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A Proposal to Expand Doctoral Production in Sub-Saharan Africa (open access)

A Proposal to Expand Doctoral Production in Sub-Saharan Africa

Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses a proposal to sustainably expand doctoral production and retain more doctoral graduates in Africa in university service
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Baryamureeba, Venansius & Pifer, Marilyn
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Dakar Summit on Higher Education in Africa: Three Programmatic Responses

Presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This presentation discusses responses to the African Higher Education Summit organized by Senegal and held in Dakar in 2015.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Cutright, William Marcus
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reimagining the Funding of Higher Education in Uganda (open access)

Reimagining the Funding of Higher Education in Uganda

Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses reimagining the funding of higher education in Uganda.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Namalefe, Susan A.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Levelling the Playing Field: Human Capability Approach and Lived Realities for Sport and Gender in the West Indies (open access)

Levelling the Playing Field: Human Capability Approach and Lived Realities for Sport and Gender in the West Indies

This article applies the human capability approach (HCA) to explicitly investigate gender role attitudes from the perspective of boy and girl participants in sport for development and peace (SDP).
Date: April 2018
Creator: Zipp, Sarah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Longitudinal trajectories of physical activity in women using latent class growth analysis: The WIN Study (open access)

Longitudinal trajectories of physical activity in women using latent class growth analysis: The WIN Study

This article discusses a study to examine the longitudinal trajectories in objectively measured physical activity (PA), to identify unknown (i.e., latent) subgroups with distinct trajectories, and to examine the correlates of latent subgroups among community dwelling women.
Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Kim, Youngdeok; Kang, Minsoo; Tacón, Anna M. & Morrow, James R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychosocial predictors of physical activity and health-related quality of life among Shanghai working adults (open access)

Psychosocial predictors of physical activity and health-related quality of life among Shanghai working adults

This article investigates the psychosocial predictors of physical activity and quality of life (QOL) among Shanghai working adults. Stress and social support from friends were two important sources of self-efficacy, all of which facilitated more physical activity participation. Lower stress, higher social support, and more physical activity may directly increase QOL among Shanghai working adults.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Xiao, Yi; Wang, Hongying; Zhang, Tao & Ren, Xiaoling
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning in 140 Characters: English Teachers’ Educational Uses of Twitter (open access)

Learning in 140 Characters: English Teachers’ Educational Uses of Twitter

This article describes results from a survey of 109 English teachers describing their frequent and versatile uses of Twitter.
Date: April 2015
Creator: Carpenter, Jeffrey P. & Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Better Health-Related Fitness in Youth: Implications for Public Health Guidelines (open access)

Better Health-Related Fitness in Youth: Implications for Public Health Guidelines

This article discusses the upcoming 2018 update to public health physical activity guidelines.
Date: April 4, 2017
Creator: Barton, Mitch; Jackson, Allen W.; Martin, Scott B.; Morrow, James R.; Petrie, Trent A. & Greenleaf, Christy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by S.J. Trachtenberg, G.B. Kauvar, and E.G. Bogue (open access)

Book Review: Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by S.J. Trachtenberg, G.B. Kauvar, and E.G. Bogue

Book Review of "Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It" by S. J. Trachtenberg, G. B. Kauvar, and E. G. Bogue.
Date: April 1, 2015
Creator: Wear, Adam
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
RelacióN Entre Violencia De Pareja Y Estrés Parental en Población Mexicana (open access)

RelacióN Entre Violencia De Pareja Y Estrés Parental en Población Mexicana

This article explores the relationship between intimate Domestic Violence and Parental Stress in Mexican women.
Date: April 2016
Creator: Brito-Tinajero, Carlos Adrián; Delgadillo-Guzmán, Leonor Guadalupe & Nievar, Angela
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

International Perspectives Curriculum Project: EDAD 5680 Administration of the EC-12 Curriculum

Poster presented as part of the 2013 University Forum on Teaching & Learning. This poster discusses the international perspectives curriculum project. The project described in this poster was developed as part of the "Globalizing your Curriculum" Transformational Instructional Innovation (TII) Fellowship sponsored by the Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and redesign (CLEAR) and UNT - International.
Date: April 12, 2013
Creator: Stromberg, Linda
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Utilizing Emerging Technologies to Enhance Students' Engagement and Learning

This poster discusses using clickers to improve students' classroom engagement and gauge students' understanding of the course materials during lecture classes, introducing emerging technologies to improve students' learning experiences, and introducing exergames such as Wii Sports and Wii Fit to promote students' motivation and engagement.
Date: April 12, 2013
Creator: Zhang, Tao
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bringing Global and Multicultural Considerations into the Counseling Curriculum

Poster presented at the 2013 University Forum on Teaching & Learning at UNT. This poster describes the effectiveness of a peer co-constructed project involving multiple interviews. The interview data is compared, contrasted, and the similarities and differences are accounted for through the lens of lifespan development.
Date: April 12, 2013
Creator: Schulz, Lisa L.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library