AERA 2007

Tracking and Detracking SIG Business Meeting

Sponsor: SIG-Tracking and Detracking

Scheduled Time: Wed, Apr 11 - 6:15pm - 7:45pm

Building/Room: Marriott Chicago Downtown / Lakeview, Second Floor

Chair: Maika Watanabe, San Francisco State University

Invited speaker: Rachel Lotan, Stanford University

Accepted for AERA 2007 – Tracking & Detracking SIG

Paper Discussions : Issues related to tracking and detracking in schools
Sponsor: SIG-Tracking and Detracking
Scheduled Time: Tue, Apr 10 - 11:25am - 12:05pm  

Building/Room: Hyatt Regency Chicago / Grand Ballroom, Sections C-D North, East Tower – Gold Level
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Roundtable 26

* Colette Nkoyi Cann, “Understanding Assignment Processes of Math Teachers to Courses”

* Andrew B. Gilbert, “Investigating student reactions to differing pedagogical approaches in lower-track science contexts.” 2 3

* Maria L. Hamlin, “Detracking ‘access’ in mathematics: Understanding the realization of ‘access’ through ‘Informal Geometry.’”

* Terah T. Venzant, “Tracking Myself: African American High School Students Talk About the Role of Curricular Differentiation”

Paper Session: Teaching, Learning, and Other Outcomes in Tracked and Detracked Environments
Unit: SIG-Tracking and Detracking
Scheduled Time: Wed, Apr 11 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm

Building/Room: Marriott Chicago Downtown / Lakeview, Second Floor
Discussant: Hugh (Bud) Mehan
Chair: Maika Watanabe

* Barbara Bleyaert, “Presuming Their Futures: Curricular Tracking and Outcomes Beyond Graduation”

* Libo Guo & Peter Freebody, “Knowledge, Multimodality, and the Linguistically Diverse Learners: The Workings of History and Science Classrooms in Singapore”

* Megan Staples, “Student-student collaboration: The role of the teacher in structuring and supporting productive student practice”

* R. Yettick, Edward Wiley & Kevin Welner, “East of the Tracks: Examining a Teacher-Initiated Detracking Reform at a Diverse Urban High School”

Paper Session: Conceptions of Tracking and Student Self-Concept
Unit: SIG-Tracking and Detracking
Scheduled Time: Wed, Apr 11 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm

Building/Room: Marriott Chicago Downtown / Lakeview, Second Floor
Discussant: Maika Watanabe
Chair: Megan Staples

* Donna Harris, “New Conceptualizations of Curriculum Differentiation: Ability Grouping and Tracking in the Era of Reform and Accountability”

* S. Marshall Perry, “Labeling Effects, Reference Group Effects, or Both? Clarifying the Relationship Between Tracking and Self-Concept.”

* Lala Steelman, Pamela Koch, Sophia Catsambis & Lynn Mulkey, “Toward a Taxonomy of Achievement Based Instructional Grouping in the Early Elementary Grades”

* Terah T. Venzant, “Not Just ‘Acting White’: School Tracking Policies' Effects on African American Students' Academic Achievement”

Raymond B. Cattell Early Career (2006) Award Lecture

Sponsor: AERA Sessions

Scheduled Time: Thu, Apr 12 - 10:35am - 12:05pm

Building/Room: Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers / Chicago Ballroom, Section X, Level 4

Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Raymond B. Cattell Early Career (2006) Award Lecture

* Kevin G. Welner, “Education Rights: Conceiving a Future in Courts and Classrooms”

This paper argues for systemic, classroom-focused litigation.  Making the classroom the unit of legal analysis allows advocates to bring before courts a systemic portrait of educational inequities and to more directly match actual educational opportunities to actual educational needs.  It is in the classroom where accumulated inequalities are most clearly evident and most clearly in need of remediation.  Starting from this broad contention, this paper focuses on one classroom-level policy - ability grouping (tracking) - and considers legal challenges in the context of state laws mandating high school exit exams.