Dwayne Ray Cormier, Ph.D.


  • Assistant Professor, Foundations Of Education

  • Member of iCubed: Urban Education and Family Transdisciplinary Core

Bio: Dr. Dwayne Ray Cormier’s research focuses on bridging the sociocultural gap between PreK-12 educators and students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and urban and rural schooling contexts. His research has led to the development of the Cultural Proficiency Continuum Dialogic Protocol (CPCDP), a pedagogical tool designed to assess and codify individuals’ cultural competency. Currently, Dr. Cormier is working with the Hands-On Lab at Old Dominion University to adapt the CPCDP to a web-based platform to increase accessibility and broader impact.

Relevant Publications:

  • Cormier, D. R. (2021). Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Cultural Competence With the Cultural Proficiency Continuum Q-Sort. Educational Researcher, 50(1), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X20936670

  • Cormier, D. R. (2019). The Cultural Proficiency Continuum Dialogic Protocol: An Emerging Tool for Examining Preservice Teachers' Sociocultural Consciousness Concerning Majority-minority Schools and Student Populations (Doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University).

Phone: (804) 827-8239

Email: cormierd2@vcu.edu