Teacher Education and Learning Sciences

Making Sense of Science Texts: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Predictors and Processes of Multiple-Text Comprehension

Reading Research Quarterly, 52(2), 227–252.

Multimodal composing with GoAnimate

Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 1611–1616. Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Encouraging teacher development of a personal learning network (PLN) in Twitter

Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016, 743–748. Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Promoting continuing computer science education through a massively open online course

Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 333–340. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Software security education at scale

ICSE '16: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, 346–355.

Supporting documentation of informal learning and making from a distance with Voicethread

Proceedings of E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016, 966–970. Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Promoting continuing computer science education through a massively open online course

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 35(4), 355–368.

Moving towards coherence: The danger of dichotomies and nurturing nuance

Alston, C. L. (2016, March). Presented at the TeachingWorks 2015-2016 Seminar Series, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Does a discussion by any other name sound the same?: Teaching discussion in three ELA methods courses

Alston, C. L., Danielson, K., Dutro, E., & Cartun, A. (2016, April). Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Moving toward coherence: The danger of dichotomies and nurturing nuance in teacher education

[White paper]. http://www.teachingworks.org/images/files/TeachingWorks_Alston.pdf

Preparing young adults for polarized America

In W. Journell (Ed.), Teaching Social Studies in an Era of Divisiveness: The Challenges of Discussing Social Issues in a Non-Partisan Way (pp. 31–46). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Press.

“So When It Comes Out, They Aren’t That Surprised That It Is There”: Using Critical Race Theory as a Tool of Analysis of Race and Racism in Education

Educational Researcher, 33(5), 26–31.

Using Multiple and Mixed Methods to Investigate Emotions in Educational Contexts

Schutz, P. A., DeCuir-Gunby, J. T., & Williams-Johnson, M. R. (2016, March 11). Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion and Education, pp. 217–229.

Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Motivation in Education

“Teachers are works in progress”: A mixed methods study of teaching residents’ beliefs and articulations of teaching for social justice

Teaching and Teacher Education, 59, 213–227.

Threatening the patriarchy: teaching as performance

Gender and Education, 28(1), 20–36.

Evolution of Unit Fraction Conceptions in Two Fifth-Graders with a Learning Disability: An Exploratory Study

Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 18(3), 182–208.

Levels of participatory conception of fractional quantity along a purposefully sequenced series of equal sharing tasks: Stu's trajectory

The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 41, 45–67.

New literacies

In S. B. Mertens, M. M. Caskey, & N. Flowers (Eds.), The encyclopedia of middle grades education (2nd ed., pp. 282–286). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Connecting classrooms to the future: Developing cross-cultural understandings through project-based inquiry

Literacy Today, 34(1), 26–27.