Emily White is a Research Fellow and sessional lecturer at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include: developing assessments using item response theory to understand the abilities of students with complex learning profiles, particularly vision impairment, for the purpose of informing teaching; accessible assessment for students with print disability; digital literacy for students with disability; and inclusive education for students with disability by supporting improvements in pedagogy.
As part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project, her current research focuses on teacher promotion of self-regulated learning skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects across Australia and Germany. She is also in the preliminary stages of developing research to understand how blind students learn to use braille for the purpose of becoming literate. Emily lectures on how teachers can use data to support targeted teaching and learning for students with disability, and how these students can learn to use technology and use technology to learn. She advises on inclusive assessment design, reasonable adjustments, inclusive education, and test accessibility for students with vision and/or motor impairment to state and national assessment and educational bodies. She serves as a teacher practitioner in vision impairment and physical education, having previously worked in curriculum coordination, specialist, itinerant, and classroom roles for over fifteen years.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
SIG 15 Special Educational Needs Conference Poster Prize for Junior Researchers
Credentials
Positions
Research Fellow
Melbourne Graduate School Of Education
Member
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Category 2 - Qualified Specialist Teacher (Vision Impairment) Plus Professional Learning
South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment (SPEVI)
Member
Vision Impact Research Group
Member
International Council on the Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI)
Education
PhD, Education
University of Melbourne
Master of Special Education (Sensory Impairment)
The University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Health and Physical Education
University of Virginia
Master of Teaching
University of Virginia