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Integrating science and engineering practices: outcomes from a collaborative professional development
(2020-03-13)Abstract Background The Next Generation Science Standards accentuate engineering design along with scientific inquiry, emphasizing the relationship between scientific ... -
Beyond Virtual Equality: Liberatory Consciousness as a Path to Achieve Trans* Inclusion in Higher Education
(Routledge, 2015-07-03)Trans∗ men have not, as yet, received specific research attention in higher education. Based on intensive interviews with 25 trans∗ men enrolled in colleges or universities in New England, I explore their experiences in ... -
“Trans Enough?” The Pressures Trans Men Negotiate in Higher Education
(Duke University Press, 2015-08)Despite increasing attention on issues raised by trans students in higher education, almost no empirical research has examined the identities and experiences of trans students as a group, or of specific subsets of trans ... -
Resisting coherence: trans men’s experiences and the use of grounded theory methods
(Routledge, 2017-03-16)In this methodological reflective manuscript, I explore my decision to use a grounded theoretical approach to my dissertation study on trans* men in higher education. Specifically, I question whether grounded theory as a ... -
Structural challenges affecting the experiences of public university LGBT services graduate assistants
In this narrative inquiry study, we interviewed 5 graduate assistants who served as the primary point of contact for their public university’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) student services. We were ... -
Identity, Role, and Oppression: Experiences of LGBTQ Resource Center Graduate Assistants
Utilizing oppression as a conceptual framework, this article explores themes that emerged from qualitative research using epistemological bricolage on data from five graduate assistants who served as the sole institutional ... -
PIRPOSAL Model of Integrative STEM Education: Conceptual and Pedagogical Framework for Classroom Implementation
(Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2016-03)Conceptual and pedagogical framework for classroom implementation of the PIRPOSAL Model -
Integrative STEM Education Exemplar: Implementation of the PIRPOSAL Model
(ITEEA, 2016-10)Presentation of an I-STEM ED exemplar as a vehicle for discussing how STEM education pedagogies can be used for intentionally teaching discipline specific content and practices integral within the phases of technological ... -
The Medicare mental health coverage gap: How licensed professional counselors navigate Medicare-ineligible provider status
(2019)This interpretative phenomenological analysis explored licensed professional counselors’ experiences of turning away Medicare beneficiaries because of the current Medicare mental health policy. Researchers used semi-structured ... -
Planning to Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement with the Department of Defense Education Activity
(International Society for Educational Planning, 2019-11-26)While continuous improvement is not new to education, implementing it with fidelity in various educational contexts remains difficult. This article provides a framework of the necessary components in planning for and ... -
DBBL Graduate Class - MFC Presentation
(2013-04-15)Presentation delivered as a culminating assignment for the Design Based Biotechnology Learning course (Wells, EDCI 5854). Discussion provided an explanation of the design process, prototype construction, testing, iteration, ... -
STEMbot - Design Based Biotechnical Learning
(2019-04-30)Documentation of STEMbot Plant Research Module implementation. Video captures the movement of the STEMbot based on the programmed sequencing for capturing plant images and analyzing pixel counts of the photographs as a ... -
MFC Report - TSA
(2012-06-15)Final report on the Microbial Fuel Cell project submitted for the middle school level Technology Student Association national competition. -
Presentation: 6th Grade DBBL
(2010-02-25)Day 1 presentation to 6th grade students in preparation for initiating Problem Scenario 4A: Alternative Fuels T/E DBBL design challenge. -
Research on Teaching and Learning in Science Education: Potentials of Technology Education
(Council on Technology and Engineering Teacher Education, 2010)This chapter will present a discussion around contemporary teaching and learning research in science education that holds promise for informing similar educational research on classroom practices in technology education. ... -
Integrative STEM Education at Virginia Tech: Graduate Preparation for Tomorrow's Leaders
(ITEEA, 2013)An brief overview and description of the new Integrative STEM Education (I-STEM ED) graduate program in the School of Education at Virginia Tech. Provided is the historical context supporting the need for a new integrative ... -
STEM Education: The Potential of Technology Education
(Council on Technology and Engineering Teacher Education, 2019)Disciplinary perspectives on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education afford an opportunity for insights into how these respective fields of education view their roles in the schooling of America ... -
Needs, motivations, and identification with teaching: a comparative study of temporary part-time and tenure-track health science faculty in Iceland
(2019-09-11)Abstract Background About 70% of teachers who instruct healthcare students are considered sessional (adjunct/temporary part-time) faculty and receive limited instruction in ... -
Critical autoethnography and the vulnerable self as researcher
(2015)This paper presents critical autoethnography as an innovative approach to conducting research in marginalized, vulnerable communities. Combining autoethnography, ethnography, and critical pedagogy, the researcher becomes ...
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