Researchers by Name

CESHS Research Themes:

Educational leadership; Teacher education, professional development, and effectiveness; Organizational theory and behavior; Educational reform.

Keywords:

teacher preparation; teacher induction; teacher development; middle level education

Research Questions/Topics:

• Teacher preparation in the age of accountability
• Development of new teachers
• Development of middle level teachers
• Developmentally appropriate middle grade schools. 

CESHS Research Themes

STEM education; Literacy; Cultural and linguistic diversity; Student learning, engagement, and achievementKeywords

English language learners (ELL); integrated science literacy instruction; vocabulary; language learning strategiesResearch Questions/Topics

• What explicit vocabulary support strategies are effective in supporting English-language learners (ELs) and non-ELs science learning in integrated secondary level classrooms?
• What is the impact of explicit vocabulary instruction—both general academic and technical—on student science and literacy achievement?
• What is the impact of an explicit vocabulary instruction program on students’ use of language learning strategies? On science attitudes?
• What are the relative contributions of general academic and technical vocabulary to English language learners (ELs) reading comprehension of expository science texts?

CESHS Research Themes

Students with disabilities; Cultural and linguistic diversity; Parent and community involvement in education

Keywords

indigenous education; special education; early childhood; family involvement; curriculum and assessment

Research Questions/Topics

• What are indigenous families’ perspectives on the services and experiences related to their child(ren)/youth/young adults with special needs?
• What practices do indigenous teachers use to teach in culturally responsive ways (including curriculum and assessment) and what recommendations do they have for teacher training programs, policy development, and future research?
• What are the health and educational needs of indigenous children (birth through eight) with disabilities and their families?
• What are the transition experiences of young indigenous adults with disabilities transition from secondary education to post-secondary education and/or employment?
• What are the implications of the results for practice, policy development, and future research?

CESHS Research Themes

Teacher education, professional development, and effectiveness; Educational leadership

Keywords

induction; beginning teachers; mentoring; retention

Research Questions/Topics

• What are the most effective strategies school districts can use to assist beginning teachers?
• What strategies can small and/or rural districts with limited resources use to provide effective induction supports for their beginning teachers?
• What should teacher preparation programs do to help teacher candidates advocate for induction support when interviewing for first jobs?

CESHS Research Themes

Physical health, activity, and performance

Keywords

balance control; gait; concussion; divided attention

Research Questions/Topics

• How does a concussion alter motor performance?
• How do aspects of divided attention affect balance control?
• How do environmental perturbations affect balance control?
• How do physical alterations to the body affect balance control?

CESHS Research Themes

STEM education; Educational technologyKeywords

science education; reasoning; student learning; science literacyResearch Questions/Topics

• Enhancing learning and transfer of science principles via category construction
• Argument-based scientific inquiry

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Physical health, activity, and performance; Psychological well-being and interventions

Keywords

pregnancy; physical activity; postpartum; fitness; efficacy beliefs; intercollegiate athletics

Research Questions/Topics

• How do efficacy beliefs and risk perceptions towards physical activity influence pregnant women’s physical activity behavior?  What role do family members, friends, and prenatal healthcare providers play in forming these beliefs and perceptions?
• What is the impact of infertility, infertility treatment, and past challenges in attempting to become pregnant (miscarriage, etc.) on levels and modalities of physical activity during pregnancy and postpartum?
• Does pregnancy serve as a sort of ergogenic aide in postpartum exercise/sports performance?  To what extent does pre-pregnancy physical activity levels and performance influence this?
• What is the impact of training programs on fitness levels of intercollegiate athletes and their in-game performance? How does the accurate evaluation of their fitness levels and capacities alter these?

CESHS Research Themes

Physical health, activity, and performance; Psychological well-being and interventions

Keywords

physical activity motivation; body image; mindfulness; yoga; physical education

Research Questions/Topics

• How does yoga impact physical activity motivation and body image in adults and children?
• What is the role of mindfulness during exercise in predicting future physical activity motivation, behavior and associated consequences?
• Does yoga participation foster mindfulness in children and can this transfer to other settings such as academics?
• What are the characteristics of exercise settings that are best at fostering mindfulness in participants?

