Posted April 4, 2024 — More than three dozen researchers from the University of Houston College of Education will share their scholarship on teacher development, STEM education, college culture and other initiatives to support marginalized students at the 2024 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting.

The high-profile conference, taking place April 11-14 in Philadelphia, will bring together thousands of scholars around the theme of “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action.”

The UH presenters at AERA include faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Several presentations from faculty in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction will focus on supporting multilingual students. For example, Assistant Professor Xin Li will share findings to promote socio-emotional development among language-minority youth. Assistant Professor Tairan Qiu, who organized a symposium on transnational literacies, will discuss approaches for humanizing qualitative research methodologies. And Clinical Assistant Professor Marédil León will present an analysis of Colombian textbooks to teach English.

To improve the preparation of teachers, Clinical Assistant Professor Bernadette Castillo and faculty from Minnesota State University will discuss insights gleaned from student-teachers.

“In this presentation,” she said, “you will learn about the tensions that emerged from teacher candidates’ perceptions of their experiences in a teacher education program with a vision and goal that embeds racial consciousness and social justice.”

Honing in on the college experience, Assistant Professor Allison Master and Paul Turcotte, a Ph.D. student in the Measurement, Quantitative Methods and Learning Sciences program, will present survey results assessing engagement throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

“First-year students were particularly affected in 2021 but showed consistent signs of recent improvement in engagement and belonging in 2023,” they explained. “Overall, students’ engagement practices show promising recent signs of improving to pre-pandemic levels. However, all students showed significant disruptions to their educational belonging and engagement.”

Also presenting on higher education, Clinical Professor and Associate Dean Tiffany J. Davis will highlight “promising practices that institutions can use to help reduce equity gaps for Black first-generation college women.”

“Specifically,” she added, “we share the unique barriers our participants faced that impacted their collegiate experience due to their multiple minoritized identities, discuss the role of financial resources and mental health support in mitigating challenges, and articulate the significant difference the role of institutional interventions, such as the McNair Scholars Program, play in Black college women’s lives.”

Similarly, Teranda Donatto, a Ph.D. student in the higher education program, will share research on how culture and family characteristics shape African American students’ college choice.

“The findings highlight the influence of family members and school staff as well as the importance of the centrality of community, spirituality, the value of education, and agency to students’ decision-making,” said Donatto, a program director for the UH Advancing Community Engagement and Service Institute. “With these findings, educators can create pre-college programming that draws on African American family and culture as a strength in helping these students in overcoming barriers to college choice.”

Explore the list of all AERA presentations and meetings featuring UH College of Education members.

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 (Pre-conference Session)

• Division A Early Career Mentoring Pre-Conference Session
  1 – 5 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 116
  Chair: April Peters-Hawkins

Thursday, April 11, 2024

• The Importance of Role Models Who Show Enthusiasm about STEM
  9 – 10:30 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 112B
  Authors: Kahyun Lee, Jennifer Thompson and Allison Master
• Cultivating Antibias Antiracism Early Childhood Teachers Through Practice
  9 – 10:30 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 106B
  Author: Xin Li
• College Student Engagement and Belonging Across the COVID-19 Pandemic
  10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 3, Room 305
  Authors: Paul Turcotte and Allison Master
• AERA Council Meeting
  11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 103C
  Participant: Virginia Snodgrass Rangel
• Racialized Funding: Federal and Institutional Mechanisms for Addressing Educational Equity
  12:40 – 2:10 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 108B
  Chair: Binh Chi Bui
• Walking a Raciolinguistics Path Con Mi Abuela
  12:40 – 2:10 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 13
  Author: Jeannette Alarcón
• Making the Invisible Visible: Latina Art Teachers Navigating Issues of Oppression in the Workplace
  12:40 – 2:10 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 109A
  Author: Andrea Allen
• Addressing Work-Life Balance Challenges of Asian American Female Teachers in the Post-Pandemic Era
  2:30 – 4 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Authors: Yi Zhang, Miao Li and Xincui Zhang
• Dehumanization as Policy: A Frame Analysis of Immigration and Detention Portrayals in the Media
  4:20 – 5:50 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Mikel Cole

Friday, April 12, 2024

• Exploring Incongruities Between Local Maps, Data, and Students’ Sense of Place
  7:45 - 9:15 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Travis Weiland
• STEM Teacher Candidates Perceptions of a Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Course: A Qualitative Analysis
  7:45 - 9:15 a.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 401
  Authors: Karen McIntush, Paige Evans and Ramona Mateer
• Identity, Agency and Social Justice in Mathematics Education
  7:45 - 9:15 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Chair: Melissa Gallagher
• A Critical Statistical Literacy Framework for Reading Data Visualizations
  9:35 - 11:05 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 112A
  Authors: Travis Weiland and Laura Shelton
• Great Start Readiness Program and Children’s Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Study
  9:35 - 11:05 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Xin Li
• The Insidiousness of Invisibility: Exploring the Mitigating Impact of a Mentoring Program on Marginalized Students
  9:35 - 11:05 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Authors: Amy Murdock and Yali Zou
• A Morpho-Phonemic Intervention for Elementary Bilingual Students With Reading Difficulties: Evidence From a Single-Subject Design
  11:25 a.m. - 12:55 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 103A
  Authors: Lana Kharabi-Yamato and Jie Zhang
• Working in, with, and for Our Communities: Humanizing Method(ologie)s in Transnational Literacies Research
  Research as Teaching: Fostering Translingual Transnational Literacies with a China-U.S. Transnational Youth
  11:25 a.m. - 12:55 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 4
  Chair/Author: Tairan Qiu
• Multimodal Representations of the Ideal Neoliberal Citizen in Colombian ELT Textbooks
  11:25 a.m. - 12:55 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Marédil León
• Looking at Mentoring from a PK-12 School District Perspective
  11:25 a.m. - 12:55 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 402
  Chair: April Peters-Hawkins
• Translanguaging in Global K-12 Science Classrooms: Accounting for the Institutional, Ideological, and Linguistic Barriers
  3:05 - 4:30 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 6
  Authors: Hien Thi Tran, Zhenjie Hou, Jie Zhang, Raju Ahmmed, Haemin Kim and Ada Clerigo
• 10th Annual Language and Social Processes Mentoring Session
  4:55 - 6:25 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 2
  Chair: Tairan Qiu
• Linguistic Complexity of Science Standardized Assessments: Implications for Assessment and Instructions for English Learners
  4:55 - 6:25 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Haemin Kim
• Fostering Inclusive Engagement: Insights from Student Experience
  4:55 - 6:25 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Chair: Binh Chi Bui
• Leadership for Social Justice SIG Business Meeting
  6:45 - 8:15 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 107B
  Participants: Detra Johnson, April Peters-Hawkins and Virginia Snodgrass Rangel
• Division H Movers and Shakers Reception
  6:45 - 8:15 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 4
  Chair: Virginia Snodgrass Rangel

