Presentations by SRI Education Researchers at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2011 Annual Meeting

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Friday, April 8

Roundtable: Learning Progressions and Learning Trajectories
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom A
William Penuel -- "Diagnostic Assessment for Learning Trajectories: Directions, Challenges, Redirections, and Opportunities"
William Penuel -- Chair

Findings From Analyses of Large-Scale Datasets and Their Implications for Special Education Policy and Practice
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Oakley
Xin Wei -- "Improving Academic, Social, and Behavior Outcomes in Students With Emotional Disturbances Through the Enhancement of Self-Confidence" and "Does Subgroup Policy
in No Child Left Behind Improve Achievement of Students with Disabilities? A Regression Discontinuity Design"

The Role of Professional Development in Promoting Teacher Expertise and Student Learning: Working Group 1. Intervening to Shape the Future
4:05 pm - 5:35 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Salon 828
William Penuel -- Chair

Saturday, April 9  

Developing and Testing Theories of Implementation: Conducting Research With Educational Systems
8:15 am - 10:15 am, Building / Room: Sheraton / Napoleon Ballroom A2 & A3
William Penuel -- "Developing the Area of Design-Based Implementation Research"
Nora Sabelli -- Discussant

Mathematics Education and Equity
8:15 am - 10:15 am, Building / Room: New Orleans Marriott / Preservation Hall Studio 6
Philip Vahey -- "Teaching Practices That Support Mathematical Discussions With Latino/a Students"

Issues in Research Design and Selection Bias in Educational Studies
8:15 am - 9:45 am, Building / Room: Doubletree / Shadows
Ginger Stoker - Chair

How Design Patterns Address Three Pressing Challenges in Large-Scale Assessment
10:35 am - 12:05 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Couteau
Renee Cameto -- "How Design Patterns Integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Into Assessments for Students With Disabilities"
Geneva Haertel -- "The Critical Role of Design Patterns in Large-Scale Assessment"
Eric Snow -- "Design Patterns to Support Storyboards and Scenario-Based, Innovative Item Types"
Louise Yarnall -- "Design Patterns Based on a Cognitive Perspective on Learning"

Inciting the Social Imagination: Implications of the New U.S. National Educational Technology Plan for Research and Reform
10:35 am - 12:05 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Napoleon Ballroom C3
Barbara Means -- Chair

Design and Implementation of Alternate Assessments
12:25 pm - 1:55 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom E
Renee Cameto -- "Increasing Access to Grade-Level Standards for Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Application of Evidence-Centered Design to Alternate Assessments in Mathematics"
Kavita Seeratan, Katherine Nagle, Renee Cameto, Geneva Haertel, Angela DeBarger, Reina Fujii -- "Evidence-Centered Design (ECD): A Pilot Study Across Three States: Alternate Assessment–Alternate Achievement Standards"
Renee Cameto, Katherine Nagle, Anne-Marie Knokey -- "Teacher Perspectives: School-Level Implementation of Alternate Assessments for Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities"

Play Is the Thing: Performance Practices That Support Learning and Development Across the Life Span 
12:25 pm - 1:55 pm, Building / Room: JW Marriott / Orleans
Nicole Shechtman, Jennifer Knudsen -- "Bringing Out the Playful Side of Mathematics: Using Improvisational Theater in Professional Development for Urban Middle School Math Teachers"

Principled Assessment Design and Data Analysis for Diagnostic Assessments
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Building / Room: Astor Crowne Plaza / Grand Ballroom B
Kavita Seeratan, Geneva Haertel, Jose Blackorby -- "Diagnostic Learning Progressions Framework: Developing a Universally Designed Formative and Summative Classroom Assessment System for Students With Mathematics Learning Disabilities"
Lawrence Gallagher, Louise Yarnall, Geneva Haertel, Yukie Toyama, Patrik Lundh -- "Design of a Domain-Specific Assessment for College Learning of Schematic Understandings and Model-Based Reasoning in Biology and Economics"
Eric Snow -- "Expanding the Model of Item Writing Expertise: Cognitive Processes and Requisite Knowledge Structures"

Progress in Learning Science Through Technology-Enhanced Models
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Building / Room: New Orleans Marriott / Mardi Gras Salon FGH
Angela DeBarger, William Penuel, Christopher Harris -- "Eliciting and Enhancing Model-Based Reasoning in Earth Science With Classroom Network Technologies"

Innovative STEM Teacher Education and Professional Development
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom C
Ann House, Corinne Singleton, Viki Young, Barbara Means -- "Designing Inclusive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Academies in Texas"

Sunday, April 10

Media, Museum, and Informal Learning
8:15 am - 9:45 am, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom B
Britte Cheng - Chair

Poster Session: Research on Student Science Learning
10:35 am - 12:05 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom C
Angela DeBarger -- "Unpacking Middle School Students' Understanding of Genetic Inheritance and Cell Division Using Structural Regression Modeling"

Educator Incentive Pay: A Comparative Analysis of Three Large-Scale Reforms
10:35 am - 12:05 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom A
Daniel Humphrey -- Chair

