USC Rossier will have a significant presence at the 2025 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, taking place from April 23 to 27 in Denver, Colorado. Themed “Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal,” the national conference calls on education researchers to collaboratively address systemic inequalities and societal challenges by leveraging interdisciplinary research to inform holistic remedies and foster equitable, democratic educational renewal.
Expected to draw over 15,000 attendees, the conference offers a platform for scholars to engage in discussions and share innovative research. This year, over 60 USC Rossier faculty, postdoctoral and doctoral students will be presenting across key educational issues including AI in education, racial equity, climate literacy, student belonging and school board governance.
USC Rossier will also host a reception on April 24 at the Hyatt Regency Denver, celebrating its faculty, students and alumni. Notably, Professors Erika Patall and Julie Posselt have been named 2025 AERA Fellows, recognizing their outstanding contributions to education research. To RSVP for the reception, please visit here.
Below is a full list of USC Rossier’s community members who will be presenting, along with their topics. For more AERA information and complete list of presentations visit: AERA Sessions.
- April 23: Author: Iron Meets Equity: A Review and Framework for Technology Adoption in College Admissions
- April 24: Chair: Phenomenology in Organizational Studies in Higher Education
- April 26: Chair: Critical Inquiries Into Issues of Racial Disproportionality in K-12 Education
- April 24: Author: Lessons Learned When Establishing a Community of Practice Focused on AI Pedagogy and Innovation
- April 26: Author: Muslim Students' Perceptions of Faculty and Administration Support during the Trump Era
- April 26: Discussant: Social Justice and Repair: Addressing Systemic Inequities and Discrimination in Education
- April 24: Author: Becoming a Board Member: Perceptions of K-12 School Board Member Training and Socialization
Jose Bermejo
- April 24: Author: Pandemic Parenthood: The Voices of Community College Student Parents Navigating Remote Learning and Faculty Relationships
- April 24: Author: Parent Sensemaking and School Choices Amidst Educational Controversies
- April 25: Discussant: Navigating AI in Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Research Imperatives**
- April 24: Author: Pandemic Parenthood: The Voices of Community College Student Parents Navigating Remote Learning and Faculty Relationships
- April 25: Author: The Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Youth in a Re-Entry Program
- April 26: Author: Muslim Students' Perceptions of Faculty and Administration Support during the Trump Era
- April 26: Chair: Social Justice and Repair: Addressing Systemic Inequities and Discrimination in Education
Matthew Coopilton
- April 23: Author: U.S. Adolescents’ Race-related Digital Literacies: Toward a Critical Race Digital Literacy Approach
- April 26: Chair: The Use of AI in Education and Research in Meaningful and Responsible Ways
- April 26: Author: Innovative Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Improving Online Professional Development for Teachers: Multi-Agent Large Language Models
- April 26: Author: Assessing Teachers' Content and Pedagogical Content Knowledge with an LLM-Based Grading System
- April 23: Author: Role of Cross-functional Professional Learning Communities in Creating Institutional Change to Improved Equitable Student Outcomes
- April 23: Author: Understanding the Nexus of Well-being, Class, and Postsecondary Education for Low-Income Students
- April 25: Author: Leveraging Cross-functional Professional Development Opportunities for Higher Education Organizational Change: Knowledge Transfer through Actor-Networks
- April 24: Participant: Resistance, Survivance, and Thrivance in the Era of the Professor Watchlist
- April 25: Discussant: Advancing Socially Just and Antiracist Measures Through Mixed Methods: A Focus on Development and Validation
- April 25: Author: Exploring the Schooling of Multiply Marginalized Youth of Color (MMYOC) Through Critical Race Mixed Methodology
- April 25: Participant: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum: The Past, Present, and Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology
- April 27: Author: ‘People Like Us Don’t Actually Matter:’ The Experiences of Middle Eastern/North African College Students
Mariana de França Steil
- April 24: Author: Countering Essentialism: A Brazilian Graduate Student Navigating Identities in an American Doctoral Program
- April 27: Participant: Using Federal Data Sets for Postsecondary Research and Publication Opportunities
- April 25: Author: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Institutional Responses to Pro-Palestine Student Protests
Roberta Gonzalez
- April 25: Author: Enhancing Equity through an ELD/SEL Hybrid Model: Empowering Educators and Students
- April 23: Author: Role of Cross-functional Professional Learning Communities in Creating Institutional Change to Improved Equitable Student Outcomes
- April 24: Author: College Sense of Belonging Support Typology for Low-income Students
- April 25: Author: Leveraging Cross-functional Professional Development Opportunities for Higher Education Organizational Change: Knowledge Transfer through Actor-Networks
