Presentations, papers, panel discussions, roundtables, and mentoring sessions featuring Simmons professors and doctoral students participating in the 2024 AERA Conference can be found below. Complete information, as well as general conference information, is available at the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting website and the 2024 NCME Annual Conference website.
Thursday, April 11
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9:00 to 10:30am
AERA: Roundtable Session: “It Is Too Perfect for Nature”: Exploring Discussions about the Relationship Between Nature and Mathematics
Maximilian Sherard (SMU), Marc Sager (SMU), Saki L. Milton (SMU), Koshi Dhingra (TalkSTEM), Anthony J. Petrosino (SMU), Candace A. Walkington (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: 200, Exhibit Hall B
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10:50 to 12:20pm
AERA: Paper Session: Comparing Learning Geometry Using an iPad to Augmented Reality Holograms: How and When Dimensionality Matters
Candace A. Walkington (SMU), Mitchell J. Nathan (UW), Julianna Claiborne Washington (SMU), Jonathan Hunnicutt (SMU), LeaAnne Daughrity (SMU), Taylor Darwin (TTU), Jason Leano(SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 109B
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10:50 to 12:20pm
AERA: Paper Session: Effects of Pre-K and Kindergarten Classroom Quality on Student Achievements
Kuo Wang (SMU), Yusuf Kara (SMU), Anne Garrison Wilhelm (WSU), Jonathan Hunnicutt (SMU), Annie Wright (SMU)
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 13
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12:40 to 2:10pm
AERA: Symposium: Disrupting the Narrative: Diverse Perspectives on First-Generation College Student Transitions across the P-20 Pipeline
Ashley N. Stone (SMU)- Chair
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 111A
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12:40 to 2:10pm
AERA: Roundtable Session: Teach for America STEM Teachers: Efficacy & Empathy in Enacting Cultural Responsiveness in Urban Classrooms
Johnitha Watkins Johnson (SMU), Karla Del Rosal (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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2:30 to 4:00pm
AERA: Roundtable: Epistemic Frames of Instructional Coaching Planning and Debrief Meetings: A Quantitative Ethnography Approach
Marc Sager (SMU), Jeanna R. Wieselmann (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
2:30 to 4:00pm
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2:30 to 4:00pm
AERA: Roundtable Session: Shifting Categories, Shifting Priorities? R1 Attainment, Academic Structure and Implications for Students
Sondra Nicole Barringer (SMU), Kim Nelson Pryor (SMU), Charity Lewallen (SMU), Brianna Freshwater (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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4:20 to 5:50pm
AERA: Poster Session: I'm A Parent Before Anything Else: Crisis Mothering While Homeless and Its Implication for Partnerships (Poster 28)
Alexandra E. Pavlakis (SMU), Kessa Roberts (USU), Maria Jose Hernandez (SMU), Meredith Paige Richards (SMU), Cheyenne Heath-Warr (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
AERA: Paper Session: The Politics That Divide Us: What Happens When National Debates Go Local?
