UNC School of Education faculty members, students, postdoctoral researchers, and alumni will present at and attend the annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) meeting, held in Philadelphia April 11-14.
Each year, the conference serves as the world’s largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies across a number of fields. The theme for the 2024 meeting is “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action.”
UNC School of Education scholars — including 22 faculty members, one faculty emerita, and more than 30 students and postdoctoral researchers — will participate in paper and poster sessions where they will present authored or co-authored papers throughout the conference. Also included in the conference are various symposia, round-table discussions, professional development courses, and more. Though not presenting, even more faculty members and graduate students are represented in presented papers they co-authored.
Jeff Greene, Ph.D., McMichael Family Professor, has been selected as a 2024 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association ahead of the annual meeting. Nominated by peers, Greene joins a group of 24 exemplary scholars named 2024 AERA Fellows who will be inducted during an April 12 ceremony.
Professor Emeritus Gregory Cizek, Ph.D., who retired as the Guy B. Phillips Professor in 2023, will receive the 2024 E. F. Lindquist Award, given jointly by AERA and ACT, for his contributions to the study of testing and measurement during an April 12 ceremony.
UNC School of Education faculty, student, and alumni activities at AERA 2024 include:
Wednesday, April 10
6-8 p.m.
A Community Conversation: The Education of Students in the School District of Philadelphia
Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School 3301 Old York Road, Philadelphia, PA 19140, Lobby
Chaired by Linda Tillman, UNC School of Education professor emerita, AERA attendees and community members in Philadelphia and the surrounding communities are invited to attend a community conversation with leaders from the School District of Philadelphia and other individuals who work in K-12 education. The School District of Philadelphia is led by two-time alumnus and recent UNC School of Education distinguished alumni award recipient Tony B. Watlington Sr. (‘00 M.S.A., ‘08 Ed.D.). The purpose of this community conversation will be to address, think about, and discuss factors that impact the social, emotional, and academic opportunities and outcomes for students in the School District of Philadelphia, and especially students of color who often under-perform academically due to a variety of factors.
Thursday, April 11
9-10:30 a.m.
Anna Gustaveson
Roundtable: Coaching, Teacher Knowledge, and Pedagogy in Mathematics Education (Table 10)
Paper/Presentation Title: Race-Evasive Responding When Race Is Explicit: Elementary Teachers Reasoning on Equity Survey Items
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Marisa Marraccini (non-presenting author)
Poster Session: School Climate and Novel Leadership and Learning Frameworks
Poster Title: School Climate During COVID-19: Qualitative Comparison of Remote and Hybrid Learning Environments (Poster 19)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Lauryn DuPree and Jocelyn Glazier (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: Teachers’ of Color Educational Journey and Identity Development (Table 38)
Paper/Presentation Title: (Re)Imagining Radical Racialized Teacher Education: Infusing Self-Study, Autoethnography, and Critical Discourse Analysis to Dismantle Dominant Narratives Among Future Teachers
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Linda Tillman
Invited Speaker Session: It’s Time to Teach the Truth: On Developing a Black Studies Curriculum for New York City Public Schools
Paper/Presentation Title: Black Studies as the Study of the World: Sample Lesson Demonstrations
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201B
12:40-2:10 p.m.
Kristin Papoi (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: Critical and Antiracist Social Studies Practices (Table 10)
Paper/Presentation Title: Grass: Teaching War With Critical Remembrance
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Linda Tillman
Chair
Invited Speaker Session: Black Women Leaders in Predominantly White Institutions: On the Front Lines of Creating and Sustaining Racially Just Spaces in Higher Education
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201A
Zhen Xu
Paper session: Exploring Professional Identity Formation
Paper/Presentation Title: Understanding Engineering Identity in K–12 Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 109B
2:30-4 p.m.