Design Research Exploring Transformative Frameworks for Learning and Education
10:35 am - 12:05 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Napoleon Ballroom B3
Daniel Zalles -- "Scientific Literacy in the Context of Civic Reasoning: An Educational Design Problem"

Issues and Practice in Educational Measurement: EMIP Invited Symposium
10:35 am - 12:05 pm, Building / Room: Westin / Azalea I
Xin Wei -- Presenter

Teachers, Scientists, Partnerships, and Teacher Growth
12:25 pm - 1:55 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom D
Marie Bienkowski, Edward Dieterle -- "Supporting Science Teaching With Scientists and Engineers in Middle School Classrooms"

Assessments and Interventions Designed to Help Students With Mathematics Disabilities
12:25 pm - 1:55 pm, Building / Room:Sheraton / Southdown
Kavita Seeratan, Katherine Nagle, Renee Cameto, Geneva Haertel, Angela DeBarger, Kathryn Morrison, Reina Fujii -- "Evidence-Centered Design and Universal Design for Learning: Developing Alternate Assessment in Mathematics for Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities: A Comparison of Three States"

The Role of Professional Development in Promoting Teacher Expertise and Student Learning
12:25 pm - 1:55 pm, Building / Room: New Orleans Marriott / La Galerie 2
H. Alix Gallagher, William Penuel, Katrina Woodworth -- "Moving Beyond Paradigm Conflicts to Increase the Relevance and Utility of Randomized Controlled Trials"
William Penuel, H. Alix Gallagher -- "Shaping Professional Development to Promote the Diffusion of Effective Instructional Practices Among Teachers"

Middle School Teachers Listen to Students as Part of Professional Development and Teacher Education 12:25 pm - 1:55 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Rhythms Ballroom II
Christopher Harris -- Discussant

Partnerships and Across Site Studies: Informal and Semiformal Learning
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom E
Ruchi Bhanot, Julie Remold, Vera Michalchik -- "Partnerships for Out-of-School Science Programs"

Expanding Educational Opportunity for Low-Income and Minority Students Through the International Baccalaureate
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Napoleon Ballroom D
Jennifer Bland, Katrina Woodworth -- "Expanding Access and Improving Outcomes in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program"

Research Into Virtual Worlds for Education
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Building / Room: Doubletree / International Ballroom
Philip Vahey, John Brecht, Ken Rafanan, Charles Patton, Britte Cheng -- "Using a Virtual World to Investigate Collaborative Innovation"

Cognitive, Behavioral, and Classroom Factors Related to Mathematics Disabilities
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Southdown
Xin Wei -- Chair

Online Teaching and Learning SIG Business Meeting
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm, Building / Room: New Orleans Marriott / Preservation Hall Studio 6
Barbara Means -- "Online Learning: Time for an Implementation Research Agenda"

Monday, April 11

Items Using an Evidence-Centered Design Framework
8:00 am - 12:00 pm, Building / Room: Hotel Monteleone / Queen Anne Ballroom
Geneva Haertel -- Director
Eric Snow -- Instructor

Inclusionary Practices in Special Education
8:15 am - 9:45 am, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom A
Katherine Nagle -- "Comparing Scores on Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Achievement Standards and Scores on General Assessments"

Experimenting to Support and Understand Teachers' Learning on a Large Scale
8:15 am - 9:45 am, Building / Room: New Orleans Marriott / La Galerie 4
William Penuel, Angela DeBarger -- "Supporting Teacher Learning to Improve Classroom Assessment in Science"

Leadership, Decision Making, and School Improvement in Middle Level Schools
8:15 am - 10:15 am, Building / Room: Sheraton / Bayside C
Philip Vahey, Ken Rafanan, Tina Stanford, Louise Yarnall -- "Thinking With Data Revisited: An Investigation Into Why the Approach Works"

Learning From Beginning Teachers' Practices
12:25 pm - 1:55 pm, Building / Room: New Orleans Marriott / La Galerie 1
Marie Bienkowski, Nicole Shechtman, Jennifer Knudsen, Julie Remold -- "An Exploratory Study to Unpack the Nature of Teachers' Everyday Innovation"

Findings from Special Education Research
12:25 pm - 1:55 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom C
Kathryn Morrison, Katherine Nagle, Renee Cameto -- "Alignment Between Teacher Professional Development Needs and Characteristics of Students Assessed on Modified Achievement Standards"

The Role of Professional Development in Promoting Teacher Expertise and Student Learning -- Working Group 2. Intervening to Shape the Future
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom B
William Penuel -- Chair

Tuesday, April 12

A Research Agenda for the New K-12 Standards in Science/Engineering: Studying Innovations and Forms of Implementation That Advance the Goals of Equity and Diversity
8:15 am - 10:15 am, Building / Room: Sheraton / Napoleon Ballroom C3
William Penuel -- "Implementing the New Common Core: A Research Agenda"

Social and Emotional Learning Program Outcome Studies
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm, Building / Room: Sheraton / Grand Ballroom D
William Sumi, Frances Bergland -- "First Step to Success: An Evidence-Based Intervention for Children With Behavior Problems"