A collection of published articles from members of the Department of Secondary and Middle Grades Education at Kennesaw State University.
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Submissions from 2024
Cross-Sectional and Descriptive Study on the Challenges and Awareness of Hispanic Parents Regarding Their Adolescents’ Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jihye Kim and Robin Scott
Submissions from 2023
The Interactive Research Methods Lab: A Hub for the Promotion of Educational Change based on Methodological Equity, Iván Jorrín Abellán
Time Perspective and Grade Expectations as Predictors of Student Achievement and Retention in the First Year of Community College, Taylor W. Acee, Meagan A. Hoff, Darolyn A. Flaggs, and Breana Sylvester
Creating a digital culture of care: COVID-19 and digital teaching, Megan Adams, Sanjuana Rodriguez, and Karla Ramirez
Field experiences for pre-service teachers post-COVID-19: structures required to support mental health, Megan Adams, Sanjuana Rodriguez, Karla Ramirez, Virginie Jackson, and Allison Garefino
Virtual Connections: Teacher Beliefs and Practices Enacting Culturally Relevant Practices in a Virtual Freedom School, Abigail A. Amoako Kayser, Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Johari Harris, Christen Edwards, and Derrick Alridge
Lesson Planning for Three-Dimensional Learning: Elementary Teachers’ Successes and Challenges with the Crosscutting Concepts, Anna Maria Arias, Brendan E. Callahan, Michael Dias, and Karen Kuhel
Navigating common challenges: Guidance for educators in racial justice work, Jessica DeMink-Carthew, Kristie W. Smith, W. Keith Burgess, Susan Y. Leonard, Bogum Yoon, P. Gayle Andrews, James Nagle, and Penny Bishop
Beliefs and Integration of Digital Resources: a Study with Professors of Health Sciences, Iris Estévez, Alba Souto-Seijo, and Iván Jorrín-Abellán
Connecting Trigonometry to Parametric Equations Using the Ladder Task, David Glassmeyer
Examining the Impacts of a Developmentally Appropriate, Culturally Relevant Virtual School on Student Outcomes, Johari Harris, Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Abigail Amoako Kayser, Christen Edwards, and Derrick P. Alridge
Conflicting understandings of multicultural society, global world, and English: Multimodal content analysis of 5 Korean elementary EFL textbooks, Gyewon Jang, Gertrude Tinker Sachs, and Jee Hye Park
Teacher efficacy and expectations of minority children: The mediating role of teachers’ beliefs about minority parents’ efficacy, Yanghee Anna Kim, Jihye Kim, and Yeon Ju Jo
Facing the rising sun: Political imagination in Black adolescents’ sociopolitical development, Edward D. Scott, Johari Harris, Chauncey D. Smith, and Latisha Ross
Computational Thinking and the Algebra Project From Voice to Agency, Alan Shaw, Brian R. Lawler, William Crombie, Tom McKlin, and Tamika Richards
Teachers’ emotion regulation and related environmental, personal, instructional, and well-being factors: A meta-analysis, Hui Wang, Irena Burić, Mei Lin Chang, and James J. Gross
The collective classroom “we”: The role of students’ sense of belonging on their affective, cognitive, and discourse experiences of online and face-to-face discussions, Allison Zengilowski, Jeonghyun Lee, Rachel E. Gaines, Hannah Park, Eunjeong Choi, and Diane L. Schallert
Submissions from 2022
Secondary teachers’ analytic stance of noticing based on video of proportional reasoning, Julie M. Amador, Aaron Brakoniecki, and David Glassmeyer
Effects of Autonomy Support and Emotion Regulation on Teacher Burnout in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mei Lin Chang, Rachel E. Gaines, and Kristen C. Mosley
Submissions from 2021
Teacher emotion regulation strategies in response to classroom misbehavior, Mei Lin Chang and Jamie Taxer
Remembering we were never meant to survive…:1 Honouring Audre Lorde and the promise of Black women’s survival, Nichole A. Guillory
Postgraduate competence and academic research performance: The mediating role of psychological capital, Jinyuan Guo, Zhixia Chen, and Binyao Zheng
‘Complicating my place:’ multiracial women faculty navigating monocentricity in higher education––a polyethnography, Kelly F. Jackson, Dana J. Stone, E. Namisi Chilungu, and Jillian Carter Ford
The Influences of Socioscientific Issues on General Science Teaching Self-Efficacy, Melanie Kinskey and Brendan E. Callahan