Ahreum Han
- April 26: Author: Innovative Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Improving Online Professional Development for Teachers: Multi-Agent Large Language Models
Yujin Han
- April 23: Author: Utilizing Metaverse in Elementary Art Education: Enhancing Creativity through Flow Experiences
- April 23: Participant: 2025 AERA Opening General Session: The Future of Higher Education in Polarized Times
- April 24: Discussant: Black Deans and Scholars: An Interactive Panel on Research and Practice for Doctoral Education
- April 25: Author: Advancing Student Academic Success through Research and Program Development
- April 25: Panelist: Upholding Racial Equity in Education: Challenges and Possibilities
- April 26: Author: Drag as Protest, Performance Art, and Qualitative Research Method
Mya Haynes
- April 24: Author: Mentorship, Representation, and Racialized Labor: An Analysis of Black Student-Faculty Interactions at a Predominately White Institution
- April 24: Author: Analyzing the Importance of Black Student-Faculty Interactions at a Predominately White Institution
- April 25: Chair: Focusing on College Student Communities
- April 26: Chair: Beyond the Degree: Outcomes and Costs Associated With College
- April 27: Chair: The Challenges and Perils of Doing DEI Work in Higher Education
- April 25: Author: Academic Help-Seeking and Belonging in the Classroom: Experiences of Asian American and Latinx Undergraduates
- April 26: Author: Muslim Students' Perceptions of Faculty and Administration Support during the Trump Era
- April 26: Participant: Social Justice and Repair: Addressing Systemic Inequities and Discrimination in Education
Esmeralda A. Hernandez-Hamed
Elizabeth M. Holcombe
- April 23: Author: Role of Cross-functional Professional Learning Communities in Creating Institutional Change to Improved Equitable Student Outcomes
- April 24: Author: Pandemic Parenthood: The Voices of Community College Student Parents Navigating Remote Learning and Faculty Relationships
- April 25: Author: The Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Youth in a Re-Entry Program
- April 27: Author: Building restorative school cultures: Insights from peer mediation programs in elementary and middle schools
- April 24: Author: The power of transcendent thinking, the neurological evidence
- April 24: Author: Protections, Assistance, and Services: An Environmental Scan of the School-Housing Partnership Landscape
- April 25: Participant: AERA Presidential Address
- April 25: Author: (Un)covering social consciousness in school marketing: The Case of Detroit and its shifting web-based school characterizations
- April 25: Author: Frames, Policies, and Politics: The Shifting Discourse of School Choice
- April 25: Author: Racialized Ties and Turnover: Examining the Advice Networks of Teachers of Color
- April 25: Author: Exploring the Schooling of Multiply Marginalized Youth of Color (MMYOC) Through Critical Race Mixed Methodology
- April 23: Author: Role of Cross-functional Professional Learning Communities in Creating Institutional Change to Improved Equitable Student Outcomes
- April 24: Discussant: Navigating and Experiencing Partnerships in Higher Education: A Multistakeholder Perspective
- April 25: Author: Leveraging Cross-functional Professional Development Opportunities for Higher Education Organizational Change: Knowledge Transfer through Actor-Networks
- April 24: Author: College Sense of Belonging Support Typology for Low-income Students
- April 24: Author: Low-income and Working-class College Student Career Development Experiences: A Descriptive Analysis
- April 24: Author: Excitement or Anger: A Look at How Teachers Feel About Teaching Climate Change and Why
- April 23: Instructor: High-Arousal, Positive Affect, Relatedness Need Satisfaction, and East Asian College Student Engagement
- April 25: Author: Race-Reimaged Autonomy Support: Motivational Benefits of Instruction That Integrates Self-Determination Theory and Culturally Relevant Education
Jingxian Li
- April 26: Author: Innovative Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Improving Online Professional Development for Teachers: Multi-Agent Large Language Models
Kristyn Lue
- April 26: Author: What Does Being “Asian” Mean?: Asian International Students’ Pan-Ethnic Meaning Making In a Post-COVID Era
- April 26: Author: "We Still Dream:" College Preparation for Black Boys Amid Antiblackness
Millie Majumder
- April 26: Author: Institutional Requisite for Combating Islamophobia in Higher Education
- April 23: Author: Equity in Data-Driven Decision Making
- April 24: Author: Parent Sensemaking and School Choices Amidst Educational Controversies
- April 24: Author: Becoming a Board Member: Perceptions of K-12 School Board Member Training and Socialization
- April 25: Author: Frames, Policies, and Politics: The Shifting Discourse of School Choice
- April 26: Author: Interrogating the Diversity of School Options in District Reform Via Institutional Logics: Affordances and Challenges
- April 27: Author: Building restorative school cultures: Insights from peer mediation programs in elementary and middle schools
Cassidy L. Martin
- April 27: Author: Student-Facing Research: Centering Student Voices Through Narrative Portraits
- April 27: Author: Get Free Poet! A Critical Autoethnography of Doctoral Student Socialization as a Radical Artist
