This is your planning schedule for the Festival. The final, detailed schedule will be send to those registered for the event. Register online. It will take but a minute and it’s free!

The Festival’s Zoom links will be provided to registered attendees after 9 AM on Wednesday, Dec. 16. At that time, our new friends who have registered should check in here using the information provided in your Festival Ticket to see the passcode-protected Zoom connection links.

General Structure of the Festival:

• Attend as much as you can!
• There will be one Zoom session for the morning session of sequential presentations.
• The same main Zoom session continues during Exhibit Hall for conversations and virtual tours of the Exhibit Hall and campus. But guests can leave the main session to wander the Exhibit Hall and connect with separate Zoom sessions with exhibitors (e.g. posters, eLearning Lessons, and virtual tables)
• Main Zoom room continues for afternoon session of sequential presentations.
• Your Festival Ticket has your access information to the main Zoom session and Exhibit Hall and its separate zoom sessions. It was emailed to you if you registered. Still haven’t registered? Here’s how…
• Know the 11 things to make this Festival work!

9:30 to 10:00 AM: Pre-Festival Connection Time

After checking in, we ask every attendee to join the main Zoom session before 10 AM to test their Zoom connection, mic, video etc. This will also be a great time to say hello to friends, old and new.

Morning Sessions (10 AM to 12:30 PM, US Eastern Time, UTC-5)

This session consists of 20-minute presentations from faculty in Educational Psychology with 10 minutes for questions and transitions.

• 9:50 to 10:00 AM – Overview and session logistics, including spotlights of Festival docents and safety nets.
• Presentation 1 (10:00 to 10:30): Transforming Assessments to Develop and Inspire Creative Thinking by Dr. Lisa Rubenstein
  • Festival Connector: Alicia
• Presentation 2 (10:30 to 11:00): Tailoring Difference Education for First Generation College Students by Dr. Gerardo Ramirez
  • Festival Connector: Robyn
• Presentation 3 (11:00 to 11:30): A multilevel mixture model investigation of the relationship between poverty and the course of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States by Dr. Holmes Finch
  • Festival Connector: Katie
• Presentation 4 (11:30 to Noon): Action enhances reading comprehension and vocabulary: Evidence of two strategies by Dr. Ligia Gomez
  • Festival Connector: Breanna
• Presentation 5 (Noon to 12:30): Critical Failures in Test Anxiety Research: How Inappropriate Research Methodologies and Intervention Studies Have Stalled Progress by Dr. Jerrell Cassady
  • Festival Connector: Mikayla

12:30 to 2:00 PM: Exhibit Hall

During the Exhibit Hall period, you can leave the MAIN Zoom session to wander the Exhibit Hall (or get lunch) and connect with content and people there. Some Exhibits are offering live Zoom connections, either on-demand or on the quarter hours. Whenever you want, you can return to the MAIN session and connect with festival attendees. Blend in with the conversations as gracefully as you can. The Festival Connector is there too to answer questions in the Zoom Chat of that session.

• 12:45 PM – Tony Mangino: Prediction with Mixed Effects Models: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study
  • 5-10 minute snapshot: 12:45 PM. Stop by earlier and stay after if you want. Festival Connector: Matt
• 1:00 PM – Alexis Pitchford: Writing Unit: Impactful Figures in the American Revolution
  • 5-10 minute snapshot: 1:00 PM. Stop by earlier and stay after if you want. Festival Connector: Robyn
• 1:30 PM – Taylor Conley: Stories Across Cultures: An Assessment-Informed Unit of Instruction
  • 5-10 minute snapshot: 1:30 PM. Stop by earlier and stay after if you want. Festival Connector: Robyn

Afternoon Sessions (2 PM to 4:30 PM, US Eastern Time, UTC-5)

• Presentation 6 (2:00 to 2:30): Elementary educators’ perceptions of and contributions to classroom gender climate by Rachel Thomas
  • Festival Connector: Robyn
• Presentation 7 (2:30 to 3:00): What do Students Perceive as Academically Challenging? by Jenna Thomas
  • Festival Connector: Katie
• Presentation 8 (3:00 to 3:30): Does Mindfulness Practice Reduce Math Test Anxiety? by Joshua Heath
  • Festival Connector: Dr. Cassady
• Presentation 9 (3:30 to 4:00): Developing Criminal Law Knowledge and Application in Police Recruits: An application of instructional design and cognitive theory of multimedia learning by Elizabeth Campbell
  • Festival Connector: Mikayla
• Presentation 10 (4:00 to 4:30): Unwell by Chelsea Ortiz
  • Festival Connector: Alicia

Closing Ceremonies