AERA 2026 Program

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USF Presentations Guide APRIL 8-12 2026

LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA

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TABLE of CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 USF RECEPTION 4 SOCIAL MEDIA

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SESSIONS

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he AERA Annual Meeting 2026 brings together leading scholars from around the world to share research, explore new ideas, and shape the future of education.

As the flagship conference of the American Educational Research Association, it serves as a global platform for advancing knowledge across disciplines, from learning sciences to policy and practice.

The University of South Florida College of Education continues to show a strong presence at AERA. In recent years, nearly 100 USF

faculty and graduate students have participated as presenters and collaborators, highlighting the college’s growing national impact and research excellence.

At AERA 2026, USF scholars contribute across a wide range of sessions, sharing work that addresses critical issues in education while fostering collaboration and innovation. Their participation reflects a continued commitment to advancing the field and driving meaningful change.

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Alumni, students, faculty, and staff of Florida's SUS Education Institutions

to the 2026 AERA

SUNSHINE STATE RECEPTION Mix and mingle as you enjoy complimentary drinks and appetizers at City Club LA

Thurs, April 9 // 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

City Club LA

City National Tower // 51st floor 555 Flower St., Los Angeles, CA 90071

To RSVP Scan this code, or follow this link:

bit.ly/SunStRecpt2026 4

JOIN THE ONLINE CONVERSATION #AERA26 Connect with the USF College of Education on social media and share your content to celebrate the great things happening throughout the event.

Don’t forget to use #AERA26.

@EDUCATIONUSF

The College of Education Marketing and Communications team would love to hear about your experience at AERA 2026. We welcome any photos or video featuring our graduate students and faculty presenters.

Contact Alex Ponder: aponder1@usf.edu USF PRESENTATIONS GUIDE

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WED. APR 8 7:45 to 9:15am PDT 10:45am to 12:15pm EDT

Michelle Angelo-Rocha Trauma-Informed Education Through Translanguaging Practices: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Indigenous Refugee Students in Brazil

Validation of the Korean Motivational Regulation Strategies Scale for Non-Traditional Adult Learners In Online Distance Learning Virtual World Environments And Intercultural Communication in Language Learning: A Research Synthesis Virtual Posters Exhibit Hall, Virtual Poster Hall

Ruthmae Sears

Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 301A

GenAI in STEM Teacher Education: Investigating the Tensions and Emerging Possibilities of Adoption and Use

Stephanie Arthur

Virtual Posters Exhibit Hall, Virtual Poster Hall

GenAI in STEM Teacher Education: Investigating the Tensions and Emerging Possibilities of Adoption and Use Virtual Posters Exhibit Hall, Virtual Poster Hall

Illene Berson & Michael Berson Seeing, Thinking, Wondering: Cultivating Data Literacy in Preschool with Primary Sources (Poster 8) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515A

Sanghoon Park The Relationships Between Community of Inquiry, Academic Procrastination, And Achievement Among Non-Traditional Online Students 6

Sandra Vernon-Jackson GenAI in STEM Teacher Education: Investigating the Tensions and Emerging Possibilities of Adoption and Use

Virtual Posters Exhibit Hall, Virtual Poster Hall

9:45 to 11:15am PDT 12:45 to 2:15pm EDT

Oscar Allaga & Amber Dumford Has the Needle Moved? CTE and Postsecondary Participation of Women in STEM Fields JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

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Robert Dedrick, Katherine Hull & Alex Panos Teaching Climate Crisis in the ELA Classroom: A Mixed Method Survey and Interview Study JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

Katharine Hull & Justo Yanez Graduate Students

Teaching Climate Crisis in the ELA Classroom: A Mixed Method Survey and Interview Study JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 1

Bo Pei

Cindy Matti-lynne Townsend Graduate Student

Has the Needle Moved? CTE and Postsecondary Participation of Women in STEM Fields JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 2

Anthony Woode-Eshun Graduate Student

The Unseen Struggles: Exploring Work-Related Stress and Coping Strategies Among Early Childhood Teachers JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 1

Xiaojiao Sun & Zhaowei Zhang

11:45am to 1:15pm PDT

AutoLit: Enhancing Human-AI Collaboration in Systematic Literature Reviews Through Interactive LLM Support (Stage 2, 9:59 AM)

Cheryl Ellerbrock, Sophia Han, Karina Hensberry, Jennifer Jacobs, Sarah van Ingen Lauer, Patriann Smith & Eugenia VomvoridiIvanovic

Graduate Students

Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Exhibit Hall A - Stage 2

2:45 to 4:15pm EDT

Motherhood as Pedagogical Praxis in Teacher Education: Teacher Educator Mothers Leveraging Motherhood in Their Teaching