CESHS Research Themes

Career development and assessment; Management and socio-cultural studies of sport

Keywords

intercollegiate athlete, engagement; retention; university recreation; academic success; underrepresented students

Research Questions/Topics

• What outcomes are associated with student services provided by intercollegiate athletics?
• How are underrepresented (college) student populations served by university recreation programming?
• How is the university mission served by a) intercollegiate sport? b) university recreation facilities?

CESHS Research Themes

Literacy; Educational technology

Keywords

children’s literature, reader response, integrating technology, teaching online

Research Questions/Topics

• Middle school students, regardless of reading levels, deserve opportunities to read outstanding global literature to help them wonder, think and learn about the world.
• Children’s literature can be taught successfully online.
• Online literacy courses can have as much community and collaboration as face-to-face courses
• Our youngest children, preschoolers and kindergarteners, can talk about books and have meaningful discussions about books.
• How do middle school teachers integrate iPad apps and student response to children’s literature?

CESHS Research Themes

Literacy; Educational technology; STEM education; Innovative and evidence-based teaching practices and environments; Cultural and linguistic diversity

Keywords

writing; reading; technology; mnemonic strategy instruction; RTI; multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS)

Research Questions/Topics

• What software best helps students improve reading?
• What software best helps students improve writing?
• What reading and writing interventions can help students improve in content area subjects such as science and math?
• How do schools develop, implement, and assess a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS; formerly known as response to intervention [RTI])?

CESHS Research Themes

Cultural and linguistic diversity; Student learning, engagement, and achievement; Teacher education, professional development, and effectiveness; Educational technology

Keywords

Engagement; differentiation; computer-assisted language learning; English language learners; educational technology; teacher education

Research Questions/Topics

• What engages ELLs from different backgrounds?
• Does task engagement lead to higher language achievement?
• What is the role of technology use in student engagement?
• How do teachers learn to work effectively with ELLs and technology?

CESHS Research Themes

Human-animal interaction; Psychological well-being and interventions

Keywords

equine-assisted activities; animal-assisted therapy; human-animal interaction

Research Questions/Topics

• What is the evidence to support that animal-assisted activities/equine-facilitated therapy helps kids on the autism spectrum?
• How do equine-facilitated interventions help veterans?
• What are some of the physiological indicators that animal-assisted interventions benefit humans?
• How do we measure the impact on the animals in animal-assisted work?

CESHS Research Themes

Teacher training, professional development and effectiveness; Cultural and linguistic diversity; Literacy; Parent and community involvement in education

Keywords

academic language; teacher education; English language learners (ELLs); linguistically diverse students; second language pedagogy; home visits; diverse learners

Research Questions/Topics

• How do we better prepare teachers for linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms?
• How do we close the achievement gap for English language learners (ELLs) and immigrant students?
• How do we increase parent involvement in the education of K-12 students?

CESHS Research Themes

Cultural and linguistic diversity; STEM education; Teacher training, professional development and effectiveness; youth and career development; Social justice in education; Environmental education

Keywords

poverty and other systemic barriers to educational access; cultural and linguistic diversity; arts-based teaching, learning, and research; STEAM and other arts-integrated curriculum and instruction

Research Questions/Topics

• Educational experiences of children and youth who experience homelessness and other manifestations of poverty in the U.S.
• Integration of arts in curriculum and teaching, particularly in STEM areas and environmental education
• Teacher self-study in relation to cultural and linguistic diversity

CESHS Research Themes

STEM education; Teacher training, professional development and effectiveness; Cultural and linguistic diversity; History and philosophy of science and education

Keywords

science education; teacher’s professional learning and development; science curriculum; pre-service education; culturally relevant pedagogies; induction; history and philosophy of science

Research Questions/Topics

• How is an understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS) of science teachers affected by the culture of school?
• How do pre-service experiences and induction support affect beginning science teachers?
• How do elementary STEM schools incorporate best practices in their design and implementation of curriculum?
• How do beginning teachers incorporate mentoring, professional development, and induction support into their pedagogy?

