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The Hands That Keep History: Black and Mexican Women’s Archival and Epistemological Legacies

Description: Article explores the archival practices and ways of knowing developed by ordinary Black and Mexican women, highlighting how their personal collections, stories, and experiences preserve knowledge often excluded from mainstream historical records. The study challenges traditional definitions of archives by validating women of Color as creators of historical knowledge and offers insights for educators seeking to incorporate Black and Chicana/Latina histories into social justice-oriented teaching.
Date: June 6, 2025
Creator: Patrón-Vargas, Jasmin & Hall, Delandrea
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Using the Rise and Fall of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation Post-Exercise to Evaluate the Effect of Methylsulfonylmethane Supplementation on Immune Response mRNA

Description: Article examines the effects of methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) supplementation on immune response-related gene expression following prolonged aerobic exercise in experienced runners. The study finds that low-dose MSM supplementation alters the expression of genes involved in inflammation, immune cell activity, tissue recovery, and oxidative stress, suggesting potential benefits for exercise recovery and immune function.
Date: May 23, 2025
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Curtis, John H. & Preez, Heidi N. du
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Examining Instructional Strategies and Engagement in Supporting Twice-Exceptional Learners: The Role of Teacher-Instructional Leadership Collaboration

Description: Paper outlining the development of a research study to explore the role of teachers supporting twice-exceptional learners. It was presented at the Graduate Student Roundtable: Beyond the Labels: Special Populations event at the 2025 University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Convention held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Date: November 21, 2025
Creator: Gopal, Rajni
Partner: UNT College of Education

Special Populations Twice-Exceptionality

Description: Presentation outlining the development of a research study to explore the role of teachers supporting twice-exceptional learners. It was presented at the Graduate Student Roundtable: Beyond the Labels: Special Populations event at the 2025 University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Convention held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Date: November 21, 2025
Creator: Gopal, Rajni
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Conjecture Mapping an Integrated steM Camp to Support Middle School Students’ STEM Identity and STEM Interest

Description: Article examines an integrated STEM camp designed using conjecture mapping to understand how specific program features shape mediating processes and ultimately influence middle school students’ STEM identity, interest in STEM careers, and engagement with environmental issues. Findings show that most design elements effectively supported the intended learning mechanisms, leading to measurable gains in students’ STEM‑related outcomes and offering insights and recommendations for improving future … more
Date: January 28, 2025
Creator: Kudaisi, Queshonda J. & Leonas-Cabrera, Michael J.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Money Isn’t Free: A Systematic Content Analysis of Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges Title V Awardees Proposals

Description: Article analyzes 400 Title V proposal abstracts from Hispanic‑serving community colleges and finds that, although applicants often ground their projects in local community needs, many proposals remain race‑evasive even as recent submissions increasingly invoke the language of “servingness.” The findings suggest that federal competitive preference priorities and race‑neutral evaluation criteria may limit HSCCs’ ability to advance intentional servingness, underscoring the need to reform the progr… more
Date: March 18, 2025
Creator: Doran, Erin & Aguilar-Smith, Stephanie
Partner: UNT College of Education
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A Review of Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Description: Article synthesizes empirical research and clinical literature on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), examining its theoretical foundations, core treatment components, and evidence base across diverse populations, including adaptations such as DBT‑A and DBT STEPS‑A. Findings highlight DBT’s effectiveness across multiple mental health conditions while underscoring the need for culturally responsive protocols, accessible delivery models, and supportive policies to expand equitable implementation … more
Date: September 9, 2025
Creator: Ahmadi, Aazi & Gerthe, Jessica
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Impact of long-haul airline travel on athletic performance and recovery: A critical review of the literature

Description: Article reviews evidence on how transmeridian travel disrupts circadian rhythms in athletes, summarizing the time course of resynchronization and the variability in jet‑lag responses across different travel and testing conditions. Article highlights that performance outcomes depend on factors such as travel direction, number of time zones crossed, testing timing, and individual or team characteristics, underscoring the complexity of assessing jet‑lag effects in athletic populations.
Date: March 23, 2025
Creator: Botonis, Petros G.; Hill, David W. & Mündel, Toby
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Teacher Turnover Factors and School-Level Influences: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature

Description: Article synthesizes findings from 85 quantitative studies published between 1994 and 2024 to identify the most influential factors driving teacher turnover across diverse educational contexts. Article reveals that leadership quality, teacher experience, student characteristics, school level, and teacher ethnicity consistently predict turnover, supporting an expanded conceptual framework that integrates personal, workplace, and job‑related factors.
Date: February 10, 2025
Creator: Farahmandpour, Zohreh & Voelkel, Robert
Partner: UNT College of Education
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The Influence of Unplugged LEGO Activities on Middle Grades Students’ Computational Thinking Dispositions in a STEM Camp

Description: Article examines how middle‑grade students engaged in computational thinking dispositions during unplugged LEGO activities in a STEM camp, using case‑study methods with observational notes and participant reflections. Article finds that structured LEGO tasks foster persistence but not tolerance for ambiguity, while semi‑structured tasks support ambiguity tolerance but not persistence, with both formats promoting collaboration—offering practical guidance for educators designing unplugged activit… more
Date: January 23, 2025
Creator: Kudaisi, Queshonda J.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Understanding Science Teacher Learning as Situated in Organizational Contexts: Introduction to the Special Issue

Description: Article explores how organizational contexts shape science teacher learning, moving beyond individual traits to examine the complex sociocultural and institutional factors influencing classroom practice. The included studies highlight teachers as active, agentive learners and offer new insights into collaborative, context-aware approaches for supporting professional development within educational systems.
Date: January 31, 2025
Creator: Hayes, Kathryn N. & Allen, Carrie D.
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Affirming children’s dignity in their affective flow in play-based science inquiry

Description: Article examines the role of affect in children’s sensemaking within a play-based mixed-reality science learning environment, emphasizing how emotions and experiences contribute to scientific inquiry. The findings highlight the importance of pedagogical practices that recognize and build on children’s affective resources, promoting their identities as capable and valued science learners.
Date: February 17, 2025
Creator: Lee, Christine; Jen, Tessaly; Lee, Sarah; Keifert, D. Teo & Enyedy, Noel
Partner: UNT College of Education

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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