College of Education faculty and doctoral students presented at the Council for Exceptional Children — Teacher Education Division (TED)'s annual conference November 8-11 in Richmond, VA. Associate professor Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education); doctoral student/visiting lecturer Scotia Hammond (Education);…

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), with co-authors Cara Kelly and Jason Hustedt from the University of Delaware, published an article, "Family Experiences, Parenting Behaviors, and Infants’ and Toddlers’ Social-Emotional Skills," in the Early Childhood Education Journal. Results suggest that certain family…

Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Vermont presented the poster, "Education-Related Emergency Action during Covid-19: A Comparative State Analysis," on November 19 at the Association for Public Policy Analysis…

Monica R. Brown, Heather B. Van Ness (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), and Robbie Marsh (Mercer) presented a paper titled, “Project PRAISER: Exploring the perceived value of an interdisciplinary personnel preparation program to support students with EBD,” at the Teacher Educators for Children with Behavioral…

Manoj Sharma, Ravi Batra (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), Chia-Laing Dai (Teaching and Learning), and David Cappelli (Dental Medicine) have published a manuscript titled, “Predicting Flossing through the Application of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change among…

Monica R. Brown (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Ayo Aborishade (Education) co-authored a recently published (online) article titled, "Using technology to coach culturally and linguistically diverse families in the behavior intervention plan process: Embedding funds of knowledge," in a special issue of the Journal of…

Jared Lau (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) and colleagues from Oregon State University, Southern Oregon University, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and Governors State University published an article, "Counselor Educators Using Self as Instrument in Antiracist Teaching," in the journal Counselor…

Noah Romero (Education, NV-EPIC) presented two lectures: Decolonizing pedagogies: Unschooling and Indigenous education and Unsettling teacher preparation through critical race theory, post-humanism, and subcultural learning to the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College in Amherst, MA.

Professor emeritus Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) co-authored an article, "National Testing: Academic Achievement of Career and Technical Education and Non-Career and Technical Education Graduates," in The CTE Journal.   

Graduate student Elizabeth León Zaragoza, Nancy Lough (Higher Education), Michelle Samuel, and Tedd Girouard (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) have co-authored a recent article published in the Athletic Training Education Journal. The study assessed the levels of cultural competence of athletic training clinical preceptors. Results…

Sarah Wolff, president's UNLV Foundation graduate research fellow, and Dan Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published "How feedback can affect metacomprehension and the decision to progress" in Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology. 

Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a study on the effectiveness of an embedded counseling and advising intervention for community college students enrolled in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) programs. These students, most of whom were adult newcomer immigrant and refugees, were…