Linda Morell - leveraging learning theory and analytics.
She researches and lectures on critical issues in educational assessment and evaluation. She teaches program evaluation in the School of Education. Her courses address evaluation theory, design, and methodology. She also conducts original research through the BEAR Center. She is Co-PI on an NSF-funded project, Learning Progressions in Science: Analyzing & Deconstructing the Multiple Dimensions in Assessment. This study investigates student understanding of the science practice of argumentation, the crosscutting concept of patterns, and three content areas - natural resources, ecosystems, and the structure of matter. The project is designed to develop assessment tasks for middle school students that combine core content, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. She also Co-Investigator on the Teen Wellness Connection (TWC) project through a grant to UCSF from NIH. She is working to develop an instrument to measure high school students' "belonging in science." She researches issues for the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) project and other projects of interest. She develops grant proposals, trains graduate students and post-doctoral scholars, and writes about current issues in educational research.
Publications
Selected Publications & Presentations
Morell, L., Tan, S., & Wilson, M. (2024). Chapter 13: Aligning and Disentangling Science Content & Practices: The Relationship between measures of 21st Century skills and the content underlying them. Models, Measurement, and Metrology Extending the SI (Fisher, W. & Pendrill, L., Eds.). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111036496-013
Morell, L., Bathia, S., Koo, B., Wilson, M., Gochyyev, P., & Smith, R. (2024). Developing and Gathering Validity Evidence for an Instrument to Measure How High School Students Identify as Researchers. Research in Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-024-10194-1
Osborne, J., Wilson, M., Gunckel, K., & Morell, L. (September 18, 2024). Developing and Assessing Students’ Capability with Argumentation. Paper Presentation at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction in Berlin, Germany.
Morell, L. (April 30, 2024).Work with Teachers: Using Science Assessment to Support the Practice of Teaching. Invited speaking engagement, BEAR Seminar, Berkeley, CA.
Xue, M., Wilson, M. & Morell, L. (April 12, 2024). Fine-tuning GPT-3 for automatic scoring in learning progressions. Paper Presentation at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Morell, L. (March 18, 2024). High School Students Perspectives on Belonging in Science. Poster Session at the NARST Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.
Morell, L. & Dozier, S. (March 19, 2024). How teachers use results from Three Dimensional Tasks to inform their practice. In K. Gunckel’s Deconstructing the Three Dimensions of Science Learning in Assessment. Related Paper Set Strand 10: Curriculum and Assessment at the NARST Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.
Dozier, S., MacPherson, A., Morell, L., Gochyyev, P., & Wilson, M. (2023). A Learning Progression for Understanding Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems. Sustainability, 15, 14212. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914212
Wilson, M., Bathia, S., Morell, L., Gochyyev, P., Koo, B. W., & Smith, R. (2023). Seeking a better balance between efficiency and interpretability: Comparing the likert response format with the Guttman response format. Psychological Methods, 28(6), 1358–1373. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000462
Koo, B., Bathia, S., Morell, L., Wilson, M., Gochyyev, P., & Smith, R. (2021). Examining the Effects of a Peer-Learning Research Community on the Development of Researcher Identity: A case study of the San Francisco Health Investigators Program. Journal of STEM Outreach (4)1, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.15695/jstem/v4i1.05.
Morell, L., Suksiri, W., Dozier, S., Osborne, J., & Wilson, M. (2020, September 10). An Exploration of Selected-Response Items Compared to Constructed-Response Item Types in Science Education. In K. Draney (Chair), Automated Assessment of Mathematical and Scientific Reasoning: Alternative to Machine-scoring Open-Ended Items. Symposium conducted remotely for the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) remote.
Suksiri, W., Morell, L., & Wilson, M. (2020). Making Response Processes Matter to Designing Assessments of Student Learning. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA (Conference partially canceled)
Morell, L., Suksiri, W., Dozier, S., Osborne, J., & Wilson, M. (2020). Gaining Insight into Teachers’ Interpretations of Computer-Based Feedback for the Purpose of Valid Inferences [Paper]. International Objective Measurement Workshop (IOMW) (Conference Canceled).