Xumei Fan
Roundtable: Practice-Based Reflection and Professional Development (Table 34)
Paper/Presentation Title: Impact and Quality of Microcredentialing as a Personalized Professional Learning Program for Educators
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Vitaly Radsky
Working Group Roundtable: Constructing Possibilities for Advancing the Historical and Contemporary Relevance of Southern Black Educators’ Activism
Paper/Presentation Title: The End of School Desegregation? School Improvement, Integration, and Equal Opportunity in Durham, NC
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 109A
Luz Robinson (non-presenting author), Alberto Valido Delgado (non-presenting author), and Dorothy Espelage (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: Meta-Analysis in Teacher Education and Professional Learning (Table 33)
Paper/Presentation Title: The Effects of a Bullying Prevention Teacher Professional Development for Exceptional Students
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
4:20-5:50 p.m.
Matthew Bernacki
Chair
Symposium: Applying Educational Psychology Lenses to the “Curious Construct of Active Learning” in Undergraduate Science Education
Paper/Presentation Title: Motivations of and Implications for Students in Introductory Biology Courses for Majors and Nonmajors
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 108B
Dionne Cross Francis
Paper Session: Teacher Identity and Agency in Racially and Politically Contested Contexts
Paper/Presentation Title: Double-Edged Sword: Understanding the Nature of Agency for Multiply Marginalized and Underrepresented Teachers’ Identity Negotiation
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 411
Leiming Ding
Symposium: Applying Educational Psychology Lenses to the “Curious Construct of Active Learning” in Undergraduate Science Education
Paper/Presentation Title: Overcoming Instructors’ Design Differences to Deliver Equitable Learning Opportunities and Algorithms That Predict Science Achievement
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 108B
Linda Tillman
Paper Session: Principals as Instructional and Community Leaders: Embracing Multiple Ways of Knowing
Paper/Presentation Title: Black Women as Instructional Leaders: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 116
Friday, April 12
7:45-9:15 a.m.
Thurston Domina, Ethan Hutt (non-presenting author), and Nell Williams (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: Policy Adoption and Implementation in School Districts (Table 34)
Paper/Presentation Title: Framing the Pandemic: Tracking Educational Sensemaking Processes, Spring 2020–Fall 2021
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Slki Lim
Poster Session: Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session 1: STEM Learning, Motivation, Culture, and Design-Based Research
Poster Title: Enhancing Computational Thinking Competencies in Young Children: Dynamic Learning Processes Through Embodiments (Poster 46)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
Linda Tillman
Symposium: Borderlands: Constructing Educational Possibilities Across P–20 Systems: A Structured Conversation Between Educational Leadership and Teacher Education
Paper/Presentation Title: Black Women as Instructional Leaders: Linking Contemporary Research, Theory, and Practice to a Liberatory “Herstory”
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115A
9:35-11:05 a.m.
Matthew Bernacki
Paper Session: Frameworks for Inclusivity and Readiness in Special Education: Insights From Transition Planning and UDL (Universal Design for Learning) Implementation
Paper/Presentation Title: Unraveling Challenges With UDL (Universal Design for Learning) Implementation: A Systematic Literature Review
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 3, Room 303
Michael Berro, Matthew Bernacki (non-presenting author), Robert Plumley (non-presenting author), and Jeff Greene (non-presenting author)
Poster Session: Trends and Issues in Technology-Based Environments
Poster Title: Exploring Learners’ Adherence to High-Structure Course Design on Performance in Online and In-Person Settings (Poster 24)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
Dionne Cross Francis, Anna Gustaveson, Kathryn Habib, Boran Yu, and Anna Hinden (non-presenting author)
Paper Session: Math Coaching, Teacher Leadership, and Development of Math Teachers
Paper/Presentation Title: Examining Fluctuations in Elementary Teachers’ Mathematics Teacher Identities Through Participation in Instructional Coaching
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 112B
Dorothy Espelage (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: New Directions in Practices and Procedures to Promote School Safety (Table 26)
