An Opportunity to Celebrate Educational Research Across Disciplines
The Center for Educational Research and Action (Era) invites you to join the IEI community for our inaugural Research Trainee Showcase, an interactive celebration of the innovative education-related research happening across Notre Dame. This event brings together IEI-affiliated research trainees to share their work with faculty, staff, and colleagues—and offers all of us a chance to learn about the breadth and depth of scholarship being conducted within and across our programs.
What to Expect
This showcase is designed as an interactive experience where you can:
- Walk around and explore research posters, slides, and handouts.
- Chat directly with researchers about their work, findings, and ongoing questions.
- Enjoy complimentary snacks and beverages.
Research Trainees & Topics
This year's showcase features research across a wide range of topics in education:
- Austin Wyman: A Simplified Approach to Reporting Differential Item Functioning Effect Size
- Julianna Hakel: Can I Do It?: Effects of Math Affirmations on Math Arithmetic Depend on Mastery Experiences and Math Anxiety
- Chineme Otuonye: Picture Book Features Influence the Use of Complex Modifiers During Shared Number Book Reading
- Taehee Kim: Mapping Peer Engagement in Preschool Classrooms: A Social Network Analysis
- Patrick Ehrman: Differences in Math and Reading Growth Trajectories Between At-Risk Groups
- Andrew Hoover: Peer Effects of Education in the Labor Force: Evidence from the US Army
- Sydney Brown: Understanding Racial Differences in Educators’ Knowledge and Interpretation of System-involved Families
- Naja JonesMitchell: Mental Health Advice in the Age of AI: A Critical Examination of ChatGPT as a Function of Gender and Race
- Jacob Bechtel: Extending EvaCAM with Variation Modeling for Content Addressable Memories
- Melissa Mujicic: Are Spontaneous Self-affirmation and Adverse Childhood Experiences Associated with Math Anxiety and Math Performance?
- Elizabeth Clark: Exploring Teacher Use of Matched Informational and Narrative Texts to Support Language and Literacy in Dual Language Learners
- Emma Page: How Part-Whole Visual Representations Affect Learning from Addition Fact Practice
- Bonnie Siegler: From Race-Evasion to Race-Conscious Refinement: Examining School Districts’ Commitments to Talk about Racism in 2020
- Meaghan Mingo: School-Based Corporal Punishment: A Form of State Violence
- Walton Ferguson: Hierarchical Models of Speed and Accuracy as Construct Validity Evidence
- Haeju Lee: Evaluating Creativity with Multimodal Large Language Models: Prompt and Task Effects on Human-AI Agreement
- Yoojin Hahn: Pictorial and Semantic Processing in Graph Comprehension Across Ages and Cultures
- Jamie Rhinesmith: Is Fifth Grade a Key Developmental Transition Period for Mature Number Sense?
- Brooke Poston Azzinnaro & Evan Mollick: What Do Pediatric Care Providers Know About Cognitive Development? Implications for Early Numeracy
About Era
The Center for Educational Research and Action (Era) advances knowledge of human learning and the systems that shape it by forming researchers from across disciplines and fostering sustained collaboration with educators and communities. Our work spans interdisciplinary research, apprenticeship-based training and formation, sustained research-practice partnerships, and convenings that foster exchange across these areas.