Several Baylor School of Education faculty members presented research at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), held in Washington, D.C., April 8-12.

AERA is a national research society that is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results. Its more than 25,000 members include faculty, researchers, graduate students, and other distinguished professionals with expertise in education research.

School of Education faculty and students gave the following presentations:

Session: Developing Religious Identities
Presentation: “Examining the Association Between Religion and Student Academic Honesty: An Empirical Investigation”
Presenters:
Dr. Hongwei Yu, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
Dr. Perry Glanzer, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Administration
Brandon Moore, McLennan Community College
Dr. Byron Johnson, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion

Session: Spirituality and Education: Select Papers
Presentation: “Answering the Big Questions: Connections Between Worldview Formation and Purpose Development”
Presenters:
Jessica Robinson, Baylor SOE doctoral candidate in higher education and leadership, MSEd 14
Dr. Perry Glanzer, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Administration
Presentation: “Understanding College Students’ Life Purpose: A Mixed-Methods Analysis”
Presenters:
Dr. Perry Glanzer, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Administration
Dr. Hongwei Yu, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion

Session: Roundtable
Presentation: “Enhancing Young People’s Civic Responsibility: Action Civics in Three Contexts”
Presenters:
Dr. Brooke Blevins, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Dr. Karon LeCompte, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Dr. Sunny Wells, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, PhD ’15 curriculum and teaching

Session: Longitudinal Studies of Social and Academic Processes
Presentation: “Examination of Socioemotional Adjustment Trajectories in Early Childhood: Application of Multilevel Latent Transition Mixture Modeling”
Presenters:
Dr. Grant Morgan, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Psychology
Kevin Wells, Baylor SOE doctoral candidate, educational psychology
Dr. Paul McDermott, University of Pennsylvania

Session: Roundtable
Presentation: “A Journey to Critical Citizenship Education: Preservice Teachers’ Citizenship Conceptions, Curricular Choices, and Pedagogical Practices”
Presenters:
Dr. Sunny Wells, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, PhD ’15 curriculum and teaching
Dr. Brooke Blevins, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction

Session: Roundtable
Presentation: “Faith, Work and Praxis: A Process Model of Integration for Christian Student Affairs Administrators”
Presenters:
Cara Elise Cliburn Allen, Baylor SOE doctoral candidate, higher education and leadership, Dept. of Educational Administration
Dr. Nathan Alleman, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Administration

Session: The Academic Majority: Role, Agency and Commitment
Presentation: “Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, Organizational Commitment, and Institutional Service”
Presenters:
Dr. Nathan Alleman, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Administration
Cara Elise Cliburn Allen, Baylor SOE doctoral candidate, higher education and leadership, Dept. of Educational Administration
Dr. Don Haviland, California State University, Long Beach

Session: The Potential and Challenges of Using National Data Sets to Answer Questions in Education

Presentation: “School Administrators’ Perceived Limitations on Discipline and Crime Policy Implementation”
Presenters:
Dr. Tracey Sulak, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Psychology, PhD ’12 in educational psychology
Kevin Wells, Baylor SOE doctoral candidate, Dept. of Educational Psychology
Dr. Kari Hodge, NACE International Institute, Baylor SOE PhD ’15 in educational psychology

Session: Career and Technical Education: Community Colleges, and Outcomes
Presentation: “Noncredit Community College Education: A National Analysis of Funding Policy, Accountability, Enrollment, and Contextual Issues”
Presenters:
Dr. Mark D’Amico, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Dr. Grant Morgan, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Psychology
Dr. Stephen Katsinas, Dr. J. Lucas Adair, University of Alabama

Session: Poster Session
Presentation: “Deploying Dispositional Measures to Better Understand Characteristics of In-Service Urban Teachers”
Presenters:
Dr. Nicholas Daniel Hartlep, Dr. Christopher Michael Hansen, Illinois State University
Dr. Grant Morgan, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Psychology

Session: Revisiting Sociocultural Influences in Assessment and Student Performance: Challenges and Opportunities
Presentation: “Parental Status as Risk Protection from Early Childhood Conduct Disturbances: National Growth Mixture Models”
Presenters:
Dr. Paul McDermott, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Samuel Rikoon, Educational Testing Service
Dr. Michael Rovine, Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Marley Watkins, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Psychology
Dr. Clare Irwin, Educational Development Center, Inc.
Dr. Roland Reyes

Session: Roundtable
Presentation: “‘A Good Choice’ for Black Students: Examining African American Students’ Perceptions about Attending a Historically Black College/University”
Presenter:
Dr. Lakia M. Scott, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction

Session: Roundtable
Presentation: “Parental Perspectives on Psychological Adjustment: A National Measurement Study in Trinidad and Tobago”
Presenters:
Dr. Anna Rhoad, Dr. Paul McDermott, Dr. Jessica Chao, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Marley Watkins, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Psychology

Session: State and Regional Educational Research Associations: Distinguished Paper Session
Presenter:
Dr. Grant Morgan, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Psychology

Session: Taking Responsibility: Autoethnography as Reflexive Practice in Social Studies Research and Teaching
Presentation: “Journey to Transformation in Teaching and Research: Teaching for Critical Citizenship”
Presenter:
Dr. Sunny Wells, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, PhD ’15 curriculum and teaching

Session: Use of Various Rasch Measurement Models
Presentation: “Testlet Effects on Pass-Fail Decisions Under Competing Rasch Models”
Presenters:
Dr. Kari Hodge, NACE International Institute, Baylor SOE PhD ’15 in educational psychology
Dr. Grant Morgan, Baylor SOE faculty, Dept. of Educational Psychology

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