Presentations

* indicates graduate student co-author
+ indicates undergraduate student co-author
~ indicates high school student co-author

+Yang, C. & Liu, P. (2023, July 27). Autonomy-supportive practices in middle school science classrooms [Poster]. Colby Undergraduate Summer Research Retreat, The Forks, ME, United States.

*Mouzaoir, S., Liu, P., *Harris-Thomas, B., *Lee, A. A., +Conklin, K. M., McKinney, D., Harris, C. J., Linnenbrink-Garcia, L., Marchand, G. C., & Schmidt, J. A. (2023, April 13-16). Examining science teachers’ changes in practice following motivation-focused professional learning [Roundtable]. American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL, United States.

Marchand, G. C., Schmidt, J. A., Linnenbrink-Garcia, L., Harris, C. J., Liu, P., & McKinney, D. (2022, June). Adventures in co-designed professional development: How a group of middle school science teachers learned about and implemented motivationally supportive instruction in their classrooms. SELF biannual meeting (virtual).

Liu, P., McKinney, D., *Lee, A. A., *Murray, H., Schmidt, J. A., Marchand, G. C., & Linnenbrink-Garcia, L. (2022, Apr 21-26). Triangulating observed social support and academic challenge with student perceptions of mastery goal structure. In K. Robinson & L. Bardach (Chairs), Motivated Students, Motivating Contexts: Building Clarity about the Nature and Mechanisms of Motivational Climate [Symposium]. American Educational Research Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA, United States.

Liu, P., *Lee, A. A., McKinney, D., *Murray, H., Schmidt, J. A., Marchand, G. C., & Linnenbrink-Garcia, L. (2022, Apr 21-26). Investigating different approaches to supporting mastery goals in 7th-grade science: A mixed-methods approach [Structured Poster Session]. American Educational Research Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA, United States.

Linnenbrink-Garcia, L., Harris, C. J., Marchand, G. C., Schmidt, J. A., Liu, P., McKinney, D., Weiser, G., & Nilsen, K. (2021, June 15-17). Co-designing tools and routines with teachers to support middle school students’ motivation in NGSS classrooms [Poster]. National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12 PI Meeting, online.

Liu, P. (2020, Apr 17-21). A case comparison of secondary and postsecondary writing instructors’ failure mindsets and messaging [Roundtable]. American Educational Research Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Conference canceled)

McKinney, D., Liu, P., Nilsen, K., Alozie, N., Harris, C. J., Linnenbrink-Garcia, L., Marchand, G. C., & Schmidt, J. A. (2020, Mar 15-18). Middle school science teachers’ conceptions of motivation supports in NGSS instruction [Paper]. National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Portland, OR. (Conference canceled)

Liu, P. (2019, Apr 5-9). What’s the point of doing this? Secondary and postsecondary educators’ task value beliefs and behaviors [Paper]. American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Liu, P. (2018, May 2-4). “Learning to play the game”: Challenges and opportunities in promoting motivation across the college transition [Roundtable]. New England Educational Research Organization, Portsmouth, NH.

Liu, P. (2018, Feb 26-27). Case studies of instructor efforts to foster academic motivation in first-year college writing classrooms [Paper]. Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference, Las Vegas, NV.

Liu, P., Savitz-Romer, M., Perella, J., Hill, N. E., & Liang, B. (2017, Apr 27-May 1). Testing a Self-Determination Theory model of high school teacher-student relationships across student gender and race [Poster]. American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Liu, P., Savitz-Romer, M., Perella, J., Hill, N.E., & Liang, B. (2017, Apr 27-May 1). Exploring high school students’ representations of their relationships with teachers through content analysis. [Poster]. American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Liu, P. & Miller, M. L. (2016, Nov 9-13). Upstanders wanted: Convening intra-institutional allies for racial equity work [Interactive session]. Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network Annual Conference, Louisville, KY.

Liu, P. (2016, Nov 9-13). Between comfort and danger: Sample “risk zone” activities to facilitate racial equity work [Poster]. Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network Annual Conference, Louisville, KY.

Miller, M. L. & Liu, P. (2016, Mar 29). A systemic model: Fulfilling the promise of diversity [Presentation]. Inclusive Teaching: Questions, Models, Responses; Office of the Vice Provost, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Savitz-Romer, M., Rowan-Kenyon, H., Ott, M. W., Liu, P., & Swan, A. K. (2015, Nov 4-7). Moving towards coherence: A review of the literature describing noncognitive skills and their role in college success and career readiness [Paper]. Association for the Study of Higher Education, Denver, CO.

Liu, P., ~de Lima, A., & ~Tran, S. (2009, Nov 14). Take action: Building student leadership and skills with participatory action research [Conference session]. Got Leadership? Making Change in Your Classroom and School, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.

Levenson, M., Resnick, S., Liu, P., ~Huertas, G., & ~Irving, N. (2009, Oct 22-23). The influence of induction and mentoring on teacher leadership [Conference session]. Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education, Swarthmore, PA.