Sean Kelly

Sean Kelly (PhD, Sociology; University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor and Director of PhD Studies in the Department of Administrative and Policy Studies. He studies the social organization of schools, student engagement, and teacher effectiveness. He advises MA, MED, EdD, and PhD students in two programs of study: Education Leadership and Social and Comparative Analysis in Education. Dr. Kelly’s current research includes a National Science Foundation funded study of classroom discourse (with colleagues in computer science and teacher education), and research on teacher effectiveness (with colleagues in the economics of education) supported by the Institute of Education Sciences. Dr. Kelly serves as co-editor of the American Educational Research Journal. Read more about recent research on:

• Fine-grained observational measurement of instruction (Hechinger Report article on study results reported in the October issue of Educational Researcher)

• Tracking, instructional practices, and text complexity for middle school struggling readers in the journal Reading Research Quarterly

• School-to-school differences in instructional practice in the journal Urban Education

• Accounting for the relationship between initial status and growth in regression models in The Journal of Experimental Education