JULIAN MAXIMILIAN SIEBERT
jms312 (at) stanford.edu — www.julian-siebert.com
Education
PhD
Stanford University Graduate School of Education, US
PhD in Developmental and Psychological Sciences & Education Data Science
Advisor: Guillermo Solano-Flores
exp. June 2025
MPhil
University of Cambridge, UK
MPhil in Education (Psychology and Education)
Thesis: Nonword Repetition Tasks as Promising Speech Disorder Screening Tools for Linguistically Diverse Children
November 2019
MSocSc
April 2019
University of Cape Town, ZA
MSocSc in Psychology (with distinction)
Thesis: Toward Linguistically Fair IQ Screening—The Multilingual Vocabulary Test
BSocSc(Hons)
University of Cape Town, ZA
BSocSc(Hons) in Psychology (in the first class)
Thesis: A Linguistically Fair IQ Screening Tool for South Africa’s Multilingual Reality
April 2018
Presentations
First-author Presentations
Siebert, J.M. (2024, April 12). Universal Reading Screening for California: Linguistically Sensitive Task Selection and Prediction Evaluation [Conference session]. National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia, PA, US.
Siebert, J. M. (2023, April 15). Lacking Predictiveness of Success and Propagated Biases: The Use of Summative Assessments in Mathematics Course Placement Decisions [Conference session]. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL, US.
Siebert, J.M. (2021, November 30). English-Learners’ Access to Mathematics: Middle School Testing Practices and Course Trajectories [Poster abstract]. DAPS Third-Year Poster Session, virtual event.
Siebert, J.M. (2021, July 18-23). Toward Linguistically Fair IQ Screening: The Multilingual Vocabulary Test [Conference session]. International Congress of Psychology 2020+, virtual event.
*Siebert, J.M. (2020, July 1-2). Nonword Repetition as Linguistically Fair Speech Disorder Screening [Conference session]. International Neuropsychological Society, virtual event.
Siebert, J.M. (2020, June 26). Fair Speech and Language Disorder Screening for Multilingual Children [Conference session]. Wolfson Research Event. virtual event.
**Siebert, J.M. (2019, April 26). Fair Testing for People Speaking Multiple Languages: The Multilingual Vocabulary Test [Poster abstract]. Wolfson Research Event, Wolfson College Cambridge, England.
Siebert, J.M. (2018, July 18-20). A Linguistically Fair IQ Screening Tool for South Africa’s Multilingual Reality [Poster abstract]. International Neuropsychological Society Mid-year Meeting, Prague, CZ.
Session Organiser
Linguistically Equitable Reading Screening: Bias Analyses and Universal Item Design (2024, April 12). Coordinated Paper Session National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia, PA, US.
Other Presentations
Durán, L., Zegers, M., Zopluoglu, C., Siebert, J.M., Pei, F., Gorno-Tempini, M. (2024, May 15). Innovations in bilingual expressive vocabulary screening using conceptual scoring [Poster abstract]. Society for Research in Child Development Summit, Panama City, Panama.
Durán, L., Zopluoglu, C., Zegers, M., Siebert, J.M., (2024, April 12). Conceptual Scoring in Universal Screening: An Example Using Expressive Vocabulary [Conference session]. National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia, PA, US.
Zegers, M., Siebert, J.M., Zopluoglu, C. (2024, April 12). Spanish Word Reading: Considerations for Item Selection, Stimulus Analysis, and Item Difficulty. [Conference session]. National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia, PA, US.
Wilmot, D., Dye, V., Siebert, J.M., Mercado-Garcia, D. (2023, Nov 15). Expanding Opportunities to Access and Learn Mathematics: Lessons from Five Years of Research-Practice Partnership. California Educational Resarch Association (CERA), Anaheim, CA, US.
Durán, L., Siebert, J.M., Domingue, B., Zegers, M., Gorno-Tempini, M. (2023, July 20). The Relationship of English Proficiency to Performance on Dyslexia Screening Measures. [Poster abstract]. Society of the Scientific Study of Reading Conference 2023. Port Douglas, Australia.
*Marit Korkman Award for best student paper in paediatric neuropsychology.
**Award for best poster presentation
Teaching
Stanford University
University of Cape Town
EDUC200A — Introduction to Data Analysis and Interpretation
[Teaching assistant]
EDUC400A — Introduction to Statistical Methods in Educatinon
[Teaching assistant]
PSY2013F — Developmental Psychology [Contract lecturer]
PSY3007S — Research in Psychology II [Teaching assistant]
PSY2009F — Developmental Psychology [Teaching assistant]
PSY1007S — Introduction to Psychology, Part II+ [Teaching assistant]
PSY1005S — Introduction to Psychology, Part II [Teaching assistant]
PSY1004F — Introduction to Psychology, Part I [Teaching assistant]
2022 & 2023
2022
2018
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017