Schedule of AERA/NCME 2026 Presenters Representing UC Davis

The following UC Davis School of Education/Graduate Group in Education faculty, students, and alumni presented at the 2026 annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) in Los Angeles, CA, April 8-10.

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AERA Conference Sessions

Wednesday, April 8

7:45–9:15 a.m.

Jaime Ramirez-Mendoza
“The Price of Access: How Marginalized Students Navigate Racialized Barriers in Financial Aid Processes”
Paper Session: Navigating Transitions: Equity, Belonging, and the First-Year Experience—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum F

9:45–11:15 a.m.

Chamee Moua
“By and For HMong Students: Exploring a Youth Conference as Collective Resistance and Educational Transformation”
Roundtable: Roundtable Session Wednesday 9:45 am—Ethnic-Based Organizing and Leadership Development, Table 4—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Andre Spencer Anderson-Thompson
“Black Boy Innocence: A Portraiture of Urban Waldorf School”
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 11:45 am—Black Educational Strivings: Boyhood, Resistance, and Living History, Table 2—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

Stephanie Luna-Lopez
“From Applicants to Bridge-Builders: Reframing Student Roles in College Access”
Paper Session: Reframing College Access: Student Agency, Readiness, and the Politics of Preparation—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum F

1:45–3:15 p.m.

Christina Murdoch Mills
“Developing Authentic Research Practice Partnerships (RPPs) for Educational Change: perspectives on principles and practices from diverse global contexts”
Authors: Christina Murdoch Mills, Pinkie Euginia Mthembu, Christopher James Chapman
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 1:45pm—Global Perspectives on Educational Change: Networks, Partnerships, and Equity in Action, Table 2—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

Analisa Brown
“#ThrivinginScienceWhileBlack: A New Framework for Understanding Black College Students Experiences with Thriving”
Roundtable: AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session One—Research-in-Progress RT038, Wednesday—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C

Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
“Muxerista Factorship: Recuerdos, Resistencia, y Reimagining Peer Muxerista Mentoring”
Authors: Lucila D. Ek, Iliana Alanis, Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
Symposium: Beyond Mentoring: Muxerista, Feminista, and Black Feminist Approaches to Femtorship—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 304C

3:45–5:15 p.m.

Faheemah N. Mustafaa
“Belonging in Practice: Racial Affinity Group Caucusing and Professional Identity Formation in Pediatric Residency”
Authors: Jyothi Marbin, Leanna Lewis, Camila Cribb Fabersunne, Camila DePierola, Faheemah N. Mustafaa
Symposium: Belonging and Becoming: Racial Affinity Group Caucus Pedagogy in Medical Education—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 501C

Thursday, April 9

7:45–9:15 a.m.

Mayu Lindblad, Maria Belen Buttiler
“Narrating Futures, Remembering Roots: Immigrant Family Literacy Practices and Dual Language Learners’ Narrative Skills”
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 7:45am—Curriculum in collaboration: Exploring multilingual family and community literacy practices as resources for curriculum development, Table 7—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

Valeria Carolina Zunino-Edelsberg, Megan E. Welsh
“Chilean Pre-Service Teachers Approaches to Classroom Assessment”
Authors: Valeria Carolina Zunino-Edelsberg, Megan E. Welsh, Maria Veronica Santelices
Symposium: Exploring Formative Assessment Practices and Policies in Latin American and European Countries: A Cross-national Comparative Overview—InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Hancock Park West

Xiaochen Xu, Tony Albano
“Unpacking Early Mathematical Cognition: A Joint Modeling of Speed and Accuracy Using Nested IRTree Models”
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 7:45am – Gold 4—From Data to Understanding: Building Fair and Rigorous Math and Science Assessments, Table 5—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

Thomas M. Smith
“Learning to Facilitate Productive Lesson Debriefs Through Meta-Coaching”
Authors: Michael Jarry-Shore, Hilda Borko, Meghan Smith Durkin, Marsha M. Ing, Thomas M. Smith
Symposium: Reimagining Professional Learning Structures: Supporting Teacher Educators to Lead Ambitious and Equitable Mathematics Teacher Learning—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum A

9:45–11:15 a.m.

