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Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas

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This book chapter focuses on the use of ereaders as a learning tool to motivate and engage students, support content learning, and promote literacy development across content areas.
Date: 2015
Creator: Fang, Zhihui; Eutsler, Lauren; Coatoam Chapman, Suzanne & Qi, Yang
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas (open access)

Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas

This article explores the intercultural movements toward social justice in education in the Americas, most particularly, North America, and how U.S. multicultural movements and policies influence countries like Brazil.
Date: March 2, 2011
Creator: Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth & Auxiliadora Lima Dias da Silva, Maria
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who says I don’t want to come to school? School policies disenfranchise American Indian youth’s educational vision (open access)

Who says I don’t want to come to school? School policies disenfranchise American Indian youth’s educational vision

This article focuses on the importance of contextualizing school policies by illuminating how one school rule, In-School-Suspension (ISS) disengages students from the learning process.
Date: 2009
Creator: Quijada, Patricia D. & Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: On Rereading (open access)

Book Review: On Rereading

Book review of "On Rereading" by Patricia Meyer Spacks.
Date: 2014
Creator: Eutsler, Lauren
Object Type: Review
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
The Philosopher and the Lecturer: John Dewey, Everett Dean Martin, and Reflective Thinking (open access)

The Philosopher and the Lecturer: John Dewey, Everett Dean Martin, and Reflective Thinking

This article examines the connection between John Dewey and Everett Dean Martin and explains why Martin's views may have resonated with Dewey and how they shared critical values pertaining to adult education.
Date: June 24, 2013
Creator: Day, Michael & Harbour, Clifford P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Counterstories about Leadership: A Latina School Principal’s Experience from a Less Documented View in an Urban School Context (open access)

Counterstories about Leadership: A Latina School Principal’s Experience from a Less Documented View in an Urban School Context

This article highlights one Latina school leader in the National Latina/o Leadership Study and her experiences developing a professional and racial identity within urban school contexts.
Date: February 25, 2016
Creator: Hernandez, Frank & Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leading with Heart: Urban Elementary Principals as Advocates for Students (open access)

Leading with Heart: Urban Elementary Principals as Advocates for Students

This article explores how urban elementary school principals reconcile the challenges of educational accountability within the constraints of standardized testing policies required by the No Child Left Behind Act.
Date: April 2009
Creator: Rodriguez, Mariela A.; Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth & Ruff, William G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The PRO Program: One District's Experience with Decentralizing Staff Development (open access)

The PRO Program: One District's Experience with Decentralizing Staff Development

This article examines one district's staff development plan that has successfully engaged teachers and administrators in designing and implementing relevant programs that make a positive difference for schools and students.
Date: April 1, 2000
Creator: Huffman, Jane B.; Caldwell, Dottie & Taber, Katherine L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement Invariance of a Classroom Engagement Measure among Academically At-Risk Students (open access)

Measurement Invariance of a Classroom Engagement Measure among Academically At-Risk Students

This article investigates the measurement invariance of a classroom engagement measure across time points, genders, and ethnicities using a sample of 523 academically at-risk students across grades 7 through 9.
Date: January 12, 2018
Creator: Glaman, Ryan & Chen, Qi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
MyStory: Scary Head... (open access)

MyStory: Scary Head...

This article consists of a critical autoethnographic study of the writer's personal experience, specifically detailing experiences while wearing a headscarf in academic and social environments.
Date: December 25, 2017
Creator: Soyer, Gonca & Soyer, Mehmet
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Faith in Chapter 13: A New Wild Card for Bankruptcy (open access)

Good Faith in Chapter 13: A New Wild Card for Bankruptcy

This article comments on the "good faith" element in Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978.
Date: 1981
Creator: Harbour, Clifford P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder to Ask Questions: A Systematic Review (open access)

Teaching Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder to Ask Questions: A Systematic Review

This article provides a review involving a systematic search and analysis of studies aimed at teaching individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to ask questions.
Date: March 22, 2013
Creator: Raulston, Tracy; Carnett, Amarie; Lang, Russell; Tostanoski, Amy; Lee, Allyson; Machalicek, Wendy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Classroom Research Study Concerning the Application of a Framework for Planning and Sequencing E-Learning Student Interactions (open access)