Addressing Student Engagement During COVID-19: Secondary STEM Teachers Attend to the Affective Dimension of Learner Needs, Tiffany Roman, Laurie Brantley-Dias, Michael Dias, and Belinda Edwards
Submissions from 2020
Promising practices in coaching co-taught preservice clinical experiences, Toni S. Strieker, Woong Lim, David Rosengrant, and Marcia Wright
Submissions from 2019
Moving toward: using a social justice curriculum to impact teacher candidates, Megan Adams and Sanjuana Rodriguez
Teachers’ emotional experiences in professional development: Where they come from and what they can mean, Rachel E. Gaines, David J. Osman, Danika L.S. Maddocks, and Jayce R. Warner
Submissions from 2018
Integrating Knowledge for Instruction: A Tale of Two Teachers, David A. Barker, John K. Lannin, Matthew S. Winsor, and J. Vince Kirwan
Promoting uncertainty to support preservice teachers’ reasoning about the tangent relationship, David Glassmeyer, Aaron Brakoniecki, and Julie M. Amador
Educational Attainment and Quitting Smoking: A Structural Equation Model Approach, Ann Goding Sauer, Stacey A. Fedewa, Jihye Kim, Ahmedin Jemal, and J. Lee Westmaas
Submissions from 2017
Exploring Measurement Invariance by Gender in the Profile of Mood States Depression Subscale among Cancer Survivors, Jihye Kim and Tenbroeck Smith
Submissions from 2016
Drawing on Metaphors of Teaching to Elicit Reflexive Thinking, Harriett Bessette and Nita A. Paris
"Very Simple. I Just Don't Lie": The Role of Honesty in Black Lesbian K-12 Teachers' Experiences in the U.S. Southeast, Jillian Carter Ford
A Multivariate Model of Conceptual Change, Gita Taasoobshirazi, Benjamin Heddy, MarLynn Bailey, and John Farley
Submissions from 2015
Celebrating Diversity by Sharing Multiple Solution Methods, Woong Lim, Hongjoong Kim, Lynn Stallings, and Ji-Won Son
Submissions from 2013
Using learning Principles as a Theoretical Framework for Instructional Consultations, Michele Dipietro and Marie Norman
Exploring Mathematics Methods Courses and Impacts for Prospective Teachers, Signe Kastberg, Wendy B. Sanchez, Andrew Tyminski, Alyson Lischka, and Woong Lim
Stereotype Threat and Women's Performance in Physics, Gwen C. Marchand and Gita Taasoobshirazi
A Multivariate Model of Physics Problem Solving, Gita Taasoobshirazi and John Farley
Construct Validation of the Physics Metacognition Inventory, Gita Taasoobshirazi and John Farley
Mathematical Literacy in the Middle and High School Grades: A Modern Approach to Sparking Student Interest, Faith H. Wallace and Mary Anna Evans
Submissions from 2012
Chris Crutcher: A Stotan for Young Adults, Bryan Gillis and Pam B. Cole
Talking Back: Teaching and Learning through Autobiographies in Multicultural Education, Nichole A. Guillory
Teaching Ethically: Ongoing Improvement, Collaboration, and Academic Freedom, Thomas Pusateri
Effects of Job-Embedded Professional Development on Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Content Area Classrooms: Results of a Three-Year Study, Toni Strieker, Kent Logan, and Karen Kuhel
My Journey in Grief: A Mother’s Experience Following the Death of Her Daughter, Alice W. Terry
Submissions from 2011
A Structural Equation Model of Conceptual Change in Physics, Gita Taasoobshirazi and Gale M. Sinatra
Geometry Sleuthing in Literature, Faith H. Wallace, Mary Anna Evans, and Megan Stein
Submissions from 2010
Educational Adequacy Litigation in the American South: 1973-2009, Mike Dishman and Traci Redish
Educational Records: A Practical Guide for Legal Compliance, Daniel R. Murphy and Mike L. Dishman
Development of the PRO-SDLS: A Measure of Self-Direction in Learning Based on the Personal Responsibility Orientation Model, Susan L. Stockdale and Ralph G. Brockett
Students Make Sure the Cherokees are Not Removed... Again: A Study of Service-learning and Artful Learning in Teaching History, Alice W. Terry and Thomas Panter
Teaching Language Arts To English Language Learners, Anete Vásquez, Angela L. Hansen, and Philip C. Smith
Mama's Boy; Preacher's Son: A Memoir, Reta Ugena Whitlock
Education for a Global Era: Reflections of an Asian Teacher Education Faculty, Guichun Zong
Submissions from 2009
Evaluating the Return on Investment for Department of Defense to Private Sector Technology Transfer, Richard M. Franza and Rajesh Srivastava
Using Paired Comparison Matrices to Estimate Parameters of the Partial Credit Rasch Measurement Model for Rater-Mediated Assessments, Mary Garner and George Engelhard Jr.
