College of Education Research Conference 2024
The College of Education Research Conference is an opportunity for the college community, faculty, and graduate students, to learn about each other’s work, share ideas, and build collaborations for the future.
Conference When & Where
Friday, October 11, 2024
8:30a - 4:30p
Toftrees Golf Resort & Conference Center
1 Country Club Lane, State College, PA 16803
2024 Program At-A-Glance
To view the abstracts for a session click on the session title, or view a full listing of presentation abstracts here.
Check-in & Keynote (Silver Maple Rooms)
8:30-9:00 Check-in / Coffee & Pastries
9:00-9:45 Keynote Speaker - Dr. Adrienne Dixson
Morning Presentations
9:45-10:00 Presentation Set-up & Morning Break
10:00-11:30 Round Table Sessions
10:00-11:30 Paper Sessions
Lunch
11:30-1:00 The Aspen Room (behind foyer)
Afternoon Presentations
1:00-2:00 Panel Sessions
2:10-3:10 Paper Sessions
3:10-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Paper Sessions
Morning Presentation Sessions
Round Table Session 1
Silver Maple Ballroom III / 10:00-10:25
Leading and Learning at Home and Work
Agentic HRD Insights into Medical Faculty Burnout
Tehniyet Azam, Doctoral Student, Workforce Education & Development
Interaction Patterns and Structures in the r/personal finance weekend help and victory thread
Jose Sandoval-Llanos, Doctoral Student, Learning, Design & Technology; Priya Sharma, Associate Professor, Learning, Design & Technology
Succession Planning and Leadership Development in Nursing: A Bibliometric Analysis (2000 to 2023)
Azza Al Hajri, Doctoral Student, Workforce Education & Development
Developing Leadership Talent for the Future of Work
Halimah Hathah, Doctoral Student, Workforce Education & Development
Round Table Session 2
Silver Maple Ballroom III / 10:30-10:55
Inquiries in Teacher Development
Exploring the Interplay of Identity, Positionality, and Intersectionality in Teacher Education: Implications for Teacher Subjectivity and Pedagogical Practice
Haniyeh Kheirkhah, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction
Enhancing Teacher Training and Development in Saudi Arabia: Addressing Quality Challenges and Aligning with Vision 2030
Shoaa Aljohani, Doctoral Student, Workforce Education & Development
More than an Acronym: The Lived Experiences of Emerging Special Educators and the Call for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Teacher Preparation
Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg, Assistant Professor, Special Education; Undergraduate Students: Jenna Spencer, Ava Herr, Rebecca Zinn, Victoria Alvarez , Julianna Fagan
Round Table Session 3
Silver Maple Ballroom III / 11:00-11:25
Liberatory Practices in Learning
Tailoring Teacher Education for Asian American Preservice Teachers: Exploring the Intersection of Identity, Racial Stereotypes, and Teacher Preparation Programs
Yareem Lee, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction
Parent Perceptions of the Transition Process for Their Child With A Disability
Cassandra Kam, Doctoral Student, Counselor Education; Nayma Sultana Mim, Doctoral Student, Special Education
Toward a merrier PhD experience: hindsight of doing a PhD from a global voice.
Xin Guo, Doctoral Student, Higher Education
What happens when you ask your students who use AAC to write a sentence?
