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Keep it Local: Retain More Teachers of Color By Helping Them Work Close to Where They Grew Up (open access)

Keep it Local: Retain More Teachers of Color By Helping Them Work Close to Where They Grew Up

Policy brief sharing results from a study that looked at how new teacher retention patterns are predicted by the distance between the high school the teacher graduated from and the school where they were first employed.
Date: September 6, 2023
Creator: Edwards, Wesley L.; Kirksey, Jacob J.; Burden, Kafarra Q. L. & Miller, Alexis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher-Principal Ethnoracial Matching Keeps New Teachers in their Classrooms (open access)

Teacher-Principal Ethnoracial Matching Keeps New Teachers in their Classrooms

Policy brief sharing research for the potential for teacher-principal ethnoracial matching to improve outcomes such as teacher satisfaction and retention rates.
Date: September 6, 2023
Creator: Edwards, Wesley L.; Anderson, Cornelius Q.; Miller, Alexis & Burden, Kafarra Q. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Project Communicate (open access)

Project Communicate

Data management plan for the grant, "Project Communicate." The purpose of Project Communicate is to professionally prepare 27 special education teachers and 10 speech-language pathologists, including scholars from ethnically and racially diverse backgrounds, to be highly-qualified to demonstrate skills in promoting high expectations to improve student outcomes, providing individualized evidence-based practices for students with autism spectrum disorder, and providing culturally and linguistically responsive instruction. Scholars will participate in a master’s degree program in Special Education (Autism Intervention) or Speech-Language Pathology designed to include coursework, integrated and embedded supervised field experiences, and other professional development opportunities for developing knowledge and skills for working with students with ASD in school-based settings.
Date: 2022-09-01/2027-08-31
Creator: Boesch, Miriam C.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability (open access)

Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability

Article discusses how quality of life and physical activity relate to each other in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. The authors use Fitbit activity trackers to find connections between physical activity and quality of life of their sample group of autistic adults.
Date: September 13, 2021
Creator: Tomaszewski, Brianne; Savage, Melissa N. & Hume, Kara
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones (open access)

Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones

This article extends previous studies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)'s measure of residents' training progress to examine the validity of ACGME International competency measures for an international setting across emergency medicine (EM) and neurology, and across evaluators.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Batley, Nicholas J.; Bakhti, Rinad & El-Doueihi, Philippe Z.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates (open access)

Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates

This article uses a reliability generalization meta-analysis to explore the relationship between study factors and levels of alpha reliability for the 15 subscales of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ).
Date: September 26, 2018
Creator: Holland, David F.; Kraha, Amanda; Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Nimon, Kim F.; Fulmore, Julia A.; Johnson, Ursula Y. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unequal Higher Education in the United States: Growing Participation and Shrinking Opportunities (open access)

Unequal Higher Education in the United States: Growing Participation and Shrinking Opportunities

This article argues that rising institutional inequality is a component of individual-level inequality in the United States because U.S. higher education provides a diverse group of students with unequal access to different kinds of institutions.
Date: September 18, 2018
Creator: Taylor, Barrett J. & Cantwell, Brendan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding the Interdisciplinary Discipline: An Introduction to Sport Management (open access)

Understanding the Interdisciplinary Discipline: An Introduction to Sport Management

This editorial introduces the sport management discipline.
Date: September 2017
Creator: Nite, Calvin & Bernard, Natalie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bayesian Prior Choice in IRT Estimation Using MCMC and Variational Bayes (open access)

Bayesian Prior Choice in IRT Estimation Using MCMC and Variational Bayes

This study investigates the impact of three prior distributions: matched, standard vague, and hierarchical in Bayesian estimation parameter recovery in two and one parameter models.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Nandakumar, Ratna; Minka, Tom & Rubright, Jonathan D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators (open access)

Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators

This article reviews literature on videoconferencing for global citizenship education and analyzes those efforts towards cosmopolitan citizenship.
Date: September 2016
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Carano, Kenneth T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drama: A Comparative Analysis of Individual Narratives (open access)

Drama: A Comparative Analysis of Individual Narratives

This article contains a narrative that explores how a selected group of educators made meaning of their experiences teaching college courses in prison.
Date: September 1, 2009
Creator: Spaulding, Susanna Belle; Banning, James; Harbour, Clifford P. & Davies, Timothy Gray
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Incremental Marketization and Centralization of State Control of Public Higher Education: A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Legislative and Administrative Texts (open access)

The Incremental Marketization and Centralization of State Control of Public Higher Education: A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Legislative and Administrative Texts

This article reports on an analysis and interpretation of institutional accountability legislation enacted by the Colorado General Assembly from 1985 to 2005.
Date: September 1, 2006
Creator: Harbour, Clifford P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
EXERT and TEAM21: Partnerships for Professional Development (open access)

EXERT and TEAM21: Partnerships for Professional Development

This article discusses the process of developing professional development programs for educational leadership in response to the 1984 Texas Education Reform Bill, also known as House Bill 72.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Adkison, Judith A.; Camp, William E. & Meeks, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library