"Knowledge to Action: Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity" Thursday, April 27 - Monday, May 1, 2017 San Antonio #AERA17
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Thirty-one Annual Meeting sessions will be live-streamed! To view the list of sessions and to register, click here.
Thursday, April 27, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Stars at Night Ballroom 1 Session Hashtag: #AERAOpening Chair: Vivian L. Gadsden, Penn Graduate School of Education Moderator: Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education Participants: Jonathan Jansen, University of the Free State, Cynthia Teniente-Matson, Texas A&M University San Antonio, Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Link to Session
Thursday, April 27, 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, River Level, The Grotto Link to Reception
Friday, April 28, 12:25 p.m. to 1:55 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 301 A&B Session Hashtag: #AERADistinguished Chair: Vivian L. Gadsden, Penn Graduate School of Education Link to Session
Saturday, April 29, 2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 302 A&B Session Hashtag: #AERAWallace Chair: Vivian L. Gadsden, Penn Graduate School of Education Discussant: Min Zhou, University of California - Los Angeles Link to Session
The Promise of Education Research and the Public Trust Saturday, April 29, 4:35 to 5:50 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Stars at Night Ballroom 1 Session Hashtag: #AERAPres Link to Session
Saturday, April 29, 12:25 to 2:25 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Stars at Night Ballroom 1 Session Hashtag: #AERAAwards Chair: Vivian L. Gadsden, Penn Graduate School of Education Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 4:05 p.m. to 5:35 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Meeting Room Level, Room 220-Cantilever Chair: Felice J. Levine, AERA Participants: Vivian L. Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania, Jeannie Oakes, University of California, Los Angeles, and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Link to Session
Translating ICAP on Student Engagement Into Practice Friday, April 28, 12:25 p.m. to 1:55 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 302 A&B Chair: Rodney K. Hopson, George Mason University Session Hashtag: #AERAContributions Link to Session
Science and Politics in the Instruction and Assessment of English Learners Friday, April 28, 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 303 A&B Chair: Gerunda B. Hughes, Howard University Link to Session
Reprisal and Revival in an Age of Denial: Pentecostal Hip-Hop Pedagogies in the Key of Life Saturday, April 29, 8:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 303 A&B Chair: Terrie Epstein, Hunter College - CUNY Link to Session
Making Higher Education Just Sunday, April 30, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Fourth Floor, Texas Ballroom Salon E Session Hashtag: #AERASJ Chair: Kofi Lomotey, Western Carolina University Link to Session
This sampling of AERA Presidential Sessions provides a sense of the rich and compelling content that will engage Annual Meeting attendees.
Thursday, April 27, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 301 A&B
This session will examine critical issues around the meaning and indicators of trauma as well as its contexts and consequences.Trauma is increasingly becoming a catch-all term associated with problems with schooling, achievement and adaptation. While the pernicious effects of events involving abuse and the obstacles imposed by racism, homophobia, social discrimination and poverty are not questionable the conceptualization of trauma needs to be considered. This session will explore the conceptualization of trauma and its relationship to educational opportunity and equity. It will also consider gaps in trauma research in order to inform future research by asking: What do we know about and how do we integrate trauma research knowledge in our work? Chair: Ramon Markee Jevon Griffin Participants: Tony Brown, Lalitha M. Vasudevan, Margaret Beale Spencer, and Leon Caldwell Link to Session
Thursday, April 27, 4:05 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 304 C
The undeniable influence of Twitter in the recent presidential election raises important questions about the evolving role of social media in American political discourse. This session will highlight the role of social media as a new means by which education politics and policy are conceptualized, understood, and engaged with by public actors. For example, an analysis of nearly one million tweets from 190,000 distinct actors about the Common Core State Standards showed how social media activists wielded influence to help shape the political context which informed state and federal policy making. Utilizing multiple methods, including social network analysis, big data text mining techniques, and discourse analysis, the researchers on this panel will discuss the major trends in the ways in which new forms of participatory media are changing the political context around major education reforms. The session presenters will also discuss how education scholars can use their work to engage with the broader public. Chair: Jonathan A. Supovitz Participants: Alan J. Daly, Jonathan A. Supovitz, James P. Spillane, Jeffrey R. Henig, Ryan Boyd, and Christian Kolouch Link to Session
Thursday, April 27, 4:05 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 302 A&B
This session will examine recent research on teacher shortages and the inequitable distribution of teachers in relation to policy and practice initiatives designed to address these issues more effectively than has often been the case in the past. The symposium will highlight knowledge leading to action by presenting research providing national and state level data and projections on growing teacher shortages that disproportionately affect our most disadvantaged students, and research that suggests how solutions can be achieved. It will also describe the work that is being done by researchers who are collaborating with policymakers and educators to use this knowledge base to create smarter, sustainable solutions. A panel of researchers and educational policy leaders will discuss policy and practice changes that have occurred as a result of the research, efforts that are underway, and the additional research and policy work needed to support actionsthat will lead to lasting solutions to the inequitable distribution of qualified teachers. Chair: Linda Darling-Hammond Participants: Linda Darling-Hammond, Desiree Carver-Thomas, Leib Sutcher, Sharon P. Robinson, Aaliyah Arrocha-Samuel, Michelle Exstrom, David G. Hinojosa, Richard Ingersoll, and Marc S. Tucker Link to Session
Friday, April 28, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Meeting Room Level, Room 220 - Cantilever
Chair: Felice J. Levine Participants: Deborah L. Vandell, Vivian L Gadsden, Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Graue, and Greg Duncan Link to Session
Friday, April 28, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 302 A&B This session will re-examine the ways in which “just society” has been framed, by whom, and for whom? With sweeping changes in government at all levels, what is the pathway to enacting a meaningful approach to ensuring justice and access?
Chair: Kris D. Gutierrez Participants: Christopher Edley, Jr. and Maria Echaveste
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Friday, April 28, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 301 A&B Given the increasing debates focused on the affordances and possibilities for the use of big data, what does the use of big data offer in identifying and responding to the needs of children and families in and out of school? Does the utility of the data for change outweigh concerns about the accessibility of the data? What are the potential constraints of using big data and how do we reconcile these constraints and the potential strengths? What are the implications of the focus on big data for building knowledge in practice and policy agendas at the local and national levels targeted to promoting educational equality?
Chair: Felice J. Levine Participants: Larry V. Hedges, Victoria Stodden, Andrew Ho, and Felice J. Levine Link to Session
Saturday, April 29, 8:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 302 A&B What do we understand to be the salient issues associated with democracy and education as these relate to justice for individuals and institutions in contemporary society? How do we negotiate differences in attitudes, beliefs, and practices; conceptualize and act on them in relation to our roles in a democracy; engage the broader domains of disagreement; and respond to the human experience and condition? How do we attempt to resolve tensions between citizenship, human rights, and an ever-increasing globalized world? What is the schooling and what are public discourses needed to promote democratic education? Sub Unit Chair: Alfredo J. Artiles Participants: Prudence L. Carter, John S. Rogers, Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, and Marc Lamont Hill Link to Session
Saturday, April 29, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 302 A&B Chair: Felice J. Levine Participants: Raymund Paredes, Laura W. Perna, Stella M. Flores, and William G. Tierney Link to Session
Saturday, April 29, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 301 A&B
This session will focus on the role of health and educational equity in enhancing opportunity, reducing disparities, and understanding the role of social determinants in both. Drawing upon the National Academy of Medicine’s recent study Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States and research on educational disparities, participants will examine cross-cutting policy issues as they are framed and implemented across education and health and the implications for efforts advancing social justice. Chair: William F. Tate Speaker: Thomas LaVeist Participants: Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Kent McGuire Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 301 A&B
This session will address critical issues related to students' experiences eithin the larger context of feminist ideologies, racial theories, and practical realities of schooling.Drawing upon epistemologies and frameworks addressing questions of equality and equity, participants will focus on multiple questions, among them, the representation and empirical study of gender in educational research, the role of teaching, knowledge production and learning, and the consequences of gendered identities for students in school and society. Chair: Vivian L. Gadsden Participants: Patricia Hill Collins, Joseph R. Cimpian, Kimberly A. Scott, and Anthony L. Brown Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 12:25 p.m. - 1:55 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 303 A&B
Ray Rist’s seminal work, “Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto Education”, sparked debates that have continued over time, whether focused on poverty or race, access or inequity, or urban versus suburban schooling. As recent research suggests, however, the issues of class and race bias are alive and well, evident within and across all age groups and contexts. Such bias may be implicit in interactions between students and teachers, between students and students, or between teachers and teachers, or explicit in the public discourses within society. How is this bias manifesting itself in classrooms and schools, how is it being addressed, what approaches are useful in addressing it, and with what opportunities for learning and change? Chair: Shaun R. Harper Participants: Walter Gilliam, James D. Anderson, and Karolyn D. Tyson Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 12:25 p.m. - 1:55 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 301 A&B This session will focus on the individual and collective issues associated with immigration, refugee, detained, and undocumented children and families. How do we imagine schools as boundless in the context they engage and the opportunities they can afford for all children, and especially for children who enter the country? What is the status of research and how is it informing change for these children and their families? What is the role of schools, and what is needed in policy and practice to mediate the hardship and complexity of both the process and effect of policies? How are borders made more permeable and open for schools to effect change?
Chair: Angela E. Arzubiaga Participants: Saskia Sassen and Rogelio Saenz Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballrom Level, 302 A&B
This session will examine the role of education research and practice within the context of current debates around race and racial equity. It will address three questions: Is it possible to measure racial progress and chart a path toward further progress? Are racial conciliation and interest convergence panaceas to quell discontent and to avoid difficult issues, or are they viable pathways to promote access and justice? What is the role of educational research, practice, and policy in this discussion? Chair: Nailah Suad Nasir Participants: James Earl Davis, Stella M. Flores, Grace Kao, and Daniel Losen Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 301 A&B
This session will focus on emerging technologies and their uses in epistemological framings, teaching, and the construction of knowledge. Technology and digital media have the potential to play a powerful role in shaping educational research, practice and policy. This power is evident when we consider how recent social movements have developed. Current complexities such as the digital divide will be considered in terms of how technology and digital media both afford and constrain teaching and learning. The session will consider how we can harness technology and digital media developments to the benefit of a more equitable educational agenda? Chair: Yasmin B. Kafai Participants: James Paul Gee and Louis M. Gomez Discussant: Yasmin B. Kafai Link to Session
Monday, May 1, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 301 A&B
This session will highlight the shifts in our knowledge of the challenges to equal educational opportunity in light of neighborhood research and examinations of neighborhood effects. It will focus on the uses and barriers to geospatial research in unpacking critical issues related to schools, students, and families. Chair: Stephen W. Raudenbush Participants: Micere Keels and Odis Johnson Link to Session
Monday, May 1, 12:25 p.m. - 1:55 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 301 A&B
In this session, participants will focus on critical issues around teaching and curriculum in relation to three areas: advancing our understanding of culture, language, race, class, gender, and other forms of difference; creating pedagogical approaches that engage ideas that are deemed uncomfortable; and examining classroom content that promotes students’ engagement with historical and contemporary problems. It will address questions of what counts as knowledge, whose knowledge counts, for whom does the knowledge count, and with what expected goals and outcomes in a diverse society? Chair: Rich Milner Participants: Kenneth M. Zeichner, David O. Stovall, Cynthia Cruz, and A. Lin Goodwin Link to Session
Monday, May 1, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 301 A&B
This Presidential Session examines the struggle for equal educational opportunity by Mexican Americans over time, space and in different regions of North America. Historians and sociologists of education offer a unique perspective on the experiences of Mexican Americans across the U.S. This breadth and depth of understanding the commonalities and variance across the experiences of Mexican Americans in the U.S. make for an exceptional way to grasp the texture of how individual communities have grappled with the challenge of providing educational opportunity in the face of formidable obstacles. This Presidential Session specifically engages in a critical conversation with a group of accomplished historians of education whose work explores how Mexican Americans have struggled for equal educational opportunities over time. Panelists will present an overview of their research on the history of Mexican American in the United State and relate it to the notion of educational opportunity and elements of the Coleman Report. The session will also include time for questions from the audience to allow for connections from the past and to present conditions. Chair: Ann Marie Ryan Participants: Vilma Ortiz, Laura K. Munoz, Mario Rios Perez, Edward Telles, and David G. Garcia Discussant: Claudio Sanchez Link to Session
Each year at the Annual Meeting AERA acknowledges those members who have died in the previous year. One form of acknowledgement is the scroll of deceased members shown at the Annual Awards Luncheon. Another is the recognition provided at business meetings of the individual SIGs and Divisions. In addition, a number of sessions included in the program are designed to commemorate the work of deceased scholars. This year there are five commemorative sessions planned for the Annual Meeting. Full details are available in the online program.
Friday, April 28, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 304 C Chair: Catherine Snow Participants: Robert Slavin, William Tate, and Lorrie Shepard Sponsor: AERA Link to Session
Thursday, April 27, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Third Floor, Bonham B
Chair: Jeff Wayman Papers: Mary E Yakimowski, Amanda Datnow, and Karen Seashore Co-sponsors: AERA ; Division H, Research Evaluation and Assessment in Schools Link to Session
Thursday, April 27, 4:05 p.m. to 6:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 303 A&B
Chair: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott Participants: Patricia Albjerg Graham, Benjamin Justice, and Deborah Kerdeman Co-sponsors: AERA; Division F, History & Historiography Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 12:25 p.m. - 1:55 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 301 C
Chair: Anita Woolfolk Hoy Participants: William McKeachie, Paul Schutz, Jenefer Husman, Taylor Acee, Nancy Stano, Sonja Lanehart, Russell Hodges, Dale Schunk, and Barry Zimmerman Co-sponsors: AERA; Division C; Learning and Instruction; Motivation in Education SIG, Studying and Self-Regulated Learning SIG
Sunday, April 30, 12:25 p.m. - 1:55 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 304 C
Chair: William Kyle Ingle Participants: Enrique Aleman, Curtis Anthony Brewer, Bryan Duarte, Leslie Lewis, Jane Clark Lindle, Samantha Paredes Scribner, and Erik James Shaver Co-sponsors: AERA; Politics of Education SIG Link to Session
Friday, April 28, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 302 A&B The last decade has witnessed enormous attention to increasing the rigor of educational research through scientific design and sophisticated data analysis methodologies. Emerging technologies have provided new assessment tools for measuring a wider range of research processes and outcomes. Interestingly, however, the quality of the measures used in research, a potentially fatal flaw in the validity of research findings, has received relatively little attention. This symposium reviews research on the quality of research measures and presents the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing as a key resource for strengthening practice. The session highlights validity and fairness standards that are particularly important for research instruments and considers implications for research policy and practice. Chair: Joan L. Herman Participants: Joan L. Herman, Frank C. Worrell, and Linda L. Cook Discussants: Peggy G. Carr and Larry V. Hedges Link to Session
Friday, April 28, 4:05 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 302 A&B Chair: Barbara Schneider Participants: John Hughes, Ruth Curran Neild, Vivian Tseng, and Lori Diane Hill Link to Session
Friday, April 28, 4:05 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 301 A&B Chair: Felice J. Levine Participants: Wendy Naus, Juliane Baron, Ed Liebow, and Mark D. Vieth Link to Session
Saturday, April 29, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Meeting Room Level, Room 220–Cantilever Chair: Shirley M. Malcom Participants: Ann E. Austin, Susan Rundell Singer, Michael C. Loui, and Charles R. Henderson Link to Session
Saturday, April 29, 2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 301 A&B Chair: Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Speakers: Catherine E. Snow and William Hallman Commentators: Susan Nall Bales, Ed Liebow, and Sarah Dockery Sparks Link to Session
AERA Sessions Cosponsored with Queer Studies SIG, Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education Sunday, April 30, 8:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 302 A&B Increasingly, data are gathered on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). For example, federal data collection agencies have listed guidelines for how to ask about SOGI, and some agencies (e.g., CDC) release individual-level data on youth sexual orientation. The National Center for Education Statistics is beginning to include SOGI items in its High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS). Research societies and scientific associations are examining the best methods to collect sexual orientation and gender identity from members. As these data collection efforts proliferate and evolve, this panel will discuss topics including (a) the history of federal interagency efforts to include SOGI item guidance, (b) the development of the new SOGI items in HSLS, (c) best practices for SOGI data collection, (d) considerations around ensuring SOGI data validity with large datasets, and (e) how research societies are capturing and collecting gender identity. Following the panelists’ presentations, the audience will have time to engage panelists in a Q&A session. Chair: George L. Wimberly Participants: Joseph R. Cimpian, Elise Christopher, Emily Greytak, Jason C. Garvey, and sj Miller Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Meeting Room Level, Room 220–Cantilever Chair: Felice J. Levine Participants: Victoria Stodden, Mark Berends, Arthur (Skip) Lupia, Carolyn D. Herrington, and Margaret Levenstein Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 302 A&B Chair: Kent McGuire Participants: Thomas Brock and Peggy G. Carr Discussants: Susanna Loeb, Michael S. McPherson, and Larry V. Hedges Link to Session
Co-Sponsored with the World Education Research Association Sunday, April 30, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Room 305 Chair: Felice J. Levine Participants: Stephan Vincent-Lancrin and Felice J. Levine Discussants: Sean "Jack" P. Buckley, Adam Gamoran, and Barbara Schneider Link to Session
Sunday, April 30, 2:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 303 A&B Chair: Gerald E. Sroufe Participants: Elizabeth R. Albro, Evan Heit, and James A. Griffin Link to Session