Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications and Presentations
Submissions from 2024
A model for play in the preschool curriculum: A phenomenological study, Saber Abdolmalaki, Mahboubeh Khosravi, Noushin Nouri, and Mostafa Ghaderi
Papeles, Sueños, y Futuros: The Altermundos Literacies of Parents of the Latine/x Diaspora, Melissa Adams Corral and Sarah Gallo
Mindfulness As Curricular Practice in Borderlands HSI Teacher Preparation: Nurturing Greater Awareness of Self and World Among Emergent Teachers, Yvette Angeline and Pauli Badenhorst
Community-Engaged Pedagogy for Equitable HSI Teacher Preparation: Bridging Community, School, and University Cultures, Pauli Badenhorst, Sandra I. Musanti, Veronica L. Estrada, Patricia Robles, and Amy Montoya
Engaging Latinx students in scientific inquiry and metacognition through an interdisciplinary summer program, Angela M. Chapman, Uma Ganesan, Mario Almanza, Lluvia Garcia, Yailen Gomez, