Doctoral Students Present Research at ​
​Virtual First-Year Poster Session

The UCI School of Education hosted its annual Ph.D. Poster Session on November 13. Normally held in the hallowed halls of the School of Education building, the event entered a virtual space for the first time in its history.

Faculty, staff and students viewed presentations from 27 doctoral students in a virtual space modeled after the School's courtyard. Attendees controlled an avatar and moved across virtual booths, viewing different presentations and interacting with guests. Identical to a physical space, students presented their research simultaneously, and were able to explain their research and field questions from faculty and fellow students.

"Today marks a day of great innovation - not only in the research from our doctoral students, but in the efforts that our faculty, staff and students made to ensure this event went forward," said Richard Arum, dean of the UCI School of Education. "This event is a hallmark of our Ph.D program and, for many of our students, represents the first occasion in what will be a long career of presenting research to colleagues."

Held every fall, the Ph.D. Poster Session features second-year doctoral students presenting their first year of research. Posters from all second-year doctoral students are featured below. 

The UCI School of Education virtual courtyard. Attendees controlled an avatar and were able to interact with one another and with all 27 doctoral students presenting their research.

Ph.D. Posters - 2020

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Joseph Aubele
​Mechanisms of Participation to Promote Better Comprehension

Ashlee Belgrave
Culturally Situated Early STEM Grocery Store Signage

Socorro Cambero
First-Generation College Going Asian American and Chicanx/a/o Students: Understanding Perceptions of Inequality as Racial Projects 

Lina Carpenter
Examining the Experience of Undergraduate Students During the COVID19- Driven Transition to Online Learning

Lora Cawelti
The Role of School Leadership in Promoting Student Voice at an Urban High School

Phebe Chew
Understanding Research Goals, Learning Theories, and Relationships in Community-based Participatory Design

Dana Conlin
Investigating Educators’ Responses to a Racial Justice Program and Barriers to Sustainability 

Michael Cooper
How Can We Motivate Autistic Students In High School Math?

Joshua Dorman
Extended Opportunity Program & Services (EOPS): A Case Study of a Local Community College District

Yi Feng
Predicting working memory training outcome patterns using a machine learning approach

Leiny Garcia
An Exploratory Latent Class Analysis on Early Coding Attitudes of Fourth Grade Students

Daniel Hodge
Socio-emotional Labor Black students Experience While Code-switching in Predominately White Spaces

Ha Eun (Grace) Kim
Which Schools Disproportionately Refer and Arrest Non-White Students?​

Christopher Lechuga
Predicting Skill Level Performance within an Intelligent Tutoring System: An Exploratory Analysis

XunFei Li
College Students’ Course Taking Behaviors and Educational Outcomes during COVID-19 Pandemic

Xiao Lin
The Utility of Infographics to Support EFLs in Academic Writing

Yiwen Lin
Gendered patterns in small group collaborative interactions over time 

Jonathan Montoya
Use of UDL Strategies to Teach Computational Thinking in Elementary School

Cecilia Perez
Understanding the Narrative Skills of Bilingual Adolescents with and without Developmental Language Disorder

Michelle Ramos
Optimizing English Language Assessments to Accurately Identify Impairment in Young Bilingual Children

Ethan Rubin
“Bringing New Things To Light”: An Emerging Process Model for Insight-Based Professional Development

Maria Sauval
Mid-month Income Supplements Improve Couples’ Relationships

Allison Starks
How do youth protect their digital privacy across contexts? ​

Jiali Wang
An Investigation of Vocabulary Use in 4th Graders’ Writing 

Joseph Wong
Pandemic Teaching and E-Learning: Examining Undergraduate Self-Efficacy and Task-Value Influencing Online Engagement while Distance Learning

Nickolina Yankova
#QuiltsForPulse: Connected and Shared Production-Centered Socio-Political Activism through Craftivism 

Paul Yoo
Education System’s “Seeds of Durable Inequalities" A Decomposition of Variance in Educational Inequality in Oregon