Publications of the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Teaching and Learning Department.
Submissions from 2018
Looking Forward: Setting an Agenda for Research into the Crosscutting Concepts, Jeffrey Nordine, Sarah Fick, Kevin McElhaney, Lauren Barth-Cohen, Brian Gane, TJ McKenna, and Tina Vo
One Size Does Not Fit All: A Critical Race Theory Perspective on College Rankings, David A. R. Richards, Janet T. Awokoya, Brian K. Bridges, and Christine Clark
The what, when, and how of preservice teachers and literacy across the disciplines: A systematic literature review of nearly 50 years of research, Chyllis E. Scott, Diane M. Miller, Erin K. Washburn, and Erin M. McTigue
Contending with Gun Violence in the English Language Classroom, Shelly Shaffer, Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil, and Steven T. Bickmore
A Vision for Future Work to Focus on the “M” in Integrated STEM, Micah Stohlmann
Middle School Students' Mindsets Before and After Open-Ended Problems, Micah Stohlmann, Xing Huang, and Lina DeVaul
The Impact of Technology Based Mathematical Modeling on Middle School Students’ Mindsets, Micah Stohlmann, Xing Huang, and Lina DeVaul
Building safe community spaces for immigrant families, one library at a time, Max Vazquez, Denise Davila, and Silvia Nogueron-Liu
Changes in Beliefs towards Children, Personality, and Future Social Studies Teachers: An Analysis of Survey Data, Peter D. Wiens
Expanding Circle: The Case of Nigerien EFL Teachers’ English, Training and Career Satisfaction, Peter D. Wiens, Elena Andrei, Bila Anassour, and April Smith
Five years of video-based assessment data: Lessons from a teacher education program, Peter D. Wiens and Matthew D. Gromlich
EFL teachers’ preparation and beliefs in Niger, Peter Wiens, Bong Gee Jang, Katrina Liu, Billa Anassour, and April Smith
How Middle Level Science Teachers Visualize and Translate Motion, Scale, and Geometric Space of the Earth-Moon-Sun System with Their Students, Jennifer Wilhelm, Merryn Cole, Cheryl Cohen, and Rebecca Lindell
Family Influences on Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy of Chinese Secondary Vocational Students, Xue Xing and Jay W. Rojewski
Submissions from 2017
Elementary teachers’ perceptions about the effective features of explicit-reflective nature of science instruction, E Adibelli Sahin and H Deniz
Comments from the editors, Angela T. Barlow and Travis A. Olson
AMTE Standards for Mathematics Teacher Preparation, Nadine Bezuk, Jennifer Bay-Williams, Douglas H. Clements, W Gary Martin, Julia Aguirre, Timothy Boerst, Elizabeth A. Burroughs, Ed Dickey, Elizabeth Hughes, DeAnn Huinker, Rochelle Gutierrez, Karen Karp, Jim Lewis, Travis A. Olson, Randolph Philipp, Nicole Rigelmann, Marilyn E. Strutchens, Dorothy Y. White, and Christine D. Thomas
The charter principal: Nuanced descriptions of leadership, Dana L. Bickmore and Marytza A. Gawlik
10 Young Adult Literature Web Resources You Should Know., Steven T. Bickmore
21,467,385 Attendees at the Jan 21, 2017 Women’s March Across the USA!! (An Alternate Fact) Don’t They Need Something to Read? Strong Women in YA Literature (and children’s)., Steven T. Bickmore
A Diverse Reading List for Betsy DeVos, Steven T. Bickmore
An Overview of the Work of Ellen Wittlinger and an Interview to Boot., Steven T. Bickmore
Bick's Picks for 2017, Steven T. Bickmore
Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace, Steven T. Bickmore
Catching up and Looking Forward., Steven T. Bickmore
Come See the Toe Tag Monologues at #NCTE17!, Steven T. Bickmore
Dr. Bickmore's Free Choice Categories for His YA Literature Course Fall 2017, Steven T. Bickmore
Exploring History and Social Action with YA Literature, Steven T. Bickmore
My First Undergraduate YA Literature Class in Five Years: What did the Pre-Service Teachers Like?, Steven T. Bickmore
Remembering #ALAN17: Moments that stay and keep us thinking about YA throughout the Year, Steven T. Bickmore
Representation of Diversity in the first 20 Years of the National Book Award, Steven T. Bickmore
