Education faculty and graduate students present at national conference
Several UALR College of Education faculty and graduate students were among the approximate 15,000 attendees at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, held April 3 to 7 in Philadelphia.
The t
heme of this year’s conference was “The Power for Educational Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy.”
At the conference, UALR faculty and students delivered professional presentations on a wide range of topics, from factors that predict a disabled student’s college choices to the retention of nursing students based on emotional-social intelligence.
The following presenters and their research included:
UALR faculty members Ibrahim Duyar, Carolyn Pearson, and Bronwyn MacFarlane, with Turker Kurt (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Nancy Lee Ras (Walden University), who presented “Analysis of Teachers’ Task and Extra-Role Performance Under Different Autonomy Regimes.” The group also presented on “Multilevel Analysis of Teachers’ Work Attitudes: Role of Principal Leadership and Teacher Collaboration.”
UALR faculty members Michael McCreery and Amanda Nolen, with S. Kathleen Krach (Troy University), who presented “My Avatar, Myself: The Role of Personality in Defining an Authentic Virtual Environment.”
UALR’s Nolen, and faculty members Jim Vander Putten and Rascheel Hastings, who presented “Exploring the Personal, Familial, Academic, and Environmental Factors that Predict the College Choices of Students with Disabilities.”
UALR recent doctoral graduate student, Victoria Wilson, with faculty members Thomas G. Barrett and Pearson, who presented “Emotional-social Intelligence and the Retention of Nursing Students.”
UALR’s Nolen and faculty member Karina Clemmons who presented “Emotional-social Intelligence and the Retention of Nursing Students,” “We Need Better, Not More: Examining the Impact of Duration of Field Experience on Teacher Preparation,” as well as “The Devil’s in the Details: Exploring the Characteristics of Teacher Preparation Programs that Predict Early-Career Teacher Preparedness.”
UALR’s Nolen with University of Arkansas at Medical Sciences faculty member Ashley Castleberry, who presented “Reading Between the Lines: Using Essays to Assess the Teacher Reflection of Residents in a Pharmacy College”
UALR faculty member Ann E. Robinson with Dean Keith Simonton (University of California-Davis), who presented “Other People’s Children: Catherine Cox Miles.”
UALR’s Vander Putten who presented “Graduate Student Social Class Identity: Social Constructions from the Poverty-class and Working-class Margins.”
UALR faculty member Lianfang Lu who presented “Cultivation of Lead Mathematics Teachers.”
Founded in 1916, the American Educational Research Association seeks to improve the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.