Paper/Presentation Title: How Perceptions of Active Shooter Drills Relate to the Safety and Retention of K–12 Educators
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Courtney Hattan
Discussant
Paper Session: Becoming Literate: Cognitive and Social Processes of Learning to Read
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 3, Room 305
Daniel Klasik
Event: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis: Closed Editorial Board Meeting
Invited Speaker Session participant
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 106B
Robert Plumley, Matthew Bernacki (non-presenting author), and Jeff Greene (non-presenting author)
Poster Session: Trends and Issues in Technology-Based Environments
Poster Title: Improving the Prediction of Undergraduate STEM Outcomes via Curricular Temporality-Based Feature Design (Poster 27)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
Nell Williams
Roundtable: Principal Leadership and School District Personnel Staffing to Support High-Quality Conditions for Teaching and Learning (Table 38)
Paper/Presentation Title: Crises, Current and Looming: Personnel Spending During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Ling Zhang
Paper Session: Frameworks for Inclusivity and Readiness in Special Education: Insights From Transition Planning and UDL (Universal Design for Learning) Implementation
Paper/Presentation Title: Unraveling Challenges With UDL (Universal Design for Learning) Implementation: A Systematic Literature Review
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 3, Room 303
11:25 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
Dorothy Espelage
Discussant
Symposium: Methodological Approaches for Equity-Oriented Evidence Synthesis
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 8
Dana Griffin
Symposium: School Counselors for Inclusive Postsecondary Transitions: Navigating Student Shifting Plans, Racial Injustice, and College Readiness Strategies
Paper/Presentation Title: Racial Injustice in the School-to-College Pipeline: Gatekeeping Practices of School Counselors
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 105B
Robert Martinez
Symposium: Equipping School Counselors for Inclusive Postsecondary Transitions: Navigating Student Shifting Plans, Racial Injustice, and College Readiness Strategies
Paper/Presentation Title: Utilizing Wearable Biosensors to Investigate the Mediating Roles of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmic and Racial-Ethnic Identity on the Effects of College Readiness
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 7
Jasmyne Yeldell and Dionne Cross Francis (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: Trust, Mentorship, and Belonging for Minoritized and Underserved Students in STEM (Table 34)
Paper/Presentation Title: Retaining Women of Color in STEM: A Participatory Action Research Approach Analyzing Participant Narratives
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
3:05-4:35 p.m.
Christian Ehret
Roundtable: (Re)Considering the Critical and Affective Potentials of Playful Literacies (Table 11)
Paper/Presentation Title: Play, Literacies, and the Production of Love in a Family Idioculture: Theorizing Momentous Desires
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Dorothy Espelage
Discussant
Symposium: It Takes a Village: Supporting Diverse Children’s Social-Emotional Well-Being Through Community-Engaged Research
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 10
Ling Zhang
Paper Session: Equity in Technology-Based Environments
Paper/Presentation Title: Let’s CHAT About Artificial Intelligence for Students With Disabilities: A Meta-Analytical Synthesis
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 111B
4:55-6:25 p.m.
Anna Gustaveson and Dionne Cross Francis
Roundtable: New Directions in Critical Qualitative Inquiry (Table 33)
Paper/Presentation Title: “What Can We Definitively Say?” Researching Teachers’ Beliefs About Race in Mathematics
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Yakob Lemma
Poster Session: 2024 AERA Undergraduate Fellows Research Poster Fair
Poster Title: TBD
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
Kayla Malone (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: Voice and Agency in Autism Research (Table 22)
Paper/Presentation Title: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Religious Experiences of Black Parents Raising Autistic Children
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Shuguang Wang
Poster Session: Division D Graduate Student Committee In-Progress Research Gala Poster Session
Poster Title: Engage Students of Diverse Backgrounds in Humanities‚ Using Asian Studies Courses as an Example
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
Saturday, April 13
7:45-9:15 a.m.
