Research from Bagwell Faculty & Students

The Bagwell College of Education Research Week is an initiative framed within the college Tactical Plan. Its inaugural edition was held from November 18th to the 22nd, 2024. This year we will be celebrating the third edition with a week-long celebration of research that will include an exciting array of panel sessions, showcases and keynotes, providing faculty and students with an opportunity to share and  discuss their research interests, agendas and initiatives.

AGENDA FOR THE RESEARCH WEEK

Note: All previous events will be hosted in room BEB 403-Interactive Research Methods Lab

  • 10.45 am - 11.00 am| Presentation of the Research Week by Drs. Karin Scarpinato (Vice President for Research), Adrian Epps (Dean, Bagwell College of Education)  & Iván Jorrín (Research Catalyst Associate Dean)

    11.00 am - 12.15 pm | Keynote Bagwell College of Education Speaker Series | Dr. MeiLin Chang. Title: Embracing the Emotional Self in the Teaching Profession: Teacher Burnout and Emotion Regulation in the Classroom (learn more)

  • 10.00 am - 11.15 am BCOE Research Teams Panel Session - (BEB403)

    • Drs. Paula Guerra, Sanjuana Rodriguez, Mr. James Stinchcomb, & Mrs. Karla Ramirez
    • Drs. Lateefah Id-Deen & Dr. Karen DiBella
    • Drs. Jinhee Kim, Jihye Kim (SMGE), &  Arvin Johnson
    • Drs. Jayoung Choi, Zurisaray Espinosa, Jihye Kim, Jee Hye Park, & Ji Hye Shin

    Virtual attendance: Join the event in Teams 

    Break | 11.15-11.30 pm 

    11.30 - 12.45 pm BCOE Research Grants Panel Session - (BEB403)

    • Dr. Soon Lee
    • Dr. Tiffany Roman
    • Drs. Jessica Stephenson-Reeves, Anna Arias, & Rasheda Likely
    • Drs. Paula Guerra & Sanjuana Rodríguez

    Virtual attendance: Join the event in Teams 

    1.30 - 2.45 pm BCOE Summer Research Programs Panel Session - (BEB403)

    • Dr. Jessica Stephenson Reaves. Summer Term Research Pilot Program for Untenured Faculty
    • Dr. James Vincent (Vince) Kirwan. Summer Term Research Pilot Program for Tenured Faculty
    • Dr. Sohyun An. Summer Term Professor Fellowship Pilot Program
    • Dr. Jayoung Choi. Summer Term Professor Fellowship Pilot Program
    • Dr. Wendy Sanchez. Summer Term Professor Fellowship Pilot Program
    • Dr. Paula Guerra. Summer Term Professor Fellowship Pilot Program

    Virtual attendance: Join the event in Teams 

    3:00 - 5:00 PM Presentations by the recipients of the Office of Research Interdisciplinary Seed Grants Initiative

  • 9.00 am - 11.30 pm | BCOE Faculty Research Expo

    Session 1 | 9.00 - 10.15 a
    (15' presentations + 15' for discussion)

    • Dr. Yvonne Earnshaw & Dr. Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif. Supporting Online Programs: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis
    • Dr. Carolina Rodrí­guez-Llorente. Effects of a Homework Implementation Method (MITCA) on School Engagement
    • Dr. Johari Harris. (Dis) Respect in the M(ai)cro Context: Positioning Respect as a Developmental Need of Adolescence
    • Drs. Jason Harron & Blossom Madubike. ColabXR: Exploring Collaborative Learning in an Extended Reality Environment

    Break | 10.15 -10.30 am

    Session 2 | 10.30 - 11.30 am (15' presentations + 15' for discussion)

    • Dr. Belinda P. Edwards. Supporting Underrepresented Doctoral Students Along the Doctoral Pathway
    • Dr. Rocío González Suárez. Designing a Formative Feedback Program for High School Teachers: Insights from an Ongoing Research Project
    • Drs. Anna Maria Arias, Preethi Titu, Rasheda Likely, Soon Lee, and Jessica Stephenson Reaves. Designing a Toolkit for Supporting Elementary Preservice Teachers in Planning and Conducting Scientific Investigations.
    • Dr. Olga Koz. Teaching Literature Review to Graduate Students: an Action Research.

    12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Panel Session: Innovative Creativity in Practice: Envisioning Research through Educational Game Design.  

