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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.
- 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.
- Succession Planning Activities at a Rural Public Health Department
- This article provides an overview of a qualitative case study utilizing interviews and evaluation of publically-available documents to investigate the process of succession planning in a moderately-sized public health office located in a metropolitan community in a frontier-rural state.
- (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.
- “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.
- Coherent District Reform: A Case Study of Two California School Districts
- This article argues that whole district reform is possible in ways that increased student achievement results on standardized tests across two districts.
- 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.
- Learning in 140 Characters: English Teachers’ Educational Uses of Twitter
- This article describes results from a survey of 109 English teachers describing their frequent and versatile uses of Twitter.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Validation of the Physical Education Teacher's Efficacy for Standards-Based Instruction (ESBI) Scale
- This article studies the validity and reliability of the Efficacy for Standards-Based Instruction (ESBI) scale, developed by the current investigators, and to compare the ESBI with two other self-efficacy scales that had been used in physical education.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).