Dionne Cross Francis (non-presenting author)
Roundtable Session: Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Mathematics (Table 6)
Paper/Presentation Title: Examining Differences in Argumentation Discussions Around Two Versions of the Same Performance Task in Practice-Based Simulations
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Steven Knotek (non-presenting author)
Poster Session: Research in Reading and Literacy Poster Session 2
Poster Title: Relationships Among Early Spanish Reading Skills and English Reading for Multilingual Learners (Poster 40)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
Ross Ramsey, Leah Metcalf, Slki Lim (non-presenting author), Mengyi Mao (non-presenting author), Janice Anderson (non-presenting author), and Jill Hamm (non-presenting author)
Poster Session: Informal Learning Research Poster Session
Poster Title: Learning Talk and Museum Signage at an Informal Science Exhibit (Poster 47)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
9:35-11:05 a.m.
Matthew Bernacki (non-presenting author)
Roundtable Session: Adult Learners in Higher Education Settings (Table 3)
Paper/Presentation Title: Adult vs. Traditional Learners: Motivational Profiles and Academic Outcomes
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Corey Bray
Paper Session: Self, Society, and Education for Belonging
Paper/Presentation Title: Reversible Public Pedagogy
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 406
Dionne Cross Francis and Anna Gustaveson
Roundtable: Exploring the Development of Professional Teacher Identity (Table 38)
Paper/Presentation Title: Exploring Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Professional Identity Development Trajectories Through Participation in Practice-Based Simulations
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Sirui Ren
Roundtable: Adult Learners in Higher Education Settings (Table 3)
Paper/Presentation Title: Adult vs. Traditional Learners: Motivational Profiles and Academic Outcomes
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Simone Wilson, Tia Devonne Byers, and Constance Lindsay (non-presenting author)
Paper Session: Marginalized Positionality and Intersectional Understandings
Paper/Presentation Title: “What’s Going On?” Understanding the Recruitment and Retention of Black Male Educators
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 104B
1:15-2:45 p.m.
Matthew Bernacki, Linyu Yu, Robert Plumley (non-presenting author), Jeff Greene (non-presenting author), Peter Halpin (non-presenting author), Rebekah Duke (non-presenting author), Rebekah Freed (non-presenting author), Christina Hollander-Blackmon (non-presenting author), and Miranda Thomas (non-presenting author)
Paper Session: Measuring SRL Processes in STEM College Courses
Paper/Presentation Title: What Does a Digital Trace Mean? Validating Inferences in Learning Analytics
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 8
Kristin Papoi
Paper Session: Justice-Oriented Practices and Racial Justice in Teacher Education
Paper/Presentation Title: New Teachers and Mr. Tyler: Struggles and Recalibrations of Justice and Activist Teaching
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 104B
3:05-4:35 p.m.
Lora Cohen-Vogel (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: New Evidence on the Association Between Learning Environment and Child Outcomes (Table 6)
Paper/Presentation Title: Nationally Representative Evidence on the Association Between School-Based Pre-K and Student Outcomes
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Dionne Cross Francis
Invited Speaker Session: International Relations Committee Invited Session: Racial (In)Justice Across International Educational Contexts
Paper/Presentation Title: Exploring the Risks of Synonymizing Black and African-American: Immigrant Experiences of Blackness
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 120A
Nianbo Dong
Symposium: Design and Analysis of multisite Experimental Studies to Investigate Treatment effect Heterogeneity
Paper/Presentation Title: Statistical Power for Moderation in Three-Level Multisite Individual Randomized Trials
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 116
Steven Knotek (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: Disrupting the Status Quo: Equity and Inclusion in Early Childhood (Table 4)
Paper/Presentation Title: ESL (English as a Second Language) Teacher Collaboration to Promote Equity for Multilingual Learners in Early Elementary School
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
4:55-6:25 p.m.
Linda Tillman
Participant
Invited Speaker Session: AERA Presidential Address – Examining Our Past to Imagine a Better Future: Recognition and Redress of Racial Injustice in Education
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 300, Ballroom AB
6:45-8:15 p.m.