Integrating Literature to Support Mathematics Learning in Middle School, Karen Koellner, Faith H. Wallace, and Lyn Swackhamer
The Assessment CyberGuide for Learning Goals and Outcomes, Thomas Pusateri, Jane S. Halonen, Bill Hill, and Maureen McCarthy
"Them Ol' Nasty Lesbians"—Queer Memory, Place, and Rural Formations of Lesbian, R. Ugena Whitlock
Developing Preservice Teachers' Global Understanding through Computer-Mediated Communication Technology, Guichun Zong
Submissions from 2008
Young Adult Literature In The 21st Century, Pam B. Cole
Student Voices, Global Echoes: Service-Learning and the Gifted, Alice W. Terry
Vision With Action: Developing Sensitivity to Societal Concerns in Gifted Youth, Alice W. Terry, Jann E. Bohnenberger, Joseph S. Renzulli, Bonnie Cramond, and Doroth Sisk
Reading Mathematics in the Middle Grades, Faith H. Wallace
Teaching Mathematics through Reading: Methods and Materials for Grades 6-8, Faith H. Wallace and Jill Shivertaker
Global Education, Guichun Zong, Angene H. Wilson, and A. Yao Quashiga
Submissions from 2007
An Alternative Theory: Deep Understanding of Mathematics, Mary Garner
Alternative Uses for JUNK MAIL: How Environmental Print Supports Mathematical Literacy, Karen Koellner and Faith H. Wallace
Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?: Recent Developments in GLBTIQ Curriculum and Pedagogy, Queer Theory Courses, and Gay–Straight Alliances, Ian K. MacGillivray and R. Ugena Whitlock
See a Different Mathematics, Lynn Stallings
Service-Learning...by Degrees: How Adolescents Can Make a Difference in the Real World, Alice Terry and Jann Bohnenberger
This Corner Of Canaan: Curriculum Studies Of Place & The Reconstruction Of The South, Reta Ugena Whitlock
This Corner of Canaan: Curriculum Studies of Place and the Reconstruction of the South, R. Ugena Whitlock
Submissions from 2006
Undergraduates’ Evaluations of Developmental Claims and Their Identification of Information Sources, Sherry K. Bain, Robert L. Williams, Rachael Isaacs, Ashley Williams, and Susan Stockdale
Mentoring in Literacy Education: A Commentary from Graduate Students, Untenured Professors, and Tenured Professors, Mark Cobb, Dana L. Fox, Joyce E. Many, Mona W. Matthews, Ewa McGrail, Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Donna Lester Taylor, Faith H. Wallace, and Yan Wang
Improving Federal to Private Sector Technology Transfer, Richard M. Franza and Kevin P. Grant
Readin', Rappin', and Teachin', Nichole Guillory
Understanding the Impact of a State-wide Reading Consortium on Literacy Teacher Educators, Joyce E. Many, Jennifer Green, Faith H. Wallace, Meadow Graham, Brenda Dixey, Sallie Miller, Cecilia Myrick, and Beth Pendergraft
Building Teachers: A Constructivist Approach to Introducing Education, David Jerner Martin and Kimberly S. Loomis
The Mark of Leadership: The Metaphor of Emotional Bank Accounts, Nita A. Paris
Under Pressure: Controlling Factors Faced by Classroom Literacy Teachers as They Work Through a Professional Development Program, Faith H. Wallace
Reading Beyond the Textbook in Upper Grades Mathematics Classrooms, Faith H. Wallace and Karen Clark
How Come? What If? So What? Reading in the Mathematics Classroom, Faith H. Wallace, Karen K. Clark, and Mary Cherry
Queerly Fundamental: Christian Fundamentalism, Southern Queerness, and Curriculum Studies, R. Ugena Whitlock
Submissions from 2005
Additional Issues to Consider, Mary Garner
Types of Changes in NCATE Accredited Elementary and Secondary Teacher Education Programs Related to No Child Left Behind, Susan Santoli, Barbara Salyer, W. Scott Hopkins, and Crysti Varden
Reading Stances in Mathematics: Positioning Students and Texts, Faith H. Wallace and Karen K. Clark
Submissions from 2004
The Role of Sexual Precedence in Verbal Sexual Coercion, Jennifer A. Livingston, Amy M. Buddie, Maria Testa, and Carol VanZile-Tamsen
Elaborate Analogies in Science Text: Tools for Enhancing Preservice Teachers' Knowledge and Attitudes, Nita A. Paris and Shawn M. Glynn
How African American Mothers Assist Their Early Adolescent Daughters with Reading Tasks, Alice M. Scales and Alice F. Snyder
Cooperative Learning Groups at the College Level: Differential Effects on High, Average, and Low Exam Performers, Susan Stockdale and Robert L. Williams
Blueprint for Incorporating Service Learning: A Basic, Developmental, K-12 Service Learning Typology, Alice W. Terry and Jann E. Bohnenberger
Implementing Voting Systems: The Georgia Method, Brit J. Williams and Merle S. King
Psychological Versus Generic Critical Thinking as Predictors and Outcome Measures in a Large Undergraduate Human Development Course, Robert L. Williams, Renee Oliver, and Susan Stockdale
Classroom Motivation Strategies for Prospective Teachers, Robert L. Williams and Susan L. Stockdale
Submissions from 2003
A Collaborative Research Effort in Self-Directed Learning, Barry F. Cox, James B. Canipe, Susan Stockdale, Robert C. Donaghy, Dewey L. Forguson, and Ralph G. Brockett
Connecting Eid and Langeheine's Latent State-Trait Models With Hidden Markov Models and Rasch, Mary Garner
Feeling Prepared: Preservice and Inservice Teachers' Perceptions of Competency to Teach Language Arts, Kathleen A. J. Mohr, George Hess, Binyao Zheng, and Robin Morrow