Taylor McGee
- April 23: Author: U.S. Adolescents’ Race-related Digital Literacies: Toward a Critical Race Digital Literacy Approach
- April 27: Author: ‘People Like Us Don’t Actually Matter:’ The Experiences of Middle Eastern/North African College Students
Laura Steen Mulfinger
- April 23: Author: Equity in Data-Driven Decision Making
- April 24: Author: Becoming a Board Member: Perceptions of K-12 School Board Member Training and Socialization
- April 25: Author: Frames, Policies, and Politics: The Shifting Discourse of School Choice
Mariama Nagbe
- April 23: Author: Role of Cross-functional Professional Learning Communities in Creating Institutional Change to Improved Equitable Student Outcomes
- April 25: Author: Leveraging Cross-functional Professional Development Opportunities for Higher Education Organizational Change: Knowledge Transfer through Actor-Networks
- April 24: Author: The Promethean Promise: Responding to the Educational Dilemma Facing Black Students, Seventy Years After Brown
- April 25: Discussant: Student Protests, Then and Now: Research on Free Speech, Social Movements, and Administrative Response in Education
- April 25: Discussant: Visualizing AfroLatinos/Black Latinos in Education Research: Illuminating Complex Inequities for Policy and Practice
- April 25: Author: Frames, Policies, and Politics: The Shifting Discourse of School Choice
- April 24: Discussant: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Psychometrics: From Scale Development to Response Analysis
- April 24: Author: Parent Navigation of School Policy: How Mothers of Transgender Youth Interact With the School
- April 27: Author: Queering Educational Renewal in a K-12 Leadership Program: Will this Program Represent LGBTQIA2S+ Educators of Color?
- April 23: Instructor: High-Arousal, Positive Affect, Relatedness Need Satisfaction, and East Asian College Student Engagement
- April 24: Discussant: Curious About Curiosity? Unpacking Curiosity and Interest in Various Learning Settings
- April 25: Author: Race-Reimaged Autonomy Support: Motivational Benefits of Instruction That Integrates Self-Determination Theory and Culturally Relevant Education
- April 26: Author: The Role of Communally Focused Teaching Practices in Shaping Students’ STEM Career Interests
- April 23: Author: Iron Meets Equity: A Review and Framework for Technology Adoption in College Admissions
- April 25: Panelist: Upholding Racial Equity in Education: Challenges and Possibilities
Alexander J. Rectra
- April 27: Author: Queering Educational Renewal in a K-12 Leadership Program: Will this Program Represent LGBTQIA2S+ Educators of Color?
Robert S. Rueda
- April 26: Author: La vida de estudiante graduado: Graduate school experiences at UCLA with his comadre and compadres
- April 23: Participant: Environmental Crises and Inequality: Responding to Learning Disruption and Countering Misinformation
- April 24: Author: Excitement or Anger: A Look at How Teachers Feel About Teaching Climate Change and Why
- April 25: Discussant: Truth and Trust: Evolving Judgments, Climate Literacy, and Conversations for Change
- April 25: Author: Fact or Fiction? Accuracy and Sharing Trends of Climate Change Headlines on Social Media
- April 25: Participant: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum: The Past, Present, and Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology
- April 25: Discussant: Systems Thinking From Different Vantage Points: PreK-12
- April 23: Author: Do Authorizer Evaluations Predict New Charter Schools’ Success?
- April 27: Author: Building restorative school cultures: Insights from peer mediation programs in elementary and middle schools
Ralitsa Todorova
- April 23: Author: Understanding the Nexus of Well-being, Class, and Postsecondary Education for Low-Income Students
- April 27: Author: Building restorative school cultures: Insights from peer mediation programs in elementary and middle schools
- April 23: Author: U.S. Adolescents’ Race-related Digital Literacies: Toward a Critical Race Digital Literacy Approach
- April 23: Chair: Transforming STEM Departments: Institutional Change for Equity and Inclusion
- April 25: Chair: Analysis of University Statements and Responses to Politically Charged Topics
- April 27: Author: Bridging Cultures: A Case Study of Intercultural Communication Strategies Among Diverse Student Advocacy Leaders
- April 23: Author: Equity in Data-Driven Decision Making
- April 24: Author: Becoming a Board Member: Perceptions of K-12 School Board Member Training and Socialization
Amanda Vite
- April 25: Author: Race-Reimaged Autonomy Support: Motivational Benefits of Instruction That Integrates Self-Determination Theory and Culturally Relevant Education
- April 26: Author: The Role of Communally Focused Teaching Practices in Shaping Students’ STEM Career Interests
- April 26: Author: Collecting Equity-Focused Data Across Constituencies and Sociopolitical Shifts Through a Research-Practice Partnership
- April 25: Author: Exploring Narrative Structures and Elements in Children's Collaborative Storytelling with AI and Humans
- April 24: Author: Examining the Brokerage Function of Community College Reentry Programs
- April 26: Author: The Role of Communally Focused Teaching Practices in Shaping Students’ STEM Career Interests
This schedule was compiled by Monica Lopez from the USC Rossier Research Office.
