Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications
This list of faculty publications does not represent a complete body of scholarship for the faculty members from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. This collection contains only open access publications or publications that have been granted specific permission to be posted to UNI ScholarWorks, UNI's institutional repository. For a complete listing of a faculty member's publications see their profile in the SelectedWorks Profile Gallery. The SelectedWorks Faculty Profile has a more complete list of publications and includes links to publications deposited in UNI ScholarWorks and links out to publications on publisher's websites.
Submissions from 2013
Mindtools And Problem Solving: An Introduction, J. Michael Spector, Barbara B. Lockee, Sharon E. Smaldino, and Mary C. Herring
Preface, J. Michael Spector, Barbara B. Lockee, Sharon E. Smaldino, and Mary C. Herring
Locating the Library in the Non-Library Censorship of the 1950’s: Ideological Negotiations in the Professional Record, Joan Bessman Taylor
Leading Change And Innovation In Teacher Preparation: A Blueprint For Developing TPACK Ready Teacher Candidates, Tommye Thomas, Mary Herring, Pamela Redmond, and Sharon Smaldino
Teaching Primary Grade Students Perfectionism Through Cartoons Compared to Bibliotherapy, Miranda L. Zousel, Audrey C. Rule, and Stephanie R. Logan
Teaching Primary Grade Students Perfectionism Through Cartoons Compared To Bibliotherapy, Miranda L. Zousel, Audrey Rule, and Stephanie R. Logan
Submissions from 2012
Editorial: Implementing the Teacher Education Initiative, Glen Bull, Marshall George, Melanie Shoffner, Cheryl Bolick, John Lee, Janice Anderson, David Slykhuis, Joe Garofalo, Robin Angotti, Michael McKenna, Elizabeth West, Sara Dexter, Mary Herring, Mark Hofer, and Abbie Brown
Editorial: Technology Leadership for the Teacher Education Initiative, Sara Dexter, Mary Herring, and Tommye Thomas
Comparing middle school students' learning and attitudes in face-to-face and online mathematics lessons, Clayton M. Edwards Open Access Dissertation 2014 Award
Constructing Teacher Identity Through Technology Field Practice, Ping Gao
Editorial, Ping Gao and Qiyun Wang
The Status of Statewide Subscription Databases, Karla Steege Krueger
Communicating Like a Scientist with Multimodal Writing, Mason Kuhn and Mark McDermott
Keyboarding Camp!: Identifying the Effects of 4th-Grader Characteristics on Keyboarding Proficiency, Amy Lockhart and Leigh E. Zeitz
Teacher Candidate Attitude Changes After Experiencing an Arts-Integrated Unit on Africa, Sarah E. Montgomery, Audrey C. Rule, Denise A. Tallakson, Mary K. Stichter, Allison Barness, and Katie M. Decker
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
Changing Perceptions Of Unpopular Animals Through Facts, Poetry, Crafts, And Puppet Plays, Audrey C. Rule and Ksenia S. Zhbanova
Producing Meaning Through Interaction: Book Groups and the Social Context of Reading, Joan Bessman Taylor
Developing Second Graders' Creativity Through Literacy-Science Integrated Lessons On Lifecycles, Angela Naomi Webb and Audrey C. Rule
Second Graders’ Recycled/Craft Item Products Demonstrate Life Cycle Content Knowledge and Creativity Skills, Angela Naomi Webb and Audrey C. Rule
Submissions from 2011
Becoming Science "Experi-Mentors": Tenets Of Quality Professional Development And How They Can Reinvent Early Science Learning Experiences, Shelly Lynn Counsell
Self Reflection And Preservice Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Knowledge: Promoting Earlier Adoption Of Student-Centred Pedagogies, Ping Gao, Tan Seng Chee, Longlong Wang, Angela Wong, and Doris Choy
Utilizing Writing for Alternative Audiences in a College Integrated Science Course, Mason Kuhn and Mark McDermott
Integrating the Arts: Pre-Service Elementary Teachers Make African Masks of Six Cultures, Sarah E. Montgomery and Audrey C. Rule
Reflections of Pre-Service Elementary Teachers after Learning about an African Culture through Mask-Making, Sarah Montgomery and Audrey C. Rule
Tactile Earth And Space Science Materials For Students With Visual Impairments: Contours, Craters, Asteroids, And Features Of Mars, Audrey C. Rule
Impact Of Adaptive Materials On Teachers And Their Students With Visual Impairments In Secondary Science And Mathematics Classes, Audrey C. Rule, Greg P. Stefanich, Robert M. Boody, and Belinda Peiffer
