School of Education AERA 2025 Presentations

​If you’ll be attending AERA onsite, don't forget to stop by the University of California Reception!
UC Reception at AERA 
Thursday, April 24 
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.  
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center  
Centennial Ballroom A – Third Floor 

April 21, 2025

​This year, UC Irvine School of Education will have a strong representation of researchers, faculty and students presenting at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, which will take place April 23-27 in Denver, Colo. 

​AERA is the largest national interdisciplinary research association devoted to the scientific study of education and learning. Serving as the world's largest gathering of education researchers, the 2025 meeting will focus on the theme "Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal."

(All times reflect Mountain Daylight Time)

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Wednesday, April 23

Teacher Education for Transdisciplinary Climate Change Education - 8:00 am to 9:30 am

1. Discussant: Asli Sezen-Barrie

Technology-Enhanced Learning - 8:00 am to 9:30 am

1. Leveraging Learning Experience Design to Encourage the Testing Effect Through Embedded Video Questions to Support Students’ Knowledge Outcomes 
   Authors: Joseph Wong, Lindsey E. Richland, Brad Hughes
   
   

AI in Early Childhood: Impacts on STEM and Language Learning - 9:50 am to 11:20 am

1. Artificial Intelligence Promotes Children’s Science Learning from Television Shows Through Enhanced Verbal Engagement
   Authors: Kunlei He, Julian Levine, Daniel Ritchie, Andres Sebastian Bustamante, Mark Warschauer 
   
   
2. Examining the Implementation of a Spanish-English Bilingual Conversational Agent to Promote Shared Reading at Home
   Authors: Kunlei He, Kelsyann Cervera, Julian Levine, Penelope Collins, Mark Warschauer 

Poster Session - 9:50 am to 11:20 am

1. Complex Pathways: Simultaneous Enrollment in Postsecondary Education (Poster 19)
   Authors: Michael Cooper, Michael Hill, Joshua Dorman

Roundtable Session - 9:50 am to 11:20 am

1. Reimagining Teacher Collaboration and Professional Growth: Advancing Equity and Agency in Mathematics and STEAM Education (Table 9)
   Chair: Patricia Fuentes Acevedo

Dynamics of Student Engagement and Peer Influence in Collaborative Settings - 9:50 am to 11:20 am

1. Chair: Hyewon Lee
   
   

Roundtable Session - 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

1. Teachers' Agency, Intentions, and Practices (Table 5)
   Chair: Patricia Fuentes Acevedo

Beyond Dreaming: Realizing the Promise of Educational Equity for Immigrant Youth - 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

1. Leveraging Language and Content Integration to Support Multilingual Newcomers
   Authors: Kelley Riffenburgh, Adriana Villavicencio 

School-University Partnership Paper Session: Research on and With Teachers - 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

1. Teacher-Researcher Partnerships as Spaces of Co-Learning
   Author: Symone Gyles

Poster Session - 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

1. Do Resolutions of Disciplinary Problems Predict Future Disciplinary Problems? (Poster 11)
   Author: Ella Anghel 

Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions: Critical Perspectives on AI and Curriculum -  3:20 pm to 4:50 pm

1. Instruction vs. Construction: How Might Generative Artificial Intelligence Best Support Learning?
   Authors: Shayan Doroudi, Sina Rismanchian

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Thursday, April 24

Unpacking Gender and Race Dynamics in the Development of STEM Motivation Using Situated Expectancy-Value Theory - 7:00 am to 8:30 am

1. Reciprocal Effects of Stereotypes and Perceived Teacher Support on Math Motivational Consequences: Gender by Race/Ethnicity
   Authors: Hyewon Lee, Glona Lee-Poon, Sandra D. Simpkins, Jacquelynne S. Eccles

Poster Session - 7:00 am to 8:30 am

1. Student and Teacher Intellectual Humility: The Effects of Subject, Course Type, and Student Background (Poster 20)
   Authors: Jeffrey M. DeVries, Richard B. Arum

e-Lightening Ed-Talk Session 5 - 7:00 am to 8:30 am

1. Student and Teacher Intellectual Humility: The Effects of Subject, Course Type, and Student Background (Poster 20): Division C - Section 2b: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts, Stage 1
   Authors: Jeffrey M. DeVries, Richard B. Arum

