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TURTLE Highlights and Updates

TURTLE(s) on The Move!

TURTLE Researchers Present at AERA

  • April 2023: TURTLE affiliated researcher and University of Pennsylvania PhD Student Jennifer Freeman shared early-stage TURTLE findings at the 2023 American Educational Research Association Meeting in Chicago, IL.

  • Kirksey, J. J., Freeman, J. A., Gottlieb, J. J., Higgins, R., Spott, J. L., Johnson, L., & Crevar, A. R. (2023). Tracking undergraduate research in Texas: What student and institutional characteristics are associated with participation in course-based undergraduate research? Poster presentation at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

TURTLE Abroad!

  • April 2023: TURTLE PI Dr. Jacob Kirksey shared an overview of the project’s analytical strategy and preliminary findings at the Leuven Economics of Education Research annual conference and received valuable feedback from this distinguished international scholarly community.

  • Kirksey, J. J., Gottlieb, J. J., Higgins, R., Spott, J. L., Johnson, L., Crevar, A. R., & Freeman, J. A. (2023). Investigating postsecondary effects of course-based undergraduate research in Texas. Paper presentation at the Leuven Economics of Education Research annual conference, Leuven, BE.

TURTLE Team at AEFP

  • March 2023: TURTLE CO-PI Levi Johnson presents preliminary findings regarding course-based undergraduate research participation at the 2023 Annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Conference in Denver, CO.

  • Kirksey, J. J., Freeman, J. A., Gottlieb, J. J., Higgins, R., Spott, J. L., Johnson, L., & Crevar, A. R. (2023). Tracking undergraduate research in Texas: What student and institutional characteristics are associated with participation in course-based undergraduate research? Paper presentation at the annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, Denver, CO.

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