The Story Of Disproportionality As Told By A Collaborative Culturally Responsive Coalition, Cathy A. Thorsen, Aram deKoven, Deborah Pattee, Dwight C. Watson, and Ann Collier
Creating A Professional Learning Community Through Self-Study, Deborah L. Tidwell, Lisa Wymore, Anel Garza, Maricruz Estrada, and Howard L. Smith
Paying Attention to Procedural Texts: Critically Reading School Routines as Embodied Achievement, Sarah Vander Zanden and Karen E. Wohlwend
Navigating Discourses In Place In The World Of Webkinz, Karen E. Wohlwend, Sarah Vander Zanden, Nicholas E. Husbye, and Candace R. Kuby
A Blended Collaborative Writing Approach For Chinese L2 Primary School Students, Lung Hsiang Wong, Wenli Chen, Ching Sing Chai, Chee Kuen Chin, and Ping Gao
Submissions from 2010
Identifying Implications Of Tensions In A Series Of Collaborative Self-Study Groups, Katheryn East, Linda May Fitzgerald, and Mary P. Manke
Rorty’s Social Theory and the Narrative of U.S. History Curriculum, Jesse Goodman, Sarah Montgomery Dr., and Connie Ables
"Living One's Civics": Making a Difference Through Service Learning, Sarah Montgomery, Marilynne Boyle-Baise, and Leana McClain
E Pluribus Unum: Out Of Many, One, Jean Suchsland Schneider and Donna Schumacher Douglas
Ends in Themselves: Theorizing the Practice of University-School Partnering through Horizontalidad, Sarah Vander Zanden, Gerald Campano, Michelle A. Honeyford, and Lenny Sánchez
Exploring Social Connectivity Through The Use Of Adolescent Queer Literature, Dwight C. Watson
Ramps And Pathways: Developmentally Appropriate, Intellectually Rigorous, And Fun Physical Science, Betty Zan and Rosemary Geiken
Defining The Difference: Comparing Integrated And Traditional Single-Subject Lessons, Ksenia S. Zhbanova, Audrey C. Rule, Sarah E. Montgomery, and Lynn E. Nielsen
Submissions from 2009
Orientation To A New Book: More Than A Picture Walk, Connie Briggs and Salli Forbes
Definition To Practice: Translating The Definition Into A Standards-Based It Program, Ana J. Donaldson
Integrating Social Justice With Mathematics And Science: An Analysis Of Student Teacher Lessons, Barbara Garii and Audrey C. Rule
A Case Study of a Rural Iowa School Preparing to Meet New State Guidelines for School Libraries, Karla Steege Krueger
Teaching Strategies: Putting The Cart Before The Horse: The Role Of A Socio-Moral Atmosphere In An Inquiry-Based Curriculum, Maryann Manning, Tunde Szecsi, Rosemary Geiken, Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren, and Tsuguhiko Kato
Community-Building In A Diverse Setting, Audrey C. Rule and Patricia B. Kyle
Teaching Urban High School Students Global Climate Change Information And Graph Interpretation Skills Using Evidence From The Scientific Literature, Audrey C. Rule and Mary A. Meyer
A Working Conference on Students with Disabilities in STEM Coursework and Careers, Audrey C. Rule, Greg P. Stefanich, Charlotte W. Haselhuhn, and Belinda Peiffer
Submissions from 2008
Reading Recovery: A Major Component of Many RTI Models, Salli Forbes, Beth Swenson, and Tonya Person
Study of the Sustained Effects of Reading Recovery in Iowa, Salli Forbes and Mike Szymczuk
Teaching Strategies: Physical Science In Constructivist Early Childhood Classrooms, Tsuguhiko Kato and Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren
A case study of a rural Iowa school preparing to meet new state guidelines for school libraries [dissertation], Karla Steege Krueger Open Access Dissertation
The Clash of "Common Senses": Two African American Women Become Teachers, Shuaib Meacham
Effective Materials For Increasing Young Children's Spatial And Mapping Skills, Mandy R. Petty and Audrey C. Rule
Book Groups: Research Review, Joan Bessman Taylor
A Book Club Sheds Light On Boys And Reading, Timothy G. Weih
Submissions from 2007
Nurturing Children's Concepts Of Time And Chronology Through Literature, Jeanne Mc Lain Harms and Lucille J. Lettow
Learning to Play and Playing to Learn: Research Sites as Transactional Spaces, Shuaib Meacham and Bob Fecho
Good for What? Non-appeal, Discussibility, and Book Groups (Part 1), Joan Bessman Taylor
Good for What? Non-appeal, Discussibility, and Book Groups (Part 2), Joan Bessman Taylor
Submissions from 2006
Fostering Teacher Learning Through Dialogue in Training Sessions, Salli Forbes and Connie Briggs
Effects Of A Legislated Mandate: The Comprehensive School Improvement Process And Middle-Level Gifted And Talented Programming, Jean Suchsland Schneider
Literature Autobiography Bags, Timothy G. Weih
