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Session 1: 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

1.1: Adolescent Learning and Intelligence (roundtable)

• Adolescent perspective taking in common social conflicts
  Cynthia Wang (Doctoral candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Schoolboys and schoolgirls: Representations of teen intelligence in adolescent media
  Jennnifer Dorsey (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Virtual Shakespeare
  Angela Aristidou (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

1.2: Teacher Support (roundtable)

• Developing urban teachers to sustain the profession
  Shari Dickstein (Doctoral candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• My learning or our learning: A case for the differentiated model of professional development
  David Liebowitz (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

1.3: Understanding the Context of Language Development (roundtable)

• Contested utterances in mother-child reminiscence
  Julia Hayden (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Reconceptualization of nature and nurture
  Soowon Lee (Doctoral candidate, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Spelling and vowel perception of children with dyslexia in different consonant contexts: Pilot study
  Rachel Currie-Rubin (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

1.4: School Climate Perceptions and Disciplinary Policy (panel)

• School climate perceptions and problem behaviors of early adolescents
  Ming Te Wang (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Using ethnographic content analysis to investigate changes in school disciplinary policies
  Decoteau J. Irby (Doctoral student, Temple University)

1.5: Bilingual Education (roundtable)

• A new approach to develop immigrant children's English proficiency in bilingual education
  So Young Kwon (Master's student, University of Pennsylvania School of Education); Joo Young Park (Master's student, University of Pennsylvania School of Education)
• A study on the effects of mobility on English language learners in the Boston Public School District
  Elizabeth Alvarado (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Mario Cardona (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Culturally & linguistically diverse students at the intersection of bilingual & special education
  Norma Guzman (Doctoral student, University of Texas at San Antonio)

1.6: Models of Medical Education (panel)

• Illustrating and circumventing barriers to leadership in academic medicine
  Robin Basu Roy (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Time for teaching: A qualitative analysis of how resident doctors allocate clinical teaching time
  Susan E. Farrell, (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

1.7: Trauma and Its Impact on Children's Experiences (roundtable)

• Arts-based interventions for children coping with trauma, displacement, and war
  Liz Gruenfeld (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The impact of exposure to childhood violence on sex differences in adolescent-onset major depression
  Erin Dunn (Doctoral student, Harvard School of Public Health)
• The role of previous home country experiences in refugee student engagement
  Jie-Eun Lee (Doctoral student, Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education & Human Development)

1.8: Community Schools and Social Capital (panel)

• An historical analysis of Flint, Michigan community schools: Building lasting partnerships
  Helen Janc Malone (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Relational trust in action: A portrait of an effective urban middle school
  Danielle Mendola (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Sarah Style (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Gordon Braxton (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Session 2: 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

2.1: Teacher Education (roundtable)

• Everyday antiracism: Struggling toward "preparation for diversity": What teachers want
  Sherry Deckman (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Meredith Mira (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The place of emotions in high school teachers: Is pleasure one of them?
  Nancy Goyette (Master's student, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res)
• Understanding relationships between literacy coaches and teachers
  Jacy Ippolito (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

2.2: Student Learning in Mathematics (panel)

• Elementary students' conceptions of steepness
  Diana Cheng (Doctoral student, Boston University); Polina Sabinin (Doctoral student, Boston University)
• Navigating and Negotiating: A Class Journey through Probability
  Sarah A. Roberts (Doctoral student, University of Colorado at Boulder)

2.3: The Effect of Accountability on Educational Decision-making (panel)

• School district decisionmaking and the use of evidence in the context of accountability
  Elizabeth Farley-Ripple (Doctoral student, University of Pennslyvania, Graduate School of Education)
• The implementation of the Data Wise improvement process at a large, comprehensive high school
  Rebecca A. Thessin (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

2.4: Roles of Teachers and Teacher Teams (roundtable)

• Effective team learning and performance in medical simulation
  Ling Hsiao (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Exploring connections between setting and teacher professionalism in early childhood classrooms
  Todd Grindal (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The impact of ingroup vs. outgroup interactions between student-faculty on student learning
  Yun Zhu (Doctoral student, School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University)

2.5: Investigating College Achievement and Persistence: A Quantitative Approach (panel)

• The impact of college football on student retention at Division 1A and Division 1AA universities
  Willis A. Jones (Doctoral student, Vanderbilt University)
• The impact of financial aid on college academic behavior and major choice
  Angela Boatman (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Melissa Bert (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Bridget Long, PhD (Faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Session 3: 11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

3.1: Education Policy in International Settings (panel)