Roundtable Session - 7:00 am to 8:30 am

1. The Logics of Data Use in Continuous Improvement
   Authors: Eupha Jeanne Daramola 
2. Using Storytelling for Climate Justice: Recounting Climate Change Experiences in Elementary Classrooms
   Authors: Yuxi Huang

Language and Strategic Metacognitive Strategies for Comprehension - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Effects of a Cognitive Strategies Intervention on Secondary Students’ Argument Writing in History
   Authors: Tamara Powell Tate, Carol B. Olson, Young-Suk Grace Kim, Huy Quoc Chung, Penelope Collins, Youngsun Moon, Jiali Wang, Nicole Gilbertson 

Leveraging AI and Virtual Characters in Education: Insights and Impacts for Student Motivation - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Creating AI-Enhanced Technologies to Enhance Organizational Change Efforts in a K-12 School District
   Authors: June Ahn, Seth Van Doren, John Louis-Strakes Lopez 

Innovative Interventions and Supports in Community College Programs - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Leveraging Technology to Help Illuminate Transfer Pathways for Community College Students
   Author: Sabrina Solanki
   
   

Relational Spaces of Educational Transformation - 12:45 pm to 2:15pm

1. Designing a Culturally Sustaining Computer Science Curriculum Integrated With Environmental Literacy Through a Research-Practice Partnership
   Authors: Clare Baek, Victoria Nguyen, Symone Gyles, Mark Warschauer 

Roundtable Session - 12:45 pm to 2:15 pm 

1. Reclaiming Student-Teacher Affinity Spaces as Creative Sites of Racial Justice
   Authors: Socorro Cambero, Naehee Kwun

Research in Progress Roundtable Session 2 - 12:45 pm to 2:15 pm

1. Early Care and Education: Equity, Engagement, Social and Emotional Learning, Language and Literacy (Table 6) - Preschool Teachers’ Experiences of Teaching Science to Low-Income, Language-Minority Children
   Authors: Andres Sebastian Bustamante 

Elementary Students' Mathematical Cognition: Insights Into Estimation, Relational Reasoning, and Effective Feedback in Mathematics - 2:35 pm to 4:05 pm

1. Spontaneous Attention to Quantitative Relations as a Predictor for Mathematics Problem Solving
   Authors: Ella Rose, Hongyang Zhao, Lindsey E. Richland 
   
   

Roundtable Session - 2:35 pm to 4:05 pm 

1. Preservice Teachers’ Emotions and Its Alignment With Noticing Through a Site-Based Elementary Teaching Method Course
   Authors: Yuxi Huang

Research on STEM Professional Learning Communities: Attending to Teacher Learning, Agency, and Equity - 4:25 pm to 5:55 pm

1. Co-design as a Site for Teacher Sensemaking and Engagement with Justice-Centered Science Instruction (Poster 9)
   Authors: Stephen R. Skoropad, Hosun Kang

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Friday, April 25

Student Experiences and Benefits of Taking Ethnic Studies: Lessons From Three School Districts - 7:00 am to 8:30 am 

1. Cultural Relevance at Scale: The Effects of Districtwide Ethnic Studies Expansion
   Authors: Biraj Bisht, Emily K. Penner

​Integrating Computational Thinking in K-12: Strategies for Elementary Education and Teacher Development - 7:00 am to 8:30 am

1. Embodied Cognition and Computer Science Learning for Multilingual Elementary Students (Poster 5)
   Author: Mark Warschauer 

Storywork as a Generative Model for Educator Attunement and Learning Toward Justice and Well-Being - 7:00 am to 8:30 am

1. Storying with data: Towards gender-expansive attunements and nature-culture relations
   Authors: Symone Gyles

“Noticing for Equity”: What Is It, and How Can It Be Developed? - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Preparing preservice mathematics teachers to notice for equity: A focus on design
   Authors: Jody Guarino 
2. Noticing for Equity: Teacher Collaboration Around Student Work
   Authors: Christina Kimmerling, Patricia Fuentes Acevedo, Rossella Santagata

Expanding Access: The Implementation and Effects of College Access and Retention Initiatives - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Navigating the "Option" in Test-Optional: Evidence From the Common App
   Author: Lena Shi

Generative AI in Teacher Education: Perceptions, Productivity, and Collaborative Insights - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of ChatGPT: Before and After Lesson Planning with Generative AI
   Author: Joseph Wong 

Holistic Approaches to Climate Change Education - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Discussant: Asli Sezen-Barrie 

Roundtable Session - 8:50 am to 10:20 am
Language, Ideology, and Identity in Bi-/Multilingual Education (Table 4)

