Technology in Secondary Career and Technical Education: Issues for the New Millennium (open access)

Technology in Secondary Career and Technical Education: Issues for the New Millennium

Article discussing the use of technology in the secondary career and technical education classroom and the number of issues concerned with efficacy of career and technical education.
Date: 1999
Creator: Allen, Jeff M.; Walker, Michelle & Morehead, Connie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Fixed Effects Panel Data Model: Mathematics Achievement in the U.S. (open access)

A Fixed Effects Panel Data Model: Mathematics Achievement in the U.S.

Article discussing a study on a fixed effects panel data model and mathematics achievement in the United States.
Date: 2000
Creator: Sherron, Todd & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Management and Employee Job Satisfaction (open access)

Analysis of Management and Employee Job Satisfaction

Article on an analysis of management and employee job satisfaction for gender, age group, length of time with the organization, and between management and non-management employees.
Date: 2004
Creator: Andrews, Charles G. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applying Technology to Online Counseling: Suggestions for the Beginning E-Therapist (open access)

Applying Technology to Online Counseling: Suggestions for the Beginning E-Therapist

Article discussing research on applying technology to online counseling and suggestions for the beginning e-therapist.
Date: 2004
Creator: Elleven, Russell K. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leadership in Career and Technical Education: Beginning the 21st Century (open access)

Leadership in Career and Technical Education: Beginning the 21st Century

Leadership in Career and Technical Education: Beginning the 21st Century is the third edited book published by the University Council of Workforce and Human Resource Education (UCWHRE), formerly the University Council of Vocational Education (UCVE). The previous books, Beyond Tradition: Preparing the Teachers of Tomorrow's Workforce (Hartley & Wentling, 1996) and Beyond Tradition: Preparing Human Resource Development Educators for Tomorrow's Workforce (Stewart & Hall, 1998) reported trends in their respective fields and also addressed issues that are perennial to workforce education. This publication is somewhat different in that it represents a collaborative effort among members of the UCWHRE, the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education and the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education. This collaboration symbolizes efforts to link theory and research to practice and practice to theory and research.
Date: 2005
Creator: Gregson, James A. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retrospective Pretest: A Practical Technique for Professional Development Evaluation (open access)

Retrospective Pretest: A Practical Technique for Professional Development Evaluation

Article discussing a research study to field test an instrument incorporating a retrospective pretest to determine whether it could reliably be used as an evaluation tool for a professional development conference.
Date: 2007
Creator: Allen, Jeff M. & Nimon, Kim F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Training Employees With Disabilities: Strategies from Corporate Training (open access)

Training Employees With Disabilities: Strategies from Corporate Training

Article discussing strategies used by corporate trainers to effectively teach populations with disabilities in their corporate workplace.
Date: 1996
Creator: Allen, Jeff M. & Walker, Michelle
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strategic Planning of Technology for Education: A Beginning Framework (open access)

Strategic Planning of Technology for Education: A Beginning Framework

Article discussing strategic planning of technology for education and a beginning framework for future technology implementation in school districts.
Date: 1996
Creator: Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educators', Administrators' and Students' Perceptions of Principles of Technology Programs in Pennsylvania (open access)

Educators', Administrators' and Students' Perceptions of Principles of Technology Programs in Pennsylvania

This study assesses the Principles of Technology Applied Science high school courses taught in Pennsylvania.
Date: 1998
Creator: Chinoda, Michelle D. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Assignment Completion in Academically Diverse Vocational Classes (open access)

Enhancing Assignment Completion in Academically Diverse Vocational Classes

Article on enhancing assignment completion in academically diverse vocational classes.
Date: 1998
Creator: Rademacher, Joyce A. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigating the Screwdriver: 25 Years of Technology Change (open access)

Investigating the Screwdriver: 25 Years of Technology Change

Article broadly discussing some of the technological changes in vocational education over the last 25 years, as well as strategies for implementation and planning in the new millennium.
Date: 1998
Creator: Allen, Jeff M. & Wircenski, Jerry L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education (open access)

The Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education

This issue of the Journal for Vocational Special Needs focuses on the aging process and its effects on society and the workforce. Aging is the one experience that we all have in common. Individuals are expected to live longer in the future. Many will undoubtedly work beyond the traditional retirement age. This means that the composition of workers will be a blend of people, both young and old.
Date: 1998
Creator: Allen, Jeff M.; Sarkees-Wircenski, Michelle & West, Lynda L.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills (open access)

Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills

This article examines the design elements of three virtual reality games for functionality and transferability to orientation and mobility education for visually impaired individuals.
Date: October 2018
Creator: Baker, Rose M.; Ramos, Karina & Turner, John
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging educational technologies: Tensions and synergy (open access)

Emerging educational technologies: Tensions and synergy

This article conducts a review of high level sources with regard to new and emerging technologies, including a critique using established principles pertaining to learning and instruction, and a recommended curriculum for advanced learning technologies
Date: November 4, 2013
Creator: Spector, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Bibliographic and Visual Exploration of the Historic Impact of Soft Systems Methodology on Academic Research and Theory (open access)

A Bibliographic and Visual Exploration of the Historic Impact of Soft Systems Methodology on Academic Research and Theory

This article produced descriptive narrative outcomes and data visualizations including information about top soft system methodology (SSM) authors, author citation impacts, common dissemination outlets for SSM work, and other relevant metrics commonly used to measure academic impact. The goal of this piece is to depict who, what, why, when, and where SSM had the greatest impact on research, systems thinking, and methodology after nearly 40 years of use, as we look towards its future as a methodological approach used to comprehend complex problem situations.
Date: December 12, 2018
Creator: Warren, Scott J.; Sauser, Brian & Nowicki, David
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using the mTSES to Evaluate and Optimize mLearning Professional Development (open access)

Using the mTSES to Evaluate and Optimize mLearning Professional Development

This article reports on the findings from the analysis of data collected using the Mobile Teacher's Sense of Efficacy Scale survey instrument, from an open course about mobile learning called Instructional Design for Mobile Learning that took place from May 4 through June 6, 2015.
Date: June 2016
Creator: Power, Robert; Cristol, Dean; Gimbert, Belinda; Bartoletti, Robin & Kilgore, Whitney
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conceptualizing the emerging field of smart learning environments (open access)

Conceptualizing the emerging field of smart learning environments

This article suggests that a convergence of advances and developments in epistemology, psychology, and technology provide a foundation for the planning and implementation of smart learning environments. It includes an approach for the evaluation of smart learning environments.
Date: October 16, 2014
Creator: Spector, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning and teaching as communicative actions: Improving historical knowledge and cognition through Second Life avatar role play (open access)

Learning and teaching as communicative actions: Improving historical knowledge and cognition through Second Life avatar role play

This article examines a higher education history course where virtual role play was implemented as an assignment.
Date: 2012
Creator: Wakefield, Jenny S.; Warren, Scott J.; Rankin, Monica A.; Mills, Leila A. & Gratch, Jonathan S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study (open access)

Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study

This article examines the design of a course that utilized the real-time information network Twitter to spark reflective thinking and communication based on classroom topics.
Date: 2011
Creator: Wakefield, Jenny S.; Warren, Scott J. & Alsobrook, Metta
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How does intrinsic and extrinsic motivation drive performance culture in organizations (open access)

How does intrinsic and extrinsic motivation drive performance culture in organizations

This article reviews literature on the subject of employee motivation to determine whether intrinsic or extrinsic motivation is becoming the driving force of business.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Turner, Arielle
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Longitudinal analysis of cognitive constructs fostered by STEM activities for middle school students (open access)

Longitudinal analysis of cognitive constructs fostered by STEM activities for middle school students

This article studies whether the changes found to occur pre- to post intervention in students' cognitive structures continued to persist two years later.
Date: June 2014
Creator: Christensen, Rhonda; Knezek, Gerald; Tyler-Wood, Tandra L. & Gibson, David C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multiteam systems in an agile environment: a realist systematic review (open access)

Multiteam systems in an agile environment: a realist systematic review

Article describes a collaborate study between University of North Texas and Toyota Connected focusing on how to structure and manage multiteam systems (MTSs).
Date: June 3, 2019
Creator: Turner, John; Thurlow, Nigel; Baker, Rose M.; Northcutt, David & Newman, Kelsey
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Turnover Intention of Career and Technical Education Health Science Teachers (open access)

Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Turnover Intention of Career and Technical Education Health Science Teachers

Article describes study which examines the relationships between job satisfaction, work engagement, and turnover intention of Career and Technical Education (CTE) health science teachers in the United States (US).
Date: December 19, 2019
Creator: Park, Kathleen A. & Johnson, Karen R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review (open access)

Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review

This article seeks to support researchers by concisely reviewing key statistical assumptions associated with substantive statistical tests across the general linear model. Additionally, the article reviews techniques to check for statistical assumptions and identifies remedies and problems if data do not meet the necessary assumptions.
Date: August 28, 2012
Creator: Nimon, Kim F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library