• Analysis of traveling ideas in American and Korean educational reforms
  Soo Jung Lee (Doctoral student, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Targeting the Chilean achievement gap: What stands in the way of equity?
  Elizabeth Adelman (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Understanding complexities of the digital divide in war-torn Afghanistan
  Snea Thinsan (Doctoral student, Indiana University School of Education)
• Why pay when you can get it for free? Private education for rural children in India
  Anjali Adukia (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

3.2: The Intersection of Business and Education (panel)

• A pathway to improving schools: The use of the Balanced Scorecard in academically thriving schools
  Pamela Brown (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Emotional intelligence and the predictors of superior leadership performance across cultures
  Shameem Farouk (Doctoral student, Indiana University School of Education)
• Employee adaptability during workplace change
  Whitney Soule (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• In the money: What motivates corporate involvement in public K-12 education? A literature review
  Leila Morsy (Doctoral candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

3.3: Children's Emotional Development (panel)

• A conceptual framework to explore trust in the lives of young people
  Katie Davis (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The influence of attachment security on children's narrative development
  Kimberly Reynolds Kelly (Doctoral student, University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education)
• Trustworthiness: How youth understand their own trustworthiness and the trustworthiness of others
  Angie L Kim (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Youth conceptions of trustworthiness in a changing world
  John M. Francis (Research assistant, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

3.4: Innovative School-Wide Approaches for Addressing Academic Achievement (panel)

• An overview of the International Baccalaureate program
  Darryl Hill (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Detracking: An approach to closing the achievement gap
  Jennifer Pieratt (Doctoral student, Claremont Graduate University School of Education Studies)
• Utilizing high-achieving students to SHIELD peers from academic failure
  Marc Mancinelli (Master's student, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education)

3.5: Second Language Learners (panel)

• Beyond bilingual education: Barriers to educational opportunity for indigenous populations
  Rachel B. Slama (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Examining the critical period hypothesis in phonology for second language acquisition
  Eva E. Chen (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Inside the black box of bilingualism: What is behind the debate surrounding bilingual instruction?
  Madeline Clark (Doctoral student, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University)
• Text comprehension difficulty of the Greek State English Exam: The test-takers' perspective
  Trisevgeni Liontou (Doctoral student, Univesity of Athens)

3.6: Teaching History, Creating Citizens: National and Global Perspectives (roundtable)

• Global education: Teaching UNAUSA global classrooms in Boston Public Schools
  Anna Rosefsky (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Historical consciousness: How American adolescents think about the past, present, and future
  Liz Duraisingh (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Teaching for conversational fluency in history and the social studies
  Justin Reich (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

3.7: Teacher Retention and Experience (panel)

• Affect and commitment: An exploratory model of teachers' emotional resilience in urban schools
  Fatima Hafiz (Doctoral student, Temple University School of Education)
• Mentoring single and tandem-placed student teachers: A comparative self-study
  Charles Elfer (Doctoral student, University of Georgia); Scott Roberts (Doctoral student, University of Georgia); Brandon Butler (Doctoral student, University of Georgia)
• Teacher retention and school performance in high-poverty New York City Schools
  Corey Bunje Bower (Doctoral student, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University)
• Teachers' experiences with hiring in public and Catholic schools
  Mark Low (Doctoral candidate, Michigan State University)

3.8: Quantitative Methods in Educational Research (panel)

• Academic achievement value-added model and evaluation checklist for enhancing quality in education
  Jatuphum Ketchatturat (Doctoral student, Chulalongkorn University); Sirichai Kanjanawasee, PhD (Faculty, Chulalongkorn University); Siriphan Suwanmonka, PhD (Faculty, Chulalongkorn University)
• Inter-rater reliability of peacemaking: A preliminary investigation
  Yavette Vaden (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Urska Slana (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The Quasi-educational value-added in mathematics: A cross-country analysis
  Pumsaran Tongliemnak (Doctoral student, Stanford University School of Education)