CESHS Research Themes

Measurement and evaluation; STEM education; Teacher training, professional development and effectiveness

Keywords

validity, bias, STEM, measurement, statistical modeling

Research Questions/Topics

• Do scores from instruments have sufficient evidence to support the decisions people make about groups and individuals?
• Do measurement and statistical models perform well when conditions are not ideal (e.g., violation of assumptions)?

CESHS Research Themes

STEM education; Teacher education, professional development and effectiveness; Innovative and evidence-based teaching practices and environments; Student learning, engagement, and achievement

Keywords

development; teacher change; ambitious/innovative instruction; integration of education and health sciences

Research Questions/Topics

• What conditions seem to support innovative teaching and/or development of innovative learning environments (in any context, including K12 conventional or nonconventional schools, undergraduate education at 2 and 4 year institutions and graduate education)?
• What are the teacher and student outcomes of innovative teaching and learning environments?
• What prompts or interferes with teacher change at the K12 and postsecondary levels?
• What effect can COE faculty members and presentation of effective teaching practicies have on the pedagogical practices of health science faculty and health science student outcomes?

CESHS Research Themes

Educational leadership; Social justice in education

Keywords

Educational leadership; social justice; ethics; community; action research

Research Questions/Topics

• Social justice leadership in K-12 schools:  How do school principals lead for social justice in an environment of high-stakes accountability?
• What are the current issues/challenges facing K-12 school principals, and how do these affect the “pipeline” of qualified school leaders?
• What is the impact of action research processes in K-12 schools in regard to addressing challenges and creating a sense of community?
• How can leadership preparation programs enhance leadership skills related to positive communication, relationship building, and inclusive processes?

CESHS Research Themes

Educational leadership; Student learning, engagement, and achievement; Psychological well-being and interventions

Keywords

leadership; mindfulness; resilience; stress; coping

Research Questions/Topics

• Leadership practices concerned with improving student performance.
• How do school leaders adapt to reform?
• How can school leadership manage uncertainty and errors that inhibit resilience?
• How can mindful practices of school leaders be developed or strengthened?

CESHS Research Themes

Measurement and evaluation; Teacher education, professional development and effectiveness

Keywords

assessment literacy; teacher effectiveness; test validity; score reporting

Research Questions/Topics

• How does teacher competence in assessment relate to student achievement (i.e., student learning outcomes)?
• What are the most effective ways of delivering test performance to key stakeholders, in order to maximize action that is productive and defensible?

CESHS Research Themes

Cultural and linguistic diversity; Cultural studies in education; Teacher education, professional development, and effectiveness

Keywords

language teaching; indigenous language revitalization; native American; Mexico; language policy and planning; language textbooks

Research Questions/Topics

• What are the relationships between various instructional materials (e.g. textbooks) and the types of language that these generate in second language classrooms or bilingual classrooms?
• How are materials (e.g., textbooks and teacher-created materials) used within distinct pedagogical approaches, such as communicative, content-based, and skill-based frameworks of language teaching?
• Yucatec Mayan language planning efforts in Mexico: in particular, how does new language policy affect ethnically segregated, Maya/Spanish bilingual schools within the public education system?
• Language teacher training/education in the geographical area surrounding Washington State University, specifically in the realm of bilingual education or in native American communities

CESHS Research Themes

Physical health, activity, and performance

Keywords

concussion; neck biomechanics; concussion education; youth sports

Research Questions/Topics

• How do neck biomechanics influence the incidence of concussion?
• How does the magnitude of impact in youth sports influence concussions?
• What is the medical community’s understanding of concussions?
• What is the general public/athletes’ understanding of concussions?

