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Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas

This book chapter focuses on the use of ereaders as a learning tool to motivate and engage students, support content learning, and promote literacy development across content areas.

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Date: 2015

Creator: Fang, Zhihui; Eutsler, Lauren; Coatoam Chapman, Suzanne & Qi, Yang

Item Type: Book Chapter

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Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas

This article explores the intercultural movements toward social justice in education in the Americas, most particularly, North America, and how U.S. multicultural movements and policies influence countries like Brazil.

Date: March 31, 2011

Creator: Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth & Auxiliadora Lima Dias da Silva, Maria

Item Type: Article

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Differential Growth Trajectories for Achievement Among Children Retained in First Grade: A Growth Mixture Model

Article discussing a growth mixture model and differential growth trajectories for achievement among children retained in first grade.

Date: March 2014

Creator: Chen, Qi; Hughes, Jan N. & Kwok, Oi-Man

Item Type: Article

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MAP training: combining meditation and aerobic exercise reduces depression and rumination while enhancing synchronized brain activity

This article discusses the efficacy of mental and physical (MAP) training in improving symptoms of depression and rumination in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD).

Date: December 5, 2015

Creator: Alderman, Brandon L.; Olson, Ryan L.; Brush, Christopher J. & Shors, Tracey J.

Item Type: Article

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Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates

This article uses a reliability generalization meta-analysis to explore the relationship between study factors and levels of alpha reliability for the 15 subscales of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ).

Date: September 26, 2018

Creator: Holland, David F.; Kraha, Amanda; Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Nimon, Kim F.; Fulmore, Julia A.; Johnson, Ursula Y. et al.

Item Type: Article

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Teacher Evaluation in the Special Education Setting: Voices from the Field

This article uses a qualitative, multi-case study research design to gain insight into the perceptions and experiences of special education teachers and administrators.

Date: 2016

Creator: Sledge, Ann & Pazey, Barbara L.

Item Type: Article

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Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves

This article describes a duoethnography of two faculty members working in different leadership programs to reveal how their understanding of diversity and social justice has been formed over the course of their lives.

Date: October 3, 2016

Creator: Guerra, Patricia L. & Pazey, Barbara L.

Item Type: Article

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Democratic Twittering: Microblogging for a More Participatory Social Studies

This article uses the example of the Arab Spring to discuss how new media lowers barriers so that more voices may be heard.

Date: March 2014

Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

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"Remixing" Current Events: Navigating the Transmedia Terrain with Fifth Graders

This article discusses two democratic media literacy skills that teachers can model and teach to help students as 21st century citizens.

Date: March 2017

Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

Women Balancing Biology and Opportunity in the 21st Century

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Women in the 21st Century. This presentation discusses the emotional health of women and explores balancing the biology of women in with all of the changes in the 21st century.

Date: March 13, 2012

Creator: Chandler, Cynthia K.

Item Type: Presentation

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A Proposal to Expand Doctoral Production in Sub-Saharan Africa

Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses a proposal to sustainably expand doctoral production and retain more doctoral graduates in Africa in university service

Date: April 11, 2015

Creator: Baryamureeba, Venansius & Pifer, Marilyn

Item Type: Paper

The Dakar Summit on Higher Education in Africa: Three Programmatic Responses

Presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This presentation discusses responses to the African Higher Education Summit organized by Senegal and held in Dakar in 2015.

Date: April 11, 2015

Creator: Cutright, William Marcus

Item Type: Presentation

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Reimagining the Funding of Higher Education in Uganda

Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses reimagining the funding of higher education in Uganda.

Date: April 11, 2015

Creator: Namalefe, Susan A.

Item Type: Paper

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(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District

This article reports a Texas suburban school district's efforts to promote cultural proficiency after leadership trainings.

Date: February 3, 2015

Creator: Ezzani, Miriam & Brooks, Melanie C.

Item Type: Article

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Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders

This article explores the authors' experience using an ethical framework to teach a course on disability law to graduate level education students.

Date: November 2015

Creator: Pazey, Barbara L. & Cole, Heather A.

Item Type: Article

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Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators

This article reviews literature on videoconferencing for global citizenship education and analyzes those efforts towards cosmopolitan citizenship.

