Educational psychology professors Leah McGuire and Michael Goh have been awarded 2011 Multicultural Research Awards by the University’s Institute for Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy (IDEA). The grants encourage and support research by faculty of color, and promote research on issues related to communities of color in the United States.
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Leah McGuire, educational psychology assistant professor, has been awarded a University of Minnesota IDEA Multicultural Research Award for her proposal, “Investigating Differential Context Effects in Statistics Assessments.”
The project aims to discover features of contexts that can predict differential difficulty in assessment items. Specifically, her project takes an Explanatory Item Response Modeling approach to model group differences related to item context. The results will then be used to discuss the impact of certain contexts on student scores as well as to suggest guidelines for writing fair contexts.
Ngoh Tiong Tan, a 1988 Ph.D. graduate of the School of Social Work, will be presented with the University of Minnesota Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals on March 23. The event will be from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Campus Club in Coffman Union.
Tan, who is dean of the School of Human Development and Social Services at SIM University in Singapore, will speak at the event. His talk is titled “The Accidental Social Worker: My Journey in Social Work Leadership in Asia.”
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School of Social Work Professor Jeffrey Edleson, was featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s Midday Show on March 2. The topic of the show was examining the impact of domestic violence. Edleson, who is director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse, was interviewed about recent news stories on domestic violence and answered questions from callers. Listen to the broadcast:
This year’s winner for the Mixed Methods Research SIG Outstanding Mixed Methods Dissertation Award is Dr. Pamela M. Wesely, a Curriculum and Instruction (SLC) Ph.D. graduate (2009). Her adviser was Diane Tedick, and her dissertation was titled: The Language Learning Motivation of Early Adolescent French and Spanish Elementary Immersion Program Graduates.
Dr. Wesely is now Assistant Professor, Foreign Language and ESL Education, The University of Iowa.
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Karen Seashore, Ph.D., Regents professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), has been invited to the University of Auckland as a Distinguished Visitor due to her being one of America’s most acclaimed researchers, writers and teachers on school improvement and reform, school leadership, and knowledge use in education.
She will be giving two seminars: Great Expectations: How to Lead in Complex Times and Integrative Leadership in Education: How We Can Broaden Engagement for Student Learning.
See Visiting scholar to address school leadership and reform.
Karen Seashore, Regents Professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), has been selected to become a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Fellows will be officially honored and inducted by the association during a special ceremony at the AERA annual meeting on April 9, 2011.
The AERA Fellows Program was established by the AERA Council in 2007 to honor education researchers with substantial research accomplishments, to convey the association’s commitment to excellence in research, and to emphasize to new scholars the importance of sustained research of excellence in the field. The Class of 2011 Fellows is the third group to be inducted based on nomination by peers, selection by the Fellows Program Committee, and approval by council.
On Feb. 16, CEHD advisers Anthony Albecker, Carole Ann Broad, and Anna Mraz gave a presentation to the University’s Focusing on the First-Year Conference regarding use of Gallup’s StrengthQuest program in the college’s First Year Experience. CEHD Student Services delivers the StrengthsQuest assessment and related curricula to help the college’s first-year students explore and apply their talents towards development outcomes.
David Chapman, Birkmaier Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, was a guest of the Japanese Ministry of Education to present a paper (with Jouko Sarvi, head of education work at the Asian Development Bank) at the International Symposium on Regional and Interregional Cooperation of Universities held at the University of Tokyo, February 17-18. Michael Goh, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, was a visiting professor at the Center for Innovation Research in Cultural Intelligence and Leadership (CIRCQL), Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, February 13-20.
The Human and Sport Performance Laboratory (HSPL) has officially launched its new Web site with details on how the lab provides sports performance testing to enhance outcome measures for athletes. Since its launch last summer, HSPL has tested athletes from the NHL as well as professional athletes in endurance sports.
HSPL, a lab within the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science in the School of Kinesiology, is also working on potential projects with elite speed skaters, University athletes, public schools, and club sport teams around the Twin Cities.
On March 15th, a reflective seminar, primarily for child protection supervisors, is being held to provide an opportunity to share questions, concerns, and ideas, on concepts that have their origin in frightening circumstances that some of families in child protection caseloads have experienced. It is a no-cost seminar.
Discussion leaders will be Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D., L.P., and Dawn Reckinger, Ph.D., M.P.H., from Family Social Science as well as Patricia Shannon, Ph.D., L.P., and Esther Wattenberg, Professor, from the School of Social Work.
