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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 Murphy

The 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 Henward

Navigating 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 Fuller

The 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 Quaynor  

Exploring 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 McNaughton

Empowering 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 Crosson

Learning 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 Prosek

Student-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 Clymer

Results 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 Land

Bridging 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-Stoutenburg

(Re)Writing Spaces: Student Reflections on Authoring Love is Praxis and The Family Disability Intersectionality Collaborative

Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg, Assistant Professor, Special Education; Azaria Cunningham (not presenting); Yuchen Yang, Doctoral Student, Curriculum & Instruction; Special Education Undergraduate Students: Rebecca Zinn, Ava Herr