College of Education Graduate Research Day 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
The Atrium (Room 1107), Stamp Student Union
The Graduate Education Committee of the College of Education, in collaboration with the Dean’s office, is very excited to announce the College of Education Graduate Research Day 2008.
Purpose:
The purpose of this event is to celebrate the intellectual talent and scholarly accomplishments of graduate students across the College of Education, thereby underscoring the value of high quality research at the graduate level and contributing to the interdisciplinary dialog, collaboration, and research culture within our College.
Format and schedule:
There will be three multidisciplinary paper sessions, each with five papers per session, and a moderator. The format will be conference-style, 12-minute presentations, with PowerPoint strongly preferred. A reception for students and faculty will follow, with light snacks provided.
Session I: 9:00 – 10:30
Effectiveness of false correction strategy on science reading comprehension
School composition, curriculum structure, climate, and disability: The impact of schools on the math achievement and course-taking behaviors of students with disabilities
Minimizing bias in diagnostic feedback
Honors living-learning programs for first-year students: Educational benefits for whom?
Pilgrims and Guides: A phenomenological study of Montessori teachers in public Montessori schools
Session II: 10:45 – 12:15
Job satisfaction among Mexican alumni: A case of incongruence between hunch-based policies and labor market demands
A case study of early-career pedagogical decision making in standardized-tested and elective social studies courses
Considering the outgroup when growing up amidst conflict:
Arab and Israeli children's intergroup attitudes
Team cognition in group interventions: The relation between co-leaders’ shared mental models and group climate
Examining the plans of youth with disabilities to enroll in a 2- or 4-year college or university
Lunch Break: 12:15 – 1:00 (on participants’ own in the Union)
Session III: 1:00 – 2:30
Fourth graders' expository text comprehension: Indicators from NAEP on the role of income, out-of-school reading experiences, and in-school reading experiences
Knowledge ownership and modernity: Alternatives for protecting indigenous knowledge systems
Using fixed thresholds for inherently quantitative but ordinally scaled variables in structural equation modeling
The impact of new learning environments in an engineering design course
Making the most of extra time: Relationships between full-day kindergarten instructional environments and reading achievement
Reception: 2:30 – 3:30
Papers:
The papers presented will be completed research (not proposals), and may be collaborations with other students or faculty. Papers may be theses/dissertations, and may have been presented elsewhere (e.g., within departmental sessions and/or in regional/national/international forums).
Presenters:
Outstanding graduate student presenters have been selected by each department, using criteria established by each department, to participate in this College-wide event. Names of participants and research abstracts may be found here. Check them out!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, at ghancock@umd.edu.