CESHS Research Themes

Students with disabilities; Cultural and linguistic diversity; Teacher education, professional development and effectiveness; Parent and community involvement

Keywords

autism; families of students with disabilities; evidence based practices; culturally responsive teaching; accessing general education curriculum; teacher preparation

Research Questions/Topics

• To what extent are evidence based practices for children/youth with disabilities provided during pre-service training and professional development to teachers and other education professionals?
• What are the perspectives of families of students with disabilities on their relationship with education professionals?

CESHS Research Themes

Educational leadership; STEM education

Keywords

distributed leadership; professional learning communities; teacher leadership

Research Questions/Topics

• How do principals facilitate the leadership transition of those in whom they distribute leadership?
• What experiences transition teacher leaders into leadership roles in schools?
• How do principals learn how to build leadership capacity in their schools?
• What fosters distributive leadership risk taking by principals in high schools?

CESHS Research Themes

Management and socio-cultural studies of sport

Keywords

sport governance, sport policy, international sport, Olympic movement

Research Questions/Topics

• The use of game theoretic models to explain the relationship between the Olympic movement and national governments
• The role of ideology in legitimizing the authority of sport governing bodies
• Value congruence as an explanatory variable in the decision to employ sport as a policy tool

CESHS Research Themes

Cultural; Teacher education, professional development and effectiveness; Literacy: Parent and community involvement; Student learning, engagement, and achievement

Keywords

language policy and planning; application of policy as practice; immigrant communities; parent and community engagement; funds of knowledge; bilingual education; Hispanic-serving Institutions.

Research Questions/Topics

• How are language policies processed across multiple administrative levels? How are the decisions of key language policy arbiters influenced by broader sociocultural factors?
• How are language policies instantiated in diverse classrooms?
• How do English language learner/bilingual education programs shape the educational opportunities of language-minority students?
• How do family engagement and parent outreach activities affect ELL students’ acculturation and academic progress?
• How does integrating ELL students’ funds of knowledge into classroom practices affect academic achievement and linguistic development?

CESHS Research Themes

Literacy; Cultural and linguistic diversity; Innovative and evidence-based teaching practices and environments; Teacher training, professional development, and effectiveness; Students with disabilities

Keywords

Children’s literature; Critical text analysis; Dual early literacy books; Teacher reflection; Autism

Research Questions/Topics

• In what ways does children’s literature maintain, perpetuate, and/or challenge cultural practices and ideologies?
• How can children’s literature encourage understanding about people from diverse backgrounds and abilities?
• What are the effects of authentic children’s literature that affirms a person’s cultural background?
• How can emergent literacy practices be used as tools for counter terrorism?

CESHS Research Themes

Management and socio-cultural studies of sport

Keywords

Consumer engagement, engagement behavior, motivation, and service quality, commitment, moderating effect

Research Questions/Topics

• What is engagement in sport and how important is it?
• Why do people engage in sport?
• Understanding sport consumer behavior

CESHS Research Themes

Educational leadership; Organizational theory and behavior; Student learning, engagement, and achievement

Keywords

organizational theory; professional community; organizational learning; school culture; decision-making

Research Questions/Topics

• What foundational conditions and enabling structures support the development of schools as learning communities?
• In what ways do those conditions and structures support the development of intensified leadership within the school?
• In what ways do those conditions and structures support the development of student learning outcomes—progress and achievement—within the school?
• Where can connections be found between leadership development and student achievement?

CESHS Research Themes

Educational leadership; STEM education

Keywords

mathematical reasoning and proof; professional development (PD); STEM education

Research Questions/Topics

• What mathematical knowledge for teaching supports teachers’ efforts to engage students in mathematical reasoning and proof? And how/where do they learn this?
• What do mathematics leaders need to understand and be able to do in order to support teacher learning? And how/where do they learn this?
• How do students and teachers make sense of mathematical content and practices in the context of interdisciplinary STEM projects?