Dorothy Espelage
Chair
Business Meeting: Social and Emotional Learning SIG Business Meeting
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 103B
Sunday, April 14
7:45-9:15 a.m.
Xumei Fan
Poster Session: Early Education and Child Development
Poster Title: Investigating Factors Related to Kindergarten Readiness Using an HLM Approach (Poster 32)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
Constance Lindsay (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: From Participants to Collaborators: Leveraging Multiple and Mixed Methods to Further Educational Equity (Table 19)
Presentation: Developing and Validating Multiperspectival Measures of Culturally Responsive Schooling
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Alberto Valido Delgado
Paper Session: Shaping Inclusive Futures: Multicultural Perspectives on Education and Well-Being
Paper/Presentation Title: Development of Suicide Ideation and Attempts Among LGBTQ Youth of Color: An Integrative Data Analysis
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 107A
9:35-11:05 a.m.
Dorothy Espelage (non-presenting author)
Paper Session: Shaping Inclusive Futures: Multicultural Perspectives on Education and Well-Being
Paper/Presentation Title: “Development of Suicide Ideation and Attempts Among LGBTQ Youth of Color: An Integrative Data Analysis”
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 107A
Courtney Hattan
Symposium: Considering Literacy Learning: Thinking About Texts, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
Paper/Presentation Title: Considering Building First-Grade Students’ Social Studies Vocabulary Knowledge Through Contextually Responsive Content-Literacy Integration
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 10
Linda Tillman
Participant
Invited Speaker Session: Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership: Disrupting Traditional Paradigms by Centering Race to Construct New Futures in P–20 Education
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201B
Shuguang Wang
Roundtable: Looking Back to Move Forward: Reviews on Advanced Technologies for Learning (Table 5)
Paper/Presentation Title: What ChatGPT Will Bring to Us: A Systematic Review of Papers on ChatGPT in Education
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
11:25 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
Matthew Bernacki, Jeff Greene (non-presenting author), and Robert Plumley (non-presenting author)
Paper Session: Strategies and Interventions for College Student Success
Paper/Presentation Title: Developing Skill and Appraising Will: Benefits of Learning Skill Training for Undergraduates by Motivational Profile
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115C
Anne Drescher (non-presenting author), Dorothy Espelage (non-presenting author), and Graceson L. Clements (non-presenting author)
Roundtable: Identity in Spaces (Table 23)
Paper/Presentation Title: The Figured Worlds of Elementary Educators Who Identify as “Inclusive”: A Discourse Analysis
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Taylor Schmidt and Jocelyn Glazier
Paper Session: Teacher Identity and Lived Experiences in International Contexts
Paper/Presentation Title: A Chance for Transformation? Norm Confrontation During Study Abroad as Liminal Space
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 411
Shuguang Wang
Invited Speaker Session (Closed Session): Qualitative Research SIG Mentoring Session: Qualitative Inquiry for Educational Possibilities
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Salon J
1:15-2:45 p.m.
Anna Gustaveson and Kathryn Habib
Roundtable: (Re)Imagining Literacy Practices for Preservice Teachers (Table 24)
Paper/Presentation Title: “That Feels Like a Rule I Should Know”: Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching—A Process-Oriented Lens
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
Kristin Papoi
Roundtable: Socially Just Education (Table 26)
Paper/Presentation Title: The Strangling: New Teachers and the Professional Learning Community
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
3:05-4:35 p.m.
Dorothy Espelage
Discussant
Symposium: Contemporary Approaches to Evaluating Universal School-Based Social Emotional Learning Programs: Effectiveness for Whom and How?
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 10
Christina Hollander-Blackmon (non-presenting author) and Matthew Bernacki (non-presenting author)
Poster Session: Studying and Self-Regulated Learning SIG Poster Session
Poster Title: Cross-Cultural Adaptability of a Brief Self-Regulated Learning Intervention and Effects on Undergraduates’ Learning and Achievement (Poster 26)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A