Curry Research Conference

Join us for this student-run conference February 1, 2013.

Schedule 

 9:00    to  10:00           Registration & Breakfast

 10:00  to  10:45           Workshops

 11:00  to  12:30           Speaker, Greg Walton 

 12:00  to 1:30              Lunch

 12:30  to 1:30              Posters 

  1:30   to 4:15              Presentations          

Featuring speaker Greg Walton 

Wise Interventions: How Brief Social-Psychological Interventions Can Help Raise Students' Achievement Far Into the Future

In recent years, several studies (randomized controlled trials) have shown that brief interventions to change how students think and feel in school, often lasting an hour or less, can lead to improvements in academic performance over months and years and help solve persistent problems in education like achievement gaps. With a particular focus on interventions to address students' feelings of social-belonging in school, I will discuss the key psychological experiences targeted by these interventions, how it is possible to change these processes to improve students' academic performance far into the future, and recent efforts to deliver these interventions at scale to large numbers of students.

Bavaro Hall
417 Emmet St. South
Charlottesville, VA 22904

The conference will be an opportunity for students to share their education research with other Curry students and with faculty members.

 

Further Information

Do you have questions about proposal submission or other volunteering opportunities?
Please check out CRC FAQs.  

If you still have questions, please contact curryresearchconference@gmail.com.

The CRC Steering Committee

To volunteer, please contact one of the following people on the steering committee:

Committee Chair: Christine Hardigree (cnh6pp@virginia.edu)

Logistics Committee coordinates location, technology, food, and volunteers on day of conference.  Contact Chris Rates (car4zp@virginia.edu) or Melissa Driver (mk7ec@virginia.edu).

Outreach and Communications Committee coordinates conference promotion, upkeep of website, and creation of conference program. Contact Tyler Julian (tj5ck@virginia.edu). 

Program Committee coordinates presentation moderator training and presentation sessions, faculty involvement, and presentation schedules. Contact Brooke Whitworth (baw3tj@virginia.edu) or Lindsay Wheeler (lsb4u@virginia.edu).

Proposal Committee coordinates proposal submissions and review process. Contact Brad Carter (bradcarter@virgina.edu).