CESHS Research Themes

Psychological health and interventions; Career development and assessment; Cultural and linguistic diversity

Keywords

vocational interest assessment; stigma and help-seeking; intergroup relations; diversity and cross-cultural studies

Research Questions/Topics:

• To what extent are the vocational interest assessments and the model/structure of interests universal or culturally-specific?
• How well does vocational interest predict academic performance, career success, and life or job satisfaction?
• How is the likelihood of seeking psychological help related to culturally-bound dimensions?

CESHS Research Themes

Management and socio-cultural studies of sport

Keywords

Sport; Media; Communication; Identity; International

Research Questions/Topics:

• How do sports organizations use social media to communicate, market and promote themselves?
• People’s attitudes towards major/mega (sports) events in their communities.
• Media coverage of sports

CESHS Research Themes

Cultural studies in education; Teacher education, professional development, and effectiveness; STEM Education; Environmental education

Keywords

ecojustice education; ecological inquiry; STEM; eco-democratic whole-school reform; place-based education; social studies education; teacher learning; teacher professional development; urban education; qualitative methods; critical animal studies; critical disability studies

Research Questions/Topics:

• How can an ecological model for subject inquiry become the center of an integrated ecological inquiry?
• How do educators confront difficult contestations of who is included/excluded in dominant definitions of community and imagining communities that are truly inclusive?
• How do schools play a role in fostering and developing a human-centric worldview?
• What kind of organizational design and learning structures create a support climate for place-based education regionally, nationally, and globally?
• How does STEM provide opportunities and present challenges toward fostering the development of citizens in diverse, democratic, and sustainable communities?

CESHS Research Themes

Educational technology; Students with disabilities

Keywords

universal design for learning; augmented reality; mobile devices in education; assistive technology; instructional technology

Research Questions/Topics:

• How can augmented reality interfaces blending the physical world and digital information improve the academic and functional skills of individuals with disabilities?
• How can mobile devices and apps be applied to improve the academic and functional skills of individuals with disabilities?
• How can emerging technologies be used to support the needs of individuals with disabilities?
• How can curriculum and assessments be designed with universal design for learning principles in order to make them more accessible to all learners?

CESHS Research Themes

Psychological well-being and interventions; Cultural and linguistic diversity

Keywords

health; psychological health disparities

Research Questions/Topics:

• Underutilization of Health/Psychological Health Services
• Latino and indigenous psychology

CESHS Research Themes

Students with disabilities; Psychological well-being and interventions; Teacher education, professional development, and effectiveness; Human-animal interaction; Educational technology; Student learning, engagement, and achievement

Keywords

special education; teacher prep; emotional disorders; autism

Research Questions/Topics:

• How effective are equine/dog-assisted interventions in improving the social and academic performance of students with disabilities?
• What level of knowledge and skills do general education pre-service teachers have related to students with autism, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, behavior disorders and /or developmental disabilities?
• How effective are interactive technology devices in improving the social and academic performance of students with disabilities?
• How are educational professionals implementing inclusion policies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait? What are their cultural understandings of and knowledge about inclusion? What knowledge of and skills in inclusion and the education of students with disabilities do teachers in these countries possess? What are their attitudes about inclusion?
• How do technology devices and assistive technology supports impact students with autism and their families?
• What are the motivational characteristics of students with emotional and behavioral disorders? How do technology approaches to instruction impact the motivation of these students?

CESHS Research Themes

STEM education; Teacher education, professional development and effectiveness

Keywords

science education; STEM schools; teacher and scientist partnerships; STEM education

Research Questions:

• How do teachers understand the disciplines, connections, and curriculum involved in STEM teaching and learning?
• What are the most effective ways to prepare teachers to teach STEM curricula, at STEM schools, and to understand the STEM disciplines?
• How do teacher/scientist partnerships affect teachers’ understanding of science and engineering?

CESHS Research Themes

STEM education; Teacher education, professional development and effectiveness

Keywords

STEM schools, project-based learning, professional learning communities, science education, teachers’ professional development

Research Questions/Topics:

• How do teachers enact project-based learning in a STEM context?
• How is the current push for STEM education being translated into middle school curriculum and instruction?
• What are the supports and challenges to teachers’ growth through participation in professional learning communities or collaborative teacher inquiry?

