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Work-Family Conflict and its Sustainability Implications among Married Immigrants Working in the USA

Description: Article describes how there is a paucity of research on the work and family dynamics of immigrants who arrive in the U.S. on visas. This study examined work-family conflicts and work-life support among married immigrants born abroad but currently holding permanent resident status in the U.S.
Date: October 8, 2023
Creator: Gopalan, Neena; Beutell, Nicholas J.; Grzywacz, Joseph G.; Middlemiss, Wendy; Manchiraju, Srikant & Srivastava, Sapna
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School counseling prevention programming to address social determinants of mental health

Description: Article describes how school counselors can utilize the Advocating Student-within-Environment (ASE) theoretical lens as a liberation approach to strengthening students' capacity to overcome persistent adversity while addressing root causes of systemic oppression through policy change and advocacy at the school, community, and national levels. This study provides school counselors with an overview of ASE as a theoretical foundation for addressing social determinants of mental health in schools.
Date: May 13, 2023
Creator: Johnson, Kaprea F.; Kim, Hyunhee; Molina, Citlali E.; Thompson, Kaleb A.; Henry, Sarah & Zyromski, Brett
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Doctoral Students' Experiences, Self-Efficacy, and Sense of Belonging Related to Academic Writing in an Online Program

Description: Article describes how the purpose of the author's mixed-methods study was to use social cognitive theory to explore how students in an online Doctor of Education program experience becoming academic writer and to examine trends in students' belonging and writing self-efficacy. This explanatory sequential design study included quantitative data collection via an electronic survey followed by individual and focus group interviews with participants.
Date: October 30, 2023
Creator: Naidoo, Keshrie; Quaynor, Laura & Shen, Yuyang
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District Office Leadership Supporting Site-Level Teacher Collaborative Teams

Description: Article describes how previous researchers examining professional learning communities (PLCs) claim that effective building-level PLCs improve teacher collaboration and student achievement. Using an online survey, the authors investigated the claim that district office support enhances the success of site-level PLCs.
Date: October 28, 2023
Creator: Voelkel Jr., Robert H.; Johnson, Christie W. & Nadeem, Fiaz
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Teacher-Principal Ethnoracial Matching, Geography, and Novice Teacher Career Outcomes

Description: Article describes how, nationally, many school districts are facing a teacher workforce sustainability crisis, and job retention for novice teachers of color is a key area of focus for educational leaders and policymakers. In this study, the authors draw on nine years of administrative data from Texas K-12 public schools to better understand how teacher-principal ethnoracial matching is associated with patterns of teacher retention and system-exit.
Date: December 5, 2023
Creator: Edwards, Wesley L. & Anderson, Cornelius Q.
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Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Individuals Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Pilot Study on Supported Planning Using a Toolkit

Description: Article describes how when emergencies or disasters arise, individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication are particularly vulnerable. This study highlights the need for preparedness activities that are person-centered and account for the communication support needs of individuals who use AAC if faced with an emergency/disaster.
Date: January 3, 2024
Creator: Barton-Hulsey, Andrea; Boesch, Miriam C.; Chung, Yoosun; Caswell, Tina; Sonntag, Amy M. & Quach, Wendy
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What kind of questions do creative people ask?

Description: Article explains that asking questions is a key characteristic of creativity and an important component of the creative process. In this study, the authors investigated the relation between creativity indicators and three types of questions: open vs. closed ended questions, possibility thinking, and temporal thinking.
Date: August 12, 2023
Creator: Acar, Selcuk; Berthiaume, Kelly & Johnson, Rebecca
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The Association between Adult Sport, Fitness, and Recreational Physical Activity and Number and Age of Children Present in the Household: A Secondary Analysis Using NHANES

