Members of the MSU Mathematics Education community will be presenting at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting starting Friday, April 5th. This year’s AERA conference will be held April 5^th – April 9^th in Toronto, Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

The AERA conference is “the world’s largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies in an array of areas.”

This year’s theme is Leveraging Education Research in a “Post-Truth” Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence. In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year was post-truth, defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” The organization notes they must “Push back against the post-truth paradigm by demonstrating, with all the skill and energy we can muster, the value of our inquiry and the knowledge we generate—be it in the form of linear equations; deep, rich ethnographies; or Youth Participatory Action Research. 

Mathematics education faculty and graduate students presenting this year include Tonya Bartell, Kristen Bieda, Sunghwan Byun, Corey Drake, Robert Floden, Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Molade Osibodu, Ralph Putnam, Niral Shah, Jack Smith, and Chezare Warren. Please see the presentation schedule below.

 

MSU Presentations:

Friday, April 5^th

Sunghwan Byun

2:25-3:55 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 600 Level, Room 602A

Institution Identities in the Neoliberal Era: Challenging Differential Opportunities for Mathematics Learning

 

Sandra Crespo, Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

2:25-3:55 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 600 Level, Room 602A

Ethics and Identity Research in the Field of Mathematics Education: Reflections

 

Niral Shah

2:25-3:55 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 600 Level, Room 602A

Advancing Methods for Studying Social Identities in Mathematics Education: New Possibilities and Perspectives

And

“Bossy,” “Boy,” and “Urban”: Troubling Coded Language in Mathematics Education Research

 

Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

4:20-5:30 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 704

Collaborative Action Research on Mathematics and Movement

 

Chezare Warren

4:20-5:30 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 600 Level, Room 601B

Living, Learning, and Communities in Black Education

 

Sunghwan Byun

4:20-5:50 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 704

Collaborative Action Research: Perspectives on Student Engagement

 

Molade Osibodu

4:20-5:50 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 704

Collaborative Action Research: Shifting Focus From Pet Care to Student Collaborative Mathematical Thinking About Pets

 

Saturday, April 6^th

Tonya Bartell, Robert Floden

12:20-1:50 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 718B

Journal of Teacher Education

 

Sandra Crespo, Niral Shah

6:35-8:35 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 701A

Research in Mathematics Education SIG Business Meeting

 

Sunday, April 7^th

Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

9:55-11:25 am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 801A

Using Action Research to Detect and Reduce Bias in Mathematics Classroom Discourse

 

Jack Smith

9:55-11:25 am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 600 Level, Room 606

Exploring the Intuitive Basis of Students’ Understanding of Multiplicative Relationships

 

Monday, April 8^th

Tonya Bartell

10:25-11:55 am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 802B

Teacher Induction Programs That Lead to Retention in the STEM Teaching Workforce

 

Amy Parks

10:25-11:55 am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 203B

Exploring the Potential of Free Digital Applications for Mathematics Learning on Tablets

 

Chezare Warren

12:20-1:50 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall F

Black in (and) STEM: Narratives of Resistance and Social-Psychological Outcomes

And

2:15-3:45 pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 202B

Activating Student Voice Through Youth Participatory Action Research: Policy Making That Strengthens Urban Education Reform

 

Tuesday, April 9^th

Tonya Bartell, Corey Drake

8:00-9:30 am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Room 801A

Critical Features of Video-Based Instruction to Develop Preservice Teachers’ Noticing of Asset-Based Practices in Mathematics

 

Ralph Putnam

10:25-11:55 am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 800 Level, Hall F

Behavioral, Affective, and Cognitive Student Engagement in Synchronous and Asynchronous Group Work