PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, July 29th Thursday, July 30th Friday, July 31st
Wednesday, July 29th
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11:00-12:00 Session 1: (online and asynchronous) Remote Poster Session
1. Situational Uncertainty as a Predictor of Source Use and Memory During Evaluative Reading (abstract) PRESENTER: Gaston Saux |
2. The effect of direct, explicit instruction of text-sourced vocabulary words for secondary students with reading difficulties, including MLLs, when delivered by paraprofessionals (abstract) PRESENTER: Sarah Kocherhans |
3. Note-taking and the Establishment of Causal Connections in Note-Review, and Comprehension of Spoken and Written Spontaneous Discourse by Argentine College Students (abstract) PRESENTER: Jazmin Cevasco |
4. Text-to-Speech as a Digital Reading Affordance: Reducing Mind-Wandering and Improving Processing Efficiency and Comprehension in School-Age Students (abstract) PRESENTER: Elisabetta Lombardo |
5. Constructing a Predictive Scientific Reading Framework (abstract) PRESENTER: Emily Hall |
6. The Language of Likes: A Corpus Study on Linguistic Predictors of Message Acceptance (abstract) PRESENTER: Ronja van Zijverden |
7. The Functions of Floating and Empty Signifiers in Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Insights from a Student Digital Video Composition (abstract) |
8. To pair or not to pair? Testing for differences in learning from small group discussions due to group size (abstract) PRESENTER: Jennifer Wiley |
9. Beyond Spoken Interaction: Discourse Markers, Stance, and Dialogicality in Fiction (abstract) |
12:00-13:30Mentoring Lunch (for ST&D mentorship program participants)
15:15-16:55 Session 4A: Symposium 1
Chair:
Location: Room A
| 15:15 | Lexical Ambiguity and Sentence Comprehension in Adult Literacy Learners: The Role of Vocabulary Knowledge (abstract) PRESENTER: Ellie Hong |
| 15:35 | Understanding the strengths and challenges of adults comprehending texts (abstract) PRESENTER: Christine Doan Sun |
| 15:55 | Indirect Effects of Intellectual Humility on Relationships between Metacognitive Awareness and Judgments and Reading Comprehension Performance (abstract) PRESENTER: Jason Braasch |
| 16:15 | Generative AI for Generative Learning: Investigating AI-Supported Learning-By-Explaining in Introductory Biology (abstract) PRESENTER: Kathryn McCarthy |
| 16:35 | Writing in the Digital Age: The Unexplored but Critical Skill Needed by Adults (abstract) PRESENTER: Daphne Greenberg |
15:15-16:55 Session 4B: Difficulty & Complexity
Location: Room B
| 15:15 | LLMs Are Not the Same: AI Tools Differ When Adapting Texts for Struggling Readers (abstract) PRESENTER: Jamie Smith Levitan |
| 15:35 | GPT Readability and Non-Standard English Dialects (abstract) PRESENTER: Abubakir Siedahmed |
| 15:55 | Revising a psychology textbook to improve discipline-specific learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Kaya Easley |
| 16:15 | The Lingering Effects of Difficulty: Perceived Difficulty and Task-Unrelated Thought During Learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Christopher Steadman |
| 16:35 | Using Eye Gaze Data to Track Changes in Reading Behaviors with Parallel Texts (abstract) PRESENTER: Amanda Jensen |
15:15-16:55 Session 4C: Time, Space, & Events
Location: Room C
| 15:15 | Critically Examining the Perceptual Decoupling – Mind Wandering Link: Implications for Comprehension (abstract) PRESENTER: Vishal Kuvar |
| 15:35 | (REMOTE) Toward A Dynamic Framework for Formalizing Situation-Model Updating in Text Comprehension (abstract) PRESENTER: Lisa Zacharski |
| 15:55 | Mind the Gap: A Meta-Analysis of Spatial-Computational Representation in Educational interventions (abstract) PRESENTER: Mark Brady |
| 16:15 | Prediction Over Postdiction: Directional Asymmetry in Event Schema Activation (abstract) PRESENTER: Shu Hu |
| 16:35 | How Writers Make Events Mean: Predicates at the Interface of Cognition and Narrative Discourse (abstract) PRESENTER: Liat Hershkovitz |
17:30-19:00 Session 5: Poster Session I and Reception
Understanding Persuasive Routes in AI-powered Misinformation Revision (abstract) PRESENTER: Wei Zhang |