    • Victoria LaGrange (Assistant Professor of Game Narrative in the Department of English)
    • Andrea Knowlton (Associate Professor of Dance)
    • Michael Carroll (Associate Professor of Architecture).
    • Kyungeun Lim (Assistant Professor of Art Education)

    Virtual attendance: Join the event in Teams 

  • 10.00-12.45 pm Bagwell College Student Scholars Expo - (BEB403)

    Session 1 - 10.00 - 11.15 am
    (10' presentations + 25' for discussion)

    • Dr. Andrea Miskewicz. Humanizing History: Empowering Educators To Navigate Difficult History ThroughMuseum-Led Professional Development. (Mentor - Dr. Mei Lin Chang) Face-to-Face (Graduate)
    • Jennifer Perez-castellanos, Cynthia Castillo, Luis Pablo Soto Cruz, Floridalma Bautista-Bernabe, Salome Carmona ,Carolina Salomon, Manuela Morales-Lira. Voices of Latinx Pre-Service Teachers: Barriers, Support, and Success in Georgia's Colleges of Education" (Mentors - Dr. Paula Guerra & Sanjuana Rodríguez) Face-to-Face (Undergraduate)
    • Brianna Vanessa Arias Cabrera. Multilingual Literacy Practices of Trilingual Families: Striving for Equilibrium (Mentor - Dr. Jayoung Choi) Face-to-Face (Undergraduate)
    • Kaitlin Pressley Lambert. Writing Feedback for Middle Grades Students: Commentary that is Timely and Impactful for Creating Self-Sufficient Writers (Mentor - Dr. Dr. Jennifer Dail) Face-to-Face (Graduate)
    • Wesley Cooper. Mathematics Experiences and Mathematics Learner Identity of Rural Georgia High School Students (Mentor - Dr. Camille Sutton-Brown) Virtual-pre-recorded (Graduate)
    • Betsy Barron. Productive engagement: Teaching culturally relevant math lessons to Latinx children (Mentor - Dr. Paula Guerra) Virtual-pre-recorded  (Undergraduate)

    Break | 11.15 -11.30 am 

    Session 2 - 11.30 - 12.45 pm
    (10' presentations + 25' for discussion)

    • Anna Elizabeth Clark. Pre-service Teachers' Perceptions of STEM Before and After an Integrated Science Course (Mentor - Dr. Preethi Titu) Face-to-Face (Undergraduate)
    • Patrick Arnold. Integrating Financial Literacy into K-5 Classrooms: A Learning Styles Approach (Mentor - Dr. Mark Warner) Face-to-Face (Undergraduate)
    • Mandy Prior. More than just a grade: Factors influencing secondary students' engagement with digital feedback (Mentor - Dr. Megan Adams) Face-to-Face (Graduate)
    • Saebyeol Jeong. Website Critique, Software Evaluation, Math, Science, Developmentally appropriate, design, usability, interactivity (Mentor - Dr. Yanghee Kim) Virtual-pre-recorded (Undergraduate)
    • Jennifer Trail. How Teachers and Students Create and Experience Social Presence Through Community Building and Self-Disclosure in Middle School Synchronous Online Learning Environments: A Qualitative Case Study (Mentor - Dr. Tiffany Roman) Virtual-pre-recorded  (Graduate)
    • Ashley M. Thomas. Examining Elementary Preservice Teachers' (PSTs) Perceptions of Science Investigations (Mentors - Drs. Rasheda Likely and Anna Arias) Virtual-pre-recorded (Undergraduate) (Graduate)

  • Write Day RCC
    Visit to KSU's Field Station and Cook Out. Organized by the Research Consortium Committee. A bus will be taking faculty from campus to the Field Station.

    • RSVP by November 8th
  • View a selection of pictures from the 2024 edition of the BCOE  Research Week.
Keynote Speaker Panel Discussion Faculty Research Expo Student Scholars Expo

Keynote Speaker

headshot dr mei-lin chang
The keynote for the third edition of the Research Week will be delivered by Dr. Mei-Lin Chang, Professor of Applied Quantitative Research and Educational Analysis.

Dr. Chang received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at The Ohio State University and began her career as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and an Assistant Professor at Emory University before she joined KSU in 2013. Her scholarship has been published in Educational Psychology Review, Motivation and Emotion, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, and Frontiers in Psychology.  She has received American Psychological Association Division 15 Educational Psychology Early Career Grant, and she has served as an Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Psychology (in Educational Psychology).  

