Welcome to faculty research publications for the College of Education and Human Services. The materials collected here represent selected scholarly and creative works of the college's faculty.
If you are a faculty member in the college and want to see your research represented here contact [email protected].Submissions from 2026
Excellence in Onboarding: A Case Study of Campus Leader Support for Early-Career Teachers, Kelsey Bowles, Peter E. Williams, and Alicia Piechowiak
The Big Five Personality Traits and Perceptions of Generative AI in Higher Education: A Canonical Correlation Analysis for Sustainable Digital Education, Mei Jiang, Shifang Tang, and Qingwei Wang
Thriving in the Middle: The Role of Mindfulness, Psychological Capital, and Supervisor Support for Assistant Principals, Susan Kim, Peter Williams, Mei Jiang, and Teresa Farler
Examining the Psychometric Structure of an Instrument to Measure Students’ Interests and Motivation in Science Learning: Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance, Fuhui Tong, Shifang Tang, Zhuoying Wang, and Beverly J. Irby
Uneven Surfaces, Chipped Plates and Hiding Spaces: Pedagogical Practices in the Nordic Outdoor Model of Education, Karen Walker
Submissions from 2025
Comparing the Strength of the Confidence-Accuracy Versus Response Time-Accuracy Relationship for Eyewitness Identification, Curt A. Carlson, Robert F. Lockamyeir, Maria A. Carlson, and Charles A. Goodsell
Submissions from 2024
Affirming Culture and Cultural Identity in the Bilingual/ESL Classrooms, Frank Lucido, David Jimenez, and Shifang Tang
Effects of Adjunct Questions on L2 Reading Comprehension with Texts of Different Types, Yunmei Sun, Wenhui Zhou, and Shifang Tang
Understanding the Complexities of Student Learning Progress in Texas: A Study of COVID-19 and Rural vs. Non-Rural Districts, Shifang Tang, Zhuoying Wang, Lei Zhang, and David Jimenez
Submissions from 2023
Teaching Narrative Interviewing: Reflecting, Narrating, and Becoming-In-Action, Brett H. Bodily and Sherri R. Colby
Beyond Reading and Writing: Information Literacy in Higher Education for Lifelong Success, Marta A. Mercado-Sierra and Sarah H. Northam
Pubertal Progression and Its Relationship to Psychological and Behavioral Outcomes Among Adolescent Boys, Meng-Che Tsai, Yu-Chung Lawrence Wang, and Hsun-Yu Chan
The Association Between COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors and Mental Health Conditions, Elizabeth Wachira, Bhakti Chavan, Carolyn Nganga-Good, and Caroline Kingori
A Comparative Study of Texas–Mexico Border vs. Non-Border Students’ Achievement on High-Stakes State Test: A Propensity Score Matching Method, Zhuoying Wang, Shifang Tang, and Feng Luo
Submissions from 2022
The Use of Digital Health Tools for Health Promotion Among Women With and Without Chronic Diseases: Insights From the 2017-2020 Health Information National Trends Survey, Kobi V. Ajayi, Elizabeth Wachira, Henry K. Onyeaka, and Tyra Montour
High School Course-Completion Trajectories and College Pathways for All: A Transcript Analysis Study on Elective Computer Science Courses, Hsun-Yu Chan, Ting-Lan Ma, Guan K. Saw, and Yen-Ming Huang
Supporting a Statewide Policy Consideration: Virtual Advancing Educational Leadership Training, Hamada Elfarargy, Beverly J. Irby, Nahed Abdelrahman, Gwendolyn Carol Webb, Angela Abney, Susan Holley, Elsa Villarreal, and Carl Fahrenwald
What Does It Mean to Take Online Classes as an International Student During COVID-19?, Katie K. Koo and Mei Jiang
Submissions from 2021
Testing Encoding Specificity and the Diagnostic Feature-detection Theory of Eyewitness Identification, with Implications for Showups, Lineups, and Partially Disguised Perpetrators, Curt Carlson, Jacob A. Hemby, Alex R. Wooten, and Alyssa R. Jones
A Light in Students’ Lives: K-12 Teachers’ Experiences (Re)Building Caring Relationships During Remote Learning, Karyn E. Miller
The Influence of Policy Implementation in the Midwest: How a SSTEM Program Broadens Participation and Enhances Engineering Identity for Community College Students, Sarah L. Rodriguez, Maria L. Espino, Brian D. Le, and Kelly J. Cunniham
Towards Collaborative and Intelligent Learning Environments Based on Eye Tracking Data and Learning Analytics: A Survey, Yuehua Wang, Shulan Lu, and Derek Harter
Submissions from 2020
Emotional Presence in Building an Online Learning Community Among Non-traditional Graduate Students, Mei Jiang and Katie Koo
Inclusion & Marginalization: How Perceptions of Design Thinking Pedagogy Influence Computer, Electrical, and Software Engineering Identity, Sarah L. Rodriguez, Erin E. Doran, Rachel E. Friedensen, Elizabeth Martínez-Podolsky, and Paul S. Hengesteg
Facilitating a Path to New Teacher Certification Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Unpacking States’ Unchanged-New Flex” Guidelines, Laura E. Slay, Jacqueline Riley, and Karyn E. Miller
