PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS

Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions and Readiness: Insights From a Computer Science Professional Development in Uruguay (2025). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, USA.

Establishing student agency in personalized and adaptive learning technologies: From conceptualization to application (2025). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, USA.

Evaluating creative coding in early childhood education: A comparison of artifact-based and task-based measures (2025). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, USA.

Equity in Early Computer Science Education: Insights from a Randomized Trial (2025). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, USA.

Elementary teachers’ perceptions and readiness: Insights from a computer science professional development in Uruguay (2025). Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, USA.

Empowering Teachers for Student Success: Virtual PD in K-2 CS Education (2025). Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, USA.

Coding As Another Language: Impact on math and literacy achievement in early science computer education (2024) [presented on behalf of DevTech). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, USA.

Advancing Early Grade Reading: An RCT Exploring the effects of personalized technology (2024). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, USA.

An RCT investigating the impact of personalized and adaptive learning on reading skills in the MENA Region (2024). Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Miami, USA. 

Towards women’s access to and adoption of mechanization: Analysis of women’s farmer group services (2023). International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), New York, USA. 

Scaling Women’s Access to Mechanization Service Provision in Bangladesh (2023). CGIAR GENDER Impact Conference, Delhi, India. 

Women and Youth Empowerment in Agriculture (2023) [Seminar]. Smart-Agro Technology Innovation Youth Network and Appropriate Scale Mechanization Innovation Hub, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Towards women’s access to and adoption of mechanization: Analysis of farmer groups’ services in Bangladesh (2023). CGIAR GENDER Impact Conference, Delhi, India. 

Adaptive and personalized learning technology: Ending the learning poverty in MENA (2023). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, USA.

Technology-enabled personalized and adaptive learning for reading: A global meta-analysis (2023). American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, USA.

Improving student agency in digital environments: A global analysis of adaptive and personalized learning approaches (2023). Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Washington DC, USA.

Women’s adoption of mechanization and technology: Analysis of farmer groups’ services in Bangladesh (2023). Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Washington DC, USA.

Effectiveness of digital personalized learning on student achievement in reading: Synthesis of the literature (2023). Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Washington DC, USA.

Youth environmental sustainability education and practices at home: Longitudinal evidence from rural Namibia (2022). Tenth Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), New York, USA.

Agricultural education in Cambodia as a sustainable development capacity-building tool (2022). American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, USA.

Technology for personalized and adaptive learning in low- and middle-income countries: A UNICEF global landscape review (2022). American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, USA.

Tech-enabled personalized learning in low- and middle-income countries – a UNICEF landscape analysis (2022). Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Minneapolis, USA.

Youth environmental sustainability practices at home: Longitudinal evidence from a non-formal sustainability education camp in rural Namibia (2022). Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Minneapolis, USA.

Synthesis on the effectiveness of tech-enabled personalized learning for reading (2022). Graduate Student Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Agri-entrepreneurship enablers and barriers for young people and women in Bangladesh: A systematic review (2022). Agricultural Transformation: Role of Appropriate Scale Mechanization and Postharvest Loss Reduction Innovations [Symposium], Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Digital Personalized Learning in low- and middle-income country contexts (2022) [Seminar]. Innocenti Office (UNICEF).

Technology for personalized and adaptive learning in low- and middle-income countries: A global landscape review (2021) [Symposia]. mEd Alliance Symposia – EdTech for Accelerating Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) in Low-Resource Contexts, DC, USA.

The Critical Role of Women in Sustainable Development (2018) [Panel]. World Education Congress, Mumbai, India.

Developing youth’s capacities as active partners in achieving sustainable global food security (2021). Ninth Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), New York, USA.

Factors affecting quality of eLearning in Jordanian universities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods study (2021). Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Seattle, USA.

Women empowerment and the development goals: Towards a gender-sensitive sustainable development agenda (2018). WEI International Academic Conference, Harvard University, USA.