Alison Louise Bailey

Alison Louise Bailey

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Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

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Alison Louise Bailey

Professor

Alison L. Bailey is a developmental psycholinguist. Her expertise includes developing language learning progressions with multilingual learners and learners of English as a new language, and supporting teachers’ academic language pedagogy and assessment practices. She is a former PI of several U.S. Department of Education funded ExcEL Peer Network projects focused on teacher professional learning with multilingual students, and PI and Co-PI of NSF and W.T. Grant Foundation Grants. She is currently a member of the NAEP Reading Standing Committee, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Educational Assessment journal, and a member of several state and assessment development technical advisory committees.

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Titles and Positions

  • Professor

Education

  • Ed.D. Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University
  • Ed.M. Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University
  • B.A. (Hons), Linguistics, (Minor: American Literature), The University of Hull, England

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

  • AERA Division E Human Development Distinguished Research Award (with Kim Kelly). For “Narrative story stem methodologies: Use and utility of quantitative and qualitative approaches across the lifespan.” In Narrative Inquiry, 31(1), 163-190
  • Dean’s Annual Visiting Scholar, College of Education, University of Texas, Austin
  • Research & Inquiry Conference Poster Award (with Anne Blackstock-Bernstein, Amy Woodbridge, Despina Pitsoulakis). For “Elementary Students’ Written Explanations: Comparisons across Modalities and Topics.” (GSE&IS, UCLA)
  • Bobbie and Mark Greenfield Distinguished Faculty Award (UCLA)
  • Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellow
  • The Harold and Lois Haytin Award (UCLA)
  • Ann C. Rosenfield Distinguished Community Partnership Prize, with Para Los Niños (UCLA)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University (US Department of Education Grant)

Select Publications

  • E. C. Wylie, A.L. Bailey, K. R. Pullen, M. Wilson & M. Carney, (Editors, forthcoming, 2026). Classroom Assessment: Research and Innovation. Routledge.
  • Bailey, A. L., Johnson, A., Shankar, N. B., Veeramani, H., Washington, J. A., & Alwan, A. (2026). Addressing Bias in Spoken Language Systems Used in the Development and Implementation of Automated Child Language‐Based Assessment. Journal of Educational Measurement, 63(1), e12435. DOI: 10.1111/jedm.12435
  • Bailey, A. L., Abraham, M. E., Dong, J. Y., Torres, I. M., Wang, Y. P., Zamora, E., & Zhang, X. (2025). Translanguaging: Conceptual underpinnings of equity-oriented instructional and assessment practices with adolescent multilingual learners. Linguistics and Education, 87, 101418. DOI:10.1016/j.linged.2025.101418
  • Ryan, È., Botter, P., Luna, M. L., Bailey, A. L., & Darriet, C. (2024). Bilingual oral language development among dual language immersion students: Use of a Bayesian approach with language learning progressions. Applied Psycholinguistics, 45, 435-466. DOI:10.1017/S0142716424000067
  • Wolf, M.K., Bailey, A.L., Ballard, L., Wang, Y., & Pogossian, A. (2023). Unpacking the language demands in academic content and English language proficiency standards for English learners. International Multilingual Research Journal 17(1), 68-85. DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2022.2116221
  • Bailey, A.L., Martínez, J.F., Oranje, A., & Faulkner-Bond, M. (Editors, 2023). Twin Pandemics: How a Global Health Crisis and Persistent Racial Injustices are Impacting Educational Assessment. Routledge.
  • Bailey, A.L. & Heritage, M. (2019). Progressing Students’ Language Day by Day. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage/Corwin Press.
  • Bailey, A.L. & Heritage, M. (2018). Self-Regulation in Learning: The Role of Language and Formative Assessment. Harvard Education Press.
  • Bailey, A.L., Maher, C. & Wilkinson, L. (Editors, 2018). Language, Literacy and Learning in the STEM Disciplines: How language counts for English Learners. Routledge.
  • Bailey, A.L., & Osipova, A. V. (2016). Children’s Multilingual Development and Education: Fostering linguistic resources in home and school contexts. Cambridge University Press.

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