Kimberly McIntee

University of Massachusetts Amherst | UMass Amherst · Department of Educational Policy, Research, and Administration

The Task Force on Foundational Competencies in Educational Measurement has produced a set of foundational competencies and invited comment on the document. The students and faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst provide their comments and critique of the proposed competencies. Both students and faculty agree that there needs to be more...

In October 2021, the Graduate Student Issues Committee at NCME called their graduate students to create a study group about the current edition of The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (Standards). During this study group, we studied eachchapter of the Standards and consulted with different Experts about its content and potential...

The concept of the undercommons offers a lens for complicating the discourse of conviviality in education. In this paper, the authors draw on learning experiences opened through black feminisms, decoloniality and anti-coloniality, and new materialisms in an experimental graduate course. Presenting stories drawn from a shared educational space, they...

Digital storytelling as part of study creates an opening for reworking ideas. It marks an instance of recognition to access alternative ways of knowing, thinking, and doing. Guided by radical black studies and decolonizing methodologies, the authors draw on insights from digital storytelling to extend current understandings of educational research,...

This paper takes up Leigh Patel’s (2016) methodological stance of pausing to consider how and whether the U.S. federal government’s theory of educational change, or their plan for educational equity and accountability, is answerable to Black, Indigenous, and students of color in the context of the global pandemic, the switch to remote learning, and...

Cancer diagnostic and therapeutic methods, such as radiation and chemotherapy, eliminate cancer cells as well as beneficial cells and may cause side effects that are uncomfortable for the patient. The focus of this project was to develop a novel diagnostic vehicle to target tumor cells using the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) as a scaffold. We attached...