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Using Peers Social Program to Promote Social Development for Individuals with Disabilities in an Inclusive Post-Secondary Program

Description: This poster uses the PEERS social program with adaptations and modifications to use the social model with diverse populations in different settings. It was presented at the UNT Research Day on October 4, 2024 in Denton, Texas.
Date: October 4, 2024
Creator: Kelly, Farwa & Lynd, Daphne
Partner: UNT College of Education
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The Shape of the Sieve: Which Components of the Admissions Application Matter Most in Particular Institutional Contexts

Description: This article asserts that admission to selective colleges has grown more competitive, yielding student bodies that are unrepresentative of the U. S. population. Using latent class analysis the authors identify three groupings of institutions based on the admission criteria they claim to value.
Date: March 6, 2024
Creator: Taylor, Barrett J.; Rosinger, Kelly & Ford, Karly S.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Attending to STEM education in servingness at Hispanic-serving institutions: a systematic review of more than a decade of scholarship

Description: This article conducted a systematic review of the research on STEM education within the HSI context. Through their systematic review of STEM education research at HSIs, the authors identified understudied components of servingness and gaps within this literature base.
Date: July 18, 2024
Creator: Ro, Hyun; Aguilar-Smith, Stephanie; Anderson, Shirley Yang; Rodriguez, Tricia; Ramon, Elizabeth J. & Javier, Damaris
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Designing to support equity-as-transformation perspectives for multilingual science learners

Description: This article examines how researchers and teachers in a multi-year professional development program shifted their conceptualizations of equity. The authors describe a professional development design initially intended to support equitable science teaching and learning by focusing on representations.
Date: July 18, 2024
Creator: Pierson, Ashlyn; Keifert, Danielle T.; Daniel, Bethany; Lee, Sarah; Jen, Tessaly; Bell, Adam et al.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Racialized Patterns in the Distribution of Congressional Pork: Implications for Postsecondary Equity and Organizational Transformation

Description: The authors of this article ask a question: To what extent does Congress distribute academic earmarks in ways that reinforce or weaken the racialized stratification of resources across organizations in the field? Additionally, they identify distribution patterns of academic earmarks, considering the allocation of dollars and types of earmarks (i.e., general capacity-building versus specialized grants) across colleges and universities, between White-serving institutions and minority-serving inst… more
Date: May 4, 2024
Creator: McCambly, Heather & Aguilar-Smith, Stephanie
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Black Girl Joy (Un) Interrupted: Recognizing and Nurturing Black Girls' Community-Building Capabilities in the Early Grades

Description: This article states that black girls’ schooling experiences and capabilities are understudied. This article builds on Black Girlhood frameworks and Engaged Pedagogy to center 11 Black girls in three Texas PreK classrooms. In a secondary analysis of video-data from two large-scale video-cued ethnographies, the authors documented their capabilities, versatility, and consistency in building community with their classmates for interdisciplinary knowledge-making and enjoyment.
Date: July 26, 2024
Creator: Jones, Natacha Ndabahgamye & Adair, Jennifer Keys
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Knowledge of development during pregnancy and the transition to parenthood: Psychometric properties of the Domains of Development Instrument

Description: The authors address the need for robust measurement tools for evaluating knowledge of child development to better support parents and their children during pregnancy and the transition to parenthood. They did this by evaluating the psychometric properties of the Domains of Development Instrument (DoDI) for measuring knowledge of developmental milestones from birth to 3 years.
Date: July 26, 2024
Creator: Gattis, Merideth; Truong, Quoc Cuong; Barber, Carol Cornsweet; Middlemiss, Wendy & Medvedev, Oleg N.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Bringing them back: using latent class analysis to re-engage college stop-outs

Description: This article applied latent class analysis (LCA) to explore subgroups of seniors who have stopped out of a public four-year Tier One Research institution before graduating with a four-year degree. The article's results demonstrate how an LCA can assist institutions in the decision around intervention strategies and resources allocations.
Date: January 28, 2024
Creator: West, Cassandra Lynn; Chen, Qi & Boika, Nduka
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Culturally responsive leadership: a critical analysis of one school district's five-year plan

Description: This article engages in a critical analysis of one large urban school district's 5-year plan that aims to be culturally responsive and equity focused. The authors argue that culturally responsive leadership is not enough on its own and needs more than the commitment of principals to reach its maximum potential. The authors provide recommendations on what needs to happen to make culturally responsive schooling a reality for students and their communities.
Date: April 5, 2024
Creator: Mansfield, Katherine Cumings & Lambrinou, Marina
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Effective Principal Leadership Behaviors That Enhance Teacher Collective Efficacy

Description: This article is a qualitative case study that explores teachers' perceptions regarding the impact of principal leadership behaviors that helped to enhance teacher collective efficacy (TCE). The findings of this case study suggest that site and district leaders should focus on these four leadership behaviors to enhance TCE.
Date: April 20, 2024
Creator: Voelkel Jr., Robert H.; Prusak, Kyla J. & Van Tassell, Frances S.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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"The House Is on Fire": a Critical Analysis of Anti-CRT Bans and Faculty Experiences

Description: This article asserts that in these current sociopolitical times, educators and faculty are navigating unprecedented experiences of racism as they teach and research critical race theory. The authors examined 40 faculty experiences challenging legislation at a national, state, and institutional level.
Date: March 29, 2024
Creator: Briscoe, Kaleb L. & Jones, Veronica A.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Do Mathematics and Reading Skills Impact Student Science Outcomes?

