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Oct 26, 2009, 11:02:00 Edward Delgado-Romero, an associate professor in the department of counseling and human development services, has released a DVD entitled, Latinos and Education: The Case of Psychology, from his keynote address at the 2009 Teachers College Winter Roundtable.
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Oct 14, 2009, 16:40:00 David Gast, professor of special education, has published Single-Subject Research Methodology in Behavioral Sciences. The book is written for student researchers, practitioners, and university faculty who are interested in answering applied research questions and objectively evaluating educational and clinical practices.
Some of the contributing authors are College of Education affiliates: faculty members Kevin Ayres and Jonathan Campbell; doctoral students Amy Spriggs and Diana
Hammond; and alumnae Linda Mechling, Caitlin Herzinger, and
Jennifer Ledford.
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Sep 23, 2009, 13:46:00 Education profs’ article third most cited in Journal of School Nursing
A research article by two College of Education professors showing that teachers are inadequately prepared to assist children in the management of their asthma in the classroom was the third most commonly cited article in the Journal of School Nursing over the past three months.
Sep 1, 2009, 11:37:00 Thomas Reeves, a professor of learning, design, and technology, has co-authored a book entitled, A Guide to Authentic e-Learning, with colleagues Jan Herrington and Ron Oliver.
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Aug 12, 2009, 11:24:00 Edward Delgado-Romero, an associate professor in the department of counseling and human development services, has co-authored a chapter in the recently published International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling: Cultural Assumptions and Practices Worldwide. The chapter is entitled, "After la Violencia: The Psychology Profession in Colombia."
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Jun 2, 2009, 12:06:00 Dorothy Y. White, an associate professor in the department of mathematics and science education, has co-edited a book entitled, Mathematics for Every Student, Responding to Diversity, Grades PreK-5.
The book is part of a new three-book series created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics designed to help teachers support high-quality mathematics learning for diverse student populations in the classroom.
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May 1, 2009, 14:22:00 Ezemenari Obasi, an assistant professor in counseling and human development services, is co-author of an article titled, Psychological distress, acculturation, and mental health-seeking attitudes among people of African descent in the United States: A preliminary investigation. in the April 2009 issue of the Counseling Psychology Journal. (See second article from top)
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Feb 10, 2009, 09:44:00 Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities and ADHD, authored by Noel Gregg, Distinguished Research Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Communication Sciences and Special Education and Director of the UGA Regents' Center for Learning Disorders, is a comprehensive and authoritative source for educators and clinicians supporting older students with learning disabilities and ADHD.
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Feb 3, 2009, 16:22:00 Bringing to life seminal research that identifies the characteristics that define expert or elite performers, 5 Steps to Expert by Paul G. Schempp, a kinesiology professor in the College of Education, is the first book to provide a sequential set of deliberate practice steps for all those who aspire to advance from their current competency to the next stage of mastery — and for those who coach and train for higher performance.
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Jan 30, 2009, 09:22:00 Jerome E. Morris, a faculty member in the department of workforce education, leadership, and social foundations and also the Director of the Race, Class, Place, and Outcomes Research Group at UGA's Institute for Behavioral Research, is the lead author of a featured article in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of Educational Researcher, which is published by the American Educational Research Association. Entitled, "Why Study the U.S. South? The Nexus of Race and Place in Investigating Black Student Achievement," Morris and his co-author (Carla Monroe, a research scientist at IBR), note that despite national concern, patterns embedded in black student achievement as related to geographical influences generally are ignored, especially in the South, where the majority of black people in the United States reside.
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Jan 29, 2009, 10:06:00 Rod Dishman, professor in the department of kinesiology, is the lead author of a research titled, "Move to Improve: A Randomized Workplace Trial to Increase Physical Activity in the February 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. He and co-authors David DeJoy, Mark Wilson and Ron Vandenberg wrote their research showed that a workplace program that encourages employees to set exercise goals substantially increased workers’ physical activity. (Site registration required for full text.)
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Dec 4, 2008, 16:23:00 Judith Preissle, the 2001 Distinguished Aderhold Professor and coordinator of the Qualitative Research Program, and University of North Carolina communications professor Xue Lan Rong have published a second edition of the their book titled, Educating Immigrant Students in the 21st Century.
