Dr. Doris Walker-Dalhouse, Professor Emerita, College of Education, has been elected VP-elect of the Literacy Research Association (LRA). LRA is a non-profit professional organization of scholars dedicated to promoting research that enriches the knowledge, understanding, and development of lifespan literacies in a multicultural and multilingual world Walker-Dalhouse will assume the presidency of the association in 2022.
Planetarium Director, Sara Schultz, completed her doctoral degree this summer from the University of Wyoming. Her degree is in Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on Science Education, in particular, using the planetarium as a teaching tool. Her doctoral research investigated the nature of formative assessment in the form of assessment conversations (i.e. strategic questioning) present in planetarium presentations across […]
Dr. Erin Gillett, Professor of Early Childhood Education in the School of Teaching and Learning, contributed to a recent article on InForum. In the piece, about summer and COVID-related learning losses, Dr. Gillett offered several ideas for parents and caregivers to combat “summer slide.” Read the Article
George Holley, Department of Anthropology and Earth Science, has co-authored an article — “Caddo or Cahokian? Stylistic and Compositional Analysis of a Fine-Engraved Vessel from Northwest Iowa” — to be published in the journal “Plains Anthropologist.”
Jared Ladbury, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Anna Semanko, a graduate student at NDSU, have a paper “Using the Reasoned Action Approach to Predict Active Teaching Behaviors in College STEM Courses” published in the Journal for STEM Education Research. It is currently available online.