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2025 UF College of Education Research Symposium
Date: March 27th, 2025
Location: Norman Hall Conference Space & Rosenberg Room (NRN 2021), University of Florida
2:00 PM – 2:10 PM: Welcome and Instructions
Location: Norman Hall Conference Space
Speakers:
Hyunju Oh, Symposium Director
Dr. Thomasenia Lott Adams, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
2:15 PM – 3:10 PM: Paper Session 1
Paper Session 1: Group A | Norman Hall Conference Space
2:15-2:30 PM: Gabriella Haire, Pasha Antonenko, & Bojan Lazarevic - "AI in Action: Exploring Students' AI Self-Efficacy Using Machine Learning Model and Poster Artifacts"
2:35-2:50 PM: Hong Zhang & Melissa Soto - "Understanding a Teacher Educator’s Discourse Moves in a Mathematics Method Course: A Case Study"
2:55-3:10 PM: Minji Yun & Kent Crippen - "First-Year Engineering Students’ Career Perceptions in ROV Operations: Gender Differences and Predictors of Career Intentions"
Paper Session 1: Group B | Rosenberg Room (NRN 2021)
2:15-2:30 PM: Dwi Maharrani & Rob Moore - "AI in K-12 EFL: A Systematic Review of Tools and Teaching Strategies"
2:35-2:50 PM: Deniz Ercan, Seyedahmad Rahimi, Salah Esmaeiligoujar, & Maryam Babaee - "Designing and Prototyping an AI-Powered Web-Based Platform to Support Teachers in the Productive Failure Method"
2:55-3:10 PM: Sophia Soomin Lee & Rob Moore - "Who Are You? Understanding Learner Behaviors in Lastinger Center Microcredentials"
3:20 PM – 4:00 PM: Poster Session
Location: Norman Hall Conference Center
Posters:
Poster 1: Yessy Eka Ambarwati - "Game On: Unlocking 4C Mission! - A Systematic Review"
Poster 2: Shelley Therien - "Practitioner Research as a Tool for Graduate Teacher Assistants: Improving a Problem of Practice in Online Teacher Education"
Poster 3: Jay Rosen - "Developing with AI & Augmented Reality for Classroom"
Poster 4: Ziad El-Rady - "Raising the Game: Multi-Modal Communication of 2D Maps Using Paper"
Poster 5: Bradley Collins - "A Study of Cognitive Apprenticeship in the Medical School Histology Curriculum"
Poster 6: Lauren Shepherd - "Manipulatives and Fact Fluency: How Directed Intervention Impacts Math Confidence in Young Learners"
Poster 7: Oluyemisi Oladejo - "Mapping Gender In English Textbooks: A Systematic Review Of Methodologies"
Poster 8: Dallas K. Galguera-Kelm, Ashley N. Walker, Ivy B. Dunn, Nancy Adams, Venkatesh Nonabur, & Kyle E. Rarey - "Exploring Physician Assistant Student Perspectives of Community-Building in a First-Semester Gross Anatomy Laboratory Course"
Poster 9: Damien Boada - "Assessing AI for Secondary Students"
Poster 10: Ewelina Czyz & Lindsey Franklin - "Redefining the Revision Process to Build Connections in the ELA Classroom"
Poster 11: Natalie James - "Exploring Children's Literature to Foster Self-Regulation and Social-Emotional Growth in First-Grade Students"
Poster 12: Kelly Bjalobok - "Measuring What Matters: A Literature Review on Enhancing Elementary Vocabulary Assessment"
Poster 13: Georgette Kluiters & Allyson Fleischer - "Leveraging Learning Management Systems to Foster Inclusion and Engagement in Distance Education"
Poster 14: Irene Yu-Chia Kao, Macy Gathings Geiger, Nigel Newbutt, Rachel West, Jay Rosen, Kayla Sharp, Jason Arnold, Shaunté Duggins, Luiz Franco Giovanini, & Elizabeth McConney - "From Participants to Designers: Exploring Self-Efficacy through Co-Designing an Augmented Reality Application in a School"
