ISLE Research Publications: Recent submissions
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Factors influencing STEM career aspirations of underrepresented high school students
(Wiley, 2018-09-05)A shortage of female and minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers has prompted researchers and policy makers to examine the current STEM supply pipeline. This study examined ... -
Comparing iPadA (R) and paper assessments for children with ASD: an initial study
(SAGE Publications, 2019-05)iPadA (R) and paper versions of a receptive vocabulary assessment were administered to 4- to 6-year olds with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). No differences were found between scores on the two assessments. ... -
Influence of Collaborative Reasoning discussions on metadiscourse in children's essays
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 3/9/2016)Metadiscourse has been conceptualized as a means to organize discourse, convey interpersonal and evaluative meanings, as well as engage the reader or listener. Importantly, metadiscourse has been theorized to uncover thought ... -
Attitudes toward seeking professional counseling services among Chinese international students: acculturation, ethnic identity, and English proficiency
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2016-01)The authors examined the help-seeking attitudes of 109 Chinese international students studying in the United States. Results revealed that significant relationships exist among acculturation, ethnic identity, English ... -
Response to Tracy's under the "big tent": establishing universal criteria for evaluating qualitative research
(Sage Publ, 2013-11)In this paper, we consider Tracy's proposal for universal criteria to judge the goodness of qualitative studies, and we explore her criteria by applying them to our own work. As a test of Tracy's claim to universality, we ... -
Chapter 8 -- Teaching educational psychology in cross-disciplinary courses a case study of teaching engineering graduate students
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Chapter 22 -- Emotion during reading and writing
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)For more than a decade, there has been growing interest and research on the pivotal role of emotions in educational settings. This ground-breaking handbook is the first to highlight this emerging field of research and to ... -
Chapter 2 -- Scholarship of discovery: exploring cross-cultural counseling deep in the heart of counselor education
(Information Age Publishing, 2015-04-01)Exploring cross-cultural counseling deep in the heart of counselor education. -
School counselors' ways of knowing and social orientation in relationship to poverty beliefs
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015-07)The beliefs about poverty, ways of knowing, and social relationship orientation of 513 American School Counselor Association members were evaluated using canonical correlation analysis. Results indicated a relationship ... -
Evolution, not revolution: school psychologists' changing practices in determining specific learning disabilities
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-04)The profession of school psychology has been impacted by the response to intervention (RTI) model in various ways. RTI data are being used to make decisions regarding academic and behavioral interventions and to make ... -
Journey to Solla Sollew: Teacher candidates, resiliency, and children's literature
(Association of Teacher Educators – Kansas, 2013)Today's elementary student must learn coping strategies in order to deal with life's challenges-social, emotional, and academic-in his or her changing world. To foster the development of such learning, teacher preparation ... -
Epistemological and learning beliefs of trainee teachers studying education
(University of Murcia, 2012-05)Educational reforms have brought about transformations about the ways in which teaching and learning are carried out. Learning is contextualized and learning means how we learn. This is directly related to Education student ... -
Struggling international students in the United States: do university faculty know how to help?
(The Education Research Unit of The Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2015-05)This study explores university faculty members' perspectives on the strengths and challenges of international students in the United States, as well as their own challenges in teaching international students. It also ... -
A longitudinal study of preschool children's (Homo sapiens) sex segregation
(American Psychological Association, 2010-05)In this 2-year longitudinal study, we hypothesized that sex of the human child (Homo sapiens), differences in physical activity, and time of the year would interact to influence preschool children's sex segregation. We ... -
Adults' and children's monitoring of story events in the service of comprehension
(Springer (New York), 2011-08)When reading narratives, adults monitor shifts in time, space, characters, goals, and causation. Shifts in any of these dimensions affect both moment-by-moment reading and memory organization. The extant developmental ... -
Depending on my mood: mood-driven influences on text comprehension
(American Psychological Association, 2011-08)Reading comprehension is a critical component of success in educational settings. To date, research on text processing in educational and cognitive psychological domains has focused predominantly on cognitive influences ... -
Falsification, annual targets, and errant leadership: media portrayal of the Atlanta test-cheating scandal
(SAGE Publications, 2015-11)This analysis of the Atlanta test-cheating scandal differs markedly from the version reported in the press. Using discourse analysis, I examined over 50 articles published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), the ... -
Bias in learning disabilities placement
(Ammons Scientific, 1993-06)A nationally representative sample of 20,614 eighth grade students was examined for bias in placement decisions for children said to have learning disabilities. Factors investigated for bias were race, sex, and socioeconomic ... -
Learning disabilities and learned helplessness: a heuristic approach
(Informa Healthcare, 1996-02)This study investigated whether students with learning disabilities exhibited learned helpless behavior at a greater rate than their normal achieving peers when confronted with reading failure. Forty-five third grade ... -
A phonologically based analysis of misspellings by third graders with disordered-phonology histories
(American Speech - Language - Hearing Association, 1995-08)Misspellings evidenced in written responses of third graders during administration of a battery containing 25 true words and 20 nonsense syllable items were analyzed phonologically. Children with histories of disordered ...