Morell, L., Suksiri, & Wilson, M. (2020). Prevalence of Misreporting Demographic Data on a Low-Stakes Test [Paper]. International Objective Measurement Workshop (IOMW) (Conference Canceled).
Morell, L., Bathia, S., Koo, B. & Wilson, M., . Smith, R., (2020) A 12-Item Survey to Measure “Identity as a Researcher” NARST Annual Meeting Portland, OR (Conference Canceled).
Morell, L., Suksiri, W., Dozier, S., Osborne, J., & Wilson, M. (2020). Selected Response Item Formats: Addressing the Practice of Arguing from Evidence in Science. In J. Osborne (Chair), Automated Assessment of Argumentation in School Science: Developments and Challenges [Symposium]. NARST Annual Meeting Portland, OR (Conference Canceled).
Bathia, S., Morell, L., Smith, R., Koo, B. & Wilson, M. R. (2020, April 17 - 21) Measuring High School Students' Self-Perception as a Researcher: Development and Validation of the Researcher Identity Scale [Poster Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/sajb3fx (Conference Canceled).
MacPherson, A., Morell, L. & Dozier, S. (2020, Apr 17 - 21) A Learning Progression for Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems [Roundtable Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/sqe3xvg (Conference Canceled).
Morell, L., Suksiri, W., Dozier, S., Osborne, J., & Wilson, M. (2020, January 9). Automated Assessment of Scientific Reasoning: Selected-Response Items Compared to Constructed-Response Items. Session presented at the Annual Principal Investigators Meeting, Washington, DC.
Dozier, S., Morell, L., Suksiri, W., Osborne, J. F., and Wilson, M. R. (2019, August). Addressing the practice of arguing from evidence in science using forced-choice item formats. Paper presented at the Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Bologna, Italy.
Smith, R., & Morell, L., (2019, April). Measuring STEM Mindsets: San Francisco Health Investigator’s Researcher Identity (RI) Survey. In K. Chang (Chair), Measuring STEM Mindsets. Symposium conducted at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) SciEd Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
Morell, L., Bathia, S., Koo, B., Smith, R., & Wilson, M. (2019, April). An Application of Item Response Theory to Develop a Measure of Researcher Identity. Session presented at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) SciEd Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
Morell, L., Bathia, S., Koo, B., Smith, R., & Wilson, M. (2019, April). The Construction and Validation of a Researcher Identity Scale. Session presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Wilson, M., Morell, L., Osborne, J., Dozier, S., & Suksiri, W. (2019, April). Assessing Higher Order Reasoning Using Technology-Enhanced Selected Response Item Types in the Context of Science. In J. Osborne (Chair), Automated Assessment of Scientific Reasoning: Developments in the Field. Symposium conducted at the National Council of Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Freund, R., Sussman, J., & Morell, L. (2019, April). High Quality Individual and Group Reports for Early Childhood Development. In K. Draney (Chair), Supporting Children’s Early Learning and Kindergarten Goals with A Standards-Aligned Assessment: Effective Practices in Statewide Aggregate Reporting. Symposium conducted at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Bathia, S., Koo, B., Morell, L., Smith, R., Bernard, J., & Wilson, M. (February 26, 2019). The Development of the Researcher Identity Scale (RIS): An Example of Immersive Collaborative Assessment Development. Invited speaking engagement, BEAR Seminar, Berkeley, CA.
Morell, L., Suksiri, W., Dozier, S., Osborne, J., & Wilson, M., (2019, January). Addressing the NGSS Practice of Arguing from Evidence using Forced-Choice Item Formats: Challenges and Successes. Session presented at the Annual Principal Investigators Meeting, Washington, DC.
