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The Virtual Workroom: Using Social Media, Teachers Reach Beyond School Walls to Learn and Grow (open access)

The Virtual Workroom: Using Social Media, Teachers Reach Beyond School Walls to Learn and Grow

This article discusses educators' use of professional learning networks and its impact on their teaching and student learning.
Date: August 2016
Creator: Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Trust, Torrey & Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Together We Are Better": Professional Learning Networks for Teachers (open access)

"Together We Are Better": Professional Learning Networks for Teachers

This article reports the findings of a qualitative study that investigated professional learning network experiences through the analysis of survey data from 732 P-12 teachers.
Date: July 2, 2016
Creator: Trust, Torrey; Krutka, Daniel G. & Carpenter, Jeffrey P.
Object Type: Article
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
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
Reduced Inflammatory and muscle damage biomarkers following oral supplementation with bioavailable curcumin (open access)

Reduced Inflammatory and muscle damage biomarkers following oral supplementation with bioavailable curcumin

This article seeks to determine the effects of oral curcumin supplementation on muscle and activities of daily living soreness, creatine kinase, and inflammatory cytokines following exercise-induced muscle damage.
Date: February 18, 2016
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Venable, Adam S.; Henning, Andrea L.; Best Sampson, Jill N.; Pennel, Kathryn; Vingren, Jakob L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Medical Costs of Obesity for Fifth Graders in California and Texas (open access)

An Analysis of the Medical Costs of Obesity for Fifth Graders in California and Texas

This article uses data from FitnessGram® and previous studies to estimate the lifetime economic impact of childhood obesity for a single age cohort in the two most populous states: California and Texas.
Date: January 15, 2016
Creator: Levitt, Danielle E.; Jackson, Allen W. & Morrow, James R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Participatory Learning Through Social Media: How and Why Social Studies Educators Use Twitter (open access)

Participatory Learning Through Social Media: How and Why Social Studies Educators Use Twitter

This article draws on Deweyan conceptions of participatory learning and citizenship aims of the field as lenses through which to consider social media activities.
Date: 2016
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Carpenter, Jeffrey P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Evaluation in the Special Education Setting: Voices from the Field (open access)

Teacher Evaluation in the Special Education Setting: Voices from the Field

This article uses a qualitative, multi-case study research design to gain insight into the perceptions and experiences of special education teachers and administrators.
Date: 2016
Creator: Sledge, Ann & Pazey, Barbara L.
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
The Extent of Autism Knowledge of Novice Alternatively Certified Special Education Teachers in Texas (open access)

The Extent of Autism Knowledge of Novice Alternatively Certified Special Education Teachers in Texas

This article assesses the knowledge of novice alternative certification teachers in the area of autism intervention.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Alward Hauber, Jennifer; Mehta, Smita S. & Combes, Bertina H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders (open access)

Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders

This article explores the authors' experience using an ethical framework to teach a course on disability law to graduate level education students.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Pazey, Barbara L. & Cole, Heather A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting changes in systolic blood pressure using longitudinal patient records (open access)

Predicting changes in systolic blood pressure using longitudinal patient records

This article introduces a model that predicts future changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP) based on structured and unstructured (text-based) information from longitudinal clinical records.
Date: July 22, 2015
Creator: Solomon, John Wes & Nielsen, Rodney D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Validation of the Physical Education Teacher's Efficacy for Standards-Based Instruction (ESBI) Scale (open access)

Validation of the Physical Education Teacher's Efficacy for Standards-Based Instruction (ESBI) Scale

This article studies the validity and reliability of the Efficacy for Standards-Based Instruction (ESBI) scale, developed by the current investigators, and to compare the ESBI with two other self-efficacy scales that had been used in physical education.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Buns, Matthew T. & Thomas, Katherine
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
Coherent District Reform: A Case Study of Two California School Districts (open access)

Coherent District Reform: A Case Study of Two California School Districts

This article argues that whole district reform is possible in ways that increased student achievement results on standardized tests across two districts.
Date: March 13, 2015
Creator: Ezzani, Miriam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Troublemaking,” “Making Trouble,” and “Making It” Through Institutionalized Schooling: Critical Pedagogy as a Transformational Exodus (open access)

“Troublemaking,” “Making Trouble,” and “Making It” Through Institutionalized Schooling: Critical Pedagogy as a Transformational Exodus

This article examines the quality of public schooling in primarily low socio-economic status (SES) areas of El Paso, Texas and reflects on the dismal realities established by the hegemonic social order.
Date: March 12, 2015
Creator: Rossatto, Cesar A.; Rivas, Cecilia E.; Heiman, Daniel & Esparza, Juanita
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District (open access)

(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District

This article reports a Texas suburban school district's efforts to promote cultural proficiency after leadership trainings.
Date: February 3, 2015
Creator: Ezzani, Miriam & Brooks, Melanie C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Succession Planning Activities at a Rural Public Health Department (open access)

Succession Planning Activities at a Rural Public Health Department

This article provides an overview of a qualitative case study utilizing interviews and evaluation of publically-available documents to investigate the process of succession planning in a moderately-sized public health office located in a metropolitan community in a frontier-rural state.
Date: January 26, 2015
Creator: Cole, Sandra L. & Harbour, Clifford P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library