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Dr. Andres Bustamente
School of Education
University of California Irvine

Playful STEM Learning in the School Yard and Community Spaces

Children learn best in active, engaged, meaningful,and socially interactive settings, making play an ideal context for learning.This presentation will share findings and future directions from a series ofprojects that use developmental science to infuse everyday spaces (e.g.,bus-stops, grocery stores, school yards) with playful STEM learningopportunities. Findings will focus on caregiver-child conversation,interaction, and STEM learning. The presentation will also emphasize co-designstrategies that invite local community members to become design partners, soinstallations reflect community values, strengths, and learning goals. Theobjective of these projects is to create scalable informal STEM learninginstallations in the places and spaces that children and families already spendtime.

Dr. Katie Broton
College of Education
University of Iowa

An ITP-informed approach to addressing food insecurity in higher education

Dr. James Pustejovsky
Educational Psychology
UW-Madison

Cluster-Robust Inference in Quantitative Education Research

Cluster-robust inference methods are a mainstay of applied econometrics and quantitative program evaluation work. However, conventional cluster-robust methods have performance limitations that can be difficult to detect in practice. I will survey some recent proposals for how to refine cluster-robust methods and discuss applications in a range of educational research contexts, including program evaluation, meta-analysis, and single-case research.