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April 2025_ AERA Names Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar Among 2025 Fellows Honoring Research Excellence

We are proud to share that Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar, Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). This prestigious honor recognizes her outstanding contributions to education research and her sustained impact on the field. The AERA Fellows Program celebrates scholars who have made exceptional contributions through research, theory, and service. Dr. Puntambekar is one of only 29 scholars selected nationwide for the 2025 cohort. Fellows are nominated by…

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2017

Martin, N. D., & Puntambekar, S. (2017). Understanding Teachers’ Knowledge and Instruction of the Epistemic Practices of Science. Poster presented at the Learning Sciences Graduate Student Conference, Bloomington, Indiana.

Dornfeld Tissenbaum, C., Berland, M., & Puntambekar, S. (2017, April). Markov models of museum interactions: How museum visitors scaffold for learning in exhibits. Full paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, San Antonio, TX.

2016

Dornfeld, C. & Puntambekar, S. (2016, Oct.) Collaboration at multiple levels: Combining learning analytics with quantitative ethnography methods. Roundtable presented at the Learning Sciences Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL.

Martin, N. D., & Puntambekar, S. (2016). Fostering a holistic conceptualization of science practices: A framework to support teachers’ understanding and to transform classroom practice for student learning. Poster presented at the Learning Sciences Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL.

Dornfeld, C., Berland, M., & Puntambekar, S. (2016, April). Who scaffolds the scaffolders? Parent mediation of facilitator-child scaffolding interactions in museum exhibits. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, Washington, D.C.

2015

Martin, N. D., Dornfeld, C., Gnesdilow, D., & Puntambekar, S. (2015, April). Fading distributed scaffolds: The interplay between instructor and material-based scaffolds. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, Chicago, IL.

2009

Smith, G.W., Gnesdilow, D., & Puntambekar, S. (2009, March). Student conceptions of force and work in physical and virtual experiments. Poster session presentation the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Sullivan, S., & Puntambekar, S. (2009, March). The effect of reading comprehension ability on navigation and comprehension in a hypertext system. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

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