerful STEM Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century
  • $ 26,677 awarded by Rethink Learning, Inc | National Science Foundation for Rational Numbers Playground: Applying and Refining a Model for Dynamic, Discussion-Based PD for Fractions, Ratios, and Proportions
  • $ 1,498,020 awarded by National Science Foundation for Scholarships to Accelerate Engineering Leadership and Identity in Graduate Students

Research

Research interests

  • STEM Education, Innovation and Teacher Learning and Learning Sciences

Dr. Kayumova holds a PhD in Educational Theory and Practice from University of Georgia. She joined STEM Education and Teacher Development Department in Fall, 2014, and has taught a wide range of courses including Introduction to Qualitative Methods, Introduction to Quantitative Methods, Research Skills II, Emerging Theories and Methods in STEM Education. Dr. Kayumova is a four-lingual researcher, teacher educator, and learning scientist. Dr. Kayumova published and presented in more than 60 peer reviewed journals and conferences and has been awarded multiple research grants from National Science Foundation. Dr. Kayumova is a recent recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Early Career award. Shakhnoza’s work appears in journals such as Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Democracy and Education, and Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JARST).