Accomplishments: Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) accepted an appointment to serve on the editorial board for the BYU Education and Law Journal.
On October 5-7, the National Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents held their annual summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Assistant professor Salazar Montoya (Education, LION) presented during a general session: "The National Committee Report for Professional Learning Growth and Development (PLGD)." She also presented with 性视界传媒鈥
Megan Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) has been invited to join the 2023 Emerging Education Policy Scholar (EEPS) cohort, a program run by the American Enterprise Institute and Thomas B. Fordham Institute. The EEPS program "brings newly minted Ph.D. scholars and Ph.D. candidates who have a keen research eye,鈥
Professor Doris L. Watson (Higher Education) has accepted a two-year appointment to serve on the editorial board for the Higher Ed section of the Education Sciences journal. Watson currently serves as a co-editor for a special edition of "Sustainable Higher Education: Centering Equity-minded Practices" for Education Sciences.
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) published a policy paper titled, "Making Nevada Schools Safer: The State of Empirical Evidence" in Policy Issues in Nevada Education, Volume 5, Issue 1. In the paper, Skousen reviews the state of the empirical literature on school safety and argues that while鈥
Kendall Hartley (Teaching and Learning), Emily Shreve and Dan Gianoutsos (both Academic Success Center), and Lisa Bendixen (Educational Psychology) have recently published their research on college student smartphone usage in relation to planning, studying, learning, and other self-regulatory skills.
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LeAnne Salazar-Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) presented a guest lecture for the New Mexico State University College of Education doctoral program in leadership. She presented on qualitative methods of research and highlighted photo voice and her past research utilizing qualitative research.
Sadia Shaukat (Teaching and Learning) and Lisa Bendixen (Educational Psychology) published an article, "The Impact of Technostress on Teacher Educators鈥 Work鈥揊amily Conflict and Life Satisfaction While Working Remotely during COVID-19 in Pakistan," in the journal Education Sciences.
Danielle Mireles (Education) published their study, "Theorizing Racist Ableism in Higher Education," in a special issue of Teachers College Record (TCR) on Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) titled 鈥淚magining Possible Futures: Disability Critical Race Theory as a Lever for Praxis in Education鈥 and edited by Subini Ancy Annamma, Beth A鈥
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology Leadership and Higher Education) coauthored the book chapter "Efforts to Prevent Mass Shootings in Schools: The Practice, the Costs, and Superintendents鈥 Experiences with Arming School Personnel" in the book Reclaiming Local Control through Superintendents, School Boards, and Community Activism. The鈥
Kim Nehls (Business) and Doris Watson (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), along with Brandy Smith of Nevada State College, published an article, "Perceptions of Student Affairs Administrators at an Emerging Minority Serving Institution," in the special issue of 性视界传媒 Campus on Hispanic Serving Institutions.
January Durant and Dan Wright (both Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) examined the relation between two of the standardized tests used at the Clark County School District and the growth on these scores by demographic variables in their article, "Exploring the Associations Between MAP Growth and SBA by Demographics."