Accomplishments: College of Education

Nancy Lough (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) was a panelist on the latest Tucker Center Talks podcast, a co-production with Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. In this episode, Nicole M. LaVoi talks to three advocates, scholars, collaborators, and colleagues…
Kenneth Varner, Steve Bickmore, PG Schrader (all Teaching and Learning) and Danica Hays (Education), along with David Lee Carlson of Arizona State University and Dorothea Anagnostopoulos of the University of Connecticut, have edited a two-volume series with Chronicles Press centering on COVID-19. Corona Chronicles: Necessary Narratives in…
Ching-Chen Chen, Jared Lau (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), and Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), along with George Richardson from the University of Cincinnati, recently published their paper, "Measurement Invariance Testing in Counseling," in the Journal of Professional Counseling: Practice, Theory &…
Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) co-authored an article, "Multilevel Mixed Methods Research and Educational Psychology." The work is featured in Educational Psychologist, the official journal of the American Psychological Association's Division 15 (Educational Psychology). In this article, Marchand and her colleague…
Samuel Song (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) received his gavel as the new 2021 President of the Division of School Psychology of the American Psychological Association. This is a tradition for the new president to receive a monogrammed gavel from the current president and it occurred at this year's APA…
Chia-Liang Dai, Ching-Chen Chen, Ezgi Yesilyurt, Samantha Godbey (Education) and Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article "Yoga as an Alternative Therapy for Weight Management in Child and Adolescent Obesity: A Systematic Review and Implications for Research" in Alternative Therapies in Health and…
Howard R. D. Gordon (Teaching and Learning) recently was nominated for the position of career and technical education teacher educator or researcher in the field of workforce development on the National Occupational Competency Testing Inatitute Board of Trusttees.
Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) has published a policy brief, "The Equity Rankings: An Alternative Assessment of U.S. Higher Education," that addresses alternate assessment methods for determining university rankings. This brief was commissioned by Colorado State University's RISE Center as part of its Hack…
Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, & Special Education) co-authored a manuscript, "Translanguaging for Varying Discourse Functions in Sociodramatic Play: An Exploratory Multiple Case Study of Young Emergent Bilinguals" in the International Journal of Bilingualism & Bilingual Education. This exploratory multiple case study…
Jacob D. Skousen and Ellianna Rodriguez (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) presented their paper, "The Costs of a Public Education: One Public-School District’s Student Fees" at the annual International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership Conference. (The 2020 conference was held virtually this month because…
Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, & Special Education) co-authored a manuscript, "Exploring the Object-sourced Transmodal Practices of an Emergent Bilingual Child in Sociodramatic Play" in the Journal of Early Childhood Research. This study explores how an emergent bilingual preschooler used different modalities (actions,…
Danica G. Hays (College of Education) discusses in a new publication the five-decade trends in multicultural and social justice counseling competency, identifies gaps and future research directions of that research, and proposes innovative strategies and methods for conducting rigorous multicultural and social justice research. The invited…