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Dr Lucia Tramonte

Lucia TramonteAssistant Professor
B.A/M.A., Ph.D. Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Prior to her appointment in Sociology, Dr Tramonte was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at CRISP where she was involved in several projects concerning the study of children and youth developmental outcomes. She works with PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, NLSCY, and CCHS dataset to understand the impact of socio-economic and cultural variables on different social outcomes. She teaches quantitative methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels and offers international trainings on large databases management and Multilevel Modeling data analysis. In her current research, she uses longitudinal and cross-sectional data to analyze the impact of socio-economic segregation on children and adolescents’ well being. .

Selected Publications: 

  • Tramonte, L. & Willms, J.D., “Anxiety and Emotional Discomfort in the School Environment: The Interplay of School Processes, Learning Strategies, and Children’s Mental Health”, in J. Maddock (Ed) Public Health - Social and Behavioral Health, 2012, INTech Open Access Publisher. 
  • Willms, J.D., Tramonte, L. Duarte, J. & Bos, S. (2012) Assessing Educational Equality and Equity with Large Scale Assessment Data: Brazil as a Case Study. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank.
  • Arim, R. G., Tramonte, L., Shapka, J. D., Dahinten, V. S., & Willms, J. D. (2011). The family antecedents and the subsequent outcomes of early puberty. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40 (11), 1423-35.
  • Tramonte, L., & Willms, J.D. (2010). The prevalence of anxiety among middle and secondary school students in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 101 (3), 19-23.
  • Tramonte, L. & Willms, J. D. (2010). Cultural capital and its effects on education outcomes. Economics of Education Review, 29(2), 200-213.
  • Tramonte, L.  (2009)  La Relazione fra Apprendimenti e Status Socio-economico: i Gradienti Socio-economici in Lombardia, in Italia e nel Complesso dei Paesi OCSE. IRRE. (Ed) Ocse Pisa 2006. Le competenze degli studenti quindicenni lombardi. I risultati di PISA 2006. 2009, Milano, FrancoAngeli.   
  • Tramonte, L.   (2009) “Profili di Scuole ed Effetto Scuola”. IRRE. (Ed) Ocse Pisa 2006. Le competenze degli studenti quindicenni lombardi. I risultati di PISA 2006. 2009, Milano, FrancoAngeli. 
  • Willms, J. D., Smith, T. M., Zhang, Y., & Tramonte, L. (2006). Raising and Levelling the Learning Bar in Central and Eastern Europe. Prospects, XXXVI (4), p.411-418. 
  • Zelmanova, O., Korsnakova, P., Tramonte, L., & Willms, J. D. (2006). Education inequality in Slovakia: The effects of early selection. Prospects, XXXVI(4), p. 529-538.

 

Contact Information:

Dr Lucia Tramonte

Assistant Professor
Office: Tilley Hall, Room 9
Phone: (506) 458 7257
Fax: (506) 453 4659