Publications
Journal Publications
Wilkerson, M. & Laina, V. (2018). Middle School Students’ Reasoning about Data and Context through Storytelling with Repurposed Local Data. ZDM, 50(7), 1223-1235.
Wilkerson, M.H., Shareff, R., Laina, V. & Gravel, B. (2018). Epistemic gameplay and discovery in computational model-based inquiry activities, Instructional Science, 46(1), 35-60.
Wilkerson, M. H., Andrews, C., Shaban, Y., Laina, V., & Gravel, B. E. (2016). What’s the technology for? Teacher attention and pedagogical goals in a modeling-focused professional development workshop. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 27(1), 1-23.
Laina V. & Monaghan J. (2014). Students’ expectations from technology in mathematical tasks: mathematical relationships between objects, instrumental genesis and emergent goals. International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 21(3), 79-87.
Books, Chapters, and Reports
Wilkerson, M., Shareff, R., Laina, V. (accepted). Interpretations of Innovation. Book chapter to appear in Koh, K., Preciado Babb, A.P., Takeuchi, M. & Francis, K. (Eds.), The Learning Sciences in Conversation: Theories, Methodologies, and Boundary Spaces.
Romero, V., Laina, V., Pande, A., Chi, B., & Snow, J.Z. (2021). BEETLES: An evaluation of a capacity building model to support outdoor science programs. The Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.
Mpirmpilis K., Laina, V. (2006), Olokliroma, Genika Themata Analysis, Ellinoekdotiki Publications, Athens: Greece (High school textbook for Calculus)
Conference Proceedings
Laina, V. (2019). Navigating structural differences between abductive and deductive reasoning. Proceedings of the annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME). Pretoria, South Africa.
Wilkerson, M., Shareff, B., Gravel, B., Shaban, Y., & Laina, V. (2017). Exploring computational modeling environments as tools to structure classroom knowledge building. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2017). Philadelphia, PA.
Wilkerson, M. & Laina, V. (2017). Youth reasoning with interactive data visualizations: A preliminary study. Proceedings of the 16th Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2017). Stanford, CA.
Laina, V. & Wilkerson, M. (2016). Distributions, trends, and contradictions: A case study in sensemaking with interactive data visualizations. In Looi, C. K., Polman, J. L., Cress, U., and Reimann, P. (Eds.). Proceedings of Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners: The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2016, Vol. 2. (pp. 934-937). Singapore: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Conference Presentations
Collins, M.A., Young, A., Romero, V., Laina, V., Pande, A., Dorph, R. & Strang, C. (2020). NGSS Science and Engineering practices in outdoor science programs [paper presentation]. 2020 NAAEE annual conference, Tucson, AZ, United States.
Pande, A., Romero, V., Collins, M.A., Young, A. & Laina, V. (2020). Science learning in the outdoors: Needs and priorities [poster presentation]. 2020 NAAEE annual conference, Tucson, AZ, United States.
Lopez, M., Wilkerson, M. & Laina, V. (2019). Data as proxy: Sociomaterial supports and constraints on the use of data for epistemic agency [paper presentation]. 2019 Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching. Baltimore, MD, March 31-April 3.
Lopez, M., Laina, V. & Wilkerson, M. (2019). Agentive use of public quantitative data in scientific argumentation: A case study [paper presentation]. 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Toronto, April 5-9.
Laina, V. & Wilkerson, M. (2019). Seeing Things Differently: A Form and Function Analysis of Student-Generated Dynamic Data Visualizations [paper presentation]. 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Toronto, April 5-9.
Laina, V. (2018). Puzzling proofs: Moving between abductive and deductive reasoning in proving activities [paper presentation]. 9th Young ERME Summer School, Montpellier, August 20-25.
Laina, V., Wilkerson, M. (2017). Modeling data by visualizing it [paper presentation], 10th International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, New Zealand, July 2-8.
Wilkerson, M. H. & Laina, V. (2017). Designing to support data visualizations as an exploratory tool in science [paper presentation]. Presented as part of M. Gresalfi (Org.) and D. Clark (Chair), Designing digital environments to support mathematical and scientific reasoning: Theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. Symposium at the 2017 Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Laina, V. & Wilkerson, M. (2016). DataSketch: A tool for youth to create dynamic data visualizations with ink sketches – Demo [poster presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development Special Topic Meeting: Technology and Media in Children’s Development, Irvine, CA, October 27-30.
Wilkerson, M. & Laina, V. (2016). How do youth reason about dynamic data visualizations? A preliminary study [poster presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development Special Topic Meeting: Technology and Media in Children’s Development, Irvine, CA. October 27-30.
Wilkerson-Jerde, M. H. & Laina, V. (2015). Stories of our city: Coordinating youths’ mathematical, representational, and community knowledge through data visualization design [paper presentation]. 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL, April 16-20.
Wilkerson-Jerde, M. H., Gravel, B. E., Andrews, C., Shaban, Y. & Laina, V. (2015). Teacher attention and pedagogical goals in a computational modeling-focused professional development workshop [paper presentation]. 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL, April 16-20.