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Social and academic motivation at school, peer relationships and school adjustment, teacher-student relationships, goal setting and self-regulation, prosocial behavior.
Reading, adolescents with reading difficulties and disabilities in the content-area (i.e., English language arts, social studies, science) and supplemental intensive intervention setting, multi-tiered systems of support, professional development and coaching for instructional leaders (e.g., literacy coaches) and teachers
Development and socialization of motivation and gender differences, achievement motivation, self-regulation and learning, motivation for literacy, motivation interventions
Dr. Williams' clinical and research interests include induction supports for beginning special education teachers, supportive transitions from preservice preparation to inservice teaching, coaching and mentoring inservice special education teachers, and effective academic and executive functioning support for high school and university students.
Secondary English Education, teacher preparation, literacy, grammar
Literacy development and instruction, school-university partnerships, teacher professional development, diversity in today's classrooms, and equitable access to education.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Higher Education;
Antiracism;
Campus Climate Assessment;
Difficult Dialogues Teaching and Learning;
Cabinet-level Diversity Officers (CDOs);
Multicultural Counseling Competencies;
Sexual Identity Development;
Scale Development Research
autism, technology, mathematics, functional living skills, parent-implemented and culturally adapted interventions
risk and resilience, bullying and school violence, school-wide social and emotional learning (school-wide SEL), educator well-being, and youth development
multidimensional/multilevel item response theory, development and validation of measures, estimation and computation algorithms, measurement error and reliability, Generalizability Theory