Bich Tran
Bich Tran
203 Graduate Education Building
College of Education and Health Professions
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
btt009@uark.edu
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Bich Tran is a Doctoral Academy Fellow at the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. She completed her undergraduate degree at Asian University for Women in Bangladesh in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. She arrived in the US in 2016 to pursue her Masters in Political Science at Illinois State University. After her Master’s degree, she came to the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas to join their Ph.D. program. Her interests include gifted education, politics of education, educational leadership, comparative studies, and cyber education.
University of Arkansas - Ph.D. in Education Policy (Anticipated 2022)
Illinois State University - M.A. in Global Politics and Culture
Asian University for Women, Bangladesh - B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Gifted education
Politics of education
Educational leadership
Comparitive studies
Cyber education
Maranto, R., Beck, D., Clark, T., Tran, B., & Feng, L. (September 2021). Chosing cyber during COVID. Phi Delta Kappan. Vol. 103, No. 1.
Tran, B. T. N. (2021). Educational leadership preparation: A comparative study between the U.S and Vietnam. Vietnam Journal of Education. Vol. 5 No. 3.
Tran, B. T. N. (2021). Which townships support charter schools? A study of the 2016 Massachusetts Charter Referendum. Social Science Quarterly, 102(2), 865-880. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12938
Policy brief. Tran, B. T. N., Wai, J., & McKenzie, S. & (2021). A Longitudinal Study of Gifted Status and Academic Growth. Office for Education Policy, University of Arkansas, Arkansas Education Report, 18(7), 1-5.
Policy report. Tran, B. T. N., Wai, J., McKenzie, S., Mills, J. N., & Seaton, D. (2020). What can we learn about improving gifted identification by studying how accurate the process is in Arkansas? Office for Education
Policy, University of Arkansas, Arkansas Education Report, 18(2), 1-31.
Encyclopedia entry. Laos and Vietnam. Gender and Identity Worldwide. California: ABC-CLIO.
Encyclopedia entry. (2019) CODEPINK. Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Organizations that Shaped America: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection. California: ABC-CLIO.
Entry. (2014). 《我越南老家的天气》 – My hometown’s weather in Vietnam. Issue of JUHE SUPPLEMENT. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa. 10: 8-9. https://asian-slavic.uiowa.edu/sites/asian-slavic.uiowa.edu/files/asll/Juhe2014.pdf.
Tran, B. T. N., Wai, J., Mills, J. N., McKenzie, S. C., & Seaton, D. Expanding gifted identification
to capture academically advanced low income and disadvantaged students: The case of
Arkansas.
Beck, D., Tran, B. T. N., Maranto, R., & Clark, T. Why they come and go: Comparing special education and general
education students in cyber schools.
Maranto, R., Tran, B. T. N., Beck, D., & Clark, T. How COVID-19 changed cyber charter schools.
Beck, D., Maranto, R., Tran, B. T. N., & Clark, T. Relationships between social and academic interaction and academic achievement
for special education students in virtual schools.
Wai, J., Bardach, L., & Tran, B. T. N. What longitudinal research and large-scale population representative studies can
tell us about gifted students and education policy 50 years after the Marland Report.
Academically gifted students and online learning 2021-
Socialization and student achievement in cyber schools 2020-
Gifted and Talented identification in Arkansas 2018-
Educational philanthropy in America 2018-
Gender differences in motivation to study using PISA 2015 data 2018-