Andrew Estrada Phuong, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Studies

University of California, San Diego

Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy: An Empirically Tested Framework for Increasing Student and Instructor Success 

Andrew Estrada Phuong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He earned a Master's degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.

Phuong leverages randomized controlled trials and multilevel modeling to co-design and study innovations that prioritize equitable and anti-racist practices. He studies how adaptive equity-oriented pedagogies and faculty development strategies reduce stereotype threat and enhance students’ academic achievement and psychosocial outcomes (e.g., motivation, self-efficacy, sense of belonging, sense of community). He has published his research and mobilizes it to lead pedagogy courses, student success programs, diversity initiatives, and pedagogical and professional trainings.

At UC Berkeley, he has taught STEM pedagogy courses and worked as a core instructor and co-manager for the award-winning Equity-Oriented Advising and Coaching Program. This campus-wide program and the pedagogy courses were grounded in his award-winning research, teaching, advising and mentoring, and programs on equity and anti-racism. 

Committed to organizational transformation, he leverages multilevel modeling and qualitative research to explain how instructor professional development innovations increased the adoption of inclusive and anti-racist practices. His research demonstrates that adaptive equity-oriented professional development enhanced instructors' inclusive teaching competencies and their students’ success in over a dozen college STEM courses in disciplines such as Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, and Statistics.  

Phuong has provided consultation to senior administrators, faculty developers, faculty, graduate and undergraduate instructors, managers, and K-16 teachers. He has identified ways to reduce assessment bias and has conducted design-based implementation research with students and instructors in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and STEM. He has published and presented his work both domestically and internationally.

Phuong’s scholarly work has received media coverage in Times Higher Education and was subsequently the focus of a Times Higher Education article. As a researcher-practitioner, Phuong equips college leaders, instructors, counselors, and staff with equity-oriented and anti-racist strategies that have advanced student engagement, success, and sense of belonging.

For fun, Andrew embarks on food excursions, travel, and raps with a T. Rex he built!