{"id":26108,"date":"2025-04-22T14:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/?p=26108"},"modified":"2025-04-25T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:54:13","slug":"umaine-researchers-present-innovative-work-at-aera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/2025\/04\/22\/umaine-researchers-present-innovative-work-at-aera\/","title":{"rendered":"91福利 researchers present innovative work at AERA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Faculty, staff and students from the University of Maine are showcasing their work at the 2025 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting in Denver this week, April 23-27, as well as during its pre-conference activities. The event is the world\u2019s largest annual gathering of education researchers and practitioners, and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies in a variety of areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>91福利 President Joan Ferrini-Mundy <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/blog\/2025\/04\/10\/umaines-ferrini-mundy-receives-national-award-for-public-service\/\">will receive the AERA\u2019s Distinguished Public Service Award<\/a> for her exceptional contributions to education research and policy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the presentations, panels and other events that 91福利 faculty members and students will participate in at the conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tuesday, April 22<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rebecca (Bec) Buchanan, associate professor of curriculum, assessment and instruction is a presenter at a pre-conference mentoring session for the Supervision and Instructional Leadership special interest group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Wednesday, April 23<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interim Dean of the College of Education and Human Development Ezekiel (Zeke) Kimball is co-author of a paper being presented as part of a roundtable session on \u201cGenerating Possibilities Via Critical Reflections and Expansion of Methods.\u201d The paper is titled \u201cA Duoethnographic Reflection on Moving Toward a Queer and Socially Responsive Interview Process.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Catharine Biddle, associate professor of educational leadership, is presenting a paper she co-authored as part of a roundtable session on \u201cFamily-School Engagement in Diverse Environments.\u201d The paper is titled \u201cCaregivers in Recovery: Understanding Experiences of Substance-Impacted Caregivers with School-Aged Children in the Context of the Rural School-Community Relationship.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lindsey J. Kaiser, assistant professor of educational leadership,\u00a0 is presenting a paper at a roundtable session on \u201cInnovative Methods, Measures, and Theories for Educational Policy Research and Evaluation.\u201d Kaiser\u2019s paper is titled \u201cBuilding Trust and Disrupting Power Structures: A Racially Diverse Research-Practice Partnership in Pursuit of Justice.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kamal Chawla, assistant professor of education and applied quantitative methods, is presenting a paper he co-authored at a roundtable session as part of the Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis special interest group. Chawla\u2019s paper is titled \u201cMachine Learning-Based Techniques to Handle Missing Data in Meta-Regression.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anne Fensie, a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program in higher education, is participating in a virtual poster session as part of the Faculty Teaching, Evaluation, and Development special interest group. Fensie\u2019s presentation is titled \u201cBeliefs and Instructional Practices Among Faculty in U.S. Bachelor\u2019s Degree-Gathering Institutions.\u201d Fensie is an adjunct faculty member in the collaborative graduate program in Instructional Technology, which has faculty from the 91福利 College of Education and Human Development, the University of Maine at Farmington, and the University of Southern Maine. In addition to 91福利, she has taught at UMF and the University of Maine at Augusta.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Thursday, April 24<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chawla is presenting a paper he co-authored as part of a roundtable session on \u201cElementary Students\u2019 Mathematical Cognition: Insights Into Estimation, Relational Reasoning, and Effective Feedback in Mathematics.\u201d The paper Chawla co-wrote is titled \u201cOptimizing the 0-100 Number Line Estimation Task: Scale Reduction and its Implications for Elementary Mathematical Cognition.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fensie is presenting a study she co-authored at a structured poster session on \u201cFrom Research to Application: Learning Engineering as a Process for Learning-Sciences-Informed Educational Design.\u201d Fenie\u2019s poster is titled \u201cConceptualizing Learning Engineering.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Biddle is chairing the Rural Education special 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