Samira ElAtia, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Educational Assessment Assessing Graduate Attributes French language testing School leadership and the intersection of gender CSJ Researchers - Humanities and Social Sciences

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About

Dr. Samira ElAtia is professor of education and the Associate Dean-Research, Graduate Studies and International at the bilingual Campus Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta. She specializes in the evaluation of competencies and language assessment. Her research interest focuses on issues of fairness in assessment, especially in bilingual contexts. She has served on experts' panels of several international testing agencies. She is past president of the Canadian Association of Language Assessment. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA from Illinois State University.

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Research

Investigating Systemic Profiling of Racialized Groups during the Hiring Process in the Teaching Profession. Kule Institute for Advanced Study Grant (Principal investigator) 2024-2026 $49,700

Reading/Interpretation of Financial information. Kule Institute for Advanced Study Grant (Co-investigator) 2024-2026 $75,000

Educational Leadership and Administration at the Intersections of Gender- SSHRC – Partnership Grant (Principal investigator), 2021-2024 — $311,146

Canadian school administrators' statistical reasoning about probability, effect, and representativeness--- SSHRC- Insight Grants, (Co-investigator), 2021 – 2025 — $350,000

Enjeux de l’évaluation des compétences linguistiques en français en programme d’immersion. Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne (Chercheure Principale), 2021-2022 - $71,000 

Are you interested in issues relating to (1) employability of visible minority teachers, (2) school leadership at the intersection of gender, and (3) Assessment of French in a minority context?

Dr. ElAtia can support your program in the Education Division of Faculté Saint-Jean and within the Department of Educational Policy Studies of the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta through a multi-year Graduate Research Assistantship. Worth over 25,000$ a year in annual salary and benefits, this is available for up to two years (subject to annual review), and recipients would continue to be eligible for other available awards and scholarships.

The Graduate Research Assistant will work under Dr. ElAtia’s direct supervision and will support her research activities. This position requires proficiency in French and English and it will provide students with opportunities for research and training in all areas of educational leadership and in French immersion education. Graduate Students will also be eligible for other available awards and scholarships offered at the University of Alberta.

If you are interested, please get in touch with Dr. ElAtia via email (selatia@ualberta.ca). Please make sure you send your CV. For information on the Graduate program and application process, please visit the website of FSJ graduate program: https://www.ualberta.ca/fr/campus-saint-jean/programmes/etudes-

superieures/index.html

Samira ElAtia, Jason Carey, Marnie Jamieson, Marcus Ivey & Bashair Alibrahim

Canadian Journal of Higher Education. 2021 April; 51 (1):71-98

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Samira ElAtia & Donald Ipperciel

D. In A. Azevedo (Ed) "Handbook of Research on Big Data and Learning Analytics." Hershey, PA: IGI. 2021 March;

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Shahrzad Saif & Samira ElAtia

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 2020 November; 23 (2):ix-xiii

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Samira ElAtia, Donald Ipperciel, Osmar Zaïane, Behdad Bakhshinategh & Patrick Thibaudeau

International Journal of Information and learning Technology. 2020 September; 38 (1):117-134