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Wednesday, 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Applying an Anti-Racist Assets-Based Approach to Conducting Research with Young DLLs and their Families

This roundtable will discuss innovations in methodology, psychometrics, and analytic models for conducting research with young Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and their families. Four experts with experience engaging, collaborating with, and implementing research with multilingual communities will discuss their approaches to conducting studies with DLLs. Using Dr. Jennifer Randall’s heuristic for engaging in antiracist research (purpose, positionality, power, process, and products). The experts will discuss both hard and soft skills considerations when conducting research through this framework. Specifically, the experts will reflect on understanding and validating DLL’s unique experiences, examining individual and group characteristics, capturing children’s full repertoire of abilities, and integrating perspectives of their lived experiences in the context of systemic oppression using frameworks such as community-based participatory research. With this context in mind, they will also discuss quantitative and qualitative methodology, including approaches to mixed methods and psychometric analysis, with consideration for measurement models, statistics, and other analytic models. Taken together, this roundtable will offer a unique discussion that lifts up the importance of humble reflections and lessons learned when considering purpose, individual and group characteristics, power, analytic processes, and the product, as well as related intended and unintended consequences (Randall, 2021).

Session moderator
Lisa Lopez, University of South Florida

Panelists
Lisa Lopez, University of South Florida, United States
Doré LaForett, Child Trends, United States
Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, University of Minnesota, United States
Matthew Foster, University of South Florida, United States

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