The Relationship between Secondary Education Funding and Successful Graduation and Job Placement

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Stephen Hunasker, Ana Kuphunzitsa, and Dr. Donald Baum, Education Leadership & Foundations Department How much would it cost to send a single student to secondary school for a year? In Malawi it is a mere $300, that comes up to less than a $1 a day to go, yet it is common for these families […]

The Mediation Between Intrinsic Religiousness and Positive Mental Health

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Mason Ming and Scott Richards, CP&SE Religiousness has gained more attention in psychological research and literature in the past few decades (Allen & Heppner, 2011; Cervantes & Parham, 2005; Worthington et al., 2003). Richards and Bergin (1997) noticed a spiritual energy in the United States that has “created a powerful cultural demand for psychotherapists to […]

Teacher’s Use of Technology in a Preschool/Kindergarten Setting

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Maudi Mckell Sundrud and Jennifer Wimmer, Teacher Education Teacher’s Use of Technology in a Preschool/Kindergarten Setting Mentor: Jennifer Wimmer, Teacher Education As a response to the increase of technology in society, the education system has pushed for greater technology integration in schools. Schools across the nation have invested in technology intended to help students learn […]

Integrating New Literacies in the Elementary School Classroom

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PI: Jennifer J. Wimmer Evaluation of Academic Objectives At no time has it been more vital to understand teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and practices than in the emerging and expanding field of new literacies. New literacies is defined as those social practices that continuously evolve in response to technological advances, which enable persons to question, construct, […]

Strength-Based Assessment for Children with Autism and Related with Disabilities in Kosovo

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Strength-Based Assessment for Children with Autism and Related with Disabilities in Kosovo Ari Kokol and Faculty Mentor: Blake Hansen, Counseling Psychology and Special Education Introduction Kosovo was a focal point of conflict in the wars in Yugoslavia in the late 1990s. In 2008, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia leaving Kosovo partially recognized as an independent […]

Community Literacies: Examining the Availability of Texts in Rural Communities and Their Integration into the Elementary School Classroom

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Chelsi Tolbert and Jennifer Wimmer, Teacher Education Introduction It is an unarguable fact that literacy instruction is one of the most vital aspects of elementary education. Without literacy, knowing how to read and write, students will find success in the “real” world difficult to come by. Traditionally, the focus of literacy instruction has been linked to giving students […]

A Student Perspective of Interactive Technology

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Sydney Boyer and Jennifer Wimmer, Teacher Education Department Introduction With advancements in technology, educators understanding of teaching in the classroom has shifted and become less transparent. Early childhood classrooms have transitioned from printbased to technology integrated within a matter of years. This transition has led to research concerning teacher opinions (Turbill 2001)(Tertemiz 2015), student understanding (Wohlwend […]

Early Exposure to Expository Texts: Administering the EECA-R2 to Preschoolers

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Annika Stark and Barbara Culatta, Communication Disorders Introduction Children are exposed to a variety of narrative texts from a young age. However, young children are not given this same amount of exposure to expository texts. Expository texts inform and describe as they expose a child to factual information. There is a current need in early […]

Re-ordering Utterances Using Transition Probabilities among Randomly Assigned Grammatical Tags

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Emily Duncan and Ron Channell, Communication Disorders Introduction It was our desire to investigate further, using a computer model, how children acquire language. Specifically, we decided to investigate how children learn how to arrange grammatical tags (i.e. grammatical categories: verb, adjective, etc.) into the proper order. Originally, we were going to investigate how an evolutionary […]

Pre-Service Interdisciplinary Training in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Terisa P Gabrielsen, PhD, NCSP, Department of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education This project was designed to give mentoring experience to students across disciplines who were seeking additional knowledge and training in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Participation in the project was intended to benefit students by giving them more knowledge within their field and across […]