From Offloading to Engagement: Toward Effective Use of an AI Chatbot in an Explanation Writing Task (abstract) PRESENTER: Kyra McNaughton |
Public Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation Discourse in Generative Artificial Intelligence Narratives (abstract) |
The Ed-AI literacy model in higher education: insights from scenario analysis (abstract) PRESENTER: Juliana do Amaral |
Defensive Writing in the Age of AI: Writing to Prove Your Humanity (abstract) PRESENTER: Stephen Hutt |
Understanding the Overlapping Impacts of Socioeconomic Challenges and Family Structure on Literacy (abstract) PRESENTER: Nicole Houston |
Unpacking Self-Regulated Learning from Multiple Digital Resources: What are Key Processes? (abstract) |
Supporting Discourse Among Learners with Disability Labels in a Middle School Science Classroom (abstract) PRESENTER: Sarah Barrett |
The shortcomings of demographic discourse: comparing students’ self-described identity variables to institutional labels (abstract) PRESENTER: Maria Goldshtein |
The Contributions of Intellectual Humility to Metamemory for Sources of Multiple Conflicting Claims on the Internet (abstract) PRESENTER: Taylor Clark |
Topic Importance and Accuracy-Directed Reasoning Across Scientific Contexts (abstract) PRESENTER: Doug Lombardi |
Beliefs and Overconfidence for Learning Science Misconceptions in College Students (abstract) PRESENTER: Mike Mensink |
Understanding the Relationship Between Growth Mindset and Feedback-seeking: The Role of Academic Self-Efficacy (abstract) PRESENTER: Ryan Hall |
Task roles and task goals jointly shape gaze and linguistic alignment during collaboration (abstract) PRESENTER: Martyna Wasilewska |
Who’s got the floor? Successful interruptions in dyadic conversations (abstract) PRESENTER: Roger Kreuz |
How does the order of performance levels in rubrics influence student engagement and achievement in digital tasks? (abstract) PRESENTER: Ignacio Máñez |
The Effect of Polarized Partisanship on Adolescents’ Scientific Reasoning (abstract) PRESENTER: Jenna Alton |
Thursday, July 30th
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09:00-10:20 Session 6A: Anaphor & Reference
Location: Room A
| 09:00 | (REMOTE) An experimental study of pronouns in self-talk: When “you” is “I” (abstract) |
| 09:20 | Understanding singular they becomes easier with exposure (abstract) PRESENTER: Jennifer Arnold |
| 09:40 | Human-Like Anaphor Resolution in Large Language Models (abstract) PRESENTER: Sashank Varma |
| 10:00 | Psycholinguistic Predictors of Engagement in Brand Discourse on TikTok (abstract) PRESENTER: John Hollander |
09:00-10:20 Session 6B: Feedback & Metacognition
Location: Room B
| 09:00 | Does the presence and position of Knowledge-of-Correct-Response feedback affect students’ engagement with and memory for digital Elaborative Feedback? (abstract) PRESENTER: Mariola Giménez-Salvador |
| 09:20 | Metacognitive Judgment Accuracy Under Different Exposures to Worked Examples (abstract) PRESENTER: Sepideh Jafarizaveh |
| 09:40 | Watching Experts Succeed Makes Novices Overconfident, but Watching Failures Increases Caution (abstract) PRESENTER: Sara E. Neuner |
| 10:00 | Does Sycophancy Build Trust? The Role of Confirmatory Feedback in the Perceived Credibility of Uncertain Feedback Sources (abstract) |
09:00-10:20 Session 6C: Bilingualism
Location: Room C
| 09:00 | Mental Simulation in L1 and L2: The Role of Shape Typicality in Japanese–English Bilinguals (abstract) PRESENTER: Chikako Tagashira-Nakagawa |
| 09:20 | Language-Dependent Modality Effects on Discourse Updating in Heritage Spanish English Bilinguals (abstract) PRESENTER: Diana Uribe |
| 09:40 | Bilingual Inconsistency Effect (abstract) PRESENTER: Colin Scholl |
| 10:00 | Do Bilingual Switching Patterns Shape Memory for Topics and Speakers? (abstract) PRESENTER: Aj Cruz |
10:20-11:00Coffee Break
12:00-13:15Lunch Break
13:30-14:50 Session 8A: Reading Comprehension: Processes and Assessment
Location: Room A
| 13:30 | Tracing the Pathway to Proficient Reading: Effects of a Year-Long Targeted Intervention on Reading Subskills (abstract) PRESENTER: Christopher Steadman |