1. Emergent Bilinguals Theorizing Language in Dual Language Bilingual Education
   Authors: Sibylla Leon Guerrero

Motivational Landscapes: Unpacking Classroom Motivational Support and Climate Processes in K-12 and Beyond - 10:40 am to 12:10 pm

1. Examining the Relations Between Perceived Classroom Structures, Expectancy-Value Beliefs, and Subsequent Math Performance Among Latino/a Adolescents
   Authors: Glona Lee-Poon, Hyewon Lee, Nayssan Safavian, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Sandra D. Simpkins 

Roundtable Session - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Navigating the Possibilities and Paradoxes of Parent and Family Engagement and Partnerships (Table 2)

1. On the Border of a Precipice for a Paradigm Shift: Navigating Tensions to Cultivate Equitable Collaboration in Family-School Partnerships
   Author: Adam M. Lara 

AI and Literacy in 21st-Century Classrooms (Table 3)

1. Educational Research and AI-Generated Writing: Confronting the Coming Tsunami
   Author: Tamara Powell Tate, Shayan Doroudi, Daniel Ritchie, Mark Warschauer 

Quantitative Examinations of Community College Policies and Interventions (Table 7)

1. The Impact of Nudges on Cross-Enrollment Engagement and Registration: RCT Evidence from Three Community Colleges
   Author: Michael Hill, Gala Merari Ledezma, Joshua Dorman

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Automation Tools for Systematic Reviewing - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

1. Large Language Models as Educational Research Critics: A Human-AI Comparison
   Authors: Ella Anghel, Di Xu, Richard B. Arum
   
   

Poster Session - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm Advanced Technologies for Learning Poster Session 2

1. Grounding Chatbot Development in Human Values: A Value-Sensitive Design Approach (Poster 11)
   Authors: Victoria Nguyen, Rossella Santagata 

Educational Researcher: Closed Editorial Board Meeting - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

1. Participant: Di Xu

Poster Session - 2:20 pm to 3:50 pm 2025 AERA Undergraduate Fellows Research Poster Fair

1. Culturally Sustaining Design in Computational Thinking Education: A Smart Playgrounds Initiative for Latine Children in Santa Ana, California
   Author: Victoria Violet Hays

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis: Closed Editorial Board Meeting - 2:20 pm to 3:50 pm

1. Participant: Di Xu

Advancing Understanding of Oral Language, Motivation, Writing, and Shared Skills Between Reading and Writing - 2:20 to 3:50pm

1. Relation Between Oral Language and Written Composition: Results from a Meta-Analysis
   Authors: Young-Suk Grace Kim, Jiali Wang
2. Testing the Shared Knowledge and Skills Hypothesis for Reading-Writing Relation
   Author: Young-Suk Grace Kim
   
   

Attending to Climate and Environmental Hope, Despair, and Repair Through Storytelling - 2:20 pm to 3:50 pm

1. Storytelling to Engage Youth in Climate Action: A Scoping Review Across Geographies and Learning Contexts (Poster 5)
   Authors: Asli Sezen-Barrie​

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Saturday, April 26

Poster Session - 7:00 am to 8:30 am
Poster Session for the Special Interest Group "Research in Reading and Literacy" SIG 11

1. Contributions of Oral Language Skills to Oral Text Production in Second Graders (Poster 26)
   Author: Young-Suk Grace Kim
2. Exploring Teacher Language Use and Student Literacy Achievement in First Grade (Poster 30)
   Authors: Young-Suk Grace Kim
   

Advancing Methods, Theories, and Conceptualizations of Infrastructuring in the Learning Sciences - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Rethinking Measurement and Evaluation to Incentivize Stronger Coordination Between In- and Out-of-School STEM programs (Poster 2)
   Author: Kylie A. Peppler
   
   

​Roundtable Session - 10:40 am to 12:10 pm
How Beliefs Shape Teaching Effectiveness (Table 11)

1. The Effects of Teacher Beliefs on Students’ Argument Writing in History
   ​Authors: Youngsun Moon, Tamara Powell Tate 

GenAI and Adaptive Tutoring: Insights From Case Studies and Research Findings - 10:40 am to 12:10 pm

1. Chair: Mark Warschauer 

Excellence in Education Research: Early Career Scholars and Their Work Poster Session - 10:40 am to 12:10 pm

1. Determinants of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Receipt Among Virginia College Students
   Author: Lena Shi 