Description: Article describes how only one in three adults in the United States meets the weekly recommendation for physical activity. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between adult moderate and vigorous sport, fitness, and recreational physical activities and the number and age (0ā€“5 and 6ā€“17) of children in their household.
Date: May 24, 2023
Creator: Johnson, Jerraco L.; Coleman, Ailton; Kwarteng, Jamila L.; Holmes, Ahondju U.; Kermah, Dulcie; Bruce, Marino A. et al.
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Capabilities, Opportunities, and Motivation: Exploring Fitness Program Experiences of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Description: Article asserts that, although there are many benefits to regular engagement in physical activity, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities often do not engage in or near the recommended amount of physical activity. The present study used qualitative methods to explore the experiences of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in a fitness program.
Date: May 9, 2023
Creator: Savage, Melissa N. & Colombo-Dougovito, Andrew M.
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Classroom observations of a cross-age peer tutoring mathematics program in elementary and middle schools

Description: Article describes how a growing body of research has shown the positive effects of peer tutoring on studentsā€™ academic achievement, self-concept, attitude, social, and behavioral outcomes. The authors' study examined classroom practices, as well as program teachersā€™ and studentsā€™ behaviors within a cross-age peer-tutoring program implemented in elementary and middle schools that serve predominantly Hispanic students.
Date: July 1, 2023
Creator: Barahona, Elba; PadrĆ³n, Yolanda N. & Waxman, Hersh C.
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Effects of Low-Intensity Aerobic Exercise on Neurophysiological and Behavioral Correlates of Cognitive Function

Description: Article asserts that acute aerobic exercise exerts a small beneficial effect on cognition. Previous research primarily examines cognitive changes following a bout of exercise, while little is currently known about changes in cognitive performance during exercise. Authors state that the primary purpose of this study was to examine the effects of low-intensity cycling on cognitive function indexed by behavioral (response accuracy; reaction time) and neurocognitive (P3 mean amplitude; P3 centroid ā€¦ more
Date: May 10, 2023
Creator: Olson, Ryan L.; Cleveland, David J. & Materia, Melissa
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What Makes Children's Responses to Creativity Assessments Difficult to Judge Reliably?

Description: Article describes how open-ended verbal creativity assessments are commonly administered in psychological research and in educational practice to elementary-aged children. Authors modeled the predictors of inter-rater disagreement in a large (i.e., 387 elementary school students and 10,449 individual item responses) dataset of children's creativity assessment responses.
Date: May 26, 2023
Creator: Dumas, Denis; Acar, Selcuk; Berthiaume, Kelly; Organisciak, Peter; Eby, David; Grajzel, Katalin et al.
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The Concise Health Risk Tracking - Self-Report (CHRT-SR)ā€”A measure of suicidal risk: Performance in adolescent outpatients

Description: Article describes how the Concise Health Risk Tracking Self-Report (CHRT-SR) assesses the risk of suicidal behavior. The authors report its psychometric properties in a representative sample of adolescent outpatients.
Date: October 10, 2022
Creator: Nandy, Karabi; Rush, John A.; Carmody, Thomas J.; Kulikova, Alexandra; Mayes, Taryn L.; Emslie, Graham et al.
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Code-switching 101: Black women counselor educatorsā€™ personal and professional identity development

Description: Article describes how the perceptions of personal and professional identity development from four Black women counselor educators were examined through a collaborative autoethnography methodology. Themes identified include (a) intentionality of code-switching, (b) inextricable identities, (c) fight for and with authenticity, and (d) mutual development of personal and professional identities.
Date: March 29, 2023
Creator: Crumb, Loni; Cartwright, Angie D.; Hammonds, Dominique S. & Harris, JaneƩ Avent
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It's a Shit Show, and It's Fine: Symbolic Nonviolence Practices in Higher Education in 2020

Description: Article describes how, through in-depth interviews with 22 faculty who taught during COVID in 2020, this study examines symbolic violence and symbolic nonviolence in higher education. The concept, symbolic nonviolence, was created, which is the intentional and systemic practice of recognizing and absorbing symbolic violence to transform the habitus.
Date: July 14, 2023
Creator: Evans, Aubree
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Geometry, groceries, and gardens: Learning mathematics and social justice through a nested, equity-directed instructional approach

