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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Adam Gamoran is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their work primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on education, decision sciences, and related subfields such as information systems and management, sociology and political science, management science and operations research, and finance.

Their research topics include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Educational Assessment and Improvement
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice

Among recent published papers are:

  • Social Capital and Student Achievement: An Intervention-Based Test of Theory (2021, Sociology of Education)
  • Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships (2022, Educational Policy)
  • Sociology's Role in Responding to Inequality: Introduction to the Special Collection (2021, Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World)
  • The Development and Sustainability of School-Based Parent Networks in Low-Income Latinx Communities: A Mixed-Methods Investigation (2020, American Educational Research Journal)
  • In high school math, more instructional time helps, but the tracking dilemma remains (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent coauthors in their works include:

  • Hannah Miller
  • Jeremy E. Fiel
  • Jessa Lewis Valentine
  • David Enrique Rangel
  • Megan Shoji

Gamoran's publications are frequently found in academic journals such as:

  • Sociology of Education
  • Educational Policy
  • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
  • American Educational Research Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their career has been recognized with several honors, including the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award by the American Educational Research Association in 2014, designation as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014, and Fellowship of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Discussion-Based Approaches to Developing Understanding: Classroom Instruction and Student Performance in Middle and High School English

    Arthur N. Applebee;Judith A. Langer;Martin Nystrand;Adam Gamoran

  • Opening dialogue : understanding the dynamics of language and learning in the English classroom

    Lisa H. MacNeilley;Martin Nystrand;Adam Gamoran;Robert Kachur

  • Secondary School Tracking and Educational Inequality: Compensation, Reinforcement, or Neutrality?

    Adam Gamoran;Robert D. Mare

  • Questions in Time: Investigating the Structure and Dynamics of Unfolding Classroom Discourse

    Martin Nystrand;Lawrence L. Wu;Adam Gamoran;Susie Zeiser

  • The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities.

    Adam Gamoran

  • Instructional Discourse, Student Engagement, and Literature Achievement.

    Martin Nystrand;Adam Gamoran

  • Authentic Pedagogy and Student Performance.

    Fred M. Newmann;Helen M. Marks;Adam Gamoran

  • The Effects of Stratification in Secondary Schools: Synthesis of Survey and Ethnographic Research:

    Adam Gamoran;Mark Berends

  • Class Size and Student Achievement

    Ronald G. Ehrenberg;Dominic J. Brewer;Adam Gamoran;J. Douglas Willms

  • The Variable Effects of High School Tracking.

    Adam Gamoran

  • American Schooling and Educational Inequality: A Forecast for the 21st Century.

    Adam Gamoran

  • An Organizational Analysis of the Effects of Ability Grouping

    Adam Gamoran;Martin Nystrand;Mark Berends;Paul C. LePore

  • Upgrading High School Mathematics Instruction: Improving Learning Opportunities for Low-Achieving, Low-Income Youth:

    Adam Gamoran;Andrew C. Porter;John Smithson;Paula A. White

  • Student Achievement in Public Magnet, Public Comprehensive, and Private City High Schools:

    Adam Gamoran

  • Instructional and Institutional Effects of Ability Grouping.

    Adam Gamoran

  • Algebra for Everyone? Benefits of College-Preparatory Mathematics for Students With Diverse Abilities in Early Secondary School

    Adam Gamoran;Eileen C. Hannigan

  • Synthesis of Research / Is Ability Grouping Equitable?

    Adam Gamoran

  • The Organizational Context of Teaching and Learning

    Adam Gamoran;Walter G. Secada;Cora B. Marrett

  • The Production of Achievement Inequality in High School English

    William J. Carbonaro;Adam Gamoran

  • Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement

    Andrew C. Porter;Adam Gamoran

  • Equality of Educational Opportunity A 40 Year Retrospective

    Adam Gamoran;Daniel A. Long

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew C. Porter
Andrew C. Porter University of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey D. Borman
Geoffrey D. Borman Arizona State University
Dominic J. Brewer
Dominic J. Brewer University of Southern California
J. Douglas Willms
J. Douglas Willms University of New Brunswick
Robert D. Mare
Robert D. Mare University of California, Los Angeles
Judith A. Langer
Judith A. Langer Stanford University
Maureen T. Hallinan
Maureen T. Hallinan University of Notre Dame
Abigail A. Fagan
Abigail A. Fagan University of Florida

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