Faculty
University of North Carolina Charlotte, United States
Xiaoxia Newton (Ph.D.) is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Cato College of Education, University of North Carolina Charlotte. Xiaoxia is an applied methodologist whose scholarship is centrally concerned with using methodological tools in creative and productive ways to tackle educational problems pertinent in urban communities, with an emphasis on mathematics education and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) participation. Her research, teaching, and service activities are all anchored around this research interest.
Xiaoxia has applied a wide variety of methodologies studying several key components of the mathematics education system and investigating several broader contextual issues in the United States in both the K-12 and higher education contexts. She directed several district-wide evaluation projects including a five-year evaluation of the District Math Initiative in the Los Angeles Unified School District and interacted with diverse stakeholder groups, such as school board members, administrators at the district and school levels, program directors and staff members, and math coaches and teachers at the schools. She also served as the faculty advisor of the research and evaluation of the Cal Teach Experimental Program while at UC Berkeley (Cal Teach Experimental Program is an interdisciplinary undergraduate math and science teacher credentialing program).
Her book, titled Improving teacher knowledge in K-12 schooling: Perspectives on STEM education, was published in March 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan/Springer. She is also a contributing author to the upcoming 2nd volume of Handbook of Policy Research, sponsored by the American Educational Research Association.
In her service role, Xiaoxia is serving a 3-year term as a Board Member of the American Evaluation Association (2020-2023) and as President of the Faculty Council at UNC Charlotte (2023-2025).
A native of China, Xiaoxia obtained her Ph.D. from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies with an emphasis on social research methodology.
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