Accomplishments: College of Education
Associate professor Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) recently published an article in the latest edition of Division for Early Childhood's Recommended Practices Monograph Series--Leadership: Leading From Where You Are. "Every Family is a Leader: How Professional-Family Partnership Empowers Family Leaders,"…
Catharine Lory (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) is the recipient of the 2024 Early Career Research Award presented by the Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD), which is part of the Council for Exceptional Children — the largest international professional organization dedicated to supporting the…
Manoj Sharma, Christopher Johansen, Sidath Kapukotuwa (all Social and Behavioral Health), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Bertille Assoumou (Surgery) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article titled, “Explaining the Correlates of Eating Outside-of-Home Behavior in a Nationally…
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) with co-authors Isaac Calvert, Spencer C. Weiler, Sterling Hilton (all BYU), Jason Kopanke (UNC), and Luke M. Cornelius (UNF) published "The Voice of Experience: A Multi-State Empirical Examination of Arming School District…
Katherine A. Feather, Heather Dahl-Jacinto (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), and Jessica A. Headley (Wellness Grove) published, "Counselors' Perceptions of Competencies in the Treatment of Children with Autism," in The Family Journal.
Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "Methodological considerations and assumptions in social science survey research" in the Journal of the British Academy. This paper focuses on measurement of constructs used in survey research, focusing on identity resilience, health behaviors, and trust in science.
Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article titled, "Effective vocabulary interventions for young emergent bilinguals: A best‐evidence synthesis," in Review of Education.
This best-evidence synthesis applied systematic study selection procedures and identified rigorously designed…
The 51ԹϺ Intercollegiate & Professional Sport Management (IPSM) program was selected as one out of 12 programs in the nation to compete in the 2024 National Sports Forum Case Cup Competition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on February 23-28. IPSM master's students Cheyne Sauceda (team captain), Meadow Eisenstein, Akash Prinja, and Roland…
Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) has been appointed by the Nevada Department of Education to serve on the advisory council to revise and modernize the Nevada State Literacy Plan (NSLP). The NSLP provides guidance and support to districts and charter schools by incorporating contemporary literacy best practices…
LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has authored the CEDER Yearbook, a peer-reviewed book of educational research published by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's College of Education and Human Development. It is indexed in Books in Print, EBSCO's Education Research Complete, and EBSCO's…
Postdoctoral scholar of Learning Analytics Sarah M. Wolff (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and fellow members of the research advisory board of the Pablove Foundation (a U.S. pediatric cancer nonprofit organization) recently published "A case study of charitable investment impact assessment" in The Journal of Philanthropy…
With colleagues from the UK (Imperial College, Bath University, Brighton University), Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "Psychological influences on COVID-19 preventive behaviours and vaccination engagement in the United Kingdom and the United States: the significance of ethnicity" in Journal of the…