| 13:50 | How Does Semantic-Phonological Bridging Contribute to Adults’ Expository Reading Comprehension? An Empirical Test of The Active View of Reading (abstract) |
| 14:10 | Parsing for Meaning: Gender Differences in Response to Sentence-Level Instruction (abstract) PRESENTER: Eleanor Fang Yan |
| 14:30 | Methods for Automated Generation of Cloze Tests for Discourse Comprehension Assessment (abstract) PRESENTER: Langdon Holmes |
13:30-14:50 Session 8B: Disciplinary Comprehension
Location: Room B
| 13:30 | Disciplinary Literacy Disconnects: The Case of Nurse Education and Practice (abstract) PRESENTER: Malinie Roopchan |
| 13:50 | Comics in education: A Meta-Analysis of Comics vs Text Interventions in STEM vs Non-STEM learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Marianna Pagkratidou |
| 14:10 | The Impact of Text Genre on Visual and Verbal Thought During Reading (abstract) PRESENTER: Püren Öncel |
| 14:30 | Reading for Models: Reconceptualizing the Product of Deep Reading Comprehension (abstract) |
13:30-14:50 Session 8C: Communication & Perspective Taking
Location: Room C
| 13:30 | Audience design influences referential choice: A study of perspective-taking during self-communication (abstract) PRESENTER: Casey M. Riedmann |
| 13:50 | Producing verbal irony reduces the intensity of felt negative emotion (abstract) |
| 14:10 | Compensatory Alignment in Natural Conversation (abstract) PRESENTER: David Heath |
| 14:30 | Understanding Verbal Irony: A contrastive Analysis of Personal and Informational Common Ground (abstract) PRESENTER: Ruhan Çoban |
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 10: Poster Session II
Advancing a Taxonomy to Explain How Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction Works (abstract) PRESENTER: Dennis Davis |
The use of a think aloud procedure to examine reading strategy use in adolescent readers (abstract) PRESENTER: Mindy Bridges |
Interactive digital reading features and comprehension outcomes in secondary and postsecondary learners: A scoping review. (abstract) |
Reader-test interactions in reading comprehension: Linking reader characteristics, text complexity, and question types aligned with the Common Core (abstract) PRESENTER: Hongcui Du |
Characterizing How Adults with Varying Literacy Skills Interpret Narrative Symbolism (abstract) PRESENTER: Sarah Miller |
How can summary writing support readers' understanding of information from multiple texts? (abstract) PRESENTER: Catherine McGrath |
Reconsidering D-ISC Assumptions for Younger Adolescents Through Comprehension Monitoring Research (abstract) PRESENTER: Burcu Demir |
Dimensionality of Inference Processes in Young Children: Insights from Latent Space Item Response Modeling (abstract) PRESENTER: Seohyeon Choi |
Eye-Movement Indices of Structure Building: How Ambient-to-Focal Dynamics Track Mapping and Shifting Processes (abstract) PRESENTER: Virginia Troemel |
Measuring reading comprehension from retell with network science: A proof-of-concept evaluation (abstract) PRESENTER: Armaan Parikh |
Executive Function and Fluency: The Role of Graphophonological-Semantic Cognitive Flexibility in Oral Reading Fluency Rate and Expressiveness (abstract) PRESENTER: Amira Khalile |
A Meta-Analysis on the Relation Between Executive Functioning and Second-Language (L2) Reading (abstract) PRESENTER: Joanna Li |
Socioeconomic context, executive function, and expository discourse comprehension in adolescence (abstract) PRESENTER: Tin Nguyen |
When Adaptation Doesn't Transfer: Visual World Paradigm Limits in Pronoun Processing (abstract) PRESENTER: Simantika Roy |
Statistical learning defines which discourse biases guide pronoun interpretation (abstract) PRESENTER: Jennifer Arnold |
Revisiting Common Ground in Verbal Irony: Evidence from Response Times (abstract) |
Observing Meaning Activation and Selection in Puns: A Cross-modal Lexical Decision Paradigm (abstract) PRESENTER: Alissa Desmond |
18:00-19:30 Activities in the Inside NASCAR / Heritage Speedway space (included with conference dinner registration)
We will walk together to the NASCAR hall of fame for the ticketed conference dinner, including 1 hour of access to the Inside NASCAR and Heritage Speedway interactive exhibits, including the racing simulators and pit crew challenge.
