School of Education AERA 2026 Presentations
If you’ll be attending AERA onsite, don't forget to stop by the University of California Reception!
UC Reception at AERA
Saturday, April 11
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Convention Center
Level Two, Room 403A
No registration required!
Enjoy appetizers and a no-host bar.
For questions, please contact Pamela Erickson at [email protected].
UC Reception at AERA
Saturday, April 11
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Convention Center
Level Two, Room 403A
No registration required!
Enjoy appetizers and a no-host bar.
For questions, please contact Pamela Erickson at [email protected].
March 5, 2026
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 8-12 in Los Angeles, Calif.
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 2026 meeting will focus on the theme "Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research."
(All times reflect Pacific Daylight Time)
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 8-12 in Los Angeles, Calif.
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 2026 meeting will focus on the theme "Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research."
(All times reflect Pacific Daylight Time)
Wednesday, April 8
- Virtual Poster Session - Wed, April 8, 7:45 am to Sun, April 12, 3:00 pm
Division L - Section 7: Policy Implementation, Analysis, and Impact Virtual Poster Session
Improving Literacy Instruction at Scale: State Reading Policy Implementation and Capacity Building in Small and Rural Schools
Author: Michael Hebert - AERA Poster Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Division L Section 6 Social Policy, Inequality, and Student Outcomes: Poster Session
Special Education Categorization Varies Across the Distribution of Student Family Income (Poster 32)
Authors: Nicholas James Ainsworth, Emily K. Penner, Paul Y. Yoo, Juan Camilo Cristancho, Paul Hanselman, Andrew Penner - Instructional Technology SIG Poster Presentations
Promoting Higher Order Thinking Through Reflection with a Generative AI Chatbot (Poster 48)
Authors: Banu Karyagdi, Hongyang Zhao, Shuyuan Yu, Ella Rose, Shayan Doroudi, Katherine T. Rhodes, Lindsey E. Richland - AERA Roundtable Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Toward Innovative and Supportive Teaching Practices (Table 2)
Institutional Supports of Autonomy, Competence, and Instructional Influence Among Teaching-Focused Faculty
Author: Brian Sato
Teaching for Justice: Centering Identity, Voice, and Real-World Relevance in Diverse Classrooms (Table 3)
Teachers’ Perspectives on the Assets Students Bring to Learning Computational Thinking and Community-Based Environmental Literacy
Authors: Victoria Nguyen, Symone Gyles, Kate Montes-Perales, Mark Warschauer - e-Lightning Ed-Talk Session 2 - 9:45 am to 11:15 am (Stage 2)
Promoting Higher Order Thinking Through Reflection with a Generative AI Chatbot
Authors: Banu Karyagdi, Hongyang Zhao, Shuyuan Yu, Ella Rose, Shayan Doroudi, Katherine T. Rhodes, Lindsey E. Richland - e-Lightning Ed-Talk Session 2 - 9:45 am to 11:15 am (Stage 1)
Special Education Categorization Varies Across the Distribution of Student Family Income
Authors: Nicholas James Ainsworth, Emily K. Penner, Paul Y. Yoo, Juan Camilo Cristancho, Paul Hanselman, Andrew Penner - AERA Poster Session - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Div J Section 4 Poster Session 1
Evaluating the Impact of an Active Learning Institute on Student Success (Poster 15)
Authors: Kameryn Denaro, Jeffrey M. DeVries, Richard B. Arum
Faculty Teaching and Research Productivity and Equity in STEM: Student Grade Gaps in Lower-Division Courses (Poster 19)
Authors: Anna Kye, Brian Sato, Kameryn Denaro
Humanizing Online STEM: The Impact of Professional Development on Instructor Beliefs and Student Outcomes (Poster 20)
Authors: Gala Merari Ledezma, Di Xu
Optimizing Corequisite Support Design: Instructional and Implementation Features Predicting Success in Gateway English and Math (Poster 26)
Authors: Hongjiao Li, XunFei Li, Di Xu - AERA Roundtable Session - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm (Gold 1)
School Boards as Sites of Discourse, Legitimation, and Racialized Institutional Logics Amid Democratic Unrest (Table 5)
Chair: Eupha Jeanne Daramola
“It’s Like Cutting Down a Beautiful Tree and Putting it in Concrete”: Examining the Logics Shaping a School Merger Debate
Authors: Esi Bissah, Jomar M. Lopes, Eupha Jeanne Daramola
(De-)Legitimizing Ethnic Studies: A Discourse Analysis of Board-Community Member Interactions
