Doctor Danielle Tracey

Doctor Danielle Tracey

Academic Course Advisor (Education Studies Major),
Early Childhood Education (SoE)

LECTURER,
Early Childhood Education (SoE)

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Western Sydney

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Early Childhood Education (SoE)
  • Early Childhood Education (SoE)

Contact

Email:D.Tracey@uws.edu.au
Extension:6105
6105
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Location:4.G.25
Bankstown4.1.25
Bankstown
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Biography

Danielle is an Educational and Developmental Psychologist with extensive industry experience working with children and young people with learning difficulties. She completed her PhD in Educational Psychology in 2002 and commenced her academic career at UWS in 2010. She is the Academic Course Advisor for Special Education and a lecturer in Educational Psychology in both the Early Childhood and Primary programs. She is also an associate member of the Centre for Positive Psychology and Education and an experienced mixed-methods researcher.

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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Tracey, D. (2012), 'A Dual Disadvantage? Examining the Academic Self-Concept of Students with Learning Difficulties', Communication and Language, Information Age Publishing Incorportated 9781617359446.
  • Tracey, D. (2012), 'A dual disadvantage? Examining the academic self-concept of students with learning difficulties', Communication and Language, Information Age 9781617359446.
  • Tracey, D., Marsh, H. and Craven, R. (2003), 'Self-Concepts of Preadolescents with Mild Intellectual Disabilities: Issues of Measurement and Educational Placement', International Advances in SELF Research, Information Age Publishing Inc. 1593110057.

Journal Articles

  • Marsh, H., Tracey, D. and Craven, R. (2006), 'Multidimensional self-concept structure for preadolescents with mild intellectual disabilities: A hybrid multigroup-MIMC approach to factorial invariance and latent mean differences', Educational and Psychological Measurement, 24.

Conference Papers

  • Chandrasena, W., Craven, R., Tracey, D. and Dillon, A. (2012), 'A study of the relations between students' self-concepts, motivation, aspirations and achievement of high school science and chemistry', Higher Degree Research Conference, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Tracey, D. and Marsh, H. (2002), 'Self-concepts of Preadolescents with Mild Intellectual Disability:Multidimensionality, Measurement, and Support for the Big Fish Little Pond Effect.', Self-concept Research: Driving International Research Agendas, Sydney, Australia.

Research

Educational and developmental psychology, special education, social and emotional development, self-concept and mixed-methods research.

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Current Projects

Title:Individualised funding websites and online training module
Years:2012-11-28 - 2013-06-28
ID:P00021159
UWS Researchers:Christine Johnston and Danielle Tracey
Funding:
  • Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Title:The experience of young people transitioning from Juvenile Justice back into the community
Years:2011-11-30 - 2013-12-31
ID:P00020521
UWS Researchers:Danielle Tracey
Funding:
  • SHINE for Kids Co-operative Ltd
Title:Supporting Aboriginal children to learn: The use of Reading for Life in Barnardos Australia Learning Centres
Years:2012-01-27 - 2013-06-30
ID:P00020606
UWS Researchers:Danielle Tracey, Rhonda Craven and Alexander Yeung
Funding:
  • Barnardos Australia
Title:Supporting Aboriginal Children to Learn: The use of Reading for Life in Barnardos Australia Learning Centres - Phase 2
Years:2012-08-02 - 2013-05-31
ID:P00021055
UWS Researchers:Danielle Tracey, Rhonda Craven and Alexander Yeung
Funding:
  • Barnardos Australia

Previous Projects

Title:Positive Pathways to Reading for Disadvantaged Children: Identifying Psychosocial Antecedents and Implementing Effective Intervention to Enhance Literacy, Self-concept, and Motivation
Years:2006-10-16 - 2011-01-31
ID:P0015037
UWS Researchers:Rhonda Craven, Alexander Yeung and Danielle Tracey
Funding:
  • Unilever Australasia
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Learning Links
Title:An individually randomised group treatment controlled trial of Truce: An ACT based psychological intervention for young people who have a parent with cancer [via CanTeen Australia - no funding to UWS]
Years:2012-01-01 - 2012-12-31
ID:P00020458
UWS Researchers:Danielle Tracey
Funding:
  • Australian Rotary Health (ACRG)

Supervision

Doctor Tracey is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:Innovative Approaches to Literacy
Field of Research:
Title:The Impact of Individualized Funding Models on Children, Families and Service Providers
Field of Research:

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