American Eductional Research Association (AERA) and National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) 2024

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

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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

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



• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

Friday, April 12

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 9:35am to 11:05am

  AERA: AERA Graduate Student Council: Closed Meeting

  Marc Sager (SMU)
  Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 105B
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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