Author: Jomar M. Lopes
How School Boards Utilize Organizational Routines During Moments of Tension
Author: Eupha Jeanne Daramola
Session Organizer: Jomar M. Lopes
Segregation and Peer Diversity: New Evidence on their Sources and Impacts (Table 6)
Does Same-Race Representation or Racial Diversity Matter More? Evidence from Peer Composition and Reading Outcomes in U.S. Elementary Schools
Author: Daman Chhikara - Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers in Early Education Pedagogical Practice and Family-School Partnerships - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Chair: Daniel Garcia
Elevating Latine Families Through Co-Design to Support Early STEM Education
Authors: Daniel Garcia, Vanessa Noemy Bermudez, Andres Sebastian Bustamante
Health Routines as a Bridge Between Family Bonding and STEM Learning
Authors: Diana Marie Romano, Daniel Garcia, Maria Jose Anderson-Coto, Laura Hernandez, June Ahn, Andres Sebastian Bustamante
Session Organizer: Daniel Garcia - e-Lightning Ed-Talk Session 3 - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm (Stage 2)
Evaluating the Impact of an Active Learning Institute on Student Success
Authors: Kameryn Denaro, Jeffrey M. DeVries, Richard B. Arum
Faculty Teaching and Research Productivity and Equity in STEM: Student Grade Gaps in Lower-Division Courses
Authors: Anna Kye, Brian Sato, Kameryn Denaro - AERA Roundtable Session - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm (Gold 1)
Policy, Inclusion and Accessibility for Vulnerable Children (Table 6)
Two Decades of Growth in State Pre-K Investments: Is there a Tradeoff Between Access and Quality?
Author: Jade M. Jenkins - AERA Roundtable Session - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm (Gold 3)
Family Matters: Parental Roles in Shaping Learning, Motivation, and Educational Pathways (Table 5)
Chair: Hyewon Lee
Relations Between Parent Expectations and Youths’ Math Expectancies Through STEM Extracurriculars: Gender by College Generation Status
Authors: Hyewon Lee, Miranda G. Goldstein, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Sandra D. Simpkins - Humanizing Professional Learning: Equity, Agency, and Well-being Across California Subject Matter Projects - 1:45 to 3:15pm
Integrating Computational Thinking in STEM: Supporting Teacher Efficacy Through Professional Learning
Author: Jon Kovach - Scaling Out, Up, and Deep: Mobile Making Afterschool Program Across Four California State University Campuses - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Discussant: Kylie A. Peppler - Teaching Practices and the Learning Sciences - 3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
Positioning AI as an Active Collaborator in Sensemaking with AI-Generated Feedback
Authors: Seth Van Doren, Jacqueline Nguyen, Lily Wu, Abril Gomez, June Ahn
Thursday, April 9
- The Special Education Teacher Workforce: New Evidence on Composition, Distribution, and Effectiveness Across Contexts - 7:45 am to 9:15 am
Chair: Nicholas James Ainsworth
Session Organizer: Nicholas James Ainsworth
Discussant: Emily K. Penner
Comparing Special Education Teachers in Public and Private Schools Using Administrative Data
Authors: Nicholas James Ainsworth, Aaron J. Ainsworth - Toward Effective and Equitable Career-Based Learning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the College-to-Career Transition - 7:45 am to 9:15 am
From College to Career: How Co-ops Shape Initial Labor Market Transitions
Authors: Faith Ann Couts, Richard B. Arum - Truth-Telling and Transformation: Critical, Reparative, and Community-Engaged Historical Methods Across Educational Contexts - 7:45 am to 9:15 am
Roots of Resistance: Land, Memory, and Emotional Geographies in Ethnic Studies Pedagogy
Author: Mariana E. Ramirez - Educating for Equity and Excellence: Perspectives on Motivation, Cultural Responsiveness, and Professionalism - 7:45 am to 9:15 am
Applying the Servingness Framework to Improve Outcomes of Diverse Students in Medical Schools
Author: Katherine Arias Garcia - AERA Roundtable Session - 7:45 am to 9:15 am
Educational Research in Precarious Times (Table 8)
Chair: Pheather R. Harris - Math for All: Math Games and Activities to Improve Learning and Attitudes Across Diverse Contexts - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Chair: Siling Guo
Improving Math Attitudes with a Play-Based Intervention: Evidence from Kosova
Authors: Siling Guo, Lindsey E. Richland, Katherine T Rhodes, Drew Bailey, Andres Sebastian Bustamante, Kreshnik Nasi Begolli