Title of the keynote: Embracing the Emotional Self in the Teaching Profession: Teacher Burnout and Emotion Regulation in the Classroom

Description: Teaching is a laborious work requiring a great deal of emotional awareness, understanding and regulation to develop and maintain supportive relationships with students. It is well-established that teachers experience higher rates of stress and emotional labor than other professions. The scholarship of teacher emotion research has been flourishing in the recent decades, and existing literature has underscored the significance of teacher emotion in shaping teacher motivation, well-being, and instructional quality.  Dr. Chang has studied teacher burnout, teacher emotion and emotion regulation in the past two decades, focusing on the sociocultural and emotional factors that affect both teachers’ and students’ engagement and motivation. Dr. most recent scholarship focuses on teacher emotion regulation including how teachers’ habitual ways of appraising classroom events affect their emotion regulation strategies, and how the individual and contextual factors intersect with different facets of teachers’ emotional experiences in the classroom. 

Date: Monday, November 18th

Time: 11.00 am to 12.15 pm

Location: Interactive Research Methods Lab (room BEB 403). Chantal and Tommy Bagwell Education Building

Virtual attendance: Join the event in Teams 

Recorded Session: View the recorded session

Panel Discussions

10.00 am - 11.15 am BCOE Research Teams Panel Session - (BEB403)

  • Drs. Paula Guerra, Sanjuana Rodriguez, Mr. James Stinchcomb, & Mrs. Karla Ramirez
  • Drs. Lateefah Id-Deen & Dr. Karen DiBella
  • Drs. Jinhee Kim, Jihye Kim (SMGE), &  Arvin Johnson
  • Drs. Jayoung Choi, Zurisaray Espinosa, Jihye Kim, Jee Hye Park, & Ji Hye Shin

Virtual attendance: Join the event in Teams 

Break | 11.15-11.30 pm 

11.30 - 12.45 pm BCOE Research Grants Panel Session - (BEB403)

  • Dr. Soon Lee
  • Dr. Tiffany Roman
  • Drs. Jessica Stephenson-Reeves, Anna Arias, & Rasheda Likely
  • Drs. Paula Guerra & Sanjuana Rodríguez

Virtual attendance: Join the event in Teams 

1.30 - 2.45 pm BCOE Summer Research Programs Panel Session - (BEB403)

  • Dr. Jessica Stephenson Reaves. Summer Term Research Pilot Program for Untenured Faculty
  • Dr. James Vincent (Vince) Kirwan. Summer Term Research Pilot Program for Tenured Faculty
  • Dr. Jayoung Choi. Summer Term Professor Fellowship Pilot Program
  • Dr. Wendy Sanchez. Summer Term Professor Fellowship Pilot Program
  • Dr. Paula Guerra. Summer Term Professor Fellowship Pilot Program
  • Dr. Belinda Edwards. Summer Term Professor Fellowship Pilot Program
  • Dr. Sohyun An. Summer Term Professor Fellowship Pilot Program

Virtual attendance: Join the event in Teams 

Recorded Sessions: View recorded Sessions

Faculty Research Expo

 9.00 am - 11.30 pm | BCOE Faculty Research Expo

Session 1 | 9.00 - 10.15 am (15' presentations + 15' for discussion)

  • Dr. Yvonne Earnshaw & Dr. Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif. Supporting Online Programs: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis
  • Dr. Carolina Rodrí­guez-Llorente. Effects of a Homework Implementation Method (MITCA) on School Engagement
  • Dr. Johari Harris. (Dis) Respect in the M(ai)cro Context: Positioning Respect as a Developmental Need of Adolescence
  • Drs. Jason Harron & Blossom Madubike. ColabXR: Exploring Collaborative Learning in an Extended Reality Environment

Break | 10.15 -10.30 am

Session 2 | 10.30 - 11.30 am (15' presentations + 15' for discussion)

  • Dr. Belinda P. Edwards. Supporting Underrepresented Doctoral Students Along the Doctoral Pathway
  • Dr. Rocío González Suárez. Designing a Formative Feedback Program for High School Teachers: Insights from an Ongoing Research Project
  • Drs. Anna Maria Arias, Preethi Titu, Rasheda Likely, Soon Lee, and Jessica Stephenson Reaves.
    Designing a Toolkit for Supporting Elementary Preservice Teachers in Planning and Conducting Scientific Investigations.
  • Dr. Olga Koz. Teaching Literature Review to Graduate Students: an Action Research.

