Conferences

Conference Presentations


2023 European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)

In August 2023, our team members traveled to Thessaloniki, Greece. We presented two posters in 2023 EARLI. The presented studies explored students' use of different learning platforms, and how to better promote student engagement in different digital tools.  



2023 Engaged Scholarship Symposium

In November 2023, Wonjoon Cha presented the DCL project at the Engaged Scholarship Symposium hosted by the Ohio State University.


2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA)

In April 2022, our team traveled to San Diego to attend AERA 2022, one of the premier conferences in the field of educational research. We presented 4 papers and posters at the conference.

Poster Presentations

2021 American Psychological Association (APA) Virtual Convention

The 2021 APA Convention was a virtual affair. Our team gave some insightful presentations via the online platform. We gave a short award-winning pitch about our project, presented a Presidential Poster about student experiences with technology, and also discussed teaching and learning in our curriculum using state-space grids! 

Please see our work from APA 2021 below.

Our presentation on engagement and scaffolding in the classroom.

Our Presidential Poster about technological experiences across school districts.


Selected Conference Papers

Use of Technology

Tilak S., Wen. Z., Kuznetcova, I., Lin, T.-J., Anderman, E., Lu, M., Kim, S. (2021). Elementary school students' experiences with distributed communication platforms during COVID-19. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association, 2021. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22553.75368

Tilak, S., Glassman, M., Lin, T.J., Wen, Z., Martinez-Calvit, A., & Ching, K. (2022). Political Activism through Immersivity: Technology-Assisted Curricula and K-12 Students’ Digital Citizenship. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association 2022 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. DOI: 10.3102/IP.22.1883145


Civic reasoning and moral decision-making

Lin, T.-J., Glassman, M., Wen, Z., Tilak, S., Parrott, J., & Hong, M. (2022). A Social Constructivist Approach to Cultivating Civic Reasoning and Decision Making. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association 2022 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. DOI: 10.3102/IP.22.1891304


Learning Mechanisms

Lu, M. S., Tilak, S., Kim, S., Paul, N., Sheng, Y., Kuznetcova, I., Ching, K., Hong, M., Anderman, E. M., Glassman, M., Lin, T.-J. (2022). A Mixed Methods Approach: Fostering Elementary Students’ Collective Efficacy in a Digital Civic Learning Curriculum. Poster presented at American Educational Research Association 2022 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. DOI: 10.3102/IP.22.1889899

Martinez-Calvit, A., Croxton, D., Wen, Z., Tilak, S., Ching, K., Gans, N., Parrott, J., Lu, M., Nagpal, M. N., Lin, T.-J., Glassman, M., & Anderman, E.(2020). A feasibility study on a digital citizenship curriculum: Navigating the constraints of COVID-19. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association 2022 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. DOI: 10.3102/IP.22.1888762

Nagpal, M., Lin, T. J., Gans, N., & Anderman, E. (2021, August). Dynamic teacher-student interactions in collaborative small group discussions. [Poster presentation]. Virtual American Psychological Association Annual Convention, United States.