Ms. Wagner is a PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. She began her doctoral studies in 2008 focusing on second language education, and assessment and evaluation. She received her Master’s degree from the University of Prince Edward Island. Her thesis investigated the relationship between health and inclusive education.
She has been teaching as a sessional instructor in the Faculty of Education at UPEI since September 2009. She has taught the Faculty’s two courses devoted to the instruction of English as a second language. She has acted as a placement coordinator for the students specializing in international education in the Faculty of Education for two years. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she also taught English for Academic Preparation at the Webster Centre at UPEI. She has extensive research experiences in various areas of education. She has worked on multiple research projects in PEI where she has participated in facilitating family literacy programs, explored internationalization of the curriculum, and investigated factors influencing adolescent girls’ perceptions to science. She continues to be actively involved in research projects in Ontario. She has investigated elementary students’ cognitive strategy use on a literacy test, and is currently part of the research team engaged with the validation of Steps to English Proficiency, a language assessment framework. Her dissertation research focuses on the formative uses of this language assessment framework in various Ontario classrooms. She is also one of the co-investigators on a pilot project implementing a new senior chemistry laboratory course. She is responsible for the design, interpretation of the evaluation process and instruments.
Research Interests
Centre For Education Research