Yuuko Uchikoshi
“Executive Functions, Decoding, and Oral Language: English Reading in Low-Income Immigrant Chinese-English Dual Language Learners”
Authors: Emily Mak, Lu Yang, Qing Zhou, Yuuko Uchikoshi
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 9:45 am – Gold 4—Language and Literacy Development in Multilingual Contexts, Table 3—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

Kevin A. Gee
“How Do I Belong Compared With Others? Relative Belonging and Math Achievement in Chinese Adolescents”
Authors: Yushan Zhao, Kevin A. Gee, Caleb Wang Yuan
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 9:45 am—The Relationship of Climate and Belonging with STEM—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
“Weaving Futures Together: Building Research through Relational Accountability”
Symposium: Truth and Healing in California: Land, Education, and the Remembering, Restorying, Reclaiming Project—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 3rd Floor, Georgia I

2:15–3:45 p.m.

Marcela G. Cuellar
“More Than Money: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and the Multiple Dimensions of Social Mobility”
Authors: Marcela G. Cuellar, Isabella D.C. Herrera
Poster Session: AERA Poster Session Thursday 2:15pm—Division G VP Session: The Social Context of Education and MSI’s, Poster 22—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A

Andre Spencer Anderson-Thompson
“Can Black Boys Be Children: Towards a Black Boy Innocence in K-12 Schools”
Paper Session: Reimagining Black Masculinities: Exploring the Educational Experiences of Black Boys and Men—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 3

4:15–5:45 p.m.

Lee Michael Martin, J.C. Leapman
“Design Tensions in Developing Partnerships in Challenging Circumstances”
Symposium: Envisioning Futures in Times of Crisis: Lessons from School-University-Community Partnership Research & Practice—Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Palos Verdes

Chair: Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
Learning Through Time: Multigenerational Narratives and Critical Mentoring

Gloria M. Rodriguez
Workshop: Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Level 3, Avalon

Yuuko Uchikoshi
“Quality of Shared Book Reading and Home Language Vocabulary Among Low-Income Preschool-Age Dual Language Learners”
Authors: Emily Mak, Qing Zhou, Yuuko Uchikoshi
Paper Session: Bridging Worlds of Words: Insights from Bilingual, Multimedia, and Meta-Analytic Research—Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Beaudry A

Friday, April 10

7:45–9:15 a.m.

Charles Wilkes
“Reconceptualizing Smartness: Student Perspectives in the Community College Mathematics Classroom”
Authors: Gabriela M. Hernandez, Charles E. Wilkes, Mary E. Pilgrim
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 7:45am – Gold 3—Illuminating Student Perspectives of Mathematics Classrooms, Table 1—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

Chair: Stephanie Luna-Lopez
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 7:45am – Gold 3—Braiding Care and Cultural Wealth: Latinx Praxis, Mentorship, and Institutional Reckoning in Academia, Table 6—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

Tadria Cardenas, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Mayra Nuñez Martinez
“Creating Counterspaces: Empowering Latina Girls in STEM through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Community Cultural Wealth”
Authors: Tadria Cardenas, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Mayra Nuñez Martinez, Ashley Coughlin
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 7:45am—Cultivating Resistance and Belonging: Latex Educational Pathways, Counterspaces, and Cultural Survival, Table 7—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

Thomas Smith, Yiwang Li
“How do diverse candidates enter the California teacher pipeline, whom do they teach, and do they stay?”
Authors: Thomas M. Smith, Tine F. Sloan, Yiwang Li
Poster Session: AERA Poster Session Friday 7:45am—Teacher Pipelines, Recruitment, and Pathways, Poster 7—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall – Exhibit Hall A

Heidi Ballard
“Engaging local expertise in community science”
Authors: Chris Jadallah, Heidi Ballard
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 7:45am—Community-Centered and Relational Approaches in Environmental Science and Engineering Education, Table 10—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

9:45–11:15 a.m.

Darnel Degand
“Pursuing Educational Equity with Afrofuturism and Futures Scenario Planning”
Authors: Darnel Degand, Sosanya M. Jones
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 9:45am – Gold 3—Afrofuturism, Sankofa, and the Radical Imagination in Black Educational Thought, Table 3—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

Lauren Lindstrom
“From Plans to Possibility: Centering the Lived Futures of Young Women with Disabilities”
Authors: Kara Hirano, Lauren Lindstrom
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 9:45am—Exploring Disability Identity and Student Agency, Table 9—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

Alexis Patterson Williams
“Noticing and Futuring for Equity: Transformative Commitments in Justice-Oriented Science Education”
Invited Speaker Session: From Memory to Movement: SECRET Work to Advance Science Literacy—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 408A