Date: September 2016

Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Carano, Kenneth T.

Item Type: Article

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Children's Physical Activity Levels and Psychological Correlates in Interactive Dance Versus Aerobic Dance

This article compares children's physical activity levels, self-efficacy, and enjoyment when experiencing dance-exergaming and aerobic dance in physical education.

Date: January 16, 2013

Creator: Gao, Zan; Zhang, Tao & Stodden, David

Item Type: Article

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The Extent of Autism Knowledge of Novice Alternatively Certified Special Education Teachers in Texas

This article assesses the knowledge of novice alternative certification teachers in the area of autism intervention.

Date: December 2015

Creator: Alward Hauber, Jennifer; Mehta, Smita S. & Combes, Bertina H.

Item Type: Article

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The Virtual Workroom: Using Social Media, Teachers Reach Beyond School Walls to Learn and Grow

This article discusses educators' use of professional learning networks and its impact on their teaching and student learning.

Date: August 2016

Creator: Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Trust, Torrey & Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

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Levelling the Playing Field: Human Capability Approach and Lived Realities for Sport and Gender in the West Indies

This article applies the human capability approach (HCA) to explicitly investigate gender role attitudes from the perspective of boy and girl participants in sport for development and peace (SDP).

Date: April 2018

Creator: Zipp, Sarah

Item Type: Article

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Sedentary behavior and physical activity predicting depressive symptoms in adolescents beyond attributes of health-related physical fitness

This article investigates whether sedentary behavior and fitness-producing activity predicted depression in active adolescents over and above gender and fitness attributes.

Date: March 22, 2017

Creator: Farren, Gene L.; Zhang, Tao; Gu, Xiangli & Thomas, Katherine

Item Type: Article

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Longitudinal trajectories of physical activity in women using latent class growth analysis: The WIN Study

This article discusses a study to examine the longitudinal trajectories in objectively measured physical activity (PA), to identify unknown (i.e., latent) subgroups with distinct trajectories, and to examine the correlates of latent subgroups among community dwelling women.

Date: April 21, 2015

Creator: Kim, Youngdeok; Kang, Minsoo; Tacón, Anna M. & Morrow, James R.

Item Type: Article

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Platforms, Purpose, and Pedagogy: Reclaiming Context and Resisting Technopoly with Participatory Media

This article examines the work of media theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman in the wake of participatory media.

Date: 2015

Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

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The Contemporary Lives of Age-Old Tales: Characters, Contexts, and Critical Issues

Article is a study examining three picture books to consider the significance of contemporary retellings of traditional tales.

Date: 2019

Creator: Mathis, Janelle

Item Type: Article

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Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas

Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas

Differential Growth Trajectories for Achievement Among Children Retained in First Grade: A Growth Mixture Model

MAP training: combining meditation and aerobic exercise reduces depression and rumination while enhancing synchronized brain activity

Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates

Teacher Evaluation in the Special Education Setting: Voices from the Field

Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves

Democratic Twittering: Microblogging for a More Participatory Social Studies

"Remixing" Current Events: Navigating the Transmedia Terrain with Fifth Graders

Women Balancing Biology and Opportunity in the 21st Century

A Proposal to Expand Doctoral Production in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Dakar Summit on Higher Education in Africa: Three Programmatic Responses

Reimagining the Funding of Higher Education in Uganda

(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District

Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders

Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators

Children's Physical Activity Levels and Psychological Correlates in Interactive Dance Versus Aerobic Dance

The Extent of Autism Knowledge of Novice Alternatively Certified Special Education Teachers in Texas

The Virtual Workroom: Using Social Media, Teachers Reach Beyond School Walls to Learn and Grow

Levelling the Playing Field: Human Capability Approach and Lived Realities for Sport and Gender in the West Indies

Sedentary behavior and physical activity predicting depressive symptoms in adolescents beyond attributes of health-related physical fitness

Longitudinal trajectories of physical activity in women using latent class growth analysis: The WIN Study

Platforms, Purpose, and Pedagogy: Reclaiming Context and Resisting Technopoly with Participatory Media

The Contemporary Lives of Age-Old Tales: Characters, Contexts, and Critical Issues