SESP Heads to Toronto for AERA
School of Education and Social Policy faculty, postdocs, alumni and graduate students will be presenting at the 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, the world’s largest gathering of education researchers.
This year’s five-day gathering, held April 5 to April 9 in Toronto, is organized around the theme “Leveraging Education Research in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence.” (Info on SESP presentations listed below.)
Highlights include:
- James Rosenbaum, professor of education and social policy, will receive the Elizabeth G. Cohen Distinguished Career in Applied Sociology of Education Award.
- Shirin Vossoughi, assistant professor of learning sciences, is a recipient of the 2019 Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions for Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies, AERA Div. C.
- Addie Shrodes, a graduate student and research assistant, received the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper for AERA’s Writing & Literacies Special Interest Group.
- Carol Lee, professor of learning sciences, chairs the featured sessions “Interdisciplinary Contributions to Civic Debate and Civic Reasoning: Post-Truth Complexities” and “How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures — A Report From the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.”
- Lee, who is attending her 28th consecutive AERA conference, also will participate in “Learning Sciences, School Reform, and Teacher Preparation: Juxtaposing Knowledge and Methods for Equity and Social Justice.”
- Professor Larry Hedges, winner of the $3.8 million Yidan Prize, the world's largest education research award, will be part of the panel “Registered Reports, Research Reporting and Enhancing Education Research Transparency.”
- The SESP reception, hosted by Dean David Figlio, will be 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 5 at Canoe Restaurant, 66 Wellington St. W, TD Bank Tower, 54th floor, Toronto.
- Twitter: Use: #AERA2019 and #SESPLove to highlight work by SESP researchers.
A list of SESP-related presentations follows: (For all sessions, consult the online program.)
Friday, April 5
Reed Stevens, Discussant
Endogenously Organized Teaching and Learning Events in Informal Learning Environments
12 to 2 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 809
Umit Aslan, Gabriella Anton, Uri Wilensky
Bringing Powerful Ideas to Middle School Students' Lives Through Agent-Based Modeling
12 to 1:30 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
Kit Martin, Gabriella Anton
Modeling Time: Students construction of historical narratives and simulations
2:25 to 3:55 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
Uri Wilensky
Developing Preservice Teachers' Conceptualization of Models and Simulations Through Group-Based Cloud Computing
2:25 to 3:55 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
Saturday, April 6
kihana ross
Fugitive Black Space in Education: (Anti)Blackness in the Afterlife of School Segregation
8 to 9:30 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 205D
James Spillane
Social Networks and Early Career Teachers' Trajectories in the United States: Closeness and Self-Efficacy
8 to 10 a.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 705
Debbie Kim
Packaging the Promise: Money, Messaging, and Misalignment
8 to 9:30 a.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Second Floor, Churchill
Megan Bang, Nikki McDaid-Morgan, Mario Guerra
Engaging Native Youth in Learning and Making Change: Land, Story
8 to 9:30 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 709
Megan Bang
Designing With Teachers, Families, and Communities for Heterogeneity in Field-Based Science Learning
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 801A
Nichole Pinkard, Moderator
Division L Vice Presidential Address and Panel. Developments in Education Policy Research: Building a Scholarship of Improvement
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 203B
Eric Calvert, Saiying Steenbergen-Hu, Paula M. Olszewski-Kubilius, Tracy Cross
A Design-Based Research on Developing Accelerated Online English Language Arts Curriculum for Underrepresented High-Ability Students
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall F
Jolie Matthews, Amanda Simmons
Cognitive Dissonance in Student Understanding of News and Media Bias
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Lower Concourse, Grand Centre
Nichole Pinkard, Commentator
New Directions in Culture, Motivation, and Learning
12:20 to 1:50 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Mezzanine, Pine East
Heather McCambly, Chair
Changing Organizations and People
12:20 to 1:50 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Lower Concourse, Osgoode Ballroom
Carol Lee, Chair
How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures — A Report From the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
2:15 to 3:45 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 103 A&B
Nichole Pinkard
Digital Youth Divas: Orienting E-Textiles in Individual Learning Pathways
2:15 to 3:45 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 801A
Addie Shrodes
Disrupting Ideological Media on YouTube: How Multimodal LGBTQ Response Videos Enact Critical Media Literacies