Kevin A. Gee
“Districtwide Family Engagement Strategies and Chronic Absenteeism Among California’s Kindergarteners and Multilingual Learners”
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 9:45am—Unforgetting Family Wisdom: Immigrant Journeys, Engagement, and Educational Futures—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

Cynthia Carter Ching
Invited Speaker Session: Division C Jan Hawkins Award (Arturo Cortez) and Outstanding Early Career Scholar Award (Patrick Beymer) Invited Session—Westin Bonventure, Floor: Level 3, Avalon

11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Arturo Cortez
“Youth Designing Socio-Ecological Futures: Reworlding Game Ecologies”
Authors: Edward Rivero, Arturo Cortez
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 11:45am – Gold 2—Digital and Media Spaces of Critical Connection, Table 1—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica
Journal Talks: Meet the Editors – Journal Talks Session 5—Racial Justice in Multilingual Education—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C

Marcela G. Cuellar
Invited Speaker Session: Scholars as Field Builders: Expanding Pathways for Impact at a Critical Juncture for Education—Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Level 2, Beverly

1:45–3:15 p.m.

Cindy Parks, Laurel E. Towers, Lauren Lindstrom
“Lives of Neurodivergent Teachers”
Authors: Ilene Ivins, Cindy Parks, Laurel E. Towers, Lauren Lindstrom
Paper Session—Reframing Teacher Preparation and Praxis Through Disability, Culture, and Teacher Identity—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 3

Megan E. Welsh, Christina Murdoch Mills
“Emerging Identities: How Context Shapes Early-Stage Research-Practice Partnerships”
Authors: Megan E. Welsh, Christina Murdoch Mills, Jarrett Terry, Nicole Patton-Terry
Symposium: What Was, What’s Now, What’s Next: University-Based RPP Brokering in Shifting Institutional Contexts—Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Los Cerritos

Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica
“Making Math Fun: Fostering School-Home Partnerships Between Caregivers and Teachers”
Authors: Madeleine Coole, Kathleen Jablon Stoehr, Sara Rutherford-Quach, Katherine Necochea-Tinco, Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica, Allison Briceno
Symposium: Creating Spaces for Parents of Multilingual Children to Showcase Their Expertise and Understanding—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum A

Chair: Jennifer Higgs
“Research-in-Progress RT063 (Friday)”
Invited Roundtable: AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session Three—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C

Mayra Nuñez Martinez
“Mentoring on Rural Terms: A Framework for Supporting Community College Learners”
Authors: Mayra Nuñez Martinez, Jordan Reed, Lia Wetzstein, Susannah Davis, Katherine M. Kovacich
Symposium: Rooted Futures: Learner-Centered Postsecondary Models for Rural Learners—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum A

Saturday, April 11

7:45–9:15 a.m.

Danny C. Martinez, Alexis Patterson Williams
“Noticing for Equity in Disciplinary Literacy”
Structured Poster Session: Reimagining K–12 Disciplinary Literacy: Access, Engagement, and Innovation Across Subjects, Poster 8—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515B

9:45–11:15 a.m.

Anna Carolina Peñaloza
“Hermanos Escritoras [Sister Writers]: Negotiating Our Science Writer Identities as Chicana/Latinas in STEM”
Authors: Anna Peñaloza, Camille Korbut, Eimy Barrera, Ashley Garcia, Aylin Andrade
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 9:45am—Educators’ Critical Reflections on Curriculum Questions, Table 1—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Chair: Antoinette Banks
Parenting as Praxis: Families, Schooling, and the Quest for Racial, Linguistic, and Disability Justice

Antoinette Banks
“Unforgetting the Families Who Built Special Education: Computational Analysis of IEP Language and Family Voice”
Paper Session—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 304C

Session Organizer: Marcela G. Cuellar
Symposium: From Policy Impact to Collective Action: Strengthening Minority-Serving Institutions in a Shifting Landscape—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 502A

Chair: Jennifer Higgs
Invited Speaker Session: AERA Presidential Session—Scaling Equity-oriented Innovations for Just Education Futures: Navigating Power Relations During Contentious Times—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 403A

Maria Belen Buttiler, Yuuko Uchikoshi
“The Role of Parental Acculturation in Immigrant Families’ Language Interactions at Home”
Authors: Maria Belen Buttiler, Qing Zhou, Yuuko Uchikoshi
Symposium: Relevance of Individual and Family Environment Factors for Young Children’s Language Use and Language Skills—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 3rd Floor, Georgia I

Marcela Cuellar
“Reimagining Access: The Community College Baccalaureate as a Pathway to Equity and Graduate School Aspirations”
Authors: Adrian H. Huerta, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Marcela G. Cuellar, Jessica Leila Carranza, Jose Bermejo, Michael Corvera, Davis Vo
Paper Session—Holistic Success: Institutional Influences on Community College Student Outcomes—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum F

1:45–3:15 p.m.

