Carlton Fong
Research Assistant
Carlton Fong is a Research Assistant with SEDL's Research and Evaluation (R&E) program. His current work includes assisting in the national multisite cluster randomized controlled effectiveness trials of the McGraw-Hill Education Imagine It! program and Everyday Mathematics program. He is also working on the Louisiana Striving Readers project evaluation, which consists of a randomized controlled trial of the Voyager Passport Reading Journeys program. His primary roles include data analysis and investigations of fidelity of implementation.
Contact Information
You may contact Carlton Fong at 512-391-6594
Mr. Fong's research interests include student learning and motivation, research synthesis, and postsecondary education. He has investigated motivational factors related to underachievement, the determinants of intrinsic motivation, and student achievement and retention in community colleges. He has also conducted a systematic review for the Campbell Collaboration with SEDL's Disability Research to Practice program. Experience
From 2009 through 2010, Mr. Fong was a student scholar in SEDL's Disability Research to Practice program. Prior to joining SEDL, he worked at the Charles A. Dana Center as a graduate research assistant. There, he served on the research and evaluation team for the Academic Youth Development program and Intensified Algebra program, both research and development initiatives integrating student motivation with mathematics instruction. On these projects, he was responsible for data collection and analysis on issues including student motivation, teacher self-beliefs, and fidelity of implementation. Education
Mr. Fong holds a double BA in cognitive science and linguistics with a minor in education from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently pursuing an MEd in quantitative methods and a PhD in educational psychology with a specialization in learning, cognition, instruction and motivation from the University of Texas at Austin. SEDL Publications Selected External Publications
- Zientek, L. R., Yetkiner, Z. E., Fong, C. J., & Griffin, M. (in press). Factors influencing students’ success in developmental mathematics courses. Manuscript accepted for publication at Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
- Fong, C. J., & Asera, R. (2010). Psychosocial theories to inform a new generation of student support structures for learning mathematics. Problem Solution Exploration Papers Series. White paper prepared for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Stanford, CA. Paper available at: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/sites/default/files/elibrary
- Jones, S. J., Fong, C. J., Torres, L. G., Yoo, J. H., Decker, M. L., & Robinson, D. H. (2010). Productivity in educational psychology journals from 2003 to 2008. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 35, 11–16.
- Fong, C. J., Yoo, J. H., Jones, S. J., Torres, L. G., & Decker, M. L. (2009). Trends in female authorships, editorial board memberships, and editorships in educational psychology journals from 2003 to 2008. Educational Psychology Review, 21(3), 267–277.
- Bush-Richards, A., Schneider, C. S., Leach, L. F., Harvey, K. E., Fong, C. J., & Chao, T. (abstract accepted). Intelligence, persistence, and problem solving: assessing change in student beliefs over an academic youth development program. Paper session presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
- Fong, C. J. (abstract accepted). The relationship between sources of self-efficacy and academic resilience of middle school students. Paper session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
- Fong, C. J., Krause, J. M., Weinstein, C. E., & Acee, T. A. (abstract accepted). Community college retention of LEP and Non-LEP hispanic students: Demographic and academic predictors. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
- Zientek, L. R., Fong, C. J., Yetkiner, Z. E., & Phelps, J. (abstract accepted). The role of students’ self-efficacy in developmental mathematics across ethnicity. Paper session presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
- Fong, C. J. (2010, April). Female involvement in educational psychology journals from 2003 to 2008. Paper session presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.
- Krause, J. M., Fong, C. J., & Harvey, K. E. (2010, April). Increasing student mathematics self-efficacy and resilience through collaborative learning. Paper session presented at the Annual Teacher Education Symposium of the Consortium for Research in Teacher Education, Austin, TX.
- Schneider, C. S., Chao, T., Leach, L. F., &, Fong, C. J. (2010, February). Effect of the academic youth development program on student beliefs. Paper session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