Poster 15: Elizabeth Riotto - "Undergraduate Research in the College of Education: Understanding Mechanisms to Involvement"
4:05 PM – 5:00 PM: Paper Session 2
Paper Session 2: Group A | Norman Hall Conference Space
4:05-4:20 PM: Jen Curran - "The Silent Team Member: Individual Education Program (IEP) Content Analysis on Parent Collaboration"
4:25-4:40 PM: Seiyon Lee & Anthony Botelho - "Alternative Approach to Evaluating Algorithmic Bias: Clustering Individual Interaction Pattern Over Demographic Labels"
4:45-5:00 PM: Zifeng Liu & Wanli Xing - "Engaging High School Students in Data Science through a Logic-Based Framework"
Paper Session 2: Group B | Rosenberg Room (NRN 2021)
4:05-4:20 PM: Rachel Silva - "Charting the Complexity of Inclusive Practice: Using Mind Maps to Explore Teacher Educators’ Understandings"
4:25-4:40 PM: Paige Carter - "Pathways to Self-Objectification in Women Through Purity Culture"
4:45-5:00 PM: Salah Esmaeiligoujar, Seyedahmad Rahimi, Ran Gao, Deniz Ercan, & Maryam Babaee - "Designing a Rubric for Assessing Productive Failure Problems in Algebra"
5:10 PM – 5:25 PM: Roundtable Sessions 1
Location: Norman Hall Conference Space
Tables:
Table 1: Nick McMillen - "Veteran Critical Theory 2.0: A Systems-Based Approach to Accountability in Higher Education"
Table 2: Toni Johnson & Natalie James - "Building the Foundation: Using Explicit Phonics Instruction Paired with Differentiated Small Group Instruction to increase Literacy Performance for all Students"
Table 3: Dahlia S. Fabregat - "Creating Dream-Spaces: A Pre-Service Teacher’s Autohistoria-teoría"
Table 4: Martha Carolina Simon-Pardo & Julie C. Brown - "Needs Assessment, Leveraging Participatory Arts and Science to Enhance Youth Participation in Biocultural Knowledge Conservation in the Amazon"
Table 5: Maggie Bethea - "Principals as Special Education Leaders: A Systematic Review of the Literature"
Table 6: Maryam Babaee, Seyedahmad Rahimi, Deniz Ercan, & Salah Esmaeiligoujar - "From Struggle to Success: A Professional Development on Productive Failure For Math Educators"
Table 7: Han Zheng & Lissette Monzon Paz - "Student Perceptions of Scaffolding in Kahoot-Based Spanish Vocabulary Learning"
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM: Roundtable Sessions 2
Location: Norman Hall Conference Space
Tables:
Table 1: Zoe Dean - "Rethinking Inclusion: Meeting Individual Student Needs for a Meaningful Life"
Table 2: Dwi Maharrani & Rob Moore - "From Research to Practice: A Systematic Review of Effective EFL Instructional Video Design"
Table 3: Jiyeon Goo - "Beyond Exclusionary Zero Tolerance Policy: Reimagining School Discipline for Democratic Education"
Table 4: Nirali Patel - "A Comprehensive Case Study of Advanced Academics in Sarasota County"
Table 5: Susanna Hughes - "Feasibility of Adapting the UFLI Foundations Tier 1 Reading Curriculum for Homeschool Instruction with a Struggling Reader: A Case Study"
Table 6: Seiyon Lee, Avery Closser, Anthony Botelho, Shan Zhan, & Chip Hongming Li - "Open Science in EdTech Research: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future"
5:50 PM – 6:00 PM: Closing Speech and Awards
Location: Norman Hall Conference Space
Speaker: Dr. Elayne Colón, Associate Dean for Academic & Student Affairs, Clinical Professor
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