For the Record, Nov. 6, 2015
University community reports books, presentations, publications
9:27 a.m., Nov. 6, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent announcements, books, grants, presentations, publications and service include the following:
People Stories
'Resilience Engineering'
Reviresco June run
Announcements
Achyuth Madabhushi, a senior environmental engineering student, has won a $300 raffle for participating in a 250-person University political decision-making study conducted by Samantha Kelley and Faith Okpotor, both doctoral candidates in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. The study received generous support from the Center for the Study of Diversity, the Center for Political Communication and the Department of Political Science and International Relations. The names of study participants were entered into the raffle.
Books
Charles MacArthur, professor of education, published the second edition of the Handbook of Writing Research, co-edited by Steve Graham and Jill Fitzgerald. The second edition includes a chapter titled “Argumentative Writing” by Ralph Ferretti, director of the School of Education, and Yueyue Fan, doctoral student in education.
Grants
Laura Eisenman, associate professor of education, and Beth Mineo, director of the Center for Disability Studies and associate professor of education, received a Winter Session 2016 co-curricular grant to support a Disability Cinema program, which will bring together students and community members to view and discuss four feature films or documentaries about disability experiences. The program will run concurrently with a new Disability and Film course (DIST 267). The goal is to raise awareness about different disability representations and their influences on the lives of people with disabilities, communities, and social institutions.
Presentations
Zoubeida Dagher, professor of science education, gave a seminar and two teacher workshops supported by a Linking Science Educators Program grant sponsored by National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). With colleagues Sibel Erduran (University of Limerick) and Ebru Kaya (Bogazici University), she gave a seminar titled “From Scientific Inquiry to Scientific Practices: Redefining Teaching and Learning of Science” at the Science and Mathematics Center at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon on Oct. 29. The seminar was attended by colleagues and students from AUB and other higher education institutions. With colleagues Erduran, Kaya, Saouma BouJaoude (AUB), Dagher also led two teacher workshops titled “Scientific Practices: Implications for the Science Classroom” at AUB on Oct. 30 and 31. A total of 131 participants attended these workshops, including K-12 teachers, Ministry of Education and Higher Education staff, representatives from the Center for Educational Research and Development, and teacher educators.
Joan Buttram, director of the Delaware Education Research and Development Center and assistant professor of education, gave a presentation Oct. 28 titled “Program Evaluation: A Strategy for Program Development and Sustainability” at the Virden Center on UD’s Hugh R. Sharp Campus as part of the ILEAD Delaware fall workshop.
Chandra L. Reedy, professor in the Center for Historic Architecture and Design and in Asian Studies, presented "Field and Laboratory Investigation of the Coal-Clay Composite Ceramics of Sichuan Province, China" at the 2015 International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics: It's Scientific and Technological Insights, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Oct. 27. Co-authors were Pamela B. Vandiver, University of Arizona; He Ting and Wang Yanyu of the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology; and University of Delaware doctoral student Ying Xu.
James Hiebert, Robert J. Barkley Professor of Educational Development, gave an invited address titled “The Bleak History of American Education Reforms: How Can We Ensure Good Ideas Reach Students?” in the Department of Mathematics at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Nancy Jordan, professor of education, presented a research paper titled “Early Number Sense Shapes Educational Outcomes” at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 9.
Post-doctoral fellow in the School of Education, Ilyse Resnick, presented a poster titled “Developmental Growth Trajectories in Understanding of Fraction Magnitude from Fourth through Sixth Grade” at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 10. Co-authors were recent doctoral graduate Nicole Hansen, doctoral student Jessica Carrique, and Nancy Jordan, professor of education.
Roberta Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair in Human Services, Education and Public Policy, gave a keynote presentation for the spatial preconference at the 2015 Cognitive Development Society conference in Columbus, Ohio. She presented an overview of how children learn about geometric forms and spatial assembly, based on a three-year longitudinal study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Golinkoff, who has joint appointments as a professor of linguistics and cognitive science and of psychological and brain sciences, also gave an address for a fundraising benefit for Action for Children in Ohio, a presentation titled “At the Touch of a Screen: A New Test of Early Language Development” to the Council of Chief State School Officers, and a keynote address for the launch of a new kindergarten initiative at the University of Stavanger in Norway.
She was an invited attendee at the Frontiers of Innovation Conference at Harvard University and an invited attendee to the University of Cambridge opening the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL). Established with funding from the Lego Foundation, this groundbreaking research institution aims to study play.
Golinkoff’s laboratory presented posters at the Cognitive Development Society conference in Columbus. Kristina Strother-Garcia presented her study on preschooler’s knowledge of prefixes and suffixes. Haruka Konishi, recent doctoral graduate, presented results of her dissertation on the relationship between language and thought. Natalie Brezack, laboratory manager, presented two posters, one on statistical learning of dynamic action sequences and the other on the lab’s new computerized language assessment for children from 3 through 5 years of age.
Publications
Joan Buttram, director of the Delaware Education Research and Development Center and assistant professor of education, served as the guest editor for the summer 2015 issue of the International Journal of Educational Reform. She also wrote the introduction for the issue, “Introduction: National Survey of U.S. Doctoral Educational Leadership Programs,” and co-authored an article with V. Doolittle titled “Redesign of Ed.D. and Ph.D. Educational Leadership Programs.”
Roberta Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair in Human Services, Education and Public Policy, has published “(Baby)Talk to Me: The Social Context of Infant-Directed Speech and Its Effects on Early Language Acquisition” in Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Charles Hohensee, assistant professor of mathematics education, published “Preparing Elementary Pre-Service Teachers to Teach Early Algebra” in the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education.
Peter Weil, associate professor emeritus of anthropology, has published “Ephemera: Typewriters Make the News – The Role of Typewriters in Creating and Defining ‘News' in the United States,” ETCetera, Journal of the Early Typewriter Collectors Association, No. 110, September 2015, pp. 10-15 and 21. Also in that issue, “National News: Change in Initial Production Date of the National Midel 1 (Philadelphia) Type Writer,” p. 9, and, with Martin Howard and Robert Messenger, “New Evidence for the First Portable Typewriter [in 1878],” pp. 16-17 and 21.
Service
Charles Hohensee, assistant professor of mathematics education, and Anne Morris, professor of mathematics education, began five-year terms as associate editors for the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. Jinfa Cai, professor of mathematical sciences, serves as the executive editor.
Laura Glass, interim director of the Delaware Center for Teacher Education and assistant professor of mathematics education, was selected to join the Delaware team in the Network to Transform Educator Preparation (NTEP). NTEP is part of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and is a network of state teams working to implement policies and practices that can ensure educator preparation programs (EPPs) are preparing candidates to be ready on day one, teaching students to be college- and career-ready and life-long learners. The Delaware team will work with national collaborators, peer states, and key stakeholders to redesign state policies on licensure, program approval, and data collection, analysis and reporting.
Joan Buttram, director of the Delaware Education Research and Development Center and assistant professor of education, convened the 2015 annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Educational Research Association at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Oct. 1. About 45 educational researchers attended. It was her last duty as the president of the association.
As a part of the Delaware K-12 Mathematics Partnership, a collaboration between the Delaware Mathematics Coalition and the University of Delaware's Professional Development Center for Educators, Amanda Jansen, associate professor of mathematics education, led two professional development evenings in Dover for the Delaware K-12 Mathematics Leadership Community. On Sept. 22, she led a seminar titled "Participating in Classroom Discourse: The Voices of Students," and on Oct. 15, she led a follow up seminar titled "Exploratory (Rough Draft) Talk."
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