Conference 4/13-17: AERA 2018 Annual Meeting

Abt Associates' education experts will share research at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. This year's conference theme is, The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education and focuses on confronting and overcoming the struggles for public education.

Abt staff will participate in the following presentations (presenters in bold):

PANEL PRESENTATIONS

Readiness and Retention
Tuesday, April 17, 10:35 a.m.-12:05 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, 5th Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 2
The Power of Coaching: Early College Outcomes from Success Boston Coaching
Tamara Wilder Linkow, Hayley Didriksen, Abt Associates; Beth Gamse; Fatih Unlu, RAND Corporation; Erin Bumgarner, Abt Associates

ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS

Assessment Methodologies in Higher Education
Friday, April 13, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, 5th Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 1
The State of Evidence on Postsecondary Access and Success: Findings from the What Works Clearinghouse
Allan Porowski, Meg Carroll, Michael Frye, Kristen Cummings, Abt Associates

Emergent Bilinguals' Meaning-Making Across Languages and Modalities
Friday, April 13, 4:05- 5:35 p.m., Sheraton New York Times Square, Lower Level, Sutton Place Room
Exploring Emergent Bilinguals' Global and Academic Language-Focused (English) Argument Writing Outcomes
Mileidis Gort, University of Colorado-Boulder; Elizabeth Howard, University of Connecticut; Linda Caswell, Abt Associates; Mary Avalos, University of Miami; Daniel Litwok, Tyler Morrill, Abt Associates

When: April 13-17, 2018

Where: New York City, NY

For more information, visit the conference website.

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