Lindsay Persohn Leah Burger

Graduate Student Instructor Decision-Making Around Podcasts as Tools for Research Use in Higher Education

Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 306A

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Daria Smirnova Graduate Student

Migration Museums as Sites of Civic Learning: Exploring Global Citizenship Education in Three Countries “Westin Bonaventure, Floor: TBD, La Cienega Abstract”

Alex Panos Slowing our Laments: Encouraging Teacher Socioecological Literacies amidst Climate Crisis JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 6

Blanca Solis

Graduate Student

4:45 to 6:15pm EDT

Chair:Transnational Student Experiences within Higher Education: Developments and Possibilities

Kristin Valle Geren

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum F

1:45 to 3:15pm PDT

Graduate Student

Slowing our Laments: Encouraging Teacher Socioecological Literacies amidst Climate Crisis JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 6

3:45 to 5:15pm PDT 6:45 to 8:15pm EDT

Lorien Jordan

Stephanie Arthur

Radical Interdisciplinarity: Qualitative Refusal under Algorithmic Entropy

Empowering STEM Educators for Social Justice: The AAA Model for Teacher Education and Supervision

InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Echo Park

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

Alex Panos

John Ferron

Reading and Writing about Climate Change: Developing Teachers’ Literacies in/for a Warming World

Effect Estimation in Randomized Single-Case Experimental Designs: The Influence of Undetected Extraneous Variables

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 6

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InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Hancock Park West

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Wenyu Guo

Csaba Osvath

Centering and Amplifying Asian American Histories and Voices in Dual Language Bilingual Education

Within and Outside the Frame: The Nuances of Meaning Making in Digital Environments from the Web Browser to the Metaverse (Poster 4)

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515A

M. Adelaida Restrepo

THRS. APR 9 7:45 to 9:15am PDT 10:45am to 12:15pm EDT

Illene Berson & Michael Berson Terri L. Hubbard Graduate Student

Reflections in Motion: Video Dialogue Between Mother and Teacher-Daughter as Resistance to Scripted Mandates JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

James King & Jenifer Jasinski Schneider Leah Burger

Graduate Student Second-Order Discourse Synthesis: How Learners Comprehend and Reconstruct Information from Digital, Multimodal Texts (Poster 11) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515A

Graduate Student

Exploring Preschool Story Time: The Influence of Teacher SelfEfficacy and Developmental Beliefs on Drama-Based Strategies JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 3

9:45 to 11:15am PDT 12:45 to 2:15pm EDT

Vonzell Agosto & Deirdre Cobb-Roberts Woke-r Jokers in it for the Long Haul: Mapping mentoring networks (CYF model for Jokers PlayfL) through Professional Development Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, La Brea

Kristin Valle Geren Graduate Student

This Isn’t Our School: Using Placemaking Literacies to Explore Children’s Experiences After School Closure Los Angeles Convention Center, Level One, Petree D

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Jennifer Jacobs, Sophia Han & Eugenia VomvoridiIvanovic

4:15 to 5:45pm PDT

Reimagining Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for International Students in Higher Education

Illene Berson & Michael Berson

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 3rd Floor, Plaza I

Darlshawn Patterson Graduate Student

Complicating Postcolonial Logics: Towards Transraciolinguistic Justice in Literacy Instruction Los Angeles Convention Center, Level One, Petree D

Patriann Smith Complicating Postcolonial Logics: Towards Transraciolinguistic Justice in Literacy Instruction Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

2:15 to 3:45pm PDT 5:15 to 6:45pm EDT

Illene Berson & Alex Panos

7:15 to 8:45pm EDT

The TAL Framework: Interpreting Young Children’s Multimodal Digital Reading Practices (Stage 3, 5:23 PM) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Exhibit Hall A - Stage 3

Camryn T. Collins Graduate Student

Ethics in the Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and Qualitative Research JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 4

Cheryl Ellerbrock Trends & Gaps in the Middle: A Content Analysis of MLER Research Agenda Literature Reviews JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

Kristin Valle Geren Graduate Student

The Potential of English Language Arts Education for Restor(y)ing Hopeful Socioecological Futures

Making Space & Mourning Place: Children’s Placemaking Literacies During an Elementary School Closure

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 3rd Floor, Plaza II

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 4

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Katherine Hull

M. Adelaida Restrepo

Form Letters, Canvassing, and TikTok: How Teachers Use Literacy to Respond to Policy

The Effectiveness of Dramabased Read Alouds: How Teacher Instructional Strategies Relate to Student Narrative Recall