- 6:00 PM — Poster session concludes at the Dubois Center; Walk to NASCAR Hall of Fame (about 20 mins)
- 6:30–7:30 PM — Activities in the Inside NASCAR / Heritage Speedway space (included with conference dinner registration)
- 7:30 PM — Dinner begins in the Hall of Honor
Friday, July 31st
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09:00-10:40 Session 11A: Learning from text
Location: Room A
| 09:00 | (REMOTE) Reading at home or at school ? Contextual effects on multiple documents comprehension strategies (abstract) PRESENTER: Jean-François Rouet |
| 09:20 | A multidimensional approach to investigate the association between prior knowledge and learning from texts (abstract) PRESENTER: Christian Tarchi |
| 09:40 | Topic Familiarity and Strategic Processing in Learning from Multiple Texts (abstract) PRESENTER: Seongyeup Kim |
| 10:00 | Effects of Seductive Scientific Refutation Texts on Low and High Knowledge Readers (abstract) PRESENTER: Mike Mensink |
| 10:20 | Focusing on the Big Picture: How Scaffolding Impacts Attention During Expository Text Comprehension (abstract) PRESENTER: Püren Öncel |
09:00-10:40 Session 11B: Learning with AI
Location: Room B
| 09:00 | Correcting Artificial Intelligence Misconceptions Through Chatbot–Based Refutations (abstract) PRESENTER: Luan Chau |
| 09:20 | The Effect of AI Generated Explanations on Students Judgments of Learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Allison Jaeger |
| 09:40 | Using AI To Summarize Texts: Effects on Metacognitive Awareness and Test Performance (abstract) PRESENTER: Sam Agnoli |
| 10:00 | Beliefs and Epistemic Calibration in AI-Augmented Inquiry (abstract) PRESENTER: John Rolfe Robertson |
| 10:20 | GenAI powered Socratic chatbots for learning STEM topics – a pilot study (abstract) PRESENTER: Maria Goldshtein |
09:00-10:40 Session 11C: Sourcing
Location: Room C
| 09:00 | Clarifying the construct of sourcing: A scoping review and secondary analysis of process data (abstract) PRESENTER: Ali Fulsher |
| 09:20 | (REMOTE) Sourcing and Corroboration Across Adolescence and AI: A Comparative Study of Human Evaluators and ChatGPT Models (abstract) PRESENTER: Philipp Marten |
| 09:40 | Sourcing, Standards, and Skill Levels (abstract) |
| 10:00 | A MASRL-Aligned Codebook for Identifying Metacognitive Processes in Think-Alouds During Multiple-Document Reading (abstract) PRESENTER: Miranda Moe |
10:40-11:20Coffee Break
11:20-12:40 Session 12A: Trust
Location: Room A
| 11:20 | (REMOTE) Trust and media perception: Exploring sociodemographic and attitudinal determinants of perceived exposure to fake news (abstract) PRESENTER: Eva Bei |
| 11:40 | (REMOTE) Effects of Document Source Trustworthiness and Prior Beliefs About Embedded Sources on the Evaluation and Sharing of Political Information (abstract) PRESENTER: Franco Londra |
| 12:00 | Explanation Evaluation based on Source Expertise and Explanation Simplicity (abstract) PRESENTER: Rina Miyata Harsch |
| 12:20 | Conceptualizing Trust in Science across Discourse, Epistemic, and Science Communication Perspectives (abstract) PRESENTER: Victoria Johnson |
11:20-12:40 Session 12B: Reasoning & Argumentation
Location: Room B
| 11:20 | Reading to Reason: Comprehension, Epistemic Cognition, and Critical Thinking in Adolescents’ Multidimensional Sourcing (abstract) PRESENTER: Haolan Wang |
| 11:40 | A Review of Materials Used in Multiple Source Use Tasks Through the Lens of Epistemic Cognition (abstract) PRESENTER: Varun Athilat |
| 12:00 | Evaluative Orientations in Students’ Evidentiary Reasoning: A Natural Language Processing Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Hongcui Du |