Improving Math Outcomes Through a Play-Based Intervention Adapted for an Indigenous Community in Mexico
Authors: Andres Sebastian Bustamante, Vanessa Noemy Bermudez, Jesse Giovanni Sanchez, Teresita Merino, Hernan Encinas, Kreshnik Nasi Begolli, Drew Bailey
Learning to Play: Novice Teachers’ Experiences in Implementing a Play-Based Math Intervention
Author: Pritha Sengupta
Session Organizer: Siling Guo - Intervening for Impact: Mindsets, Executive Function, and Self-Regulation from Early Childhood to College - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Possible Selves Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Authors: Hunter Standish, Kamalakannan SO M Vijayakumar, Amy L. Dent - Networks and Support Systems in Higher Education - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
How Do Undocumented College Students Engage in Their Campus Resource Ecosystem?: A Latent Profile Analysis
Author: Laura E. Enriquez - AERA Poster Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Higher Education and Student Learning Outcomes
Interventions for Effective Online Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review (Poster 4)
Authors: Jenny Lee, Waverly Tseng, Di Xu - AERA Roundtable Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am (Gold 4)
Language and Literacy Development in Multilingual Contexts (Table 3)
Literacy Skills and Learning Opportunities for Dual Language Learners and English-Only Students in Early Grades
Authors: Jin Kyoung Hwang, Deborah Lowe Vandell
Longitudinal Relations of Spanish-English Bilingual Spelling: Influences of Spelling Scoring Method and Instructional Programs
Author: Young-Suk Grace Kim - AERA Roundtable Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am (Gold 2)
Social-Emotional Development and Regulation (Table 3)
Chair: Nan Xiao
Early Elementary Classroom Climate Universally Predicting Academic Gains Through Gains in Social-emotional Skills
Author: Nan Xiao - AERA Roundtable Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am (Gold 1)
Roundtable 1 (Table 1)
Forecasting Long-Run Effects of College Interventions Using Short-Term Impacts
Author: Drew Bailey - AERA Poster Session - 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Division G VP Session: The Social Context of Education and MSI's
Unpacking the Performativity of Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Designation: Holding the University Accountable and Developing a Call to Action (Poster 16)
Author: Angeles Rubi Castorena - Evaluation of the Impact of Interventions and School Characteristics on Reading and Literacy Achievement - 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Evaluation of a Statewide Early Literacy Coaching Institute: A Focus on Coaching Conversations
Author: Paola Andrea Guerrero-Rosada - Mindsets and Mentorship: Improving Success for Underserved and Community College Students - 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Do Study-Together Groups Improve Academic Achievement? Evidence from Online Community College Courses
Authors: Jenny Lee, Michael Cooper, Waverly Tseng, Di Xu - Climate Emotion, Agency, and Justice in Formal and Informal Settings - 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Chair: Hosun Kang
Designing for Mobilizing Climate Emotion to Collective Action in High School Chemistry (Poster 9)
Authors: Minjung Shin, Hosun Kang, Symone Gyles, Isaac Li - Bridges and Barriers: Factors Shaping Students' Resilience and Persistence - 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm
Who Changes University Majors and When? Patterns for First-Generation College-Going Students
Authors: Jeffrey M. DeVries, Nayssan Safavian, Anna-Lena Dicke, Jutta Heckhausen, Jacquelynne S. Eccles - Bridging Worlds of Words: Insights from Bilingual, Multimedia, and Meta-Analytic Research - 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm
Vocabulary Matters Beyond Reading Comprehension: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis
Authors: Julian Levine, Alissa Patricia Wolters, Young-Suk Grace Kim - Empowerment-Focused Computing in Constructionist Learning Environments - 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm
A Study of Latinx Youth’s Civic Engagement Through Designing Machine Learning Applications (Poster 3)
Authors: Santiago Ojeda-Ramirez, Kylie A. Peppler - AERA Roundtable Session - 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm (Gold 4)
Innovating Evaluation: Data-Driven Approaches to Understanding Impact (Table 6)
How Do Pre-K Funding Trajectories Shape Later Academic Outcomes, and for Whom?
