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Dr. Christine Bae is accepting applications for doctoral students in the 2023-24 academic year. Apply here.
Welcome our new lab members Kamil Hanker and Javonti Braxton!
Dissemination of our Research
Check out our conversation with UVA’s Youth-Next podcast featuring Tracyee Hogans-Foster (RPS), Michael Stange (CCPS), and Christine Bae (VCU)
Our team has several AERA 2022 presentations accepted for this year’s virtual conference. See the “Publications” tab for more details.
Cabrera, L, & Bae, C.L. (2022). What is the Nature of Classroom Questions in Middle School Science Classrooms? [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Matewos, A., Bae, C. L., Cabrera, L., Sealy, M., & Gladstone, J. R. (submitted, 2022). Re-imagining classroom discourse in hybrid spaces: Development of a scheme and codebook [Paper]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Sealy, M. A., Bae, C. L., & Hogan Rapp, E. (2022). Teachers’ and Students’ Identities, Languages, and Lived Worlds in Historically Minoritized Middle School Classrooms. [Roundtable presentation]. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Sealy, M. A. (2022). Critical and Equity-Driven Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methodology. [Division C New Directions Invited Speaker Session]. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Welcome, Dr. Jessica Gladstone, Hannah Walls, and Hui (Fiona) Sun to our team! Check them out on the “Our Team” tab.
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Research Opportunities
Undergraduate Research Assistants: We are always looking for motivated and passionate students to join our team! PSYC494 credit opportunities are available in the Fall, Spring, and Summer academic semesters. Please email Martinique Sealy (sealym@mymail.vcu.edu) for more information.
Doctoral Students: Interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology? Dr. Christine Bae is taking applicants for Fall 2021. More information here. Recruiting a grant-funded full-time doctoral graduate research assistant/student to join the team in Fall 2023!
Project Updates and Celebrations:
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Check out our conversation with UVA’s Youth-Next podcast featuring Tracyee Hogans-Foster (RPS), Michael Stange (CCPS), and Christine Bae (VCU) We are so excited to be back in the classrooms for lesson study with our RPS and CCPS middle school science teachers in Fall 2021! #talkscience
Engaging middle schoolers in science talk during the pandemic: Check out our amazing science teachers’ in the VCU News Article here.
Congratulations Dr. Fa Zhang for the AERA 2021 Division C Outstanding Graduate Student Research Poster recognition for your work titled “Opportunities-to-learn and motivation in science: Examining person and context factors that predict science achievement among grade 8 students.”
Dr. Christine Bae received VCU’s 2019 Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award