A Classroom Research Study Concerning the Application of a Framework for Planning and Sequencing E-Learning Student Interactions

This article reports on an assessment of a framework for planning and sequencing e-learning student interactions and its capacity to accommodate critical student interactions in a graduate leadership curriculum delivered through hybrid e-learning technologies.
Date: 2006
Creator: Bambara, Cynthia; Lambert, Dana; Andrews, Shelly & Harbour, Clifford P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Dynamic Systems Theory in Motor Development Research: How Does Theory Inform Practice and What Are the Potential Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorder? (open access)

The Role of Dynamic Systems Theory in Motor Development Research: How Does Theory Inform Practice and What Are the Potential Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorder?

This article reviews 18 instances in the literature where dynamic systems theory (DST) has been used to analyze, test, or manipulate motor patterns and movement.
Date: August 10, 2016
Creator: Colombo-Dougovito, Andrew M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Health Interventions for Parent Carers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Practice Guidelines from a Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) Systematic Review (open access)

Mental Health Interventions for Parent Carers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Practice Guidelines from a Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) Systematic Review

This article contains a systematic review that identifies key qualities of interventions supporting the mental health of parent carers and proposes practitioner-parent carer support guidelines.
Date: December 20, 2017
Creator: Catalano, Denise E.; Holloway, Linda & Mpofu, Elias
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantitative Preparation in Doctoral Education Programs: A Mixed-Methods Study of Doctoral Student Perspectives on Their Quantitative Training (open access)

Quantitative Preparation in Doctoral Education Programs: A Mixed-Methods Study of Doctoral Student Perspectives on Their Quantitative Training

This article explores student perceptions of their own doctoral-level education and quantitative proficiency.
Date: July 19, 2017
Creator: Ferguson, Sarah L.; Hovey, Katrina A. & Henson, Robin K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parents’ mobile technology adoption influences on elementary children’s use (open access)

Parents’ mobile technology adoption influences on elementary children’s use

This article identifies 120 parents' intentions to adopt mobile technology and gathers in-depth perceptions about mobile technology adoption with a smaller subset of 13 parents.
Date: January 2, 2018
Creator: Eutsler, Lauren
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Weight Status on Knowledge of Physical Activity and Fitness, Attitude Toward Physical Education, and Physical Activity (open access)

Effects of Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Weight Status on Knowledge of Physical Activity and Fitness, Attitude Toward Physical Education, and Physical Activity

This article examines the effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and weight status on knowledge of physical activity and fitness, attitude toward physical education, and physical activity.
Date: February 20, 2018
Creator: Chen, Senlin & Gu, Xiangli
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
MAP training: combining meditation and aerobic exercise reduces depression and rumination while enhancing synchronized brain activity (open access)

MAP training: combining meditation and aerobic exercise reduces depression and rumination while enhancing synchronized brain activity

This article discusses the efficacy of mental and physical (MAP) training in improving symptoms of depression and rumination in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD).
Date: October 5, 2015
Creator: Alderman, Brandon L.; Olson, Ryan L.; Brush, Christopher J. & Shors, Tracey J.
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
Rumination in major depressive disorder is associated with impaired neural activation during conflict monitoring (open access)

Rumination in major depressive disorder is associated with impaired neural activation during conflict monitoring

This article examines behavioral and event-related potentials (ERP) indices of conflict monitoring during a modified flanker task and the allocation of attention during an attentional blink (AB) task, and whether their behavioral performance and ERPs varied with level of rumination.
Date: May 12, 2015
Creator: Alderman, Brandon L.; Olson, Ryan L.; Bates, Marsha E.; Selby, Edward A.; Buckman, Jennifer F.; Brush, Christopher J. et al.
Object Type: Article
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
Early Predictors of Child's Bully and Victim Statuses: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Parent, Teacher, and Student Reports From National Data (open access)

Early Predictors of Child's Bully and Victim Statuses: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Parent, Teacher, and Student Reports From National Data

This article studies how bullies and victims develop within the contexts of their homes and schools, and how early childhood behaviors can predict later bullying/victimization statuses.
Date: June 29, 2018
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Mitchell, Mary E. & Glover, Rebecca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library