Rescuing The Childcare Center: One Community's Efforts To Manage Change Through Generating And Coordinating Resources, Jaclyn Yetmar, Jill M. Uhlenberg, Charles R. May, and Rick C. Traw
Submissions from 2005
Scaffolding A Student's Development of Storytelling With Wordless Picture Books, Penny L. Beed and Ashley Shipp
The Genre of Traditional Literature Influences Student Writing, Timothy G. Weih
NAEYC Accreditation And High Quality Preschool Curriculum, Betty Zan
Submissions from 2004
Room Acoustics Intervention Efficacy Measures, Carl C. Crandell, Brian M. Kreisman, Joseph J. Smaldino, and Nicole V. Kreisman
How Reading Recovery Teaches the Five Essential Elements of Reading Instruction and More: Second of a Two-Part Series, Salli Forbes and Mary Anne Doyle
Citizenship For All In The Literate Community: An Ethnography Of Young Children With Significant Disabilities In Inclusive Early Childhood Settings, Christopher Kliewer, Linda May Fitzgerald, Jodi Meyer-Mork, Patresa Hartman, Pat English-Sand, and Donna Raschke
InTime Impact Report. What was InTime's Effectiveness and Impact on Faculty and Preservice Teachers?, Karla Krueger, Marius Boboc, Sharon Smaldino, Yana Cornish, and William Callahan
Comments on Bakhtin and Dialogic Pedagogy, Shuaib Meacham
Community Knowledge-Centered Teacher Education: A Paradigm for Socially Just Educational Transformation, Shuaib Meacham and Nora E. Hyland
Bridging The Gap Between Fiction And Nonfiction In The Literature Circle Setting, Debbie Stien and Penny L. Beed
Submissions from 2003
When Children Make Rules, Rheta DeVries and Betty Zan
How Reading Recovery Teaches the Five Essential Elements of Reading Instruction and More, Mary Anne Doyle and Salli Forbes
Reading And Writing As Social, Cultural Practices: Implications For Literacy Education, David Landis
Introduction: (Re)Reading Students' Difficulties With Reading And Writing, David Landis and Elizabeth B. Moje
A Student's View of Our Professional Community, Kari R. Schmidt
First Graders’ Interpersonal Understanding During Cooperative And Competitive Games, Betty Zan and Carolyn Hildebrandt
Submissions from 2002
Phrasing in Fluent Reading: Process and Product, Connie Briggs and Salli Forbes
Issues In Constructivist Early Moral Education, Rheta Devries, Betty Zan, and Carolyn Hildebrandt
Teaching As You Would Have Them Teach: An Effective Elementary Science Teacher Preparation Program, Cherin Lee and Lisa Krapfl
Headwoman’s Blues: Small Group Reading and the Interaction of Culture, Gender, and Ability, Shuaib J. Meacham
Submissions from 2001
Selecting English Language Learners for Reading Recovery, Salli Forbes
Disability, Schooling, And The Artifacts Of Colonialism, Christopher Kliewer and Linda May Fitzgerald
Identity, Purpose, and Impact: Bebop Innovators as Intellectuals and Models for African American Academic Success, Shuaib Meacham
Vygotsky and the Blues: Re-Reading Cultural Connections and Conceptual Development, Shuaib J. Meacham
Critical Issues: Democracy, Community, Self, Literacy, And The Value Of Global Conversation, Kurtis S. Meredith, Jeannie L. Steele, and Sona Kikušová
Submissions from 2000
Vygotsky, Piaget, And Education: A Reciprocal Assimilation Of Theories And Educational Practices, Rheta DeVries
Constructivist Early Education For Moral Development, Rheta Devries, Carolyn Hildebrandt, and Betty Zan
Developing Individualized Education Programs For Children In Inclusive Settings: A Developmentally Appropriate Framework, Rebecca Edmiaston, Val Dolezal, Sharon Doolittle, Carol Erickson, and Sandy Merritt
How Reggio Emilia Encourages Inclusion, Rebecca K. Edmiaston and Linda May Fitzgerald
Preservice Teacher Technology Competencies: A Model for Preparing Teachers of Tomorrow To Use Technology, Karla Krueger, Lisa Hansen, and Sharon Smaldino
The Spirit of a Man, Shuaib Meacham
Community, Displacement, and Inquiry: Living Social Justice in a Social Studies Methods Course, Shuaib Meacham, Edward Buendia, and Susan E. Noffke
Black Self-Love, Language, and the Teacher Education Dilemma: The Cultural Denial and Cultural Limbo of African American Preservice Teachers, Shuaib J. Meacham
Literacy at the Crossroads: Movement, Connection, and Communication With in the Research Literature on Literacy and Cultural Diversity, Shuaib J. Meacham
Submissions from 1999
Preservice Teachers' Experiences of "America Reads" Research, Penny L. Beed, David Landis, Charline Barnes, Kari Benson, Kim Willms, and Amy Zidlicky
