CET Research Fellows' Publications
This is a collection of publications derived from the University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Educational Transformation (CET) Research Fellows. More information about our funded projects can be found at the Center for Educational Transformation website.
Theses from 2013
Using explicit teaching, modeling, and feedback to facilitate vocabulary instruction for early childhood educators, Emily A. Howell
Editor’s Introduction, Amy Petersen Jensen
Editor’s Introduction, Amy Petersen Jensen
Teaching Primary Grade Students Perfectionism Through Cartoons Compared to Bibliotherapy, Miranda L. Zousel, Audrey C. Rule, and Stephanie R. Logan
Submissions from 2012
Cartoons for Teaching Elementary Students about Bullying, Audrey C. Rule, S. R. Logan, and Frank W. Kohler
Creativity and Thinking Skills Integrated into a Science Enrichment Unit on Flooding, Audrey C. Rule, Jean Suchsland Schneider, Denise A. Tallakson, and Diane Highnam
Using a Thinking Skills System to Guide Discussions During a Working Conference on Students with Disabilities Pursuing STEM fields, Audrey C. Rule and Greg P. Stefanich
Small Mammal Jointed Models to Make, Description Cards, and a Menu of Follow-on Activities in Different Intelligence Areas, Audrey C. Rule and Sarah M. Vander Zanden
Second Graders’ Recycled/Craft Item Products Demonstrate Life Cycle Content Knowledge and Creativity Skills, Angela Naomi Webb and Audrey C. Rule
Submissions from 2011
Creative Product Problem-solving Game, Audrey C. Rule, K. Zhbanova, A. Hileman Webb, Jordan P. Evans, J. S. Schneider, Harun Parpucu, S. Logan, B. Van Meeteren, Z. Alkouri, and Blake S. Ruane
Books from 2010
Tools for Dossier Success: A Guide for Promotion and Tenure, Lisa Hooper, Joy Burnham, and Vivian Wright
Submissions from 2009
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS OF ALGEBRAIC GENERALIZATIONS, Jean E. Hallagan, Audrey C. Rule, and Lynn F. Carlson
A National Survey of Teachers on Their Perceptions, Challenges, and Uses of Information and Communication Technology, Amy Hutchison
Algebra Rules Object Boxes as an Authentic Assessment Task of Preservice Elementary Teacher Learning in a Mathematics Methods Course, Audrey C. Rule and J. E. Hallagan
Making Cereal Box Dioramas of Native American Historic Homes and Culture, Audrey C. Rule and Lois A. Lindell
Creating, Evaluating, and Improving Humorous Cartoons Related to Design Principles for Gifted Education Programs, Audrey C. Rule and J. S. Schneider
Submissions from 2008
A Menu of Activities in Different Intelligence Areas to Differentiate Instruction for Upper Elementary Students Related to the Book Because of Winn-Dixie, Caroline F. Elser and Audrey C. Rule
Teaching High School Age Students with Special Needs the Four Situations for Subtraction, K. A. D. Miller, Audrey C. Rule, and V. M. MacEntee
Three Authentic Curriculum-integration Approaches to Bird Adaptations that Incorporate Technology and Thinking Skills, Audrey C. Rule and M. T. Barrera III
Preservice Elementary Teachers' Images of Inventors, Audrey C. Rule, E. L. Bisbo, and V. Waloven
Hands-on Materials for Teaching about Global Climate Change through Graph Interpretation, Audrey C. Rule, J. E. Hallagan, and B. Shaffer
Humorous Cartoons Made by Preservice Teachers for Teaching Science Concepts to Elementary Students, Audrey C. Rule, D. A. Sallis, and J. A. Donaldson
Submissions from 2007
Preservice Elementary Teachers Increase Descriptive Science Vocabulary by Making Descriptive Adjective Object Boxes, Audrey C. Rule, S. Crisafulli, H. DeCare, T. DeLeo, K. Eastman, E. Farrell, J. Geblein, C. Gioia, A. Joyce, Kaylea M. Killian, K. Knoop, A. LaRocca, K. Meyer, J. Miller, V. Roth, J. Throo, J. Van Arsdale, and M. Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Exploring intersectionality in education: The intersection of gender, race, disability, and class, Amy J. Petersen Open Access Dissertation 2008 Award
Preservice Elementary Teachers Create Mathematical Mystery Object Boxes to Review and Teach Numeration, Algebra, Geometry, and Measurement, Audrey C. Rule, E. Grueniger, D. Hingre, K. McKenna, and Rov C. Williams
Preservice Elementary Teachers Use Drawings and Make Sets of Materials to Explain Multiplication and Division by Fractions, Audrey C. Rule and J. E. Hallagan
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Emotional intelligence as a protective factor for risk behavior in adolescence, Nicole Renee Skaar Open Access Thesis
Submissions from 2003
Poetry for Teaching Elementary Mathematics Topics, Audrey C. Rule and J. Kagan
Activities for Differentiated Instruction Addressing All Levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and Eight Multiple Intelligences, Audrey C. Rule and L. H. Lord
Environmental Print Activities for Teaching Mathematics and Content Areas, Audrey C. Rule, S. McIntyre, and M. J. Ranous
Submissions from 2002
Mathematics in the Real World, Audrey C. Rule
Teaching Clay Science, Audrey C. Rule and Stephen Guggenheim
Submissions from 1999
Crystal Shape Bingo: A Bingo Game for Teaching Recognition of Three-dimensional Crystal Shapes and Planar Geometric Shapes of Crystal Faces, Audrey C. Rule
EleFantastic Bingo: A Bingo Game for Teaching Science Concepts and Vocabulary Associated with Elephants, Audrey C. Rule
Measurement Activities for Increasing Student Curiosity for Animal and Space Topics, Audrey C. Rule
Symmetry Bingo: A Bingo Game for Teaching Recognition of the Point Symmetry of Designs, Audrey C. Rule
Wolf Bingo: A Bingo Game for Teaching Concepts and Vocabulary Associated with Wolves, Audrey C. Rule
Submissions from 1996
Break Point: The Challenges of Teaching Multicultural Education Courses, Arlette Ingram Willis and Shuaib J. Meacham