Alyssa Nguyen, Cassandra M.D. Hart
“Beyond the Buzz: How Does PD Reshape Online Course Design for Quality Learning?”
Authors: Alyssa Nguyen, Jenny Lee, Di Xu, Michael Hill, Cassandra M.D. Hart, Rachel B. Baker
Paper Session: Innovative approaches to improving postsecondary teaching—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum G

Heather Rose
“Enhancing College Transitions Through a Synergistic Mindset Intervention”
Authors: Sarah Leckey, Cameron Hecht, Heather Rose, Jacob Hibel, Yushan Zhao, Karla Santana Valenton, Evelyn Mandujano, Susan Ebeler, Kali Trzesniewski
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 1:45pm – Gold 4—Intervention Innovations: Leveraging and Learning From Motivational Processes, Table 7—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

3:45–5:15 p.m.

Andre Spencer Anderson-Thompson
“Why Am I Putting on These Pink Slippers? ‘Eurythmy’ in Milwaukee’s Inner City Waldorf School”
Symposium: Harnessing Waldorf for Arts-based Trauma Pedagogy Across Borders: Opportunities & Challenges—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 306

Chair: Darnel Degand
Invited Speaker Session: AERA Presidential Session—Archiving Art as a Legacy to Preserve Pasts/Futures—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406A

Anna Carolina Peñaloza, Ana Delmy Castellon
“Reimagining FYC: Justice-Driven Visions for Learning and Liberation”
Authors: Anna Carolina Peñaloza, Sanjana Dhamankar, Ana Delmy Castellon
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 3:45 – Gold 4—Literacies of Equity and Liberation in Higher Education, Table 5—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4

Sunday, April 12

7:45–9:15 a.m.

Marisa Ruiz
“Vamos A Platicar: Reflecting on the English Learner Experience as formerly labeled ELs”
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Sunday 7:45am—Critical Research on Policy and Mattering within the Social Context of Education, Table 4—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

Mayra Nuñez Martinez
“Intersectional Power and Institutional Change: Centering Student Leadership in Postsecondary Education”
Authors: Susannah C. Davis, Lia Wetzstein, Mayra Nuñez Martinez, Jordan Reed, Katherine M. Kovacich
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 7:45am – Gold 1—Centering Students and Student Leadership in Higher Education, Table 4—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

9:45–11:15 a.m.

J.C. Leapman, Lee Michael Martin
“Making Mr. Evil French Cheetoh: In-school Makerspace Symbiotic Learning and Play of two Intersectionally-marginalized Girls”
Authors: J.C. Leapman, Lee Michael Martin, Kurt Winsler
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 9:45am – Gold 2—Culturally Responsive Approaches to Equity in STEM+CS, Table 9—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

Chair: Stephanie Luna-Lopez
Paper Session: Centering Equity and Belonging: Transforming Outcomes Across Higher Education—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum H

Thomas M. Smith
“Impact of School-Wide Partnership on Literacy Skills in Grades K-2”
Authors: Sara White, Carolyn Heinrich, Thomas M. Smith
Invited Roundtable Session: AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session Five—Research-in-Progress, Research-in-Progress RT042—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C

11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Mayra Nuñez Martinez
“Rural-Serving Community Colleges and the Democratic Mission in California’s San Joaquin Valley”
Authors: Mayra Nuñez Martinez, Arlyn Y. Moreno Luna, Mayra Puente, Daniel Rios Arroyo, Marlene Lopez Torres
Paper Session: We Demand More: Expanding our Frames and Approaches to Serve the Needs of OUR Community—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum H

Session Organizer: Danny C. Martinez
Teachers of Color Learning, Resisting, and Designing for Equitable Futures
Symposium—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 7