2:15 to 3:45 p.m. Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Lower Concourse, Grand Centre
David Uttal
Mathematics Course-Taking Pathways for Joining STEM in College
2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Mezzanine, Chestnut West
Eleanor Anderson, Chair
Designing Research With Organizational Theory
4:10 to 5:40 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Lower Concourse, Grand Centre
Debbie Kim, Cynthia Coburn
Reason-giving in Educational Decision Making: The Role of Research and Data
4:10 to 6:10 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 201B
Debbie Kim, Cynthia Coburn
The Drawing Down of Ideas: Analyzing How Images of Teachers Become Embedded in Policy
4:10 to 6:10 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 201B
Carol Lee
Addressing and Advancing the Role of Culture in Educational Research
4:10 to 6:10 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 107
Lok-Sze Wong, Ayah Kamel, Cynthia Coburn
How Central Office-School Relationships Shape School Leaders’ Instructional Decision-making: Evidence from a Site-based Decision-making System
4:10 to 6:10 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 201B
Lok-Sze Wong, James Spillane, Rachel Feldman
Organizational Routines as a Vehicle for Instructional Decision Making in School Systems
4:10 to 6:10 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 201B
Shirin Vossoughi, Discussant
Co-Designing (Analog and Digital) Social Futures: Leveraging Multimodality to Foster Educational Justice Locally and Globally
4:10 to 5:40 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall F
Sunday, April 7
Megan Bang
Supporting the Youth Sense-Making in Navigating Ethical Multiplicities of Heterogeneous Nature-Culture Relations in Learning Environments
8 to 9:30 a.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 711
Carol Lee
Identity Repertoires Within and Across Ecological Spaces as Resources for Interrogating Political Positioning
8 to 9:30 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 711
Kay Ellen Ramey, Jaakko Hilppö, Reed Stevens
Connected Learning for Whom? Designing for Equitable Access and Engagement in STEAM Making and Learning Activities
8 to 9:30 a.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Lower Concourse, Sheraton Hall E
Cynthia Coburn, Discussant
The Scholarship of Improvement: Building Community Around an Emerging Tradition of Practice-Focused Research
8 to 9:30 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 801A
Sepehr Vakil
Teachers Making Sense of Algorithms and Their Politics: Design Reflections From a Professional Development Institute
8 to 9:30 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 802A
Natalie Davis, John Smith
Children's Self-Determination as Intellectually and Socially Transformative in a Making/Tinkering Program
9:55 to 11:25 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 711
Mollie McQuillan
“People Are Still Working It Out in Their Minds": A Mixed-Methods Description of the Policy Landscape for Gender-Expansive Students and Administrative Framing
9:55 to 11:25 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 803A
James Rosenbaum
Where Do We Go From Here? The Persistence of Tracking and the Potential for Reform
9:55 to 11:25 a.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 202D
Bruce Sherin
Multiplicative Meaning in Physics
9:55 to 11:25 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 600 Level, Room 606
Shirin Vossoughi, chair
Educational Dignity in Making and Engineering Spaces Developing Close Accounts of Expansive Pedagogy, Learning, and Self-Determination
9:55 to 11:25 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 711
Shirin Vossoughi, Ava Jackson, Arturo Alonso Munoz, Ruben Echevarria
A Close Analysis of the Pedagogical Architecture in a Making and Tinkering Setting
9:55 to 11:25 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 711
Natalie Davis, Trey Smith
Children's Self-Determination as Intellectually and Socially Transformative in a Making/Tinkering Program
9:55 to 11:25 am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 711
Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, Sumit Chandra, Sugat Dabholkar, Michael Horn, Uri Wilensky
Classifying Emergent Student Learning in a Computational High School Chemistry Unit
9:55 to 11:25 a.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Lower Concourse, Osgoode Ballroom
Megan Bang
Family Camp, Lightning Storms, and Eagle Relatives: How Family Stories Bring Significance to Robotics Learning
11:50 a.m. to 1:20 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 801A
Carol Lee
PS11: Learning Sciences, School Reform, and Teacher Preparation: Juxtaposing Knowledge and Methods for Equity and Social Justice
11:50 a.m. to 1:20 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104B
Yu Guo, Uri J. Wilensky
Changing High School Students' Perceptions of Wealth Inequality in the United States Through Agent-Based Participatory Simulations
11:50 a.m. to 1:20 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
Larry Hedges
Accurate Model Versus Accurate Estimates: A Study of Bayesian Single-Case Experimental Designs
11:50 a.m. to 1:20 p.m., Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Mezzanine, New Brunswick
Megan Bang
PS3: What Can Researchers, Philanthropies, and Practitioner-Educators Do to Democratize Evidence in Education?
