Cheryl Bostrom
Email: c-bostrom@bethel.edu
Job Titles
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Teaching (M.A.), Graduate School
Organizational Leadership (B.A.) College of Adult and Professional Studies
Highlight
My areas of expertise include culturally valid assessment, international education, teacher education, educational leadership, English language learning, scholarly research and writing, and intercultural communication. In addition to teaching and advising at Bethel University, I am serving with TeachBeyond.
Started at Bethel
1995
Education
- Northwestern University-Saint Paul - B.S., 1997
- Bethel University - M.A., 2005
- Bethel University - Ed.D., 2007
- Regent University - Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, 2020
Courses Taught
Graduate School
- Educational Research
- Preparing the Thesis/Action Research Project
- Understanding Diversity and Student Needs
- Academic Writing
- Cross-Cultural Communication
- International Gender Communication
- Introduction to Communication Research
- Qualitative Research Methods
College of Adult & Professional Studies
- Scholarly Research and Writing for Organizational Leadership
- Leadership Communication
- Principles of Scholarly Writing
- Reading and Researching the American Experience
- Successful Writing
College of Arts & Sciences
- Basic Communication
- College Writing
- Family Interaction
- Persuasion
Awards
Graduated from University of Northwestern-Saint Paul with distinction; maintained a 4.00 GPA in my M.A. in Teaching, Ed.D. in Educational Administration, and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology programs.
Publications
Bostrom, C. A. (2021). Culturally valid assessment of the alphabetic principle for early elementary Hmong students learning English (Publication No. 28263171) [Doctoral dissertation, Regent University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.
Bostrom, C. A. (2012). Educational leadership and the e-learning paradigm. Global Partners in Education Journal, 2(1), 42-56. www.gpejournal.org
Bostrom, C. A. (2010). Diffusion of internationalization in Turkish higher education. Journal of Studies in International Education, 14(2), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315309332028
Bostrom, C. A. (2008). Diffusion of internationalization in Turkish higher education: A comparative case study at Ankara University and Gazi University (Publication No. 3309202) [Doctoral dissertation, Bethel University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.
Presentations
Minnesota Council of Teachers of English: Content Instruction for English Language Learners
Certificates and Licenses
- K12 Principal License
- K12 ESL License
- Postsecondary Teaching Certificate
Professional Organizations, Committees, and Boards
- TeachBeyond
- Christians Advancing Transformational Education (CATE)
Areas of expertise
My areas of expertise include culturally valid assessment, English language learning, teacher education, international education, educational leadership, academic research and writing, and intercultural communication.
Research interests
The areas of research that interest me include constructs in reading, culturally valid assessment, curriculum-based measurement, response to intervention, dynamic assessment, students with special needs, internationalization, English language learning, online and blended learning, educational leadership, and intercultural communication.