Author: Jade M. Jenkins - Vocabulary SIG Business Meeting - 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm
Officer: Julian Levine
Friday, April 10
- Centering Children's Literature as a Transformative Tool for Imagining Futures in Early Childhood Education - 7:45 am to 9:15 am
Deportation, Race, and Representation: A Critical Content Analysis of Latinx Families in Children’s Picturebooks
Authors: Mariana Lizeth Gomez Becerra - AERA Roundtable Session - 7:45 am to 9:15 am
Community-Centered and Relational Approaches in Environmental Science and Engineering Education (Table 10)
Chair: Asli Sezen-Barrie
From Voice to Action: Developing Environmental Care through Curriculum Co-Design Process
Authors: Aakriti Bisht, Rossella Santagata, Symone Gyles, Hosun Kang, Yuxi Huang, Taryn M. Williams, Jennifer J. Long
Cultural Values in Data Visualization: Insights from Young Professionals in Environmental STEM Careers
Authors: Victoria Nguyen, Guadalupe Rosas
Session Organizer: Asli Sezen-Barrie - Reclaiming Possibility: Educators Building Learning Futures with Culture, Care, and Play - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Chair: Teresita Merino
Culturally Rooted Adaptations of BLINDED PROGRAM in Indigenous Oaxaca: Educators’ Insights from Implementation and Reimagining
Authors: Teresita Merino, Vanessa Noemy Bermudez, Andres Sebastian Bustamante
BLINDED PROGRAM in Schools: Teacher-Identified Opportunities for Computational Thinking in Play
Authors: June Ahn, Andres Sebastian Bustamante
Session Organizer: Teresita Merino
Discussant: Vanessa Noemy Bermudez - Imagining the Future of Black and Brown Youth in (Carceral) Los Angeles - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Good Looking Out: Racially Minoritized Youth, Incarceration, and Care
Author: Anibal Serrano
Imagining, Creating, and Sustaining Alternatives for Racially Minoritized Youth: A Panel Discussion
Authors: Damien Sojoyner, Anibal Serrano - Heterogeneity in Educational Intervention Fadeout and Long-run Mechanisms: Three Analyses of Block-Level Impact Patterns - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Re-Examining the Head Start Impact Study: Impact Persistence and the Counterfactual Condition
Author: Drew Bailey
Using Experimental Variation to Examine the Co-Development of Cognitive and Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood
Author: Drew Bailey
Exploring Cognitive and Social-Emotional Impact Patterns in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Math Tutoring
Authors: Siling Guo, Drew Bailey
Session Organizer: Siling Guo - AI in Literacy Education: Imagining the Future While Building on Proven Practices - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Towards Scalable Vocabulary Assessment: Pilot Evidence for Reliable AI-Generated Items
Authors: Jasmine Tran - AERA Poster Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
STEM Education and Computational Learning Innovations
Designing Chatbots to Promote Systems Thinking in Environmental Science Education (Poster 3)
Authors: Jennifer Pei, Rossella Santagata
Innovating Pedagogy and Technology to Transform Learning Environments
Coordinating Minds: Human-AI Teaming and Team Shared Cognition (Poster 15)
Authors: Mohammad Amin Samadi, Nia M. Dowell - AERA Poster Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Pop Pedagogies: Rethinking Education Through Film, Music, and Math (Table 3)
Unforgetting Turtle Geometry: Making Geometry Education More Visual, Computational, and Culturally-Relevant
Authors: Sina Rismanchian, Shayan Doroudi - e-Lightning Ed-Talk Session 11 - Stage 1 - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Coordinating Minds: Human-AI Teaming and Team Shared Cognition
Authors: Mohammad Amin Samadi, Nia M. Dowell - Educational Researcher: Closed Editorial Board Meeting - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Participants: Paul Hanselman - Student Learning, Reasoning, and Understanding in Mathematics Education - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
An Attentional Choice that Benefits Math Learning: Spontaneously Attending to Relations in Non-Mathematical Settings
Authors: Hongyang Zhao, Ella Rose, Maryam Cheraghi, Lindsey E. Richland - Cognition, Comprehension, Culture, and Cross-Linguistic Transfer: Advancing Equity in Reading Development - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Higher-Order Cognitions in L1 and L2 and Their Relations to Comprehension in Multilingual Learners