Annie Gensterblum (MSU), Sandy Frost Waldron (SMU), Ariell R. Bertrand (MSU), Rebecca Jacobsen (MSU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 113A
Friday, April 12
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Roundtable Session: Gestures Between Collaborators Can Signal Cognitive Shifts in Mathematical Reasoning
Leslie Yuqui (Bloomfield College), Doy Kim (UW), Michael I. Swart (UW), Mitchell J. Nathan (UW), Candace A. Walkington (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Roundtable Session: Innovations to Support Students with Autism
Bethany Bradley Edwards (SMU) - Chair
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Roundtable Session: Developing Simulated Elementary Writing Conferences for Literacy Methods Courses
Murphy Young (SMU), Amy Gillespie Rouse (UQ), Diane Baty Gifford (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Poster Session: Participatory Design of an Educational Game: In-Service Teachers' Contributions in Enhancing Students' Computational Thinking (Poster 35)
Yanjun Pan (SMU), Robyn Kristine Pinilla (UTEP), Elizabeth L. Adams (AIR), Ching-Yu Tseng (SMU), Paul D. Foster (SMU), Lawrence J. Klinkert (SMU), Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller (SMU), Eric Larson (SMU), Corey Clark (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Symposium: Thinking with Feelings in an Ecosystems Investigation through Pen Pal Letters
Ashlyn Pierson (OSU), Corey Brady (SMU), Sarah Jaewon Lee, (VU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 119B
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10:05am to 11:05pm
NCME: Paper Session: Modeling Differential Speediness of Readers in Oral Reading Fluency Assessments
Yusuf Kara (SMU) - Presenter, Xin Qiao (USF)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: First, 121A
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11:25am to 12:25pm
NCME: Poster Session: Improving Automated Scoring of Prosody of ORF with Between-Word Silence Features
Kuo Wang (SMU) - Presenter, Akihito Kamata (SMU), Yusuf Kara (SMU), Joseph F.T. Nese (UO)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Fourth, Terrace Ballroom IV
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11:25am to 12:55pm
AERA: Paper Session: Math Education Support Structures of RPP, Teachers Leaders, Principals, Parents and Future Math Professionals
Walking at the Boundaries: Learnings from an RPP (Research-Practice Partnership) Approach to Informal Math Learning
Anthony J. Petrosino (SMU), Marc Sager (SMU), Maximilian Sherard (SMU), Candace A. Walkington (SMU), Julianna Claiborne Washington (SMU), Saki L. Milton (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 112B
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA: Paper Session: Regional Accreditors and DEI: An Exploratory Study
Charity Lewallen (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 108B
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA: Paper Session: Research on Undergraduate Science Teaching and Learning
Quentin Sedlacek (SMU) - Chair
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 410
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4:55pm to 6:25pm
AERA: Paper Session: Toward Racial Justice in Education Policy: From Interrogating Thoughts and Actions to Organizing and Allyship
Bethany Bradley Edwards (SMU)- Chair
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 113A
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6:45pm to 8:15pm
AERA: Bilingual Education Research SIG Business Meeting
Magdalena Pando (SMU) - Chair
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 109B
Saturday, April 13
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Roundtable: “Math Doesn’t Scare Me. I Scare Math.” Student Voice in Mathematics Classrooms
Lois Ndungu (SMU), Alison Hardy (UT), Anne Garrison Wilhelm (WSU), Xinyi Zhong (UW), James King (UW)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Roundtable: Extending Teacher Noticing Frameworks to Conceptualize Content-Based Teacher Noticing
Robyn K. Pinilla (UTEP), Sam Prough (UD), Murphy Young (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Poster Session: Sport-Based STEM: An Innovative Way to Engage Youth in Informal STEM and Soft Skills Learning (Poster 49)
Sarah Brown (SMU), Caroline Grout (SMU), Jeanna R. Wieselmann (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Paper Session: Using Virtual and Augmented Reality Goggles in Mathematics Teacher Education to Explore Algebraic Relationships
Julianna Claiborne Washington (SMU), Taylor Darwin (TT), Candace A. Walkington (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 112B
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9:35am to 11:05am
AERA: Poster Session: Negotiating Spatial Congruence While Performing Rigid Transformations in Virtual Reality Mathematics Classrooms (Poster 26)
Maximilian Sherard (SMU), Candace A. Walkington (SMU), Prajakt Pande (SMU), LeaAnne Daughrity (SMU), Theodora Beauchamp (SMU), Anthony Cuevas (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
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9:35am to 11:05am
AERA: AERA Graduate Student Council: Closed Meeting
Marc Sager (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 105B