Description: This article explored whether students' initial mathematics and reading skills influenced their treatment response to a whole-class, second-grade science program called Scientific Explorers (Sci2). The findings suggest Sci2 produced robust effects for all students (g = 0.24–1.23), regardless of initial skill proficiencies. Implications for exploring differential response in science intervention research are discussed.
Date: July 26, 2024
Creator: Doabler, Christian T.; Rojo, Megan; Gersib, Jenna A.; Fall, Anna-Maria; Longhi, Maria A.; Lovette, Gail E. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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"I Never Explicitly Brought That Up to My Mentor": Early Career Teachers of Color Navigating Whiteness With White Mentors in a University-Based Induction Program

Description: This article examines how three early career teachers of color (TOC) experienced mentoring with white mentors in a university-based induction program within a large urban school district. the authors found a cross-racial pairs privileged whiteness by pursuing "success" through standardized teaching methods while also avoiding discussions about race, leaving little space or reason to address the overt forms of racism mentees experienced during their first year of teaching.
Date: April 12, 2024
Creator: Daly, Annie; Vlach, Saba Khan; Tily, Susan; Murdter-Atkinson, Jessi & Maloch, Beth
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Approaches for Quantifying the ICC in Multilevel Logistic Models: A Didactic Demonstration

Description: This article asserts that multilevel modeling techniques have gained traction among experimental psychologists for their ability to account for dependencies in nested data structures. In this tutorial, the authors review four techniques for estimating and quantifying the relative degree of between-person variability in logistic multilevel models in an accessible manner using real data.
Date: March 14, 2024
Creator: Devine, Sean; Uanhoro, James O.; Otto, A. Ross & Flake, Jessica K.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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"This isn't school, you know": Designing for science teachers' sensemaking of STEM ecosystems

Description: This article examines how teachers came to understand STEM ecosystems as a means for supporting youth interest and learning in STEM and their role as educators within STEM ecosystems that include but extend beyond classroom practice. Implications for professional learning design for in-service science teachers to work toward providing more cohesive STEM learning experiences for youth are discussed.
Date: July 5, 2024
Creator: Porter, Sara C. & Allen, Carrie D.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Respiratory modulation of sympathetic transduction to blood pressure in health and type 2 diabetes

Description: This article asserts that type 2 diabetes (T2D) is often accompanied by hypertension, exaggerated blood pressure (BP) responses to sympatho-excitatory stressors, and raised cardiovascular disease risk. The authors tested the hypotheses that respiratory modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and its transduction to BP would be impaired in T2D and associated with higher BP and respiratory-coupled BP variability.
Date: July 29, 2024
Creator: Plunkett, Michael J.; Holwerda, Seth; Young, Benjamin E.; Fadel, Paul J. & Fisher, James P.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Cerebrovascular carbon dioxide reactivity is intact in chronic kidney disease

Description: This article asserts that Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is associated with a substantially elevated risk of stroke. The authors hypothesized that CKD patients would exhibit impaired carbon dioxide reactivity compared to a control group (CON) matched for age, hypertension, and diabetes status.
Date: May 21, 2024
Creator: Sprick, Justin D.; Sabino-Carvalho, Jeann; Mekonnen, Elsa; McGranahan, Melissa; Zanuzzi, Matias; DaCosta, Dana et al.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Performance and Perception of Creativity and Academic Achievement in Elementary School Students: A Normal Mixture Modeling Study

Description: The present study aimed to identify latent subgroups of students based on their observed originality, creative self-efficacy, teacher-rated originality, academic achievement in reading and mathematics, and demographic background characteristics. The authors applied the normal mixture technique to classify participants into latent subgroups. Five latent subgroups of students were identified: Overconfident Low Performers, Creative High Achievers, Under-Confident Below-Average Achievers, Mathemati… more
Date: May 6, 2024
Creator: Scherbakova, Alisa; Dumas, Denis; Acar, Selcuk; Berthiaume, Kelly & Organisciak, Peter
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Association between help-seeking and motivation for completing a couple relationship education program across service modality

Description: The authors assert that levels of motivation and help-seeking impact the effectiveness of couple relationship education (CRE), as those with greater help-seeking and motivation are more likely to attend more sessions and remain engaged. The current study aims to examine (a) the effect of couples' self-stigma for help-seeking on their own or partner's motivation to complete the relationship education program and (b) whether the effects differ between service modality (i.e., online and in-person). more
Date: July 27, 2024
Creator: Hodge, Violet; Gao, Ruiqin; Carlson, Ryan G.; Barden, Sejal M. & Taylor, Dalena Dillman
Partner: UNT College of Education
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"I Gave it All, Who Gave it to Me?" A Qualitative Study of Challenges Experienced by Faculty During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Description: The authors carried out a phenomenological study and invited faculty to gaze back at consequential difficulties they encountered in navigating the arduous pandemic period. The findings revealed the pandemic amplified some issues deeply entrenched in the higher education.
Date: March 12, 2024
Creator: Xiao, He; Silva, Supuni Dhameera & Keifert, Danielle T.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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