CESHS Research Themes

Literacy, Cultural and linguistic diversity, Innovative and evidence-based teaching practices and environments; Parent and community involvement

Keywords

literacy and (multi)literacies, cultural and linguistic diversity, English language learners (ELL), language policy, School-community partnerships, agency

Research Questions/Topics:

• How do school communities implement and negotiate language and literacy policies?
• How can school-community partnerships support student literacy achievement, particularly for culturally and linguistically diverse learners?
• How can we ensure that community beliefs, language and literacy practices, and cultural traditions welcomed in the classroom?
• How can teachers use a “funds of knowledge” approach within their literacy instruction?

CESHS Research Themes

STEM education; Teacher education, professional development and effectiveness; Student learning, engagement, and achievement; Innovative and evidence-based teaching practices and environments

Keywords

STEM education; teacher professional development; innovative STEM teaching strategies; postsecondary student preparation.

Research Questions/Topics

• What aspects of professional development programs are critical to ensure improvements in teaching and improved student outcomes?
• What aspects of in-school programs like Project Lead The Way (PLTW) that combine career and technical education and college readiness are essential to successful transitions of students into postsecondary education and career pathways?
• What aspects of activity, project and problem-based teaching strategies are essential to improved student outcomes?

CESHS Research Themes

Cultural and linguistic diversity; STEM education; Cultural studies in education

Keywords

Culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy; indigenous STEM education; hip hop pedagogy; youth culture

Research Questions/Topics:

• Culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy
• Indigenous STEM education

CESHS Research Themes

Literacy; Cultural and linguistic diversity; Educational leadership

Keywords

Differentiated instruction; Culturally relevant pedagogy; Adolescent literacy; Literacy instruction

Research Questions/Topics:

• How do/can teachers differentiate literacy instruction?
• How can teachers enact culturally relevant instruction?
• What can teachers differentiate for secondary students?
• How can principals and district leaders support teachers to differentiate their instruction?

CESHS Research Themes

Innovative and evidence-based teaching practices and environments, Cultural and linguistic diversity, Teacher education, professional development, and effectiveness; STEM education; Student learning, engagement, and achievement

Keywords

culturally responsive pedagogy, racism in schools, cultural diversity, professional development, teacher training, student engagement, STEAM

Research Questions/Topics:

• In what ways can teachers demonstrate care and cultural competence in racially and culturally diverse settings that increase historically marginalized [sic] student engagement in learning?
• What in and out of school activities increase historically marginalized students’ interest and engagement in community-centered, problem-based STEM activities?

CESHS Research Themes

Management and socio-cultural studies of sport

Keywords

consumer behavior, motivation, corporate social responsibility, consumer satisfaction, team identification, relative deprivation, aesthetics

Research Questions/Topics:

• Relationship between relative deprivation and team identification.
• Does relative deprivation matter in collegiate athletics?
• Does corporate social responsibility matter in collegiate athletics?
• Does the beauty of sport matter in sport consumption behavior?

CESHS Research Themes

Educational leadership; Parent and community involvement; Cultural and linguistic diversity

Keywords

culturally responsive leadership; equity; diversity; community organizing for school reform; parent and community leadership; access and retention to higher education

Research Questions/Topics:

• How do we leverage community organizations to bridge gaps between culturally and linguistically diverse families and schools?
• What are the potential roles of community and parent leaders in educational reforms and improvements?
• How do we prepare educationalleaders to address cultural differences and educational inequalities through strengths-based perspectives?
• How do we promote the leadership practices and development of nontraditional educational leaders, particularly people of color, women, and leadership outsideof institutional locations (e.g. community, family, and parent leadership)?