Description: Authors of the article addressed the call for explorations of how BIPOC studentsā€™ ā€œexperiences in secondary mathematics classrooms might advance transformative, equity-focused, pedagogical modelsā€ by exploring how a nested, equity-directed approach created different kinds of opportunities for students to take up, shift, or resist what it means to teach, learn, and do mathematics. Specifically, authors looked at efforts to engage equity-directed dominant and critical approaches through a series ā€¦ more
Date: June 10, 2023
Creator: Harper, Frances K. & Kudaisi, Queshonda J.
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To entrepreneur or not to entrepreneur? How identity discrepancies influence enthusiasm for academic entrepreneurship

Description: Article discusses how recognizing the commercial potential of university-based inventions and discoveries, legislators and administrators have called upon academic scientists to become academic entrepreneurs. Few academic scientists are enthusiastic about taking on entrepreneurial activities, yet the intrinsic reasons for lack of enthusiasm are poorly understood. The authors extend the research by applying self-discrepancy theory to explore the role of future-oriented self and other guides on eā€¦ more
Date: February 17, 2023
Creator: Pattnaik, Shashwatashish; Mmbaga, Nick; White, Daniel T. & Reger, Rhonda K.
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Measuring Success: Integrating Number Lines Into Measurement Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities

Description: Article asserts that number lines can benefit students in learning an array of mathematical concepts. This article demonstrates the versatility of integrating number lines into mathematical interventions involving measurement concepts for students with learning disabilities in mathematics.
Date: August 2, 2023
Creator: Gersib, Jenna A.; Rojo, Megan; Ghafaghazi, Shadi; Uy, Jasmine & Doabler, Christian T.
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Measuring flexibility: A text-mining approach

Description: Article describes how, in creativity research, ideational flexibility, the ability to generate ideas by shifting between concepts, has long been the focus of investigation. Here, the authors build from extant research to theoretically posit, and then empirically validate, a text-mining based method for measuring flexibility in verbal divergent thinking (DT) responses.
Date: January 18, 2023
Creator: Grajzel, Katalin; Acar, Selcuk; Dumas, Denis; Organisciak, Peter & Berthiaume, Kelly
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Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability

Description: Article discusses how quality of life and physical activity relate to each other in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. The authors use Fitbit activity trackers to find connections between physical activity and quality of life of their sample group of autistic adults.
Date: September 13, 2021
Creator: Tomaszewski, Brianne; Savage, Melissa N. & Hume, Kara
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Social-Ecological Factors Predict College Studentsā€™ Physical Activities and Sedentary Behavior

Description: Article investigates the predictive strengths of individual, social, and physical environmental factors toward different intensities of physical activity and sedentary behavior among college students. Correlation and hierarchical regression analyses were performed to examine the associations and the relative contributions of those individual, social, and physical environmental factors to physical activity and sedentary behavior, respectively.
Date: October 9, 2022
Creator: Zhang, Tao; Lee, Joonyoung; Zhang, Xiaoxia & Gu, Xiangli
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Effects of an exogenous ketone ester using multi-omics in skeletal muscle of aging C57BL/6J male mice

Description: Article shows that oral R,S-1,3, butanediol diacetoacetate (BD-AcAc2) consumption results in body weight loss or maintenance with moderate increases in circulating ketones. The purpose of this study was to determine if a diet consisting of 25% BD-AcAc2 (ketone ester, KE) would alter body composition, transcriptional regulation, the proteome, and the lipidome of skeletal muscle in aged mice.
Date: November 15, 2022
Creator: Roberts, Brandon M.; Deemer, Sarah E.; Smith Jr., Daniel L.; Mobley, James A.; Musi, Nicolas & Plaisance, Eric P.
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Dynamic cerebral autoregulation is intact in chronic kidney disease

Description: Article describes how chronic kidney disease patients experience an elevated risk for cerebrovascular disease, and a factor that may contribute to this is an impairment in dynamic cerebral autoregulation. The authors test their hypothesis by comparing dynamic cerebral autoregulation between CKD patients stages III-IV and matched controls (CON) without CKD.
Date: November 2, 2022
Creator: Sprick, Justin D.; Jones, Toure; Jeong, Jinhee; DaCosta, Dana & Park, Jeanie
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