Nicole Romano, Doctoral Student, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Utilizing QuantCrit in a Student-Focused Research Team: Advancing Critical Consciousness in Counselor Education
Aiesha Lee, Assistant Professor, Counselor Education; Sarah Shrewsbury-Braxton, Assistant Professor, Counselor Education
Remembering and (Re)reading Black Girl-Oriented Programs for Multiple Girlhoods and Futures
Tiffany M. Nyachae, Assistant Professor, Language & Literacy Education
Concurrent Paper Sessions
(times vary by room)
White Oak Library / 10:00-10:45
Fostering Student Voice and Agency
Presider: Karen MurphyThe Influence of Student Voice Classroom- and School-Level Opportunities on Youth Development and Outcome
Ghadir Al Saghir, Doctoral Student, Education Policy & Leadership
Using Sequential Pattern Mining to Uncovering Scaffolding Patterns in K-12 Online Math Instruction
Angela (Huanying) Song, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology ; Wenting Zou, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology; Feiwen Xiao, Doctoral Student, Learning, Design & Technology; Jiaju Lin, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology
Teacher Educator Perspectives on the Role of Discussion in Elementary Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Pennsylvania
Emilee Herman, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology; Yue Tang, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology
White Oak Room / 10:00-11:00
Women, Work, and Systemic Violence
Presider: Allison HenwardNavigating the Unseen Barriers and Mentorship Gaps for Women with Intersectional Identities in Academia
Francisca Figueroa, Doctoral Student, Higher Education; Nana-Anna Abaka-Cann, Doctoral Student, Higher Education; Brandy Agnew, Doctoral Student, Education Policy & Leadership; Ruby Humphris, Doctoral Student, Special Education
It's Hot in the Shade: Racial Comparative content analyses of microaggressions facing women faculty
Leah Hollis, Associate Dean for Access, Equity and Inclusion, and Professor, Higher Education; Gala Campos, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology
Questioning the Equitable Well Being of BIPOC ECEC teachers
Allison Henward, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education; Yue Qi, Doctoral Student, Early Childhood Education
Red Pine Library / 10:30-11:30
Structural Inequities in School and Work
Presider: Ed FullerThe Contribution of School District Boundaries on Segregation and Diversity
Josh Almes, Doctoral Student, Educational Leadership
Teacher Supply, Turnover, and shortages in Pennsylvania
Ed Fuller, Professor, Education Policy & Leadership
Ethical Decision-Making in Workforce Education: A Focus on Faculty and Staff Retention Strategies
Aikumis Serikbayeva, Doctoral Student, Workforce Education & Development
Successful Transition to Decent Work: Students' CTE Experiences by Majors
Seong Ji Jeong, Assistant Professor, Workforce Education & Development
Red Pine Room / 10:30-11:30
SYMPOSIUM
Chair: Phoebe QuaynorExploring Endarkened Feminist Approaches for Revolutionizing Teacher Consciousness
Jeanine Staples-Dixon, Professor, Curriculum & Instruction; Miriam Ruzicka, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction; Gillian Butcher, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction
Afternoon Presentation Sessions
Panel Sessions
Silver Maple Ballroom I / 1:00-2:00
Critical Conversations about Innovative Pedagogy: Establishing a Research Hub to Investigate Challenges to Anti-Racist Praxis
Mildred Boveda, Associate Professor, Special Education
Francesca Lopez, Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy and Professor, Language, Culture & Society
Brittany Aronson, Associate Professor, Curriculum & Supervision
Marsha Modeste, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership
P. Karen Murphy, Interim Associate Dean & Distinguished Professor, Educational Psychology
Silver Maple Room II / 1:00-2:00
Generative AI for Good and Evil: Possible Futures for Education
Marcela Borge, Associate Professor, Learning, Design & Technology
ChanMin Kim, Associate Professor, Learning, Design & Technology
Priya Sharma, Associate Professor, Learning, Design & Technology
Gerald LeTendre, Harry L. Batschelet Chair of Educational Administration, and Professor, Educational Leadership
Jose Cossa, Associate Professor, Lifelong Learning & Adult Education
Concurrent Paper Presentations - PM Session 1
White Oak Library / 2:10-3:10
Technology, AI, and Digital Augmentation in Learning Environments
Presider: David McNaughtonEmpowering Human Agency in the AI Era: Insights for Educators, Students, and Professionals
Hyung Joon Yoon, Associate Professor, Workforce Education & Development, Denise Poole, Doctoral Student Workforce Education & Development; Abdullah Alsubaie, Doctoral Student Workforce Education & Development; Hosung You, Doctoral Student Workforce Education & Development; Tehniyet Azam, Doctoral Student Workforce Education & Development; Beiwen Sun, Doctoral Student Workforce Education & Development