Saturday, April 13, 2024

• “Teach Me to Navigate the System”: How McNair Programs Help Reimagine Belonging for Black First-generation Women
  7:45 - 9:15 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Tiffany J. Davis
• Out of these waters: The Little Mermaid and casting backlashes as racial projects for history classrooms
  7:45 - 9:15 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Joanna Batt
• Morphological Problem-solving with Morphemic Structure and Context Support: Explore Impact of Learner and Word Attributes
  9:35 - 11:05 a.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 8
  Authors: Zhenjie Hou and Jie Zhang
• Cultivating Global Awareness Through Online Dialogic Teaching: A Case Study
  9:35 - 11:05 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Yali Zou
• When am I Going to Learn How to Teach?: Tensions with Anti-Racist Theory and Practice
  9:35 - 11:05 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 104A
  Author: Bernadette Castillo
• A Situated Expectancy-Value Approach to Understanding Indian and American Adolescents’ Science Attitudes and Beliefs
  9:35 - 11:05 a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall A
  Author: Allison Master
• AERA Open: Closed Editorial Board Meeting
  11:25 a.m. - 12:55 p.m, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 105B
  Participant: Cathy Horn
• A Systematic Review of Conceptual Frameworks on Moderators in Online Discussions
  11:25 a.m. - 12:55 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 11
  Authors: Michael Ahlf and Sara McNeil
• Exploring the Dynamics of Daily Experiences, Emotions, and Depression Among Asian American Students
  3:05 - 4:30 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall A
  Authors: Kahyun Lee and Allison Master
• The Ecological Environmental Supports for Language-Minority Students’ Socioemotional Development
  1:15 - 2:45 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Xin Li
• Teaching of Educational Psychology Business Meeting
  3:05 - 4:35 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 402
  Participant: Allison Master
• Caribbean and African Studies in Education Business Meeting
  6:45 - 8:15 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 401
  Chair: Dave Louis
• Research on Women and Education SIG Business Meeting
  6:45 - 8:15 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Salon I
  Chair: Detra Johnson
• Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools Business Meeting and Reception
  6:45 - 8:15 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 12
  Officer: Virginia Snodgrass Rangel
• Division D and Division H Joint Social
  8:15 - 9:45 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Salon A&B
  Chair: Virginia Snodgrass Rangel

Sunday, April 14, 2024

• The Infrastructures of Inclusion: Comparing Booker T. Washington and Syed Ahmad Khan's Social Reform Strategies
  7:45 - 9:15. a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 113C
  Authors: Muhammad Arif Khan and Yali Zou
• AERA Executive Director and Division Vice Presidents: Closed Meeting
  7:45 - 9:15. a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 106A
  Participant: Virginia Snodgrass Rangel
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Situating the Identities and Experiences of AAPI Students at an AANAPISI (Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander–Serving Institution)
  7:45 - 9:15. a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Trang Phan
• Language and Discourse in Mathematics Education
  7:45 - 9:15. a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Chair: Melissa Gallagher
• Examining Student Involvement as a Process Variable
  9:35 - 11:05. a.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 7
  Author: Binh Chi Bui
• Contracting for Success? An Analysis of Performance Contracts Under Senate Bill 1882 in Texas
  9:35 - 11:05. a.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Fiza Mairaj
• Partnering in Equity Work: Tensions that Accompany Collaborative Efforts to Advance Equity in Schools
  11:25 a.m. - 12:55 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 113C
  Author: April Peters-Hawkins
• Hear our voices: Black Feminist Articulations of Systemic Oppression and Organizational Failure at HWIs
  11:25 a.m. - 12:55. p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 103A
  Discussant: Tiffany J. Davis
• “African Root and American Fruit”: African American Family and Culture in College Choice
  11:25 a.m. - 12:55. p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 300, Room 305
  Author: Teranda Donatto
• Leaders of Color and Perceptions of Organizational Culture: Measuring Racial Stress
  1:15 - 2:45 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: April Peters-Hawkins
• Educational Equity and the Logics of COVID-19: Informing School Leadership Practices in a New Period of Democratic Education
  3:05 - 4:35 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 412
  Author: April Peters-Hawkins
• AERA Research Advisory Committee Closed Meeting
  3:05 - 4:35 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 106A
  Participant: Virginia Snodgrass Rangel 
• Entering the Hip-Hop Curriculum for 21st-Century Homeless Youth to Increase Racial Consciousness
  3:05 - 4:35 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Second Floor, Exhibit Hall B
  Author: Miao Li 

— By Ericka Mellon and Kathy Patnaude