Culminating Presentations
Interdisciplinary Research in Education Sciences (sponsored by Institute of Education Sciences and UW Grad School)
Student Symposium: Wednesday, August 4 (10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Central time)
Please email Tricia Dusick (tsdusick@wisc.edu) to register and receive the Zoom link.
AGENDA
10:30 a.m. Welcome
Morning Session
10:35 Sydney Tran “How Racial and Ethnic Composition Affect Exclusionary Discipline: A Look at Wisconsin Schools from 2007-2020” (mentored by Dr. James Pustejovsky)
10:55 Valencia Griffin “Learning on Lines (LoL): Effectiveness of Number Lines on Fraction Knowledge” (mentored by Dr. Percival Matthews)
11:15 Kayla Benitez Alvarez “No Place Like Home? Immigrant Students’ Preferences for College Proximity” (mentored by Dr. Jordan Conwell)
11:35 Wren King “Examining Educational Policies in the Midwest: A Patchwork Quilt of Protections” (mentored by Dr. Mollie McQuillan)
11:55 Tameya Corbett “Exploring the Effects of COVID-19 in Early Childhood Education: A Deep Dive into the Effects of COVID-19 within Disadvantaged Households” (mentored by Dr. Amy Claessens)
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Afternoon Session
1:00 Emma Friedmann “Contingency Table Interpretation in Middle Schoolers” (mentored by Dr. Martha Alibali)
1:20 Lily Enbysk “Is Academic Tracking Effective in Schools: The Meta-Analysis Coding Process” (mentored by Dr. Mollie McQuillan)
1:40 Sana Azam “Cultivating Equivalence” (mentored by Dr. Percival Matthews)
2:00 Delilah Hernandez “Predicting Life Course Through Yearbooks” (mentored by Dr. Eric Grodsky)
Summer Education Research Program (sponsored by School of Education and UW Grad School)
Student Presentations: Thursday, July 29
AGENDA
10:30 a.m. Introductions
Morning Session
10:45 Edith Urbano “The Arts as a Center for Resource: What Resources Do Out of School Arts Organizations Provide for Young People of Historically Marginalized Communities?” (mentored by Dr. Erica Halverson)
11:00 Emily Manzo “Navigating Post Secondary Education: Narratives of Undocumented Latina Community College Transfer Students” (mentored by Dr. Xueli Wang)
11:15 Luam Rincon “A Review of Internalizing Interventions” (mentored by Dr. Katie Eklund)
11:30 Cintia Alaniz “¡Estamos aquí y somos importantes!*: Fostering Latinx First-Generation DACA students’ sense of belonging and well-being with culturally responsive mentoring” (mentored by Dr. Alberta Gloria)
11:45 Guadalupe Aviles “Critical Language Awareness in the Context of Spanish Teaching” (mentored by Dr. Diego Román)
Afternoon Session
2:00 Emily Esquivel “Transitions: My Undergraduate Summer Research Experience” (mentored by Dr. Brian Burt)
2:15 Tricia Francis “COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Wisconsin Populations” (mentored by Dr. Dorothy Farrar-Edwards)
2:30 Bree Chambers “The Keys: A Thematic Approach of School Supports in a Midwestern Middle School” (mentored by Dr. Andy Garbacz)
2:45 Sarah Eckerstorfer “Teaching for Democracy: Establishing Anti-Racism, Student Leadership, and Civic Action Benchmarks for Elementary Aged Students” (mentored by Dr. Simone Schweber)
3:00 Jaden Mikoulinskii “Public School District Policies in the Midwest: A Retrospective Case Study of Indiscrepancies” (mentored by Dr. Mollie McQuillan)