Upcoming Talks
| Monday September 28, 2026, 1:00pm - 2:30pm Kevin Ashley & Scott Fraundorf "Teaching Reading and Summarizing via Argument-Focused Text Annotation" |
| Monday October 5, 2026, 1:00pm - 2:30pm Daphne Henry, Sirry Alang, Sharon Ross "Race, Class, and Context: Exploring Intersectional Influence on Child and Adolescent Health" |
| October 12, 2026, 1:00pm - 2:30pm Christian Schunn "Measurement and role of AI literacy and agency in human-AI collaborative learning" |
| January 11, 2027, 1:00pm - 2:30pm April Belback "The Transformative Impact of Shared and Collaborative Advising" |
| February 1, 2027, 1:00pm - 2:15pm Rebecca McGregor Reiner "Exploring how children talk about doing hard things" |
| February 8, 2027, 1:00pm - 2:30pm Jimena Cosso "Strengths-based approaches supporting children's early math skills" |
Previous Talks
| August 31, 2026 Leo Schumann From Uniform to Precision: A Year of Building Action Research Infrastructure at Pit |
| May 4, 2026 Diana Leyva "Ingredients 4 Learning (I4L)" |
| April 20, 2026 Scott Fraundorf "Getting There is Half the Journey: Developing a Metacognitive Framework for Digital Literacy" |
| April 13, 2026 Kevin McManus "Crosslinguistic influence and second language learning. Insights from the lab and the classroom" |
| March 30, 2026 April Belback, Kevin Binning, and Leo Schumann "Fostering Action Research at Pitt" |
| March 2, 2026 Heather Bachman "Addressing inequities in opportunities to learn: Implications for designing a collaborative research agenda at the LRDC" |
| February 23, 2026 Melissa Libertus "From Loving Math to Sharing the Love for Math: How LRDC Made Me a Scientist with Broader Impact" |
| February 16, 2026 Rip Correnti (PI), Amanda Godley, Diane Litman, and Lindsay Clare Matsumura "Using ChatGPT to Analyze Classroom Discussions." |
| February 9, 2026 Jay Huguley "Parenting While Black: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Racial Learning Interventions for Black Families" |
| November 17, 2025 Cassie Quigley "I would consider being a scientist now:" Exploring Influences and Barriers of STEM Occupational Identity: Self-efficacy, Self- Concept and Belonging |
| November 10, 2025 Isabel Beck, Cheryl Sandora, Julie Fiez "Testing the Efficacy and Mechanism of a Glass Analysis Method Reading Intervention" |
| November 3, 2025 Jamie Hanson "Testing Links Between Motivation, Achievement, and Neurobiology" |
| October 27, 2025 Julie Fiez, Frances Mary D'Andrea, and Tessa McCarthy "Studying the Neural Basis of Braille Literacy and Numeracy" |
| October 20, 2025 Craig Zilles "Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-based Testing Facility" |
| October 13, 2025 Tetsuya Yamada "How a Growth Mindset Shapes Math Achievement: The Moderating Role of Classroom Practices and the Mediating Role of Multidimensional Engagement Across Adolescence" |
| September 29, 2025 Jennifer Iriti and Kevin Binning "Building Pathways to Equity in College STEM: Testing an Ecological Belonging Intervention in High School Precollege STEM Programs" |
| September 8, 2025 Richard Sadler 'Not Just Redlining': An Urban Geographer's View on Neighborhood Change Influencing Health Disparities. |
| April 21, 2025 Danielle Lowry and Yiwen Lin "Evaluation for Learning: Pittsburgh Promise." |
| March 10, 2025 Talia Stol and Brooke English "Evaluation for Learning Team: United Public-Private School Transformation." |
| March 26, 2024 Graduate student Shirley Duong (Advisor, Melissa Libertus) "Early Math, Social Interactions." |
| March 26, 2024 Post-Doctoral Fellow Gaisha Oralova (Working with Chuck Perfetti) "Understanding Incremental Reading Processes Under Natural Reading Conditions: A Co-Registered EEG and Eye-Tracking Study." |
| December 6, 2023 Chuck Perfetti and Isabel Beck Different perspectives on the Reading Wars |