Roundtable Session - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Translanguaging in Action: Exploring Language Practices Across Diverse Classrooms (Table 1)

1. Translanguaging Landscapes in the Elementary School Math Classroom
   Author: Alejandro Granados Vargas 

Faculty Development for Online Learning - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

1. Developing Confidence, Developing Skills: The Perceived Effect of Professional Development on Online Teaching
   Authors: Michael Hill, Di Xu 

Cultivating Diversity: From HBCUs to HSIs and Beyond - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm 

1. “You Didn’t Go By Choice!”: Exposing Latinx STEM Push Out at a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution
   ​Author: Katherine Arias Garcia 

Confronting Colonial Legacies: Healing and Justice in Environmental Education - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm 

1. Discussant: Asli Sezen-Barrie 

Roundtable Session - 4:10 pm to 5:40 pm
Enhancing STEM Engagement and Identity Formation (Table 7)

1. Does Filming Peer-Support YouTube Videos Enhance Positive Sentiments in Engineering Transfer Students?
   Author: Anna-Lena Dicke 

e-Lightening Ed-Talk Session 17 - 4:10 pm to 5:40 pm

1. Chair: Young-Suk Grace Kim

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Sunday, April 27

Poster Session - 7:00 am to 8:30 am
​Computational Thinking and Learning

1. Tangled in Code: Exploring the Intersection of Rope Weaving and Computational Thinking (Poster 30)
   Author: Kylie A. Peppler

Roundtable Session - 7:00 am to 8:30 am
Equity as a Process: Negotiating Tensions and Power Dynamics Through Discourse in Co-Design Meetings (Table 9)

1. Chair: Rossella Santagata 

Papers: 

1. Tension Negotiation and Resolution in the Co-Design of Conversational Agents for Climate Justice Education
   Authors: Victoria Nguyen, Rossella Santagata
2. Discourse Practices that Support Redistribution of Power in the Co-Design of Teacher Adaptive Professional Development
   Authors: Rossella Santagata, Christina Kimmerling, Patricia Fuentes Acevedo, Aakriti Bisht, Adriana Villavicencio 
3. Translanguaging to Co-Design with Parents and Teachers Towards Transformational Change in Mathematics Learning
   Authors: Patricia Fuentes Acevedo, Alejandro Granados Vargas, Christina Kimmerling, Rossella Santagata 

Poster Session - 8:50 am to 10:20 am
Poster Session II for the Special Interest Group Research in Reading and Literacy (SIG 11)

1. The Relation Between Text Reading and Reading Comprehension: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis (Poster 35)
   ​Authors: Molly Leachman, Young-Suk Grace Kim

Roundtable Session - 8:50 am to 10:20 am
Integrating Climate Justice Education Across Teacher Education Programs: A Remedy of Critical Transdisciplinarity and Collective Action (Table 6)

1. Chair:  Asli Sezen-Barrie

Addressing Mathematics Learning: Insights From Research on Math Anxiety, Engagement, Mindset, and Metacognitive Monitoring - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Spontaneously Attending to Quantitative Relations in Non-Explicitly Mathematical Settings Benefits Learning From Math Lessons
   Authors: Hongyang Zhao, Ella Rose, Lindsey E. Richland

Is Teaching Family-Friendly? Work-Family Dynamics and Teachers’ Careers - 8:50 am to 10:20 am

1. Career Interruptions, Classroom Interruptions: The Careers of Teacher-Parents in K-12 Education
   Authors: Emily K. Penner, Aaron J. Ainsworth

Poster Session - 10:40 am to 12:10 pm
Learning Environments and Pedagogical Strategies

1. Fostering or Hindering Online Learning: Contrasting Experiences of Study Groups in Community College (Poster 35)
   Authors: Waverly Tseng, Jenny Lee, Di Xu 

Roundtable Session - 10:40 am to 12:10 pm
Diversity and Inclusion (Table 6)

1. Fostering Culturally Sustaining Early Education: Lessons From the Implementation of RISE (Readiness through Integrative Science and Engineering)
   Authors: Daniel Garcia, Vanessa Noemy Bermudez, Rhea Mae Rambayon, Andres Sebastian Bustamante 
   
   

School Leaders as Policy Actors: The Role of Principals in Policy and Reform - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm 

1. Networked Improvement Communities as Infrastructures of Implementation in Equity-Focused STEM Policy
   Author: Yiwen Lin