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- A Fresh Perspectives: Newbies Implementing the SIOP Model
- Presentation sharing a program to support English language learners in mathematics and science by training in-service and pre-service teachers using the SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) model. It was presented at the TexTESOL conference in 2017.
- Creating Bilingual Instructional Activities
- Presentation exploring research related to translanguaging and creating bilingual instructional activities. It was presented at the 10th International Conference for Teachers of English held in Honduras.
- ¡Muévete! Integrating physical education and language learning in bilingual classrooms
- Presentation sharing strategies for developing academic vocabular in Spanish and English through movement. It was presented at the Texas Association for Bilingual Education Conference held in 2018.
- La Importancia De Promover La Educación Bilingüe Alrededor Del Mundo
- Presentation promoting the importance of bilingual education on behalf of the National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE).
- La indagación como estrategia clave en el aula bilingüe
- Presentation highlighting how to use inquiry-based practices in the classroom. It was presented at the National Association for Bilingual Education Conference held in 2017.
- Student Motivation Strategies to Start the New School Year!
- Presentation for developing student motivation with an emphasis in bilingual education or ESL students. It was presented as part of the Education for Hispanic Dual-Language Institute held at W. H. Adamson High School in Dallas, Texas on October 14, 2017.
- 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.
- The Case for Measuring and Reporting Bilingualism in Developmental Research
- Article argues that bilingualism and language experience in general should be routinely documented in all studies of infant and child development regardless of the research questions pursued, and provides suggestions for measuring and reporting children’s language exposure, proficiency, and use.
- 1:1 iPads in 1st Grade: Two-Year Case Study of a Teacher's Concerns, Use, and Innovation Configuration
- This chapter reports the findings of a two-year case study of how one first-grade teacher in a Florida charter school with 1:1 iPads progresses through stages of concerns and levels of use to achieve technological innovation. Findings inform technology integration practices and emphasize the importance of acknowledging change concerns associated with technology acceptance.
- Private blog reflections connecting course content with field experiences: Preservice teachers grapple with teacher identity
- Article examining teacher preparation programs ability to help preservice teachers connect educational theory with teaching practice. This article systematically reflects on written responses, recorded in a private weblog over the course of a 15-week intermediate reading methods course.
- How Parent Perceptions Relate to Elementary Children’s Portable Technology Use by Gender and Grade Level
- Article examining how parents' reports of children’s technology use in the home varies by a child’s gender or grade level. Strategies are provided for teachers, support specialists, and parents to improve how children use technology. Implications for app developers are suggested.
- Partnering With Parents: Devices and Apps to Support Elementary Children Reading
- Article providing evidence of how children from 120 homes across 46 classrooms use apps and portable technology to support their reading development. The finding that nearly all children in this study supported reading skills with portable technology in the home demonstrates the need to foster partnerships between parents and teachers that builds on children's technological knowledge and use to deepen learning between home and school.
- Predictors of Portable Technology Adoption to Support Elementary Children Reading in the Home
- Article identifying predictors of parent's portable technology adoption to support children's reading development in the home by applying the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to informal elementary education.
- A scoping review of digital game-based technology on English language learning
- Article investigating the current practices of digital game-based language learning to support English language learning. This article provides strategies for educational researchers to improve their rigor in research, along with explicit criteria that digital game designers can apply toward language-learning game development.
- Administrators’ unintentional sensegiving and system reform outcomes
- Article examining how administrators help teachers and other administrators make sense of a system reform during the first two years of implementation.
- Predicting changes in systolic blood pressure using longitudinal patient records
- This article introduces a model that predicts future changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP) based on structured and unstructured (text-based) information from longitudinal clinical records.
- Baker's Yeast Beta Glucan Supplementation Increases Salivary IgA and Decreases Cold/Flu Symptomatic Days After Intense Exercise
- Article describes study which sought to determine if baker's yeast β-glucan (BG) could positively affect the immune system of individuals undergoing intense exercise stress.
- Analysis of the start to the first hurdle in 110 m hurdles at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015
- Article describes study in which observational analysis was used to evaluate the relationships between variables measured at the start of the men’s 110 hurdles event and race performance itself.
- Nap Opportunity During the Daytime Affects Performance and Perceived Exertion in 5-m Shuttle Run Test
- Article describes study comparing the effect of different durations of nap opportunity during the daytime on repeated high-intensity short-duration performance and rating of perceived exertion (RPE).
- Latina/o School Administrators and the Intersectionality of Professional Identity and Race
- Article describes study which examines the intersectionality between professional identities and race/ethnicity among Latina/o school leaders.
- Assessing Statistical Anxiety Among Online and Traditional Students
- Article describes study which sought to determine whether scores on the Statistical Anxiety Scale (SAS) manifest in the same way for students in online and traditional statistics courses.
- Comparing patients and families perceptions of satisfaction and predictors of overall satisfaction in the emergency department
- Article describes study aiming to investigate factors that best predict patient's satisfaction with their emergency department (ED) visit, as well as examine whether patients and their families perceived the factors related to satisfaction similarly.