Rereading the past and excavating the foundation: Cormier, Hamilton, Zindel, and Myers, Steven T. Bickmore
Revisiting Dr. Bickmore's YA Wednesday Weekend Picks, Steven T. Bickmore
Second Reaction: More Dominant than the First: The Power of Memory in Brown Girl Dreaming., Steven T. Bickmore
Shocked and Sad. That is my emotional state today 10.2.2017, Steven T. Bickmore
Spring Break: Musing, Ramblings, and Updates, Steven T. Bickmore
The Joy of Reading Jo Knowles, Steven T. Bickmore
Unconventional YA Love Stories. A List of Romantic Reads to Finish off the Week., Steven T. Bickmore
Using the Printz Award to Reread and Rethink, Steven T. Bickmore
Visiting the Annual Convention of the Mississippi Council of the Social Studies, Steven T. Bickmore
What my Friends and Colleagues are Reading this Summer., Steven T. Bickmore
Who Wants to Spend the Day with Laurie Halse Anderson and Ashley Hope Perez?, Steven T. Bickmore
YA Summit Coming To Las Vegas. Come be #VegasStrong and YA Critical, Steven T. Bickmore
Young Adult Literature and the 2017 CEE Summer Conference, Steven T. Bickmore
Discussing the Young Adult Literature of Simon Elkeles, Steven T. Bickmore
Introducing Aaron Levy and His Novel, Blood Don't Lie., Steven T. Bickmore
Introducing Maddy Lederman, author of Edna in the Desert, Steven T. Bickmore
Exploring Music Connections and Opportunities in Brendan Kiely’s The Last True Love Story, Steven T. Bickmore and Isaac L. Bickmore
Understanding of the Role of Leningrad in World War II through M. T. Anderson’s Symphony for the City of the Dead, Steven T. Bickmore and Paul E. Binford
Las Vegas Strong. Find the helpers. On Tuesday Morning I Found Kathryn Erskine Once Again., Steven T. Bickmore and Kathryn Erskine
We are Mostly Immigrants: Thanks Bryan Ripley Crandall, Steven T. Bickmore and Bryan Ripley Crandall
Crossing Selma's Bridge: Integrating Visual Discovery Strategy and Young Adult Literature to Promote Dialogue and Understanding, Steven T. Bickmore, Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil, and Paul E. Binford
Where Are the People of Color?: Representation of Cultural Diversity in the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and Advocating for Diverse Books in a Non-Post Racial Society, Steven T. Bickmore, Yunying Xu, and Myra Infante-Sheridan
Evolution acceptance and epistemological beliefs of college biology students, L A. Borgerding, H Deniz, and E S. Anderson
Attentive reading and research in the Arne Nixon Center, Denise Davila and Patricia Enciso
Convenient Books for Inconvenient Truths About Earth's Ecosystem and Human Activities, Denise Davila, Sophie M. Ladd, Amanda K. Melilli, Yunying Xu, and Julie Carbaugh
Robo-Books: A “Secret Sauce” for STEM Education, Denise Davila, Sophie M. Ladd, and Xu Yunying
The Latinx Family: Learning y La Literatura at the Library, Denise Dávila, Max Vasquez-Dominguez, and Silvia Noguerón
“That sh*t’s rude!”: Religion, Picture Books, and Social Narratives in Middle School, Denise Davila and Allison Volz
The influence of an authentic engineering design experience on elementary teachers’ nature of engineering views, Hasan Deniz, Ezgi Yesilyurt, Erdogan Kaya, and Mohamed Trabia
Reivew: 2017 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction, Cyndi Georgis, Mary Ann Cappiello, Denise Davila, Jeanne Gilliam Fain, Jennifer M. Graff, Marianne Richardson, and Scott Riley
Managing the Classroom Begins With Understanding Oneself: Early Career Teachers as Culturally Responsive Classroom, Iesha Jackson
School Integration Matters: Research-based Strategies to Advance Equity, Iesha Jackson
EEGRC poster: Improving pre-service elementary teachers' nature of engineering views with the use of EV3 robotics, E Kaya, A D. Newley, H Deniz, and E Yesilyurt
Cultural-linguistic test adaptations: Guidelines for selection, alteration, use, and review, S K. Krach, M P. McCreery, and J Guerard
Diagnostic Utility of the Social Skills Improvement System Performance Screening Guide, S K. Krach, M P. McCreery, Y Wang, H Mohammadiamin, and C K. Cirks
Positive Behavioral Supports: Empirically Supported Use of Behavioral Logs, S K. Krach, M P. McCreery, R Wilcox, and S D. Focaracci