It will be held on March 15 from 1pm to 4pm, at the Wilkins Room–215 Hubert Humphrey Center, West Bank Campus, University of Minnesota, 301 – 19th Avenue S., Minneapolis MN 55455. Space is limited.
For more information and to register for the seminar.
President Robert Bruininks, professor of educational psychology and former CEHD dean, was honored last week by the Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Association (MESPA) with their “Champion for Children” award. Bruininks, who will be leaving the presidency in June 2011, has had a long academic career focused on child and adolescent development and policy research, and strategic improvement in the fields of pre-kindergarten to grade 12 and higher education. He has authored or coauthored nearly 90 journal articles and more than 70 books chapters, as well as training materials and several standardized tests.
Past recipients of the award include U.S. Senators Paul Wellstone and Mark Dayton, U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad, and Elmer Koch. MESPA has a statewide membership of over 950 elementary and middle-level principals.
See the full story at UMNews.
Dr. Tom Stoffregen, professor in Kinesiology, continues to attract attention with his study on the effects of motion created by ships at sea on humans. The article below appeared recently in the Charleston, SC, newspaper, The Post and Courier:
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/feb/07/scientist-explores-sea-legs/
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Dr. Daheia Barr-Anderson, assistant professor in Kinesiology, has had a manuscript accepted for publication in Preventing Chronic Disease, an online, peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Barr-Anderson DJ, Fulkerson JA, Smyth M, Himes JH, Hannan PJ, Holy Rock B, Story M. Parental perceptions, role modeling and media-related resources within the home are associated with screen-time behavior in American Indian children. Preventing Chronic Disease. In press.
Congratulations to Brandi Hoffman, coordinator, and Dr. Jo Ann Buysse, lecturer, both from the School of Kinesiology, for receiving a CEHD CPAC Professional Development Award. The $300 awards will be used for a professional development activity. Ms. Hoffman will be attending the StrengthQuest Educator Seminar April 12-13 in Minneapolis. Dr Buysse will be using her award for international travel.
The call for proposals attracted 59 entries, and forty proposals were randomly selected for funding. The awards were sponsored by the CEHD Professional and Administrative Council (CPAC).
Stacy Ingraham, lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, was interviewed by KARE-11 recently on the gimmicks surrounding some types of exercise equipment and marketing. Read the story here:
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=907138mp
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Alumna Sara Jo Lehrer leveraged her youth studies internship at Patrick’s Cabaret into a post-graduation position as communications and volunteer coordinator. Now she’s putting her degree to work by developing youth programming at the community theater. Likewise, Paul Shanafelt, turned a sound engineering class that he created during his internship into an ongoing position at teen-run music venue, The Garage.
Multiple faculty from the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, along with research assistants and colleagues, presented at the Focusing on the First Year conference held on campus Wednesday, February 16. The presentations included “Mapping the Academic and Social Engagement of First-Year Undergraduate Students at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,” “Engaging Students in the First Year: A Multidisciplinary Approach,” and “Excellence for All: Student Learning and Development.” The Focusing on the First Year conference is a bi-annual event that brings faculty, staff, and administrators together to discuss academic and development issues relating to first-year students.
Irene Duranczyk, associate professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, gave a poster presentation at the CERME7 (Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education) recently held in Rzezow, Poland. Her presentation, “Critical multicultural instruction for undergraduate mathematical thinking courses,” gives the theoretical foundation and preliminary results of her research in teaching mathematical thinking through an introductory statistics course. Duranczyk also participated in the workgroup on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, along with Bill Barton, the president of the International Congress for Mathematics Education (ICEM), and Barbara Jaworski, co-director of the University’s Centre for Mathematics Education Research (CMER) at the University of Oxford.
The Tucker Center is pleased to welcome and partner with USA Rugby to offer a national level coach education workshop at the University of Minnesota on March 5-6, 2011. The sport of rugby is played in over 120 countries by over 10 million athletes, is currently classified as an NCAA emerging sport for women, and was recently inducted as an Olympic sport. The purpose of this course is to educate coaches and highlight female members of the USA Rugby coach education staff. The Tucker Center is pleased to play a role in this event as it actively encourages females to consider serving as educators to help others improve their coaching practice. Further information regarding USA Rugby’s coach development program is available at www.usarugby.org. For further details contact Katie Wurst.