Building Capacity through Collaboration: The AAC Learning Center
David McNaughton, Professor, Special Education, Dana Pateaude, Doctoral Student, Special Education; Sharon Redmon, Doctoral Student, Special Education; Nicole Romano, Doctoral Student, Communication Sciences and Disorders; Kelsey Steffen, Doctoral Student, Communication Sciences and Disorders; Elizabeth Benedek-Wood, Teaching Professor, Special Education
Transcending Skynet: How Digital Augmentation is Reshaping Learning and Cognition
Nicholas Grande, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction
Multi-Agent Simulation: Designing an Interactive Learning Environment for Teen Anti-bullying Intervention
Jiaju Lin, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology
Red Pine Library / 2:10-3:10
Global Perspectives in Education and Changes
Presider: Amy CrossonLearning in the Midst of Social Movements: Using Narrative Inquiry to Explore Turning Points and Transformations
Mai Atta, Doctoral Student, Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
Strategic Leadership Development: Key Success Factors for Succession Planning in the Eastern Healthcare Cluster of Saudi Arabia
Musaad Alqahtani, Doctoral Student, Workforce Education & Development
Faculty Engagement in Internationalization in Kazakhstan
Aigerim Akylbayeva, Doctoral Student, Higher Education
Red Pine Room / 2:10-3:10
Wellness, Identity, and Belonging
Presider: Elizabeth ProsekStudent-Athlete Experiences Navigating NIL: Identity and Intersectionality
Breneil Malcolm, Doctoral Student, Learning, Design & Technology; Kyle Richardson, Associate Director of Development, Penn State Athletics
Belonging and Engagement: Examining Course and University-Level Experiences Among Undergraduate Students in Introductory Statistics
Farzan Farhadi, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology
Examining Communication and Interpretation of an Institutional Belonging Statement
Priya Baboo, Doctoral Student, Higher Education; Benjamin McMullen, Doctoral Student, Higher Education; Daymond Zweizig, Doctoral Student, Higher Education
Attending to Military Family Wellbeing: Empirical Indications to Address Recruitment and Retention
Elizabeth Prosek, Associate Professor, Counselor Education
BREAK / 3:10 - 3:30
Concurrent Paper Presentations - PM Session 2
White Oak Library/ 3:30-4:30
STEM Learning in Formal and Informal Spaces
Presider: Carol ClymerResults from an Evaluation of the Smithsonian Institution’s Talk with Me Toolkits
Carol Clymer, Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy; Mai Atta, Doctoral Student, Lifelong Learning & Adult Education; Ping Xu, Doctoral Student, School Psychology
Examining interactions between dominant discourses and engineering educational concepts in teachers' pedagogical reasoning
Natalie Rae, Assistant Professor, Learning, Design & Technology
Conceptions of Engineering Doctoral Writing and Writing Supervision
Gala Campos, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology
Concurrent Predictors of Science in Latine Kindergarteners
Paola del Campo, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology
Red Pine Library/ 3:30-4:30
Critical Approaches to Methodology in Education Research
Presider: Charlotte LandBridging Worldviews: Using Scenarios to Facilitate Discussion in Interdisciplinary Research Spaces
Kendall Mainzer, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology; Cory Brautigam, Doctoral Student, Language, Culture & Society; Madiha Noor, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction; Yue Tang, Doctoral Student, Educational Psychology; Jubara Abusin, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction; Hala Salam, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction; Ahmad Ali, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction; Charlotte Land, Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Keep it Simple, Make it Freirean: Amplifying Critical Consciousness Through Latinx Punk
Eric Hunting, Doctoral Student, Lifelong Learning & Adult Education
The Day We Learned to Fight Forward: Nurturing a Community of Critical Qualitative Inquirers
Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg, Assistant Professor, Special Education; Breneil Malcolm, Learning, Design & Technology; Priya Baboo, Doctoral Student, Higher Education; Ruby Humphris, Doctoral Student, Special Education; Brandy Agnew, Doctoral Student, Education Policy & Leadership; Francisca Figueroa, Doctoral Student, Higher Education
Crafting Academic Book Reviews: A Rhetorical Move Analysis of Criticism
Ehean Kim, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction
Red Pine Room / 3:30-4:30
SYMPOSIUM
Chair: Lydia Ocasio-StoutenburgLydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg, Assistant Professor, Special Education; Azaria Cunningham (not presenting); Yuchen Yang, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction; Special Education Undergraduate Students: Rebecca Zinn, Ava Herr