Upcoming presentations at 2019 SRCD and AERA annual meetings

Members of the Language and Literacy Research Group will be presenting their work at the annual meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in Baltimore, MD, and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Toronto, Canada.

At SRCD, Alison Bailey along with co-authors Taylor Hazelbaker, Katherine Griffin, and Rashmita Mistry will present the poster, “Racial and Ethnic Identification and Awareness in Dual-Language Settings: The Role of Classroom Context” on Friday, March 22, at 9:45 to 11:00am, in the Baltimore Convention Center, Level 1, Exhibit Hall B.

Anne Blackstock-Bernstein will present her poster, “Teacher and Parent Ratings of Shyness and Effortful Control in Latinx Children in Head Start” on Saturday, March 23, at 9:45 to 11:00am, in the Baltimore Convention Center, Level 1, Exhibit Hall B.

At AERA, Anne Blackstock-Bernstein will present “Differences in Individual Children’s Language Experiences in Head Start Classrooms” in the session Early Childhood Language and Literacy on Saturday, April 6th, at 12:20 to 1:50pm, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 202D.

Alison Bailey and Margaret Heritage will present “The Promise of Learning Progressions for the Integration of Science and Language Assessment” in the symposium Formative Assessment and Learning Progression Approaches to Assessing Science and Language Learning of English Learners on Tuesday, April 9, at 10:25 to 11:55am, in the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Convention Level, Salon B.

Gary Yeung, Alison Bailey, Amber Afshan, Marlen Quintero Perez, and Alejandra Martin will present their poster “Toward the Development of Personalized Learning Companion Robots for Early Speech and Language Assessment” on Tuesday, April 9, at 2:15 to 3:45pm, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C.