Lab members, PhD students Jiayu Cheng and Yuwei Liang, presented two papers at the 2026 AERA conference in Los Angeles, California.

Papers are linked below:

• A Systematic Review of Teachers’ Roles and Social-Emotional Competence in K–12 AI Research. Authors: Jiayu Cheng, Chen Wang and Bodong Chen
• Learning to Program with LLMs: How University Students Use LLMs in an Introductory Programming Course. Authors: Yuwei Liang, Shiyang Zhang and Bodong Chen

Our collaborators also presented a poster, titled [Supporting Justice‑Oriented Data Literacy in Science and History Classrooms], in the How Data Science Education Can Enable Exploration of Real World Phenomena Symposium.