Fox Curriculum
What is being studied right now.
The dissertation, its design, and the question underneath it.
Research identity and foundation
That question first took shape during my B.A. in History, where primary source analysis and disciplinary argumentation showed me how differently people engage with evidence when instruction does not explicitly develop that capacity. My research interests have never been bounded by grade level. The same questions that apply to a tenth-grade AP student apply, in different forms, to a college freshman, an adult learner re-entering the workforce, and a graduate student navigating disciplinary writing for the first time.
My M.Ed. thesis, Sheltered Instruction: Equipping Teachers for Language and Core Education (2016), investigated how to combine core content instruction with language acquisition to better serve English Language Learners. That research was grounded in a conviction that still drives all of my work: access to quality education is the most powerful equalizer a society can offer, and the learners most in need of rigorous preparation are consistently the least likely to receive it.
Current research
My dissertation, Recommendations for Solving the Problem of Inconsistent AP World History Exam Pass Rates, investigates a measurable problem at the intersection of secondary and postsecondary education: why students in the same course, taught by the same instructor, with access to the same resources, produce inconsistent exam outcomes across academic years.
The study uses a mixed-methods design: semi-structured alumni interviews, a Likert-scale survey on instructional preparedness, and a systematic document analysis benchmarked against the College Board's AP World History Course and Exam Description. The central concern is the transition from content recall to disciplinary analytical reasoning, a challenge that does not resolve at the end of high school but persists into undergraduate coursework and beyond.
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Courses, assessments, a product that has to teach something. Send what you have and I will tell you what it needs.
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