Author: Young-Suk Grace Kim
Teaching African American Children to Read: Language Variation is an Asset
Authors: Julie A. Washington, Katherine T. Rhodes - AERA Roundtable Session - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Frameworks of Empowerment: Enabling Youth and Families to Take Action through Out of School Time Experiences (Table 10)
Cultivating Latine Empowerment in STEM: How Culturally Responsive Mentor Strategies Foster Empowerment in After-School Programs
Authors: Stella Kiyomi Rabago, Taylor Michelle Wycoff, Guadalupe Rosas, Sandra D. Simpkins
Session Organizer: Teresita Merino
Discussant: Vanessa Noemy Bermudez - Centering Learners, Culture, and Care: Enacting Culturally Responsive Practices through University-Community Engagement - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Experiential Activity with Math CEO: Connecting Data and Life Stories through Culturally Responsive Teaching
Author: Alessandra Pantano
Culturally Responsive Practices: A Sociocultural Framework for Community-Engaged Learning
Authors: Taylor Michelle Wycoff, Sandra D. Simpkins - Beyond Enrollment: Latinx Belonging, Resilience, and Justice in Higher Education - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
“When all the commuters go home the ‘H’ in HSI goes away”: Latine/x Student Experiences
Author: Yeritzi Victoria - Creating Spaces for Parents of Multilingual Children to Showcase Their Expertise and Understanding - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Designing for Family Math: An Equitable Collaboration with Mothers and Teachers at the Elementary Level
Authors: Patricia Fuentes Acevedo, Rossella Santagata - AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session Three - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Research-in-Progress RT034 (Friday)
Latine Migrant Children Navigating Post-Graduation Pathways
Author: Julybeth Murillo
Research-in-Progress RT051 (Friday)
"Feeling Professional": Teacher Preparation Programs in the Face of Ethnic Studies Reforms
Author: Amy Gong Liu - Latina Women in Education - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Virtual Counterspaces: How Latina Doctoral Students Leverage Social Media to Navigate Academia
Author: Jennifer Cabrera - AERA Roundtable Session - 3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Roundtable: Mapping Disparities and Creating "Seats at the Table" for Student Access and Success (Table 3)
Exploring Link Between University Housing Policies, Student Belonging, and Discrimination Perceptions for Underrepresented Minority Students
Author: XunFei Li
Schools as Contexts for Social Emotional Learning (Table 7)
Challenges and Opportunities in Arizona Schools: Educator Needs Related to Supporting Relationships and Well-being
Author: Nan Xiao - AERA Roundtable Session - 3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
Latinidad in Context (Table 6)
A Qualitative Study of Latine Parents’ Experiences with Common Core State Standards
Authors: Vanessa Noemy Bermudez, Julie Salazar - Impact of Power and Politics in Higher Education - 3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
"Existing Makes Me Political”: Latino College Students’ Everyday Political Acts and Imagined Futures
Author: Giovanna Itzel
Saturday, April 11
- AERA Roundtable Session - 7:45 am to 9:15 am - Gold 4
Structural Forces and Storywork: Qualitative Methodologies for Understanding Identity, Inequity, and Opportunity (Table 2)
Critical Race Theory and Cultural Historical Activity Theory in Education: Surfacing and Disrupting Systemic Inequities
Author: Socorro Cambero - Identifying and Supporting Multilingual Learners Across Systems and Classrooms - 7:45 am to 9:15 am
Chair: Julie A. Washington - Expanding Research Practice Partnerships: Integrating Youth Voices for Equitable and Impactful Collaboration - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Chairs: Yuxi Huang, Aakriti Bisht
Co-designing with Youth to Integrate Systems Thinking and Critical Science Agency in High-School Environmental Engineering (Poster 1)
Authors: Yuxi Huang, Taryn M. Williams, Aakriti Bisht, Rossella Santagata, Symone Gyles, Hosun Kang, Teresa Hackey, Jennifer J. Long
Youth-Centered Speculative Approaches: Community-Based Data and GIS (Poster 2)
