 | Matthew Speno, Chair (mspeno@une.edu) Matthew Speno is a second year Doctoral Candidate in the Transformative Leadership program at the University of New England. Matthew’s research interests include the benefits of a Career and Technical Education at the middle and high school levels. He is interested in researching the high school diploma authorization practices developed by the Maine Department of Education, which do not include CTE schools/centers as authorizers. Matthew is a Maine certified special education teacher specializing in specific learning disabilities and executive functioning. |
 | Beth Perkins, Past Chair (perkinba@dukes.jmu.edu) Beth Perkins is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Assessment and Measurement program at James Madison University. Her research interests include propensity score methods, emotions experienced during testing, and applications of structural equation modeling. Her dissertation focuses on understanding how propensity score methods function when the treatment group is larger than the comparison group. |
 | Anthony Vinci (anthony.vinci@my.ccsu.edu) Anthony has recently completed an Ed.D. Program in Higher Education Leadership. His research interests focus on improving university-community partnerships, local development, community engagement work, and higher education reform. Anthony plans for his research to inform policy and practice for the betterment of university-community partnerships. If you are interested in Anthony's research, feel free to email him here. |
 | Rachel Satter Rachel Satter is in the Educational Leadership program at the University of Bridgeport. Rachel’s research interests include social-emotional learning and its importance within pre-service education programs. She is interested in researching the practices of pre-service educator programs and their efforts to better provide SEL/SEC learning and feedback to pre-service teachers during their clinical practice experience. Rachel is Connecticut certified in K-6 education and holds an 092 Administrative Certificate. |
 | Hannah Smith Hannah Smith is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Assumption University and research fellow at the AIMS Center for Math and Science. Her research focuses on both the student and teacher aspect of learning. Her main research focuses on teacher professional development and how we can train teachers to be more confident when teaching STEM and give them the tools to do so. She also explores student perceptions of computational thinking. Together, she aims to make STEM learning more accessible to both students and teachers. |
| GSIC Call for New Members Serving on the GSIC is a great way to get involved with NERA and build relationships with other graduate students! Responsibilities include collaborating with students from various institutions to plan GSIC sponsored in-conference sessions, and the GSIC student social. New members are selected each year after the NERA Conference. For more information about get involved:
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