Books

Prado, Y., Warschauer, M. (In Press, 2024) Voices on the Margins: Inclusive Education at the Intersection of Language, Literacy, and Technology, MIT Press.

Articles & Chapters

Prado, Y., Ramos, M., Peña, E., Zavala, J. (2022) Dual-Language Engagement: Concerted Cultivation of Spanish use among Students, Teachers, and Parents, Bilingual Research Journal, 1-21. DOI 10.1080/15235882.2022.2105441

Peña, E., Bedore, L.M., Torres, J.R., Prado, Y. (2022). Growing up in Multilingual Communities. In J. Law, S. Reilly, & C. McKean (Eds.) Language Development: Individual Differences in a Social Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Prado, Y., Jacob, S. R., Warschauer, M. (2021) Teaching Computational Thinking to Exceptional Learners: Lessons from Two Diverse Classrooms using Scratch, Computer Science Education: DOI 10.1080/08993408.2021.1914459

Tate, T., Collins, P., Xu, Y., Yau, J., Krishnan, J., Prado, Y., Farkas, G., & Warschauer, M. (2019). Visual-Syntactic Text Format: Improving Adolescent Literacy, Scientific Studies of Reading. DOI 10.1080/10888438.2018.156170

Vu, V., Prado, Y., Yim, S., & Le, P. (2018). Digital storytelling for academic literacy: Culturally responsive multimodal composition course design. In Z. Babaci-Wilhite (Ed.), Learning critical thinking skills beyond 21st century for multidisciplinary courses: A human right perspective in education. San Diego, CA: Cognella.

Proceedings

Nguyen, H., Ahn, J., Belgrave, A., Lee, J., Cawelti, L., Kim, H. E., Prado, Y., Santagata, R., & Villavicencio, A. (2021, February). Establishing trustworthiness through algorithmic approaches to qualitative research. In International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (pp. 47-61). Springer, Cham. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-67788-6_4

Under Review

Xu, Y., Prado, Y., Severson, R.L., Lovato, S., Cassel, J. Growing up with Artificial Intelligence: Implications for child development, Pediatrics.

Prado, Y., Warschauer, M. Interdependence: A framework for cultivating inclusion in schools, Education Researcher.

In Preparation

Prado, Y., Yau, J., Hernandez, R., Collins, P., Warschauer, M. Adolescent Reading Attitudes: Analysis of Students’ Differentiated Response to Digital Text Scaffolding.

Prado, Y., Peña, E., Kim, Y.-S. Assessment of Reading Attitudes in Children: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Honors and Awards

UCI Graduate Division. Dissertation Support Fellowship, 2021

Dr. Keith Curry Doctoral Foundation. Keith Curry Doctoral Fellowship, 2021

UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence. Latino Excellence and Achievement Award, 2021

Ford Foundation. Predoctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2018

National Science Foundation. Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2017

Presentations

Prado, Y., Felline, C., Rodriguez, J., Roberts, J., Lovato, S. (2023, April) Children’s Decision-Making in Digital Games: Dwell Time, Attention, and Choice Behavior. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago Illinois.

Prado, Y., Ramos, M., J. & Pena, E. (2021, July) Concerted Cultivation of Spanish use at a Dual Language Immersion School (Paper Presentation). International Society for the Study of Child Language, Philadelphia, PA.

Prado, Y., Tunney, J., Tate, T., Warschauer, M. (2021, April) Virtual Inclusion in the COVID Era: Supporting Exceptional Students’ Participation in Remote Learning Environments (Panel Submission). American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Orlando Florida.

Prado, Y., Zinger, D., Ahn, J. (2021, April) Organizing to Support Learning Pods across Diverse Family Contexts (Session Submission) American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

Prado, Y., Jacob, S. R. & Warschauer, M. (2020, September) Inclusive Computational Thinking Instruction using Scratch (Paper Presentation). International Society of Technology in Education, Anaheim, CA (conference postponed).

Prado, Y. (2020, April) Boundary Crossers: The Jointly Negotiated Work of Undergraduate Research Assistants in Research-Practice Partnerships (Structured Poster Session). American Education Research Association, San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/y4aqqbsc (conference canceled).

Prado, Y., Jacob, S. R. & Warschauer, M. (2020, April) Teaching Computational Thinking to Exceptional Learners: Lessons from Two Diverse Classrooms Using Scratch (Poster Session). American Education Research Association, San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/v8sw7zq (conference canceled).

Prado, Y., Zavala, J. & Pena, E. (2020, April) Dual-Language Engagement: Concerted Cultivation of Spanish use among Students, Teachers, and Parents (Paper Presentation). American Education Research Association, San Francisco, CA. http://tinyurl.com/wofha2a (conference cancelled).

Prado, Y., (2020, February) Voices on the Margins: Promoting Exceptional Learners Agency as Readers and Writers (Dissertation Work in Progress). UC Special Education, Disabilities, and Developmental Risk, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Prado, Y., Jacob, J., Warschauer, M. (2020, February) Teaching Computational Thinking to Exceptional Learners: Lessons from Two Diverse Classrooms (Poster Session). UC Special Education, Disabilities, and Developmental Risk, University of California, Los Angeles, California.

Xu, Y., Prado, Y., Collins, P., Farkas, G., Warschauer, M. (2019, April). Effective Teaching in the Digital Classroom: A Mixed-Method Study of Middle School ELA Classes (Poster Session). American Education Research Association, Toronto, Canada.

Collins, P., Tate, T., Xu, Y., Krishnan, J., Prado, Y., Yau, J., Farkas, G., Warschauer, M. (2019, April). Visual Syntactic Text Formatting: Influences on Teacher Practices, Student Achievement, and Student Engagement. (Paper Presentation). American Education Research Association, Toronto, Canada.

Yau, J., Xu, Y., Prado, Y., Collins, P., Warschauer, M. (2019, March). Factors Influencing Students’ Preferences for Reading Digitally (Poster Session). Society for Research in Childhood Development, Baltimore, MD.

Prado, Y., Warschauer, M., Collins, P. (2018, June). Promoting Positive Literacy Attitudes in Struggling Readers with Digital Text Scaffolding (Paper Presentation). International Society for Technology in Education, Chicago, IL.

Krishnan, J., Prado, Y., Warschauer, M., Collins, P. (2018, June). Intentional Instruction: Teachers’ Purposeful Use of Technology for English Language Arts (Paper Presentation). International Society for Technology in Education, Chicago, IL.

Prado, Y., Warschauer, M., Collins, P. (2018, April). From Attitudes to Action: Promoting Positive Literacy Beliefs and Practices through Digital Scaffolding. (Paper Presentation). American Education Research Association, New York, NY.

Krishnan, J., Prado, Y., Warschauer, M., Collins, P. (2018, April) From Assistance to Agency: A Study of Digital Scaffolding in the Classroom (Poster Session). American Education Research Association, New York, NY

Prado, Y. (2018, January). Using Visual Syntactic Text Formatting to Promote Equity in Literacy for Children with Exceptional Needs (Work in Progress) UC Special Education, Disabilities, and Developmental Risk, University of California, Davis, CA.