CESHS Research Themes

STEM education; Teacher education, professional development and effectiveness; Cultural and linguistic diversity; Student learning, engagement, and achievement

Keywords

mathematics education; teacher’s professional learning and development; mathematics curriculum; pre-service education; culturally relevant pedagogies

Research Questions/Topics:

With a focus on mathematics teaching and learning: How can we prepare preservice teachers to enact equitable instructional practices to support diverse students’ learning?

• How do teachers use and learn from curriculum materials?

• How do teachers interpret and incorporate the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in their practice?

• How can professional development and/or curricular resources support teachers in enacting more equitable and culturally relevant practices?

• To what extent do innovative teaching practices (such as those in STEM schools) improve students’ learning and engagement in mathematics?

CESHS Research Themes

Human-animal interaction; Environmental education; History and philosophy of science and education; Neuroscience and education; Cultural studies in education

Keywords

Cultural studies; history of education; philosophy of education; neuroscience and education; environmental education

Research Questions/Topics:

• What can we learn from human-animal interaction to inform educational practices?
• Can the idea of wilderness inform or inspire education in our times?
• How can neuroscience inform education?
• How can we learn to be respectful and reverent of nature and non-human animals?

CESHS Research Themes

Cultural and linguistic diversity; Innovative and evidence-based teaching practices and environments; Literacy; Measurement and evaluation; Psychological well-being and interventions

Keywords

second language acquisition (SLA), corpus research, vocabulary, lexical, English language learners (ELL), social-emotional needs

Research Questions/Topics

• Measurements of second language vocabulary acquisition
• Corpus-driven approaches to studying second language acquisition
• Second language acquisition in content area learning
• Second language acquisition and social-emotional needs

CESHS Research Themes

STEM education; Teacher education, professional development, and effectiveness; Student learning, engagement, and achievement

Keywords

math education; teacher development; student learning; STEM schools

Research Questions/Topics:

• Development of curriculum, instruction and learning at an inclusive STEM school
• Focus on learning in regard to social development of mathematical learning

CESHS Research Themes

Measurement and evaluation; STEM education

Keywords

evaluation; STEM; applied measurement; project and program evaluation; teaching of evaluation

Research Questions/Topics:

• How do we determine if a project or program is ready for outcome evaluation?
• How do we best teach evaluation to graduate students?
• How do we best capture the effectiveness of educational projects and programs?

CESHS Research Themes

Physical activity, health and performance; Psychological well-being and interventions

Keywords

motivation; physical activity; exercise; social context; positive youth development; self-compassion

Research Questions/Topics

• How do sport or physical activity contexts offer opportunities to realize positive outcomes?
• What are the social / contextual factors that facilitate healthy lifestyle choices?
• What are the mechanisms by which physical activity participation can enhance well-being?
• What facilitates a positive, healthy view of oneself?
• How does self-compassion develop and enhance positive development?

CESHS Research Themes

Teacher education, professional development and effectiveness; Innovative and evidence-based teaching practices and environments; Cultural Studies in Education; Environmental education; Leadership and innovation in teaching and learning.

Keywords

Place-based education; experiential learning; critical & engaged pedagogy; pre-service teacher preparation; cultural studies of science education; garden-based learning; indigenous knowledge systems; culturally responsive pedagogy.

Research Questions/Topics:

• From an ecological and place-based framework, what are the repercussions of not connecting children to nature in the early and later years of school? How might indigenous knowledge systems guide different and more impactful models in education?
• What do pre-service teachers need in their preparation programs in order to face some of our most profound cultural challenges they will face in schooling and education?
• Through community-based participatory research, how can higher education engage differently in order to build reciprocal K-12 partnerships involving in-service, pre-service teachers, leadership, and community educators?

CESHS Research Themes

Management and socio-cultural studies of sport; Cultural and linguistic diversity

Keywords

Business of sport; spot history; ice hockey; ethnicity

Research Questions/Topics:

• How and why did the business model in professional sports (especially ice hokey) develop into the present form?
• What were the contributions of minorities in sport, and how did their contributions affect the larger society’s perception of them?