3:40 to 5:10 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104A
Amy Chang, Anna Bethune, Krystal Villanosa, Dionne Champion
Tensions and Possibilities for Reimagining Equity-Based Design Research
3:40 to 5:10 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall F
Susan Bush-Mecenas
"The Business of Teaching and Learning": Examining the Institutional Logic of Continuous Improvement in Educational Organizations
3:40 to 5:10 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Second Floor, Dominion Ballroom South
Monday, April 8
Heather McCambly
Analyzing the Design and Causal Effects of Frames in Inequalities Grant-Making in U.S. Postsecondary Education
8 to 9:30 a.m. Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Second Floor, Kenora
Naomi Blaushild
“Is This What Teaching Looks Like in the Future?” Exploring Teachers’ Work in Different School Systems
8 to 9:30 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall F
Cynthia Coburn, Abigail Stein
Fostering Pre-K to Elementary Alignment and Continuity in Mathematics in Two Urban School Districts
8 to 9:30 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 205A
Hillary Swanson
Cultivating a Theoretical Turn-of-Mind
8 to 10 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 713B
Megan Bang
Challenging Eurocentrism in Mathematics Education: A Vision for Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Mathematics
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Mezzanine, Birchwood Ballroom
Tracy Dobie, Christopher Leatherwood, Miriam Sherin, Bruce Sherin
What Happens When Teachers Discuss Video Online?
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall G
Richard Paquin Morel
Racial Group Threat and Resistance to High-Stakes Testing: Evidence From the Opt-Out Movement
10:25 to 11:55 a.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 202D
Jennifer Richards, Tracy Dobie, Bruce Sherin
Modeling Across Mathematics and Science in K-2
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall G
Ijun Lai
Short-term Impacts of Chicago’s Suspensions and Expulsions Reduction Plan (SERP)
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 202D
Ruben Echevarria
"Umm, Can You Make It Solar?" Questions as a Window Into Kids' Thinking: Wonderment and Worries
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 801A
Eleanor Anderson, Discussant
Perspectives on Implementing State Policy at the Local Level
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 202C
Mari Altshuler
Teacher Responses to Student Thinking: In the Moment and in Reflection
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall G
Saiying Steenbergen-Hum, Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, Eric Calvert
Effects of School-Based Executive Function Interventions on Children and Adolescents’ Academic, Social-Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
Claudia Castillo-Lavergne, Mesmin Destin
Exploring the psychological well-being of working-class Latinx women attending four-year colleges.
