Browsing College of Education and Human Development Faculty Research by Issue Date
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Productivity Apps Supporting Higher Order Writing Skills for Secondary Students With Learning Disabilities
(Intervention in School and Clinic;Vol. 53; Issue 5, 2017-11-22)Students with learning disabilities tend to focus on lower-level elements of writing, leading them to compose poorly organized paragraphs comprised of strings of linear ideas. Deficits in language and working memory ... -
The Embodiment of Thought and Language when Performing a College Essay Revision
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 3, 2018) -
They Choose to Attend Academic Summer Camps? A Mixed Methods Study Exploring the Impact of a NASA Academic Summer Pre-Engineering Camp On Middle School Students in a Latino Community
(Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER);Volume 8, Issue 2, 2018)Early exposure to engineering and mathematics career opportunities has been indicated to influence students’ decisions regarding their academic majors and career goals. This study utilized mixed methods to analyze how ... -
Children Transitioning from Oral to Written Argumentation: Signaling Meaning through Punctuation in Writing Part II
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 4, 2018-06-12) -
The Influence of Early STEM Career Exploration as Related to Motivation and Self-determination Theory
(2018-06-23)A science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) summer intervention program is the setting for a career-exploration research study with over 30 adolescent students in a low-income community. Using motivation and ... -
The Use of Peer Teaching Quality Managers to Improve Student Learning in a Construction Project Management Course
(2018-06-23)The objective of this study was to measure the impact of a special form of peer-teaching that utilizes a group of students as peer teachers for another larger group of students enrolled in the same Construction Project ... -
Teachers’ Engineering Design Self-Efficacy Changes Influenced by Boundary Objects and Cross-Disciplinary Interactions
(2018-06-23)As part of a larger ongoing NSF-REE-funded project focused on postsecondary maker identity within a university makerspace context, this paper reports on ten in-/pre-service teachers’ engineering design self-efficacy changes ... -
The Vocabulary-Comprehension Relationship across the Disciplines: Implications for Instruction
(2018-07-17)The main purpose of vocabulary instruction is to enhance and support reading comprehension. This goal spans across the grade levels and different disciplines and is supported by a plethora of research. In recent years, a ... -
Borderland Language Conflicts: A Study of Cross-National Interactions and Cultural Resolutions
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Understanding Identity and Context in the Development of Gay Teacher Identity: Perceptions and Realities in Teacher Education and Teaching
(2019-06-18)The way a teacher perceives relational justice—the feeling of being treated equitably and being included—in their work context is central to understanding the negotiation and enactment of teacher identity. For LGBTQ ... -
Metro and Non-Metro Variation in Postsecondary Enrollment: The Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Residential Location in Texas
(2020)This study used a spatial approach to explore metropolitan and nonmetropolitan variation of college enrollment at the interplay of place and race within the state of Texas. Analyzing Integrated Public Use Microdata Series ... -
Service Animals in PreK-12 Schools: Legal and Policy Implications for School Leaders
(NASSP Bulletin;104(3), 2020-05-19)Despite increasing animal prevalence in public spaces, few districts have proactively developed policies to integrate assistance, therapy, service, and emotional support animals that are both legally sound and support the ... -
Engineering Outreach: Ambassador Girls Empowering Girls in the Field
(2020-06-22)The EngineerGirl Ambassadors program is designed to recognize, support, and promote high school girls who intend to give back to their community through youth outreach activities. In its second year, the program is an ... -
Spatial Visualization Skills Training at Texas State University to Enhance STEM Students' Academic Success
(2020-06-22)A diagnostic of thirty questions administered to incoming STEM students in Fall 2013 and Fall 2015 - Fall 2018 reflects that their spatial visualization skills (SVS) need to be improved. Previous studies in the SVS subject ... -
Clinic-Based Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Caregivers Adaptive Skill Interventions for Children with Autism
(Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders;Volume 4 (295-307), 2020-06-30)Objectives Behavioral skills training (BST) with video-based feedback may be an effective means of preparing caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to implement behavioral interventions for adaptive ... -
Autohistoria: Traversing through Time and Space to Explore Identity, Consciousness, Positionality, and Power
(2020-08-17)How do our own cultural-historical experiences in geographic spaces like the border(s) we occupy shape our identities, consciousness, positionality, and power? Using the autohistoria-teoria methodology, the intent of this ... -
Stories of a caregiver: “Chuy” the Blesser
(On the Move;Volume 14, Issue 1, 2020-12)In a writer’s workshop setting, military caregivers describe how they protect and serve their families and others as blessers and mentors, after experiencing the catastrophic physical, emotional, or mental loss of a loved ... -
Design and Development of Augmented Reality Engineering Expeditions - Innovations in Online Engineering Education
(2021-03-24)This paper presents a framework for the design of augmented reality expeditions in engineering education settings to motivate student learning of engineering fundamentals and careers. The impact of social distancing has ... -
Implementing Asynchronous Instructional Materials for Students With Learning Disabilities
(Intervention in School and Clinic;Vol. 57, No. 2, 2021-04-26)A core component or modern education is the provision of online instruction. Across K-12, postsecondary, and ongoing professional learning, online instruction is growing in use and popularity. This increased utilization ... -
Comprehensive Assessment of a Project Based Learning Application in a Project Management Course
(International Journal of Instruction;Vol. 14, No. 3, 2021-05-22)The focus of this study is to implement multiple assessment methods in order to comprehensively assess the impact of a Project Based Learning (PrBL) application in construction project management course. The assessment ...