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Addressing Disproportionality in Special Education Through a Social Justice Framework

Description: Presentation discussing the disproportionality in special education programs, which is the over or under representation of a specific group or population identified with a disability or placed in special education in comparison to the actual number of students, and it provides some actionable solutions. It was presented at the 11th annual Jalisco-Texas Conference which was held virtually on March 30-31, 2023.
Date: March 30, 2023
Creator: Barrio, Brenda L.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Applying Rasch Methodology to Examine and Enhance Precision of the Baby Care Questionnaire

Description: Article describes how the Baby Care Questionnaire (BCQ) is an established ordinal measure of parenting beliefs about infant care, which includes structure and attunement scales. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties and improve precision of the structure and attunement scales of the BCQ using Rasch methodology.
Date: January 12, 2024
Creator: Truong, Quoc Cuong; Gattis, Merideth; Barber, Carol Cornsweet; Middlemess, Wendy; Au, Terry & Medvedev, Oleg N.
Partner: University of North Texas
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Avoiding the School to Couch Pipeline

Description: 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.
Date: November 17, 2018
Duration: 3 minutes 01 second
Creator: Thomas, Jamie
Partner: UNT College of Education
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A Bayesian Rate Ratio Effect Size to Quantify Intervention Effects for Count Data in Single Case Experimental Research

Description: This article formulates a within-subject Bayesian rate ratio effect size (BRR) for autocorrelated count data that would obviate the need for small sample corrections. The authors illustrate this within-subject effect size using real data for an ABAB design and provide codes for practitioners who may want to compute BRR.
Date: June 19, 2020
Creator: Batley, Pathiba Natesan; Mehta, Smita S. & Hitchcock, John H.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Behavioral Artistry: Examining the Relationship Between the Interpersonal Skills and Effective Practice Repertoires of Applied Behavior Analysis Practitioners

Description: Article describes study which investigated interpersonal skills associated with the concept of behavioral artistry (BA), a repertoire of practitioner behaviors including care, attentiveness, and creativity, among others, associated with the effective delivery of applied behavior analysis (ABA) treatment.
Date: May 24, 2019
Creator: Callahan, Kevin; Foxx, Richard M.; Swierczynski, Adam; Aerts, Xing; Mehta, Smita S.; McComb, Mary-Ellen et al.
Partner: University of North Texas
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Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis

Description: This article is a meta-analysis examining the association of birth order and divergent thinking (DT). The main purpose was to examine how ordinal position (only, first, middle, or last-born) is related to creativity. Results showed that first-borns had higher DT scores than later-born children.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Abdulla Alabbasi, Ahmed M.; Tadik, Harun; Acar, Selcuk & Runco, Mark A.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones

Description: 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.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Batley, Nicholas J.; Bakhti, Rinad & El-Doueihi, Philippe Z.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Comparing patients and families perceptions of satisfaction and predictors of overall satisfaction in the emergency department

Description: 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.
Date: August 13, 2019
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Hadid, Dima; Harb, Yara Abou & Hitti, Eveline
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Comparing the Bayesian Unknown Change-Point Model and Simulation Modeling Analysis to Analyze Single Case Experimental Designs

Description: This article compares two simulation-driven approaches: Bayesian unknown change-point model (BUCP) and simulation modeling analysis (SMA) for three real datasets that exhibit “clear” immediacy, “unclear” immediacy, and delayed effects. In the final analysis, it is recommended that both visual and statistical analyses be conducted for a thorough analysis of SCEDs.
Date: January 15, 2021
Creator: Batley, Pathiba Natesan; Nandakumar, Ratna; Palka, Jayme M. & Shrestha, Pragya
Partner: UNT College of Education
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The Concise Health Risk Tracking - Self-Report (CHRT-SR)—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.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Correction to: Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation

Description: Correction to the article "Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation Review." The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1007/ s10803-020-04844-2.Autism Spectrum Disorder
Date: January 20, 2022
Creator: Hume, Kara; Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Odom, Samuel L.; Morin, Kristi L.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Tomaszewski, Brianne et al.
Partner: University of North Texas
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Correspondence in parents' and children's concepts of god: Investigating the role of parental values, religious practices and executive functioning

Description: This article is a study examining the extent to which children's concepts of God correspond with their parents' concepts of God. It also examines how parent-context factors and children's executive functioning relate to parent–child conceptual similarity.
Date: May 6, 2022
Creator: Saide, Anondah R. & Richert, Rebekah A.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Dimensional Structure of and Variation in Anthropomorphic Concepts of God

Description: 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.
Date: August 10, 2018
Creator: Shaman, Nicholas J.; Saide, Anondah R. & Richert, Rebekah A.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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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
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Early Predictors of Child's Bully and Victim Statuses: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Parent, Teacher, and Student Reports From National Data

Description: 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.
Date: June 29, 2018
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Mitchell, Mary E. & Glover, Rebecca
Partner: UNT College of Education
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The Efficacy of Common Fit Indices for Enumerating Classes in Growth Mixture Models When Nested Data Structure is Ignored: A Monte Carlo Study

Description: This article investigates whether the correct number of classes can still be retrieved when a higher level of nesting in multilevel growth mixture model (MGMM) is ignored.
Date: March 30, 2017
Creator: Chen, Qi; Luo, Wen; Palardy, Gregory J.; Glaman, Ryan & McEnturff, Amber
Partner: UNT College of Education
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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
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation Review

Description: This article is a systematic review describing a set of practices that have evidence of positive effects with autistic children and youth. It is the third iteration of a review of the intervention literature (Odom et al. in J Autism Dev Disorders 40(4):425–436, 2010a; Prevent School Fail 54(4):275–282, 2010b; Wong et al. in https://autismpdc.fpg.unc.edu/sites/autismpdc.fpg.unc.edu/files/imce/documents/2014-EBP-Report.pdf; J Autism Dev Disorders 45(7):1951–1966, 2015), extending coverage to arti… more
Date: January 15, 2021
Creator: Hume, Kara; Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Odom, Samuel L.; Morin, Kristi L.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Tomaszewski, Brianne et al.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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