Authors: Aakriti Bisht, Teresa Hackey, Rossella Santagata, Hosun Kang, Symone Gyles, Yuxi Huang, Taryn M. Williams, Jennifer J. Long
Co-designing Tools for Community Climate Action: Participatory and Culturally Sustaining Research, Education, and Organizing (Poster 6)
Authors: Victoria Nguyen, Marianna Davison, Tatiana Flores, Victoria Lowerson Bredow
Session Organizers: Yuxi Huang, Symone Gyles - Learning to Use Science to Build Just and Sustainable Futures - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Designing for Worldmaking in High School Chemistry through Research Practice Partnership (Poster 5)
Authors: Qiu Zhong, Hosun Kang
Discussant: Asli Sezen-Barrie - AERA Roundtable Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am - Gold 3
Application of Meta-Analytic Methods to Multi-Site Randomized Controlled Trials in Educational Interventions (Table 7)
Re-Examining the Head Start Impact Study
Author: Drew Bailey
Using Experimental Variation to Assess the Co-Development of Cognitive and Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood
Author: Drew Bailey - Designing Professional Learning Communities That Center Educator Choice, Agency, and Well-Being - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Designing Teacher Learning: A Case Study of Professional Development Facilitators’ Sensemaking and Collaborative Process
Authors: Kayla Ueshiro, Christina Kimmerling, Rossella Santagata - AERA Poster Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
AI and Technology Integration in K-12 Education
Comparing Children’s Verbal Engagement with an Interactive Media Character and a Human during Video Watching (Poster 6)
Authors: Nikki Nasseri, Kunlei He, Mark Warschauer
Examining Children’s Scientific Misconceptions from an Educational Video with an Embedded Conversational Agent (Poster 9)
Authors: Nikki Nasseri, Kunlei He, Mark Warschauer - e-Lightning Ed-Talk Session 16 - 9:45 am to 11:15 am - Stage 3
Comparing Children’s Verbal Engagement with an Interactive Media Character and a Human during Video Watching
Authors: Nikki Nasseri, Kunlei He, Mark Warschauer
Examining Children’s Scientific Misconceptions from an Educational Video with an Embedded Conversational Agent
Authors: Nikki Nasseri, Kunlei He, Mark Warschauer - AERA Roundtable Session - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm - Gold 1
Advancing In-Service Professional Development for Teacher Socio-emotional Competencies (Table 8)
Teacher Value Beliefs for Professional Learning: Development and Associations with Enjoyment, Effectiveness, and Engagement
Author: Nayssan Safavian - AERA Roundtable Session - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm - Gold 3
Latinx Graduate Pathways in STEM and Beyond: Mapping Belonging, Capital, and Cultural Persistence (Table 6)
Familia, Redes, y Research: Social Networks in the Research Journeys of First-Generation Latinx STEM Students
Author: Katherine Arias Garcia - Generative AI and Academic Writing: Studies from Diverse Contexts - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Chair: Mark Warschauer
Beginning with the End in Mind: Using Generative AI in Undergraduate STEM Writing Instruction
Author: Tamara Powell Tate
From Adoption to Adaptation: Generative AI in Middle School ELA
Authors: Daniel Ritchie, Dana Saito-Stehberger
Generative AI Meets the Heritage Bilingual: A Classroom-Based Study on Writing Feedback
Author: Julio Torres
Session Organizer: Tamara Powell Tate - SIG 17: Complexity Theories in Education Round Table Session (Table 7) - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Addressing Inequitable Learning Gaps Using Agent-Based Modeling and the ICAP Framework
Authors: Zayaan Khan, Shayan Doroudi - Leveraging Research-Practice Partnerships to Develop Open-Access and Scalable Reading Assessments: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Improving A Single-Word Recognition Assessment: Adaptivity, Engagement, and Floor Effects
Author: Jasmine Tran - Addressing Issues in Environmental Justice Education through Collective Power in Chicagoland and Southern California - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Situating Trauma, Healing and Well-Being as Integral to Community-Based Science Teaching and Learning
Author: Symone Gyles - Innovative Approaches to Improving Postsecondary Teaching - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Beyond the Buzz: How Does PD Reshape Online Course Design for Quality Learning?