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Panel Session: Innovative Creativity in Practice: Envisioning Research through Educational Game Design.  

  • Victoria LaGrange (Assistant Professor of Game Narrative in the Department of English)
  • Andrea Knowlton (Associate Professor of Dance)
  • Michael Carroll (Associate Professor of Architecture).
  • Kyungeun Lim (Assistant Professor of Art Education)

Virtual attendance: Join the event in Teams 

Recorded Sessions: View recorded sessions

Student Scholars Expo: Call for Abstracts

Description & Dates: The Bagwell College Student Scholars Expo is an event to showcase undergraduate and graduate students’ scholarship conducted at KSU during the past academic year. It constitutes a college-level version of KSU’s Symposium of Student Scholars. The Fall 2024 fourth edition of the Bagwell College Student Scholars Expo will be held on November 21st, 2024 from 10.00 to 12.45pm. The event will be hybrid, and students will have the option of presenting face-to-face in the Bagwell Building or online using Microsoft Teams.  

10.00-12.45 pm Bagwell College Student Scholars Expo - (BEB403)

Session 1 - 10.00 - 11.15 am (10' presentations + 25' for discussion)

  • Dr. Andrea Miskewicz. Humanizing History: Empowering Educators To Navigate Difficult History ThroughMuseum-Led Professional Development. (Mentor - Dr. Mei Lin Chang) Face-to-Face (Graduate)
  • Jennifer Perez-castellanos, Cynthia Castillo, Luis Pablo Soto Cruz, Floridalma Bautista-Bernabe, Salome Carmona ,Carolina Salomon, Manuela Morales-Lira. Voices of Latinx Pre-Service Teachers: Barriers, Support, and Success in Georgia's Colleges of Education" (Mentors - Dr. Paula Guerra & Sanjuana Rodríguez) Face-to-Face (Undergraduate)
  • Brianna Vanessa Arias Cabrera. Multilingual Literacy Practices of Trilingual Families: Striving for Equilibrium (Mentor - Dr. Jayoung Choi) Face-to-Face (Undergraduate)
  • Kaitlin Pressley Lambert. Writing Feedback for Middle Grades Students: Commentary that is Timely and Impactful for Creating Self-Sufficient Writers (Mentor - Dr. Dr. Jennifer Dail) Face-to-Face (Graduate)
  • Wesley Cooper. Mathematics Experiences and Mathematics Learner Identity of Rural Georgia High School Students (Mentor - Dr. Camille Sutton-Brown) Virtual-pre-recorded (Graduate)
  • Betsy Barron. Productive engagement: Teaching culturally relevant math lessons to Latinx children (Mentor - Dr. Paula Guerra) Virtual-pre-recorded  (Undergraduate)
    Break | 11.15 -11.30 am 

Session 2 - 11.30 - 12.45 pm (10' presentations + 25' for discussion)

  • Anna Elizabeth Clark. Pre-service Teachers' Perceptions of STEM Before and After an Integrated Science Course (Mentor - Dr. Preethi Titu) Face-to-Face (Undergraduate)
  • Patrick Arnold. Integrating Financial Literacy into K-5 Classrooms: A Learning Styles Approach (Mentor - Dr. Mark Warner) Face-to-Face (Undergraduate)
  • Mandy Prior. More than just a grade: Factors influencing secondary students' engagement with digital feedback (Mentor - Dr. Megan Adams) Face-to-Face (Graduate)
  • Saebyeol Jeong. Website Critique, Software Evaluation, Math, Science, Developmentally appropriate, design, usability, interactivity (Mentor - Dr. Yanghee Kim) Virtual-pre-recorded (Undergraduate)
  • Jennifer Trail. How Teachers and Students Create and Experience Social Presence Through Community Building and Self-Disclosure in Middle School Synchronous Online Learning Environments: A Qualitative Case Study (Mentor - Dr. Tiffany Roman) Virtual-pre-recorded  (Graduate)
  • Ashley M. Thomas. Examining Elementary Preservice Teachers' (PSTs) Perceptions of Science Investigations (Mentors - Drs. Rasheda Likely and Anna Arias) Virtual-pre-recorded (Undergraduate) (Graduate)