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Nov 24, 2008, 10:29:00 "Sally Zepeda's Instructional Supervision is an excellent guide for new and veteran supervisors," writes a reviewer in the November 2008 issue of Education Review about Zepeda's book titled, "Instructional Supervision: Applying Tools and Concepts."
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Sep 23, 2008, 16:23:00 An article by faculty members Juanita Johnson-Bailey and Ron Cervero’s “Different Worlds and Divergent Paths: Academic Careers Defined by Race and Gender.” appears in the Harvard Educational Review. With great candor, the colleagues examine their journeys to full professor and relationships with colleagues, students, and the university as an institution in a scholarly conversation on differential treatment and discrimination based on race and gender.
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Sep 3, 2008, 09:46:00 A review in the September 2008 issue of Education Review praises the most recent book by Sally J. Zepeda, professor in the department of lifelong education, administration, and policy, titled Professional Development: What Works.
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Apr 16, 2008, 12:21:00 A book titled, The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History, authored by Derrick P. Alridge, associate professor of education and director of UGA’s Institute for African-American Studies, was recently published by Teachers College Press.
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Morris
Mar 20, 2008, 14:12:00 An article written by Jerome Morris, an associate professor of social foundations of education and Research Fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Research, analyzes how scholars have researched black schools, as well as contemporary policy debates on quality schooling for black children, school racial composition, and Brown v. Board of Education in the Teachers College Record of Columbia University (fee and registration required).
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Feb 28, 2008, 12:51:00 Patrick O'Connor, a professor in kinesiology and co-director of the UGA Exercise Psychology Laboratory, Tim Puetz (Ph.D., '06), and former UGA student Sara Flowers have co-authored the study, "A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training on Feelings of Energy and Fatigue in Sedentary Young Adults with Persistent Fatigue," in the Feb. 2008 issue of the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
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Feb 27, 2008, 10:19:00 Karen Samuelsen, an assistant professor in educational psychology and instructional technology, and Robert Lissitz, a professor of education and director of the Maryland Assessment Research Center for Education Success at the University of Maryland, have created a framework with a new vocabulary and a new way of thinking about validity that makes the validation of educational assessments a less daunting task. The results of their work are featured in the November 2007 issue of Educational Researcher, the official journal of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The article is followed by commentary from well-known scholars in the field of measurement with Lissitz and Samuelsen’s response to the comments.
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Nov 1, 2007, 09:25:00 "Sally S. Zepeda and R. Stewart Mayers have done an excellent job providing a concise supervision reader and resource in Supervision Across the Content Areas," writes a book reviewer in the Oct. 16, 2007 edition of Teacher's College Record. Zepeda is a professor and graduate coordinator in the department of lifelong education, administration and policy. Mayers is a 2001 doctoral graduate in educational leadership.
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Sep 25, 2007, 14:37:00 Second edition of Glickman book due on bookshelves Oct. 1
A second edition of the award-winning book edited by professor emeritus Carl Glickman titled, Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real Crisis in Public Education, will soon be on bookstore shelves across the nation.
Sep 5, 2007, 14:19:00 Edward Delgado-Romero, an associate professor in counseling and human development services, has co-authored an article entitled, "The Roles of Counseling Psychologists in Reducing Health Disparities," published in the September 2007 issue of The Counseling Psychologist.
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Aug 22, 2007, 13:47:00 Jeremy Kilpatrick, Regents Professor in mathematics and science education, has co-authored Estimated Causal Effects Using Experimental and Observational Designs, a book published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
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Jun 27, 2007, 09:09:00 An article titled, "A School Counseling Conference Focused on the Emerging Latino/a Populations: A model in the State of Georgia," written by Edward Delgado-Romero, Pam Paisley, both faculty members in the department of counseling and human development services and Paul Matthews, co-director of the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education Continuing Education (CLASE), was published in the July 2007 edition of the Journal Hispanic Higher Education (Pages 209-221). The conference is a collaboration of the CHDS and CLASE. (Fee is required to access entire article.)
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May 20, 2007, 12:25:00 Peter Smagorinsky, professor in language and literacy education, writes reviews of two books in the May 2007 issue of Educational Researcher.
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