Authors: Jenny Lee, Di Xu, Michael Hill - AERA Roundtable Session - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm - Gold 2
Advancing the Measurement of Teaching: Innovations in Observation and Evaluation (Table 1)
Designing a Low-Inference Measure to Capture High-Quality Language and Literacy Instruction in Early Childhood
Authors: Paola Andrea Guerrero-Rosada, Inez Montserrat Medina Caro
Teacher Research as an Approach to Contribute to the Knowledge Base (Table 6)
Authentic Spaces for Teacher Collaborative Inquiry: Examining Peer Partners Through an Improvement Science LensAuthors: Huy Quoc Chung, Michael Hebert, Elizabeth Harrington, Emily McCourtney, Melissa Galvan - AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session Four - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Research-in-Progress RT016 (Saturday)
How Community-Generated Design Choices Shape Interdependence in Neurodiverse Playground Learning
Authors: Isabella Teresa Seccia, Kelsyann Cervera, Andres Sebastian Bustamante, June Ahn
Research-in-Progress RT061 (Saturday)
Chair: Mark Warschauer - AERA Roundtable Session - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm - Gold 3
Digital and Multimodal Gendered Explorations (Table 4)
Gender and Racial Bias in AI-Generated Letters of Recommendation
Authors: Kayla Nunes, Stephanie Reich, Zhenyao Cai - Addressing Issues in Environmental Justice Education through Collective Power in Chicagoland and Southern California - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
Situating Trauma, Healing and Well-Being as Integral to Community-Based Science Teaching and Learning
Author: Symone Gyles - AERA Roundtable Session - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm - Gold 4
AI, Writing, and Learner Agency in Educational Contexts (Table 3)
The Effects of Generative AI on Undergraduate Writing
Authors: Maryam Eslami, Penelope Collins - AERA Roundtable Session - 3:45 pm to 5:15 pm - Gold 2
Innovative Quantitative Analyses: Examining Language and Literacy Development around the Globe (Table 7)
Morphological Analysis in Explaining Morphological Awareness with Its Association to Language and Reading Skills
Author: Young-Suk Grace Kim - It Is Our Duty to Win: Youth Organizing and the Struggle for Police-Free, Life-Affirming Schools in LA - 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Discussant: Anibal Serrano - AERA Roundtable Session - 3:45 pm to 5:15 pm - Gold 4
Virtuous or Viceful? How K-12 and Undergraduate Students Use and Perceive Generative AI
Chairs: Shayan Doroudi
Evidence of Students Resorting to GenAI in an Adaptive Learning and Assessment System
Author: Sina Rismanchian
Measuring Students’ Use of AI in Short Answer Questions in a Course on Intellectual Virtues
Authors: Peter Liu, Sina Rismanchian, Shayan Doroudi
Extended Cognition and the AI Challenge to Higher Education
Author: Duncan Pritchard
Session Organizer: Shayan Doroudi - Arts-Based Approaches for Expanding Methodological Terrain - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Liberating Research: Using Art-Based Methods with Undocumented and Immigration-Impacted Students
Authors: Laura E. Enriquez, Giovanna Itzel
Cocinar, Crear, Contar: Storytelling and Futuring in Food-related Learning Design
Authors: Maria Jose Anderson-Coto, Andres Sebastian Bustamante
Session: Reimagining Community-Based Educational Research (Table 6) - Qualitative Research SIG Closed Mentoring Session - 3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
Discussant: Constance Steinkuehler Squire
Sunday, April 12
- AERA Roundtable Session - 7:45 am to 9:15 am - Gold 2
Centering Teachers’ Equitable Participation in Professional Development: Partnership Approaches in Chile and the U.S.