- A method for predicting background advertisement exposure parameters in sporting events: Televised football game approach
- Article described study which tested a prediction method where virtual reality (VR) technology was utilized to simulate the telecast of the event and estimate the background advertisement exposure parameters.
- Understanding Adolescents' Need Support, Need Satisfaction, and Health-Related Outcomes: A Self-Determination Health Behavior Perspective
- Paper describes a study exploring the relationships among perceived need support from physical education teachers, psychological need satisfaction, and adolescents’ health-related outcomes in Chinese adolescent students.
- Psychosocial predictors of physical activity and health-related quality of life among Shanghai working adults
- This article investigates the psychosocial predictors of physical activity and quality of life (QOL) among Shanghai working adults. Stress and social support from friends were two important sources of self-efficacy, all of which facilitated more physical activity participation. Lower stress, higher social support, and more physical activity may directly increase QOL among Shanghai working adults.
- Analysis Gender Stereotypes in Perception Profile of Conduct in Track and Field
- This poster was present at the International Association of Physical Education & Sport for Girls & Women (IAPESGW) 18th World Congress in May 2017 at Barry University, Miami Shores. The poster examines gender stereotypes of men and women's profile of conduct in athletics.
- Avoiding the School to Couch Pipeline
- Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Jamie Thomas presents her research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
- 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.
- 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).
- Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones
- This article extends previous studies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)'s measure of residents' training progress to examine the validity of ACGME International competency measures for an international setting across emergency medicine (EM) and neurology, and across evaluators.
- Unequal Higher Education in the United States: Growing Participation and Shrinking Opportunities
- This article argues that rising institutional inequality is a component of individual-level inequality in the United States because U.S. higher education provides a diverse group of students with unequal access to different kinds of institutions.
- Dimensional Structure of and Variation in Anthropomorphic Concepts of God
- This article describes a study assessing 341 individuals' attributions of anthropomorphic properties to God in three domains (psychological, biological, and physical), their religious beliefs, and their engagement in religious practices.
- “Troublemaking,” “Making Trouble,” and “Making It” Through Institutionalized Schooling: Critical Pedagogy as a Transformational Exodus
- This article examines the quality of public schooling in primarily low socio-economic status (SES) areas of El Paso, Texas and reflects on the dismal realities established by the hegemonic social order.
- Book Review: Improving Computer Science Education by D. M. Kadijevich, C. Angeli, and C. Schulte.
- Book Review of "Improving Computer Science Education" written by D. M. Kadijevich, C. Angeli, and C. Schulte.
- Book Review: Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by S.J. Trachtenberg, G.B. Kauvar, and E.G. Bogue
- Book Review of "Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It" by S. J. Trachtenberg, G. B. Kauvar, and E. G. Bogue.
- Concept Raps versus Concept Maps: A Culturally Responsive Approach to STEM Vocabulary Development
- This article argues that the development of rap song lyrics or lyrical concept mapping can be a viable pedagogical alternative to the development of concept maps as a means to reinforce STEM vocabulary.
- Information Communication Technology Use among Students in Inclusive Classroom
- This article compares the leisure and school-related computer use of students in inclusive classrooms.
- Children’s Use of Comparative Text Signals: The Relationship between Age and Comprehension Ability
- This article examines age differences in children and young adolescents' use of comparative text signals in order to gain insights into the development of signaling knowledge.
- Early Predictors of Child's Bully and Victim Statuses: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Parent, Teacher, and Student Reports From National Data
- This article studies how bullies and victims develop within the contexts of their homes and schools, and how early childhood behaviors can predict later bullying/victimization statuses.
- 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).
- 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).
- Understanding the Interdisciplinary Discipline: An Introduction to Sport Management
- This editorial introduces the sport management discipline.
- Rumination in major depressive disorder is associated with impaired neural activation during conflict monitoring
- This article examines behavioral and event-related potentials (ERP) indices of conflict monitoring during a modified flanker task and the allocation of attention during an attentional blink (AB) task, and whether their behavioral performance and ERPs varied with level of rumination.
- Mental Health Interventions for Parent Carers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Practice Guidelines from a Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) Systematic Review
- This article contains a systematic review that identifies key qualities of interventions supporting the mental health of parent carers and proposes practitioner-parent carer support guidelines.
- Quantitative Preparation in Doctoral Education Programs: A Mixed-Methods Study of Doctoral Student Perspectives on Their Quantitative Training
- This article explores student perceptions of their own doctoral-level education and quantitative proficiency.
- Parents’ mobile technology adoption influences on elementary children’s use
- This article identifies 120 parents' intentions to adopt mobile technology and gathers in-depth perceptions about mobile technology adoption with a smaller subset of 13 parents.
- Effects of Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Weight Status on Knowledge of Physical Activity and Fitness, Attitude Toward Physical Education, and Physical Activity
- This article examines the effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and weight status on knowledge of physical activity and fitness, attitude toward physical education, and physical activity.
- The Role of Dynamic Systems Theory in Motor Development Research: How Does Theory Inform Practice and What Are the Potential Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorder?
- This article reviews 18 instances in the literature where dynamic systems theory (DST) has been used to analyze, test, or manipulate motor patterns and movement.
- 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.
- 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.