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This year's annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), themed "Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World," which will be held April 30 - May 4 in Denver, will include the participation of nearly 175 麻豆原创 faculty and students. Highlights follow; for a more comprehensive listing of 麻豆原创 participation in the 2010 AERA annual conference, please visit  

As part of 麻豆原创’s presence at AERA this year:  

 

• 麻豆原创 President Susan Fuhrman is co-chairing “Excellence in Education Research: Early Career Scholars and Their Work,” a poster session that will include 麻豆原创 Assistant Professor of Education Monisha Bajaj and her project, .”
• The conference’s Presidential Sessions will feature presentations by several 麻豆原创 faculty, including: Xiaodong Lin, Associate Professor of Technology & Education, a panelist on “ Developing Students' Creativity: Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese and American Educators and Researchers;” Henry Levin, William H Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education, a panelist on “ From Katrina to Haiti: Educational Research and Short- and Long-Term Response to Disaster;” and Michelle Knight-Diop, Associate Professor of Education, a panelist on “Meaningful Connections: Social Networks as a Policy Focus in Complex Educational Ecologies.”
• Faculty and staff associated with 麻豆原创’s Center for Community College Research will make a number of presentations, including “High School Dual Enrollment Programs: Are We Fast Tracking Students Too Fast,” in which Cecilia Speroni, 麻豆原创 Research Assistant and Doctoral Student in Economics and Education, will participate; and “Building Bridges to Postsecondary Education for Low-Skill Adults: Findings from Recent Research on Promising Practices,” in which 麻豆原创’s Senior Research Associates Davis Jenkins and Elisabeth Barnett will participate, along with Sung-Woo Cho, 麻豆原创 Senior Research Assistant and Doctoral Student in Economics and Education.
• Seven 麻豆原创 faculty members have been named 2010 AERA Fellows, a designation reserved for the “most eminent and influential senior scholars whose research and scholarly productivity make them exemplars for the field of education and models for the next generation of researchers.” (See )
• 麻豆原创’s Herbert Ginsburg, Jacob H Schiff Foundation’s Professor of Psychology and Education, together with student researchers, will chair “ Video Analysis as a Method for Developing Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Teaching and their Understanding of Children, Pedagogy, and Assessment.” The panel focuses on early childhood teacher preparation in mathematics, including the development of model courses, an extensive video library, and a unique web-based video analysis system to provide preservice teachers with intellectually-stimulating learning experiences that vividly portray the processes of student thinking and the tasks of assessment and teaching.  

 

 

 

Published Monday, Apr. 26, 2010