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 704
Bruce Sherin
Using Latent Topic Models to Examine Teacher Learning in an Online Course
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall G
Uri Wilensky
Generative Modeling in Computer Science
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Lower Concourse, Sheraton Hall E
Megan Bang, Nikki McDaid-Morgan
Walking Pedagogies and Indigenous Resurgence in Learning Environments
12:20 to 1:50 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Lower Concourse, Osgoode Ballroom
Katie James, Susan R. Goldman
Supporting Adolescents’ Engagement in Text-Based Explanatory Modeling
12:20 to 1:50 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Mezzanine, Pine West
Christopher Leatherwood
Error Episodes in a Middle School Math Class
12:20 to 1:50 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
Carol Lee
Division G Vice-Presidential Session: Division G at 50 Years - VP Reflections on Changing Social Contexts of Education Across the Decades
12:20 to 1:50 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 701B
Kelly McMahon, Natalie Jou
Building Bridges for Pre-K–3: Role of Policy in Districts' Efforts to Align Instruction for Continuity Between Pre-K and Elementary Classrooms
2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall F
David Uttal, Kinnari Atit, Camille Msall
Describing the Technological Experiences Integrated Into a Spatial Skills Curriculum for Middle School Students
2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Mezzanine Level, Cedar
David Uttal, Kinnari Atit, Jue Wu, Kay Ramey, Grace Hall
Introducing Making Into High School Science Classrooms: Exploring the Design Trade-Offs in Bridging the Formal-Informal Divide
2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Mezzanine Level, Cedar
David Uttal
Prior Technology Exposure Impacts High School Students' Enrollment and Outcomes in a Technology-Rich Geospatial Science Course
2:15 to 3:45 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Mezzanine Level, Cedar
Meriem Sadoun
The Experiences of Young Muslim Women Athletes on High School Sports Teams in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the RSA
4:10 to 5:40 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Center 800 Level, Hall G
Cynthia Coburn
Districts’ Conceptualizations of Kindergarten Readiness
4:10 to 5:40 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall F
Natalie Davis
Breathing Life Into Pedagogical Ambitions: Privileging Black Children's Conceptions of Self-Determination in an Afrocentric School
4:10 to 5:40 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
Carol Lee
Reading, Speaking, and Writing: Multidimensionality of Argumentation in Literary Reasoning
4:10 to 6:10 p.m., Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Second Floor, Churchill
Brian Reiser, John Smith
"So, I've Done a Lot of Talking With Them...": Supporting Student Talk and Agency in Science Classrooms
4:10 to 5:40 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 704
Tuesday, April 9
Carol Lee, Megan Bang
PS6: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Civic Debate and Civic Reasoning: Post-Truth Complexities
8 to 10 a.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104B
Allena Berry
Reasoning Backward and Forward about History: An Analysis of Students' Development of Path Dependent and Historically Imaginative Models of Nation-States
8 to 9:30 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
Miriam Sherin, Tracy Dobie University of Utah, Christopher Leatherwood, Mari Altshuler
Using Teacher Self-Captured Video in Professional Development
8 to 9:30 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 801A
Eleanor Anderson, Tracy Dobie
Sentence Stems to Foster Dialogue: Using ‘I Notice’ and ‘I Wonder’ in Online Professional Development
10:25 to 11:55 a.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 715A
Shirin Vossoughi, Kalonji Nzinga, Allena Berry
Writing as the Practice of Freedom: How Feedback Supports the Development of Creative Scholarly Writers
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 706
Shirin Vossoughi, Chair
Toward Just Forms of Language and Literacy Learning Re-Mediating Pedagogies of Reading and Writing
10:25 to 11:55 a.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 706
Shirin Vossoughi
Not in Their Name: Reinterpreting Discourses of STEM Learning Through the Subjective Experiences of Minoritized Girls
12:20 to 1:50 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 704
kihana ross
Envisioning Black Space in Environmental Education for Young Children
12:20 to 1:50 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 704
James Spillane
Recrafting Coherence in the Era of Common Core
12:20 to 1:50 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 201C
Sepehr Vakil
"You're So Far Out, and You're Trying to Look In": Exploring Politicized Trust in a Racially Diverse Computer Science Classroom
12:20 to 1:50 p.m., Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 704
Sepehr Vakil, Chair
Disrupting "Truth": Theorizing the Cultural Politics of STEM Education Through a Plurality of Perspectives
12:20 to 1:50 p.m. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 704