22nd Annual WCOE Scholarship & Research Symposium Abstract Submission 2025

CSUSB's James R. Watson & Judy Rodriguez Watson College of Education
22nd Annual Graduate Student Scholarship & Research Symposium

This year's research symposium will take place virtually on Zoom on April 23rd, 2025.

This year we are seeking for abstract submissions on: 1) a 3 to 5 minute video clip; 2) panel; 3) roundtable; or 4) a poster. Presentations will also be posted on our COE Research Symposium website.

The Abstract Proposal Deadline is March 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM.

To submit your abstract, please complete the following information:

1. Please indicate your role: *This question is required.

2. Please provide the following information: *This question is required.

First Name
Last Name
CSUSB Email Address
Program

As a Student Presenter, please provide the following information: *This question is required.

Faculty Sponsor
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3. Are you presenting as a member of a group: *This question is required.

Please provide the following information for the other group presenters:

Presenter #2 First Name
Presenter #2 Last Name
Presenter #2 Email Address
Presenter #3 First Name
Presenter #3 Last Name
Presenter #3 Email Address

Presenter #4 First Name
Presenter #4 Last Name
Presenter #4 Email Address
Presenter #5 First Name
Presenter #5 Last Name
Presenter #5 Email Address

Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words.

How to Write an Abstract

Your abstract should provide a clear and concise summary of the study. Your abstract should include the following elements:
a. Title - formulate a title that clearly conveys to the reader what the study is about
b. Statement of the problem: Provide a clear statement that describes the issue, questions, or problem that the study will investigate.
c. Purpose: Describe why it is important to address the question, issue, or problem.
d. Methodology: Clearly describes research sites, participants, methods you will use to collect data, and procedures you will use to analyze your data.
e. Conclusions and implications: Clearly state what you think the findings will be and what are expected implications for the reader.

SAMPLE

This research investigates how three female high school students were taught to deploy critical multimodal literacy to interrogate texts and reconstruct unequal social structures. A class of ninth-grade students in an all-women school was given instruction through the analysis of how multiple modes were used to represent meanings in textbooks. Data were collected from multiple sources, including students' interviews, observations, classroom videos, social media posts, and artifacts of students' literacies to analyze how they reflect on and critique their personal experiences within and through the English curriculum. The findings suggest that the teacher and students co-constructed possibilities for the learners to critique the social production of gender and resist structural practices that diminish their voices and their literacy reading. The findings indicate a need for English teachers to enact critical multimodal literacy pedagogy which relates instruction to female students' interests to promote agency and change.

(Lasisi Ajayi, Journal of Literacy Research, v47 n2 p216-244 Jun 2015. Professor & Interim Department Chair CSUSB College of Education Teacher Education & Foundations)

4. Abstract Title *This question is required.

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6. What presentation format will you use this year?
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