Chairs: Patricia Fuentes Acevedo
Tensions and Teacher Agency in Adaptive Professional Development
Authors: Christina Kimmerling, Rossella Santagata, Patricia Fuentes Acevedo
Session Organizer: Patricia Fuentes Acevedo - AERA Roundtable Session - 7:45 am to 9:15 am - Gold 3
Exploring the Impact of AI and Technology on Literacy Instruction (Table 7)
Unpacking Online Feedback Uptake: How Students Use Instructor, Peer, and AI-Generated Feedback for Writing Revisions
Authors: Albert W. Li, Penelope Collins - Building Reliable Tools: Psychometric Validation in Teaching and Learning Contexts - 7:45 am to 9:15 am
Validating a Literacy Practices Survey for Spanish-Speaking Early Grade Teachers
Authors: Paola Andrea Guerrero-Rosada, Siling Guo, Caroline Chamberlain - Practicing Improvement: Challenges and Opportunities to Facilitating Improvement - 7:45 am to 9:15 am (Table 9)
Facilitating Participatory Design: A Framework to Analyze Talk Moves and Roles
Authors: Jennifer Pei, Yenvy Pham, Rossella Santagata - Corequisite Mathematics Reform in Practice: Faculty Roles, Curricular Change, and Student Experience Across States - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Chair: Di Xu
Instructor Buy-In and Instructional Practice in Corequisite Mathematics Reform: Evidence from a Mixed-Methods Study of Virginia Community College System
Authors: Daman Chhikara, Di Xu
How AB 705 Reshaped College-Level Placement, Completion, and Academic Progression in California
Authors: XunFei Li, Di Xu, Yumeng Zhang
Session Organizer: Daman Chhikara - Heterogeneity in Multilingual Children: Language Skills and Experiences, Home Literacy Environment, and Learning Contexts - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Bilingual Home Literacy Profiles and Their Associations with Language and Literacy Skills
Author: Jiali Wang - AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session Five - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Research-in-Progress RT013 (Sunday)
Negotiating Disclosure: Students’ Meaning-Making Around Disability Categories In Higher Education
Author: MacKenzie Bonner - AERA Poster Session - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Social, Cultural, and Emotional Foundations of Student Learning and Motivation
Measuring Working Memory in Meaningful Ways (Poster 15)
Authors: Ella Rose, Lindsey E. Richland, Katherine T. Rhodes - Corequisite Mathematics Reform in Practice: Faculty Roles, Curricular Change, and Student Experience Across States - 9:45 am to 11:15 am
Chair: Di Xu - AERA Poster Session - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Faculty Teaching, Evaluation, and Development
Enhancing Inclusion and Equity in STEM: An Observational Resource Guide for Faculty Professional Development (Poster 30)
Authors: Pheather R. Harris, Jacqueline G. Cavazos, Tayloria N.G. Adams
Technology, Instruction, Cognition, and Learning SIG Poster Session
Collaborative Learning with Generative AI: A Dual-Layer Metacognitive Scaffolding Framework for Developing Hybrid Intelligence (Poster 33)
Author: Lillian Wenxuan Liu - e-Lightning Ed-Talk Session 22 - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm - Stage 2
Collaborative Learning with Generative AI: A Dual-Layer Metacognitive Scaffolding Framework for Developing Hybrid Intelligence
Author: Lillian Wenxuan Liu - AERA Roundtable Session - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Agency and Ideologies (Table 7)
Linguistic Border-Crossing, Survival, and Advocacy: Narrative Practices of Disabled Latinx Bilingual Children and Their Caregivers
Author: Alejandro Granados Vargas - AERA Roundtable Session - 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm - Gold 2
Literacies and Language Development (Table 3)
Reviewing a Quarter Century of Bilingual Speech Language Pathology: Imagining New Futures with Bilingual Education
Author: Joseph Hin Yan Lam - Virtual Poster Session - Wed, April 8, 7:45 am to Sun, April 12, 3:00 pm
Division L - Section 7: Policy Implementation, Analysis, and Impact Virtual Poster Session
Improving Literacy Instruction at Scale: State Reading Policy Implementation and Capacity Building in Small and Rural Schools
Author: Michael Hebert