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11:25am to 12:55pm
NCME: Paper Presentation: Enhancing Precision in Joint Count-Time Measurement Models: A Testlet Approach
Akihito Kamata (SMU), Yusuf Kara (SMU), Cornelis Potgieter (TCU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: First, 121C
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11:25am to 12:55pm
NCME: Paper Presentation: A Sentence-Level Joint Testlet Model for Measuring Oral Reading Fluency
Yusuf Kara (SMU) - Presenter, Akihito Kamata (SMU), Cornelis Potgieter (TCU), Joseph F.T. Nese (UO), Xin Qiao (USF)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: First 121C
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11:25am to 12:55pm
AERA: Roundtable: What are they playing?: An Empirical Examination of the Sports Sponsored by NCAA Colleges and Universities
Sondra Nicole Barringer (SMU), Sydney Loutit (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
NCME: Paper Abstract: Designing Assessments to Improve Access: A Case from Early Mathematics
Leanne Ketterlin-Geller (SMU) - Presenter, Christopher Johnstone (U of M), Anne Hayes (IDP)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: First, 120C
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA Invited Speaker Session: Graduate Student Council Division H Fireside Chat: Graduate Student Council Division H Fireside Chat: Bridging the Research Gap: Disseminating Research to Teachers and Education Leaders
Marc Sager (SMU)- Discussant
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Salon H
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA: Roundtable Session: Lessons From College Students and Instructors to Inform the Teaching of African American Language Content
Quentin Sedlacek (SMU), Anne Harper Charity-Hudley (SMU), Christine L. Mallinson (UM), Maricela Leon (SMU), Ian Grey (SMU), Lamisa Ali (SMU), Jordan McLarty (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA: Symposium: Extended Reality (XR) Poses Challenges and Opportunities for Cultivating Geometry Reasoning
Mitchell J. Nathan (UW), Candace A. Walkington (SMU), Michael I. Swart (UW)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 117
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA: Poster Session: Improving Fraction Outcomes for Students with Math Difficulty: Outcomes From an Efficacy Replication Trial (Poster 40)
Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller (SMU), Sarah R. Powell (UT), Erica S. Lembke (MU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA: Roundtable Session: Does Implementing an Evidence-Based Intervention Impact Teachers’ Self-Efficacy When Working With Students Experiencing Difficulty?
Joanne Joo (SMU), Jessica Mao (UT), Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA: In Paper Session: I, Enzyme: Embodying Molecules and Enacting Chemical Interactions in VR for Biochemistry Learning
Prajakt Pande (SMU), Praveen Ramasamy (RU), Morten Erik Moeller (RU), Per Meyer Jepsen (RU), Biljana Mojsoska
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 117
Sunday, April 14
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7:45am to 9:15am
NCME: Paper Presentation: Artificial Intelligence Approach to Classifying Oral Reading Fluency Performances
Gozde Sirganci (SMU) - Presenter, Sarunya Somsong (SMU), Akihito Kamata (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: First, 125
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7:45am to 9:15am
AERA: Paper Sessions: Hurricane Harvey’s Homeless: The Educational Impacts of Natural Disasters vs. Other Pathways to Homelessness
Cheyenne Heath-Warr (SMU), Meredith Paige Richards (SMU), Alexandra E. Pavlakis (SMU), Kessa Roberts (USU), Maria Jose Hernandez (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 112B
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11:25am to 12:25pm
AERA: Poster Session: The Affordances and Constraints of Mathematics Tutoring in Immersive, Collaborative, and Dynamic VR (Virtual Reality) Environments (Poster 18)
Candace A. Walkington (SMU), Maximilian Sherard (SMU), Prajakt Pande (SMU), LeeAnne Daughrity (SMU), Theodora Beauchamp (SMU), Anthony Cuevas (SMU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
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11:25am to 12:25pm
AERA: Roundtable: In-Service Elementary Science and Engineering Teaching Self-Efficacy: Trends and Gaps in the Literature
Sarah Haines (TU), Jeanna R. Wieselmann (SMU), Deepika Menon (UNL), Sumreen Asim (IU)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA: Roundtable: “Any Language Used by Anyone to Pursue Science”: Shifting Raciolinguistic Ideologies in STEM Teacher Education
Maricela Leon (SMU), Quentin Sedlacek (SMU), Catherine Lemmi (CSU),Kimberly Feldman (UM)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
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3:05pm to 4:35pm
AERA: Roundtable: Interdisciplinary Funding and the Virtues of Professors: Evidence from a Survey on Curiosity, Intellectual Humility and Collaboration
Stylianos Syropoulos (BC), Liane Young (BC), Gregg Sparkman (BC), Gordon Kraft-Todd (BC), Kim Nelson Pryor (SMU), Laura J. Steinberg (BC)
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B