Jennifer Higgs
“Navigating the Strategic Terrain: Asian American Teachers’ Everyday Tactics for Futuring K-12 Asian American Studies”
Authors: Jennifer Higgs, Esther June Kim, Noreen Naseem Rodriguez, Sohyun An, Michael Brown

Alexis Patterson Williams, Téa Skye Pusey
“Imagining Liberatory Futures: Pivotal Moments in the Making of Justice-Oriented Teachers of Color”
Authors: Alexis Patterson Williams, Téa Skye Pusey, Christopher Jadallah

Danny C. Martinez
“Designing for Cross-Geographic Solidarities: Teachers of Color Convening to Imagine Possible Futures”
Authors: Danny C. Martinez, P. Zitlali Morales, Ramon Antonio Martinez

1:45–3:15 p.m.

Silvia Tovar, Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica
“Nuestro Español Mocho Tiene Valor: Paradoxical Messaging in Multilingualism”
Authors: Silvia Tovar, Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica, Allison Briceno, Sara Rutherford-Quach
Roundtable: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 7:45am – Gold 2—Narrating Language Resistance and Agency, Table 4—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

Yianella M. Blanco, Alicia Rusoja
“A Broad Politics of Justice: A Practitioner Inquiry Study into Latinidad & Latine/x Education at a College Education Symposium”
Authors: Yianella M. Blanco, Alicia Rusoja, Michael V. Singh
Symposium: Critical Dialogues in Latinx Education—JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 3rd Floor, Plaza II

Chair and Session Organizer: Darnel Degand
Unsilencing the Past, Regifting the Present, and Manifesting Unforgettable Futures: Multiliteracies, Entertainment, and Popular Culture
Symposium—Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 303A

Arturo Cortez
“Ctrl+Alt+Resist: Digital protest and speculative activism in videogaming ecologies”

Darnel Degand
“Experiences with Futures Scenario Planning and Arts-Based Educational Approaches in an Undergraduate Education Course”

NCME Conference Sessions

Thursday, April 9

9:45–11:15 a.m.

Megan E. Welsh, Valeria Zunino
“Advancing Equity in Chilean Teacher Assessment Literacy Through Scenario-Based Measurement”
Authors: Megan E. Welsh, Valeria Zunino, Maria Veronica Santelices
Individual Paper Session: Classroom Assessment: Fairness and Equity Research—InterContinental Downtown Los Angeles, Silver Lake A

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Xiaochen Xu, Tony Albano
“Can AI Evaluate its Own Test Items? A Study of LLM Self-evaluation”
Authors: Xiaochen Xu, Tony Albano, Maxime Guiffo Pouokam, Leyao Xing
Electronic Board Session: Individual eBoards: AI and Automated Scoring—InterContinental Downtown Los Angeles, Hancock Park

Friday, April 10

9:45–11:15 a.m.

Tony Albano, Oscar Rios, Leyna Kataoka, Xiaochen Xu, Demi Robinson
“Generalized Methods for Intersectional Differential Item Functioning: Parsimony in Multiple Comparisons”
Individual Paper Session: DIF Research Applications—InterContinental Downtown Los Angeles, Boyle Heights

Saturday, April 11

8:15–9:15 a.m.

Oscar Rios, Tony Albano
“Comparing SME and LLM Translations of Test Items: Content and Psychometric Evaluation”
Graduate Student Electronic Board Session: Graduate Student eBoards: AI & Machine Learning—InterContinental Downtown Los Angeles, Hancock Park

11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.

Leyna Kataoka, Tony Albano
“Comparing Anchor Methods for Polytomous DIF Detection Using the Mantel Chi-Square Statistic”
Graduate Student Electronic Board Session: Graduate Student eBoards: DIF, Dimensionality, Growth Modeling, and Equating—InterContinental Downtown Los Angeles, Hancock Park

1:45–2:45 p.m.

Oscar Rios, Tony Albano
“Advancing Item Writing Methods with Large Language Models and Subject Matter Experts”
Electronic Board Session: Individual eBoards: Scaling, Equating, Linking, and High-Stakes Assessment—InterContinental Downtown Los Angeles, Hancock Park

3:30–5:00 p.m.

Megan E. Welsh, Valeria Zunino, Matthew Wallace, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Robin Martin, Tony Albano
“An application of justice-oriented instrument development and validation”
Individual Paper Session: Properties of Specific Tests—InterContinental Downtown Los Angeles, Silver Lake A