Psychosocial Factors Impacting STEM Career Selection, Richard Lamb, Leonard Annetta, David Vallett, Jonah Firestone, Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe, Heather Walker, Nicole Deviller, and Douglas Hoston
Research-based Resources to Achieve Excellence in Teaching History., Greg J. Levitt, Steven J. Grubaugh, Allen Donald Deever, and Gabe Gonzales
Creating a dialogic space for prospective teacher critical reflection and transformative learning, K Liu
Review: The Work and Lives of Teachers: A Global Perspective, Katrina Liu
“We Serve Them All:” Social Capital and Resilience of Teachers in a Dual Language Program, Yan Liu
The impact of an integrated STEM after-school program on elementary students' beliefs about the role of the teacher., Cathrine Maiorca and Micah S. Stohlmann
Somos Gente Estudiada: Creating Change Within and Outside the Walls of Academia, Norma Angelica Marrun
How the Human is the Catalyst: Personality, Aggressive Fantasy, and Proactive-Reactive Aggression Among Users of Social Media, Michael McCreery and S Kathleen-Krach
Being a writer and teaching writing on the 'rackety bridge': Through the lens of new teachers, Marilyn McKinney
On the diversity and richness of understory bryophytes at Nectandra Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica, D H. Norris, E Kraichak, A C. Risk, D Lucas, D J. Allard, F Rosengren, T A. Clark, N Fenton, M Tessler, N Phephu, and E T. Lennette
Proceedings for the 44th annual meeting of the research council on mathematics learning, Travis A. Olson
Temporal Trends and Rural-Urban Differences in Hospital Length of Stay for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders, S T.Y. Opoku, B A. Apenteng, and G Lin
Experimental Study of Dynamic Progressive Collapse in Flat-Plate Buildings Subjected to Exterior Column Removal, Z Peng, S L. Orton, J Liu, and Y Tian
Increasing the cultural competence & responsiveness of family nurse practitioners: Preparing to work with children with behavioral challenges from high-minority low-income communities, T Robinson and C Clark
Constructing a Community of Practice: Started by faculty—Owned by students, Chyllis E. Scott
Book Review: Personal, Narrative, Revised, Chyllis E. Scott and Denise Davila
Review: WHAM! Teaching with Graphic Novels Across the Curriculum by Brozo, Moorman, and Meyer., Chyllis E. Scott, Cadence Taylor, Bridgette Buhlman, Ana Dunne, Chelsea Garmon, Nerissa Lopez, and Alexandria Miles
A Profile of Mathematics Education Doctoral Graduates’ Background and Preparation in the United States, Jeffrey Shih, Robert E. Reys, Barba J. Reys, and Christopher Engledowl
Elementary Mathematical Modeling: Get in the GAIMME, Micah Stohlmann
Mathematical Modeling with Middle School Students: The Robot Art Model-eliciting Activity, Micah Stohlmann
Desmos Battleship, Micah S. Stohlmann
The impact and reach of elementary grades mathematical modelling, Micah S. Stohlmann and Louis Albarracin
Noteworthy habitat and phylogeny updates for eastern US Ulota (Orthotrichaceae, Bryophyta), M Tessler, S W. Cunningham, and T A. Clark
#Indigenous: tracking the connective actions of Native American advocates on Twitter, Sharon Tettegah
Addressing location uncertainties in GPS-based activity monitoring: A methodological framework, N Wan, Kan G. Lin, and G Wilson
Asymptotic properties of spatial scan statistics under the alternative hypothesis, T Zhang and G Lin
Submissions from 2016
Complexities of a third-space partnership in an urban teacher residency, Jori S. Beck
Critical reflection and professional accountability: One team’s experiences at the Teach to Lead Summit, Jori S. Beck and Rosemary Q. Flores
2016 Long List National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Steven T. Bickmore
A Confluence of Two Authors Named Chris in Georgia, Steven T. Bickmore
Bick's Picks for 2016, Steven T. Bickmore
Blood Brother: An introduction to Jonathan Daniels, Steven T. Bickmore
Chris Lynch and the KSU children's and YA Literature Conference, Steven T. Bickmore