Graduate Student

Graduate Student

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

Lorien Jordan & Jennifer Wolgemuth Matthew Weirick Johnson

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, 4th Floor, Diamond 2

M. Adelaida Restrepo Graduate Student

Ethics in the Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and Qualitative Research

Embodied Literacies for Preschoolers with Diverse Abilities: Developing Inclusive, DramaBased Storytimes in a ResearchPractice Partnership

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 3

FRI. APR 10

9:45 to 11:15am PDT

Graduate Student

7:45 to 9:15am PDT 10:45am to 12:15pm EDT

Paul G. Sauberer Graduate Student

Participant: Multicultural/ Multiethnic Education: Theory, Research, and Practice Buisness Meeting

12:45 to 2:15pm EDT

Illene Berson & Michael Berson Fostering Inquiry in Early Childhood: Analyzing Preservice Teachers’ Use of Primary Sources to Foster Wonder JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 1

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Amber Dumford

Sarah Keifer

Ten Years and One Pandemic Later: Reassessing the Relationships between Student Engagement and Online Learning

Adolescents’ Reflections on Their Happiness Malleability Beliefs Following a Positive Psychology Intervention (Poster 36)

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A

John Ferron & Shannon M. Suldo

Chloe Lancaster

Aileen Kangavary Graduate Student

Adolescents’ Reflections on Their Happiness Malleability Beliefs Following a Positive Psychology Intervention (Poster 36) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A

John Ferron & Eunsook Emma Elísa Evudóttir, Courtney Howard-Kirby & Kim Xilong Jing Graduate Students

How Small Is Too Small?

Investigating Small Class Sizes in Growth Mixture Modeling Through Simulation

Constructing School Counseling: A Comparative NLP and Discourse Analysis of Three National Frameworks (Stage 2, 10:26 AM) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Exhibit Hall A - Stage 2

Sarah Putnam

Graduate Student Constructing School Counseling: A Comparative NLP and Discourse Analysis of Three National Frameworks (Poster 39) Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A

Daria Smirnova Graduate Student

InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Hancock Park West

Fostering Inquiry in Early Childhood: Analyzing Preservice Teachers’ Use of Primary Sources to Foster Wonder

Jennifer Jacobs

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 1

Knowledge and Practice in Teacher Educator Preparation: A Systematic Review of Literature JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 1

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Anthony Woode-Eshun Graduate Student

Fostering Inquiry in Early Childhood: Analyzing Preservice Teachers’ Use of Primary Sources to Foster Wonder JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 1

11:45am to 1:15pm PDT 2:45 to 4:15pm EDT

Sarah Barnard Flory ‘It’s Gonna Take Time’: Enacting Culturally Relevant Physical Education in Urban Schools JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

Craigory Nieman ‘It’s Gonna Take Time’: Enacting Culturally Relevant Physical Education in Urban Schools JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

Patriann Smith Entanglements, Englishes, and Transraciolinguistic Becoming: Navigating Colonialingualism Across Borders Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

1:45 to 3:15pm PDT 4:45 to 6:15pm EDT

Dulcey Hunter

Candace Henry

Graduate Student

The Cost of Triumph: Translating Narrative Research in Cabaret for Arts-Based Education Inquiry

Teaching Through Trauma: Supporting Teachers Through Times of Personal Trauma and Loss

InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Echo Park

Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two, Room 501A

Matthew Weirick Johnson

Lisa Lopez

Moving Past the Research Paper: Centering Metaliteracy in Effective Research Assignment Design

Examining Home Language Input and Cross-Language Oral Language Skills in PreK SpanishEnglish DLLs

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 4

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

Graduate Student

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Shaunacy Robert Sutter Graduate Student

Examining Home Language Input and Cross-Language Oral Language Skills in PreK SpanishEnglish DLLs JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 2

Matthew Valente Synthesis of Single-Case Design Mediation Effects using Two-Stage Multilevel Modeling JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 4

Charles Vanover Friends for Life: The Power of Experience, Story, and Performance InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Echo Park

Adriana S. Vianna Graduate Student

VR as a Digital Pathway: Empowering Brazilian Mothers through English Language Learning and Career Preparation Los Angeles Convention Center, Level One, Petree Hall C

3:45 to 5:15pm PDT 6:45 to 8:15pm EDT

Turan Ahmadova Graduate Student

Towards a Meaningful Practice of Transparency in Arts-Based Educational Research: Structured Poster Session Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515B

Leah Burger

Graduate Student Participant: AERA Graduate Student Council: Closed Meeting Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two, Room 518

Kristin Valle Geren Graduate Student

Stories-To-Live-By: Growing Teacher Literacies Amidst Polycrisis Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 301B

