The Festschrift Symposium

Saturday, June 30, 2018
8:30am-5:00pm
Berkeley Way Building
2121 Berkeley Way, CA 94720

Symposium Program

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

Invocation

Prudence L. Carter
Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Berkeley

Highlights from David’s Career

Freddy Hiebert

9:20 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

MORNING SESSIONS

12:10 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.

LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION

Diane August

The Moderating Influence of Instructional Intensity and Word Type on the Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary in Young English Learners

Alison K. Billman and P. David Pearson

First Grade, Second Language: Uniting Science Knowledge and Literacy Development for English Learners

Gina Biancarosa

Advancing Reading Comprehension Assessment

Alexander Blum

The Structure of Inferential-Integrative-Reasoning (IIR): An Application of Item Response Theory (IRT) Using Comics

Devon Brenner and Elfrieda H. Hiebert

If I Follow the Teachers’ Editions, Isn’t That Enough? Analyzing Volume of Reading in Six Reading Core Programs

Leslie Buffen, Marjorie Rowe, Alison Billman, and P. David Pearson

Assessing Science Knowledge & Language Use in Emergent Bilingual First Grade Students

Douglas K. Hartman

Comprehending the Unbound Book

LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION

Robin Irey

Developmental Trajectory of Textual Morphological Awareness

Alejandra Ojeda-Beck

Graphic Novel for Vocabulary Growth and Reading Motivation

Sunaina Shenoy and Richard K. Wagner

Progress-monitoring Tools to Measure the Reading Development of Students in Bangalore, India

Yukie Toyama

Investigating the Effects of the Reader-, the Text-, and the Task-characteristics on Comprehension, Using Explanatory Item Response Models

Chad Vignola, Dr. Nicole Renner, Eleanor Dougherty, Rob Kantner, and the LDC Team

Five Years and 70,000 teachers later:  Dr. David Pearson and team Improve Teacher Capacity Particularly in Support of the most Disadvantaged Students through the Literacy Design Collaborative’s co-designed EdTech platform

Jenny Zhang

Literacy and International Development—Perspectives from Indonesia

1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Reflections on the Day

P. David Pearson

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

HAPPY HOUR