Fall 2018 Educational Leadership, Research and Technology publications roundup
Dr. Brett Geier
Blankenship, A. and Geier, B.A. (2018, Fall). Closing schools for prayer: Recommendations for increasingly diverse districts. Education Law Into Practice.
Blankenship, A. and Geier, B.A. (2018, Fall). Taking a day off to pray: Closing schools for religious observance in increasingly diverse schools. Brigham Young University Journal of Law and Education, 2018(2), 1-51.
Geier, B. A. (2018). [Review of the book The Role of Leadership Educators: Transforming Learning, by K. L. Guthrie and D. M. Jenkins]. Teachers College Record, http://www.tcrecord.org/books/Content.asp?ContentId=22594.
Garza Mitchell, R. L., Geier, B., and Singleton, C. (in press). Fulfilling the workforce development mission for diverse geographies. In M. M. D’Amico and C. W. Lewis (Eds.), Community College Teacher Preparation for Diverse Geographies: Implications for Access and Equity for Preparing a Diverse Teacher Workforce. Information Age Publishing.
Blankenship, A., and Geier, B. A. (2018, November 9). When speech is your stock in trade: Regulating religious speech of school district employees. In M McCarthy (Chair). Paper presentation conducted at the meeting of Educational Law Association, Cleveland, Ohio.
Geier, B. A., and Blankenship, A. (2017, Spring). Praying for touchdowns: Contemporary law and legislation for prayer in public school athletics. First Amendment Law Review, 15, 381-436. *article recently cited in an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court:
Dr. Louann Bierlein Palmer
Totten, J., and Bierlein Palmer, L. (2018, December 6-7). Agile project management in non-software product development teams: Levels of usage and critical success factors. Paper presented at the International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Science, Pattaya, Thailand.
Meemar. S., Poppink, S., and Bierlein Palmer, L. (2018). Educational decentralization efforts in a centralized country: Saudi Tatweer principal perceptions of new authorities granted. International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 13(2), 1-15.
Albalawi, A. (2019, Jan. 15). [Defended dissertation, Poppink Chair] Saudi Arabian Female English Language Teachers’ Perspectives on Instructional Supervisors and Supervision.
Dr. Jessaca Spybrook
Dr. Jessaca Spybrook and advanced ERM doctoral student Dustin Anderson published two papers on the newly launched Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness (REES). The papers appeared in Educational Researcher, the flagship journal for the American Educational Research Association, and the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, the flagship journal for the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.
Dr. Brian Horvitz
Horvitz, B.S., Garza Mitchell, R.L., Garcia, L.R., and Singleton, C. (In press). Vocational and technical learning. In M.J. Bishop, E. Boling, J. Elen, and V. Svihla (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology (5th ed.). New York, NY: Springer.
Horvitz, B.S. (2018). Extending the reach of technical education with distance learning. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, DOI: 10.1080/10668926.2018.1507849
Dr. Wandy Hadley
Hadley, W. M. (2018). A sense of belonging: First-year students with learning disabilities’ campus engagement. The Journal of College Orientation and Students in Transition, 25 (2), 5-15.
Dr. Ya Zhang
Zhang, Y., Kattan, S. A. K., Abdelaziz, W. S. (2019). Mediation effect of self-efficacy on the predictive validity of TOEFL iBT scores. Paper to be presented at the National Council on Measurement in Education annual meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Wu, H., Shen, J., Zhang, Y., and Zheng, Y. (2019). Effects of principal leadership on student science achievement. Paper to be presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Dr. June Gothberg
Kohler, P., Gothberg, J. E., and Coyle, J. (2018). The Taxonomy for Transition Programming 2.0 as applied to youth in the juvenile justice system: International perspectives. In O'Neil (Ed.), Incarcerated Youth Transitioning Back to the Community (23-34). Singapore: Springer International.
Gothberg, J., and Prince, A. (2018). Are youth with disabilities in correctional facilities receiving FAPE? A review of higher court cases [Paper Presentation]. Division of Career Development and Transition Annual Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA
Gothberg, J., Brezenski, P. and Krefeld-Frier, K. (2018). Living the dream: Building capacity for comprehensive age appropriate transition assessment across settings [Paper Presentation]. Division of Career Development and Transition Annual Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA
Gothberg, J., and Kohler, P. (2018). Speaking truth to power for transition age youth with disabilities. [Paper Presentation]. American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH.
Prince, A., Gothberg, J., and Woods, K. (2018). How can we prepare teachers to work with court-involved youth? [Paper Presentation]. Teacher Education Division Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV
Dr. Regina Garza Mitchell
Garza Mitchell, R. L., Carr, E., Garcia, L.R., Steinman, L. E., Kowalski-Braun, M., and Beach, A. L. (2019). Holding out for a hero: Leadership discourse in college and university presidential job postings in a 20-year span. In H. L. Schnackenberg and D. A. Simard (Eds.), Challenges and opportunities for women in higher education leadership (pp. 156-175). Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing.
Garza Mitchell, R. L., and Parnther, C. (2018). The shared responsibility for academic integrity education. In S. A. Bluestein (Ed.), New Directions for Community Colleges 183 (pp. 55-64). DOI: 10.1002/cc.20317
Dr. Jianping Shen
Wu, H., Shen, J., Zhang, Y., and Zheng, Y. (2019). Effects of principal leadership on student science achievement. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2019 annual conference of American Educational Research Association. Toronto, Canada.
Wu, H., Shen, J., Jones, J., Gao, X., and Zheng, Y. (2019). Using logic model and visualization to conduct evaluation of an early care and education (ECE) portfolio. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2019 annual conference of American Educational Research Association. Toronto, Canada.
Xia, J., Shen, J., and Ni, Y. (2019). Examining the teacher-principal’s power relationship in charter schools: Evidence from the 2015-16 NTPS data. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2019 annual conference of American Educational Research Association. Toronto, Canada.