| 12:20 | Impacts on Argumentative Writing in a Discussion-and-Debate-Based Deep Reading Program (abstract) PRESENTER: Lisa B. Hsin |
11:20-12:40 Session 12C: Bilingualism & Culture
Location: Room C
| 11:20 | The critical impact of language of schooling on discourse updating for bilinguals (abstract) PRESENTER: Ana Schwartz |
| 11:40 | Causal and Concessive Connectives in ESL Reading Comprehension: Evidence Across Educational Levels and Individual Differences (abstract) PRESENTER: Jessica Sishi Fei |
| 12:00 | Direct and indirect effects of inferencing on reading comprehension in adult literacy learners: A path analysis of group differences in native and non-native English speakers (abstract) PRESENTER: Eleanor Fang Yan |
| 12:20 | Cultural knowledge as a resource for reading: Elementary students’ comprehension processes and connections with culturally tailored text (abstract) PRESENTER: Miranda Fitzgerald |
12:40-13:50Lunch Break
13:50-15:30 Session 13A: Symposium 2
Location: Room A
| 13:50 | Leveraging Technology for Inference-making Instruction in Emerging Readers (abstract) PRESENTER: Susan Slater |
| 14:10 | Understanding Individual and Media Differences in Kindergarteners’ Video-Based Inference-Making (abstract) PRESENTER: Seohyeon Choi |
| 14:30 | Differences in fiction vs non-fiction video-based inference generation among elementary students (abstract) PRESENTER: Ali Fulsher |
| 14:50 | Modeling Inference-Making Efficiency in Kindergarten Students Using Drift–Diffusion Modeling (abstract) PRESENTER: Katie Grabeel |
| 15:10 | The Effect of Lateral Reading on Elementary Students' Evaluation of Credibility on Digital Information (abstract) PRESENTER: Yoojeong Son |
13:50-15:30 Session 13B: Social Media
Location: Room B
| 13:50 | Mothers in an online songwriting group who see what happened more similarly feel more connected (abstract) PRESENTER: Michael F. Schober |
| 14:10 | (REMOTE) Different kinds of misinterpretations of social media posts’ intended stance and what predicts them (abstract) PRESENTER: Rebecca Dolgin |
| 14:30 | Positivity-Induced Mind Wandering in Reading: Insights from Reward Devaluation Theory (abstract) PRESENTER: Mya Urena |
| 14:50 | The Language of Successful Persuasion on r/ChangeMyView (abstract) PRESENTER: Varun Athilat |
13:50-15:30 Session 13C: Text Analysis
Location: Room C
| 13:50 | Text Segmentation by Paragraphs and Chapters: a Temporal Sequence Revealing a Textual Rhythm (abstract) |
| 14:10 | A World Court for Whom? Machine Learning Evidence of Bias in Legal Discourse (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Cohesion Alignment between LLM and Human Evaluations (abstract) PRESENTER: Scott Crossley |
| 14:50 | The Statistical Structure of the Lexicon Guides Novel Word Reading (abstract) PRESENTER: Robert Wiley |
| 15:10 | Explanatory Many-Facet Rasch Measurement as a Psychometric Approach to LLM Interpretability in Student Discourse (abstract) PRESENTER: Wesley Morris |
15:30-15:50Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Session 14: VISION Panel: The History of ST&D and the Future of Theory Development
This is the first annual president's VISION Panel (Voices and Insights Shaping Innovation and Our Next-gen)
Moderated by Pani Kendeou, a panel of past governing board chairs will discuss The History of ST&D and the Future of Theory Development.
Discussants will include past chairs Morton Ann Gernsbacher (1994-2000), Susan Goldman (2000-2007), Art Graesser (2007-2010), Danielle McNamara, (2013-2019), and Joe Magliano (2019-2025)
Chair:
Vision Panel PRESENTER: Joseph Magliano |