Accomplishments: College of Education

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…
Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) bestowed the first Lough Award to Ceyda Mumcu at the Sport Marketing Association national conference. The purpose of the Lough Award is to recognize an educator and scholar of sport marketing who not only promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion, but also publishes…
Third-year doctoral student Acacia Dorsey (Cultural Studies, International Education, and Multicultural Education) and third-year doctoral student Kamilah Bywaters (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented, "Not Black Like Me: Perspectives/Experiences of Black Women Doctoral Scholars at a PWI When There Are No Faculty…
Heather Dahl (Counselor Education) received the 2022 Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s Research Award. This award honors significant research in counseling, counselor education, and/or counselor supervision.
Sam Leif, Danielle Head, and Michael McCreery (all Teaching and Learning) earned the Best Paper Award at the International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research fall conference for their paper, "A hardcore look at the casual measurement of gamer experience."
Tonya Walls (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) is celebrating her new publication, "EquityMatterz: Leveraging Critical Professional Development and Critical Mentorship to Retain and Sustain Teachers of Color," in the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and…