Elizabeth Hadley Growing Words: An Integrated Framework for Building Vocabulary Knowledge in the Early Grades JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

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Marquis Holley

Daria Smirnova

Soul Sista: Trials And Triumphs Told Through Her Eyes, Words, And Moves… (Poster 4) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515B

Lorien Jordan Navigating AI in Qualitative Research: Faculty Perspectives in the Postdigital Era

Graduate Student

Navigating AI in Qualitative Research: Faculty Perspectives in the Postdigital Era InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Echo Park

Patriann Smith Blackness & Immigration in the Era of ICE

InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Echo Park

Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 308A

Emily McConnaughy

Charles Vanover

Graduate Student

Teachers’ Perspectives on Curriculum Impact: Supporting Student Success Within and Beyond the Juvenile Justice System JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, 4th Floor, Diamond 10

Tensions and Questions on Engaging Ethnodramatic Performers in a University Setting (Poster 10) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515B

Alex Panos Stories-To-Live-By: Growing Teacher Literacies Amidst Polycrisis Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 301B

Paul G. Sauberer Graduate Student

Navigating AI in Qualitative Research: Faculty Perspectives in the Postdigital Era InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Echo Park USF PRESENTATIONS GUIDE

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SAT. APR 11

Cheryl Ellerbrock & Lindsay Persohn

7:45 to 9:15am PDT

World of Wonder: Young Adolescent Inquiry Through Virtual Reality and Supported Research Opportunities

10:45am to 12:15pm EDT

Stephanie Arthur & Ruthmae Sears The Impact of Workshops and Graduate Coursework on Mechatronics on STEM Teachers’ Efficacy and Beliefs JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

Sophia Han Beyond Perpetual Foreigners: Racial Experiences of Korean American Families Across Generations Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

9:45 to 11:15am PDT 12:45 to 2:15pm EDT

Deirdre Cobb-Roberts Re-Narrating the Experiences of Black Women Leaders in the Academy Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 306A

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

Wenyu Guo Teaching across Communities: Immigrant Teachers Navigating Identity and Belonging in a Chinese Heritage Language School JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 7

11:45am to 1:15pm PDT 2:45 to 4:15pm EDT

Susan Bennett Literature, Identity, and Pedagogical Growth: Exploring Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Through Cross-Cultural Book Clubs JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

Jolyn Blank Bridging the Gaps: A Kindergarten Teacher’s Identity Amid Digital Pressures and Developmental Practice JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

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Vonzell Agosto, Lauren Braunstein & Deirdre CobbRoberts

1:45 to 3:15pm PDT

Improvising and Persisting (IP): A Mentoring Model

Eunsook Kim

4:45 to 6:15pm EDT

Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 309

Automated Analysis of TeacherChild Language Interactions in Pre-K Classrooms

Brianna Connors

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

“We Were Ready. . . But Not for This”: Novice Teachers Reclaiming Purpose Through Critical Professional Learning (Stage 1, 12:08 PM) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Exhibit Hall A - Stage 1

Terri L. Hubbard

Elizabeth Hadley Automated Analysis of TeacherChild Language Interactions in Pre-K Classrooms JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

Erica J. Milor

Graduate Student

Bridging the Gaps: A Kindergarten Teacher’s Identity Amid Digital Pressures and Developmental Practice JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 2

Paul G. Sauberer

Graduate Student “You Should Not Judge, You Should Understand”: The Effects and Perceptions of an Empathy Embedded Teacher Inquiry Framework JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

Graduate Student

Dog Whistles and White Tears: Whiteness, Power, and the Public Pedagogy of CRT Book Reviews JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 3

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3:45 to 5:15pm PDT 6:45 to 8:15pm EDT

Clarence Walker Michelle Angelo-Rocha & Lauren Braunstein “Not Just Portuguese”: Translanguaging and Linguistic Justice for Indigenous and Refugee Students in Brazilian Schools JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

“Keep These Histories Alive!”: Harnessing Socially Conscious Art to Reimagine Ethnic Studies JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 3rd Floor, Georgia I

Arianna Banack

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A Wide Range: Approaches to Integrating Diverse Literature in Secondary ELA Classrooms

7:45 to 9:15am PDT

Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Los Cerritos

Candace Henry Investing in Uncertainty: Student Loans, Value Perception, and Financial Impact for FirstGeneration Students JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum F

Daria Smirnova Graduate Student

Qualitative Research SIG Closed Mentoring Session InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Wilshire Grand Ballroom I

10:45am to 12:15pm EDT

Alexandro Castellanos Graduate Student

The Impact of Workshops and Graduate Coursework on Mechatronics on STEM Teachers’ Efficacy and Beliefs JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 1

Alex Panos Katherine Hull Graduate Student

Unforgetting ELA’s Role in Climate Education: Florida Teachers Navigating Restrictive Politics to Imagine Justice‑Centered Futures JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 6

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Kelley Schuler

Leah Burger & Lucy Monette

The Impact of Workshops and Graduate Coursework on Mechatronics on STEM Teachers’ Efficacy and Beliefs

World of Wonder: Young Adolescent Inquiry Through Virtual Reality and Supported Research Opportunities

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 1

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 3

Alfredo Rodriguez Vera

Emma Elísa Evudóttir

The Impact of Workshops and Graduate Coursework on Mechatronics on STEM Teachers’ Efficacy and Beliefs

Chair: Beyond Traditional SEM: Model Fit, Heterogeneity, and New Paradigms

Graduate Student

Graduate Students

Graduate Student

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 1

9:45 to 11:15am PDT 12:45 to 2:15pm EDT

Jolyn Blank & Sophia Han Daria Smirnova

Graduate Student

InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, 5th Floor, Echo Park

Courtney Howard-Kirby Graduate Student

Nonnormality and a Small Latent Class in Growth Mixture Modeling InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, 5th Floor, Echo Park

Xilong Jing

Graduate Student

Graduate Student

Exploring Education Legislation and Policy in Early Childhood Teacher Education (Poster 34) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A

Nonnormality and a Small Latent Class in Growth Mixture Modeling InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, 5th Floor, Echo Park

Matthew Weirick Johnson Graduate Student

Science Fiction as Methodology: Extrapolation, Speculation, and Fabulation in Qualitative Inquiry JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 4 USF PRESENTATIONS GUIDE

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Eunsook Kim

Wenyu Guo

Nonnormality and a Small Latent Class in Growth Mixture Modeling

Chinese American Children Interrogating Race Through AsianCrit-Informed Racial Literacy in a Community-Based Book Club

InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Echo Park

Naila Peken

Graduate Student Policy Evolution and Educational Equity for English Language Learners: A Case Study from Florida Schools

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 3rd Floor, Plaza I

Jennifer Jacobs Methods and Protocols for Collaborative Self-Study of Enacted Teacher Educator Practice

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Gold Level, Gold 1

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 9

Melissa S. Ramge

Gen Li

From Rigidity to Responsiveness: Post-Pandemic Syllabus Policy Shifts and Student Perceptions of Instruction

Latent Profile Analysis of Youth Social-Emotional Adjustment, Prosocial Behavior, and Academic Competence

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 4

Los Angeles Convention Center, Level One, Petree D

Graduate Student

11:45am to 1:15pm PDT 2:45 to 4:15pm EDT

David Allsopp & Sarah van Ingen Lauer Intersections of Inquiry: Analyzing the Referencing of Special Education Research in Mathematics Education Journals (Poster 53)

Graduate Student

Tony Xing Tan Blanca Solis

Graduate Student Fast But Not Ready: Issues and Results from Using ChatGPT to Grade Essays from Chinese ESL Undergraduates (Stage 2, 12:26 PM) Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Exhibit Hall A - Stage 2

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Jolyn Blank, Illene Berson, Michael Berson & Lisa Lopez From Flipping Pages to Scrolling Screens: Exploring Emergent Digital Literacy Behaviors of Young Children JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

Gabriel Oduro-Boamah, Katherine Nash & Krysta Salvato-Hayes Graduate Student

Intersections of Inquiry: Analyzing the Referencing of Special Education Research in Mathematics Education Journals (Poster 53) Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A

Katherine Hull Graduate Student

Writing to Know: Exploring Methodological Choices in a Narrative Inquiry JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

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Professor John Ferron

was announced a 2026 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

He will be honored on Thursday, April 9 11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. during the Awards Ceremony Luncheon. $35 for students and $65 for non students.

Attendees can update an existing registration to include the luncheon, but tickets are first-come first-served.

2026 Fellows: bit.ly/AERAHonors26

Professor Jenni Wolgemuth

has recently been elected to serve as Member-at-Large on the AERA SIG Executive Committee, where she will begin a three-year term and her co-edited book, Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis, has been selected to receive the Division D Significant Contributions to Research Methodology Award from the American Educational Research Association.

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Associate Professor Mandie Bevels Dunn,

from the USF College of Education, on receiving an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Early Career Award from AERA Division K! This award recognizes early-career researchers for a significant program of research on important problems of theory and practice focusing on teachers, teaching and teacher education.

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