Lunch/Posters: 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

4.1: Poster Presentations

• Adolescent and adult mothers' questions with their 2-year-old children
  Lauren Capotosto (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Baby Einsteins, geniuses, and prodigies? Baby videos and language input
  Adena Raub (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Brain 101 for educators
  Cynthia Darby Ulery (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Cognitive development and ego development: Discerning the relationship
  Katie Heikkinen (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Conversations with a 2 year-old: A case study of a child's emergent discourse and syntactic skills
  Hilary Oppong (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Cultural models of effective reading instruction
  Leah A. van Belle (Doctoral candidate, University of Michigan School of Education)
• Parental attitude and media use in children ages 2-10
  Wendy P. Valentine (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Religious vs. secular: High school students' college choice
  Karen Dunham (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Social-psychological factors and academic expectations in the classroom: Pathways of influence
  Sarah Griffin (Doctoral student, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education)
• Teacher commitment and support: Social networks and the experiences of early-career teachers
  Mark Low (Doctoral candidate, Michigan State University)
• Thailand's autonomous university policy: An unsuccessful conditionality of Asian Development Bank
  Parita Suaphan ( Master's student, Brown University)
• The blocking effect on word learning in infants
  Nathan Winkler-Rhodes (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences); Kristen Hayashida (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The effects of convergent and divergent play on a novel technological problem-solving task
  Marta Biarnes (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The new providers in higher education: A case study of two proprietary institutions
  Rachel Becker (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Kolajo Afolabi (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Josh Butts (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Holland Lincoln (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The transition to college (one year early): A review of literature on dual enrollment programs
  Meghan Wilson (Doctoral student, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education)
• Understanding multimodal forms in early literacy
  Soowon Lee (Doctoral candidate, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• We're in this together: Collaboration in high school redesign
  Irvin Scott (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• What's at stake? Using traditional standardized assessments to measure academic progress of ELLs
  Kimberly Cardimona (Doctoral student, Penn State University)

Session 5: 2:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.

5.1: How Learners' Needs are Defined: Science and Student' Perspectives (panel)

• A study of the professional learning for professional developers
  Heather Harkins (Doctoral candidate, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut)
• Comparison of four student learning instruments: A theory guided systematic literature review
  Prashanti Chennamsetti (Doctoral student, Texas A&M University)
• Implications of social comparison theory for creating collaborative student groups
  Amy Fowler (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

5.2: Transitions to and from College (panel)

• Academic identity development within the Early College High School Initiative
  Scott Cody (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Esther Tan (CAS student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• School to career transitions: Career development using the Career & Values Genokeygram
  Esther Tan (CAS student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The role of college opportunity in increasing U.S. global competitiveness: A policy perspective
  Ryan J. Davis (Doctoral student, University of Maryland)

5.3: Novel Approaches to Learning (panel)

• Analysis of a mobile learning activity in the frame of a museum visit based on activity theory
  Ionna Papadimitriou (Doctoral student, University of Patras)
• Classroom blogging: Maximizing Web 2.0 to enrich adolescent literacies
  Kevin Hankinson (Master's student, University of Michigan Graduate School of Education)
• The influence of students' out-of-school activities and student achievement in science
  Natalie A. Tran (Doctoral student, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

5.4: Cultural Practice and Development (panel)

• Emerging adulthood of Korean Americans: Quarter-life crisis, PeterPan syndrom, complexity of it all
  JeeHye Christine Kim (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Gender roles and intimate partner violence in the Latino immigrant population
  Gracye Cheng (Research assistant, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Infant feeding beliefs and practices among Mexican Immigrants in NYC
  Carlos Sousa (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Out and away: The experiences of gay men working in HIV/AIDS in developing settings
  Benjamin Capistrant (Master's student, Harvard School of Public Health)

5.5: Art and Education (panel)

• A comparative inquiry on teachers' perceptions of art in Reggio-inspired U.S. schools
  Mary Soylu (Doctoral student, Indiana University School of Education)
• Music educators and their communities: What should be taught and who should determine it?
  Lauren Kapalka (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Show me what you see: An exploration of learning in museums and learning in theatre
  Amy Chou (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Janet Shih (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

5.6: Identifying and Addressing Differential Acheivement and Persistence in College (panel)

• Open my eyes to the new world: 3Is framework for higher education curriculum
  Rahul Choudaha (Doctoral student, University of Denver)
• Persistence and withdrawal in doctoral mathematics programs: A focus on women
  Marla Sole (Doctoral candidate, New York University-Steinhardt)
• Who CARES for my soul? A model for integrating inclusive excellence in doctoral education
  Rahul Choudaha (Doctoral student, University of Denver); Bridgette Coble (Doctoral student, University of Denver); Niki Latino (Doctoral student, University of Denver)
• Why don't they graduate? A literature review of women's tertiary completion rates in Jordan
  Carine Allaf (Doctoral student, University of California, Los Angeles)

5.7: Early Cognition, and Emotion (panel)

• Children's understanding of guilt and pride: A cross-cultural study
  Diyu Chen (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Paul L. Harris, PhD (Faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Guiding Taiwanese children's emotion regulation through emotional learning
  Min-Ju Tsai (Doctoral student, Pennsylvania State University School of Education)
• Helping young children express grief through storytelling
  Min-Ju Tsai (Doctoral student, Pennsylvania State University School of Education)

5.8: Technology in the Classroom (panel)

• Academics' views on and uses of Wikipedia
  Firat Soylu (Doctoral student, Indiana University, Bloomington)
• An inquiry on the application of design principles of Eksisozluk to online learning environments
  Firat Soylu (Doctoral student, Indiana University, Bloomington)
• The pedagogy of Youtube: Digital democracy and the personal tag
  Rosalie Fay Barnes (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Toward the design of a computational platform to foster student-teacher relationships
  Shaundra Bryant Daily (Doctoral student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Irene Headen (Master's student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

5.9: Race, Schools, and the Law (panel)

• Before a divided court: The amicus curiae briefs in the case on voluntary racial integration
  Robert Alcala (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Exploring effects of student racial composition on achievement: A propensity score analysis
  Ning Rui (Doctoral student, University of Pennsylvania)
• The effects of resegregation on Latinos in Nashville Public Schools
  Mikel W. Cole (Doctoral student, Vanderbilt University)

5.10: Mobilizing for Change: Building Communities of Practice (panel)

• Agency and change in an adolescent literacy program
  Chantal Francois (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Communities of practice in action: Supporting dissertation completion for practicing professionals
  Gregory Baker (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The American high school: Are learning communities an answer to solving inequities?
  Victoria J. Maslow (Doctoral student, University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School of Education)

Session 6: 3:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.

6.1: The Construction of Social Identity (panel)

• Gender talk and teacher practice
  Sherry Deckman (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Genealogy of the construction of Korean American children
  Kyung Eun Jahng (Doctoral student, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• The Social and academic integration of Chinese graduate students to a U.S. university
  Xiaoan Li (Doctoral student, University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education)

6.2: Math Educators (panel)

• Analysis of the literature on learning to teach mathematics: A social constructivist perspective
  Mary Grassetti (Doctoral candidate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• The demands of mathematics curricula on teacher learning and their implications for implementation
  Keisha M. Ferguson (Doctoral student, University of Michigan School of Education)

6.3: Student Achievement, Assessment, and Access (roundtable)

• Increasing college access by decreasing financial barriers for low socioeconomic households
  Joshua Vaughn (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Score inflation: Measuring the validity of high stakes testing gains
  Jessica Tokayer (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Julia Bloom (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• The impact of highly selective universities' aid policies on college access
  Rachel Becker (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Martha Ferede (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

6.4: Education and Development in Conflict Situations (panel)

• Civic education during wartime: A comparative study of two Islamic school teachers post September 11
  Amina Tawasil (Doctoral student, Teachers College, Columbia University)
• Coping strategies and mental health of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone: A quantitative analysis
  Kashif Khan (Master's student, Harvard School of Public Health); Jessica Perkins (Master's student, Harvard School of Public Health)
• Reducing stigma related to being a former child soldier
  Anna Casey (Master's student, Harvard School of Public Health)
• The influence of international conflict and federal policy on post-secondary language education
  Chris Van Orden (MS Ed, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education)

6.5: The Teaching Profession: International Cases (panel)

• Educational inequities and policy directions for teacher quality improvement in Indonesia
  Soojin S. Oh (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Learning to teach: Who is entering the teaching profession in India and why?
  Tristha Ramamurthy (Master's student, Stanford University School of Education)
• Teachers' professional identity in France: The case of Martinique
  Nick Gozik (Doctoral student, New York University)

6.6: Universities, Global Citizenry and Workforce Preparedness (panel)

• From factories to flat: Globalization and the changing landscape of education
  Marc Mancinelli (Master's student, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education)
• Globalization and Japanese higher education: A case study.
  Peter A. Weldon (Doctoral student, University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education )
• Higher education for transforming students into global citizens
  Ai Goto-Araki (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Putting quality management policy into practice: Russian universities interpret state policies
  Natalia Forrat (Master's student, University of Michigan)

6.7: Learning Styles and Cognition (panel)

• Investigating correlation between teaching and learning styles
  Hai Siang Chia (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education); San Chye Cheng (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Learning processes and approaches: Examining their interrelationships to understand student learning
  Prashanti Chennamsetti (Doctoral student, Texas A&M University)
• What Tila Tequila can teach the emerging field of mind, brain, and education
  Charles Lang (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

6.8: Word Generation and Learning Processes (panel)

• Pedagogy by design vs. pedagogy by default: Two observed approaches to inclusive education
  Franne Rosenthal (Doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Word Generation and students with mild disabilities
  Laura Fleming (Master's student, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
• Word Generation: Pilot year results of a middle-school vocabulary intervention
  Claire White, EdD (Faculty, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

6.9: Topics in Special Education (panel)

• Early education providers' perceptions and views of inclusion in China
  Donghua Gu (Doctoral student, Penn State University Graduate School of Education)
• Policy implementation and teacher beliefs regarding the Virginia Alternate Assessment
  Staci Grant Kenney (Doctoral student, Unversity of Virginia, Curry School of Education)
• Study of the locus of control factors of direct caregivers with children with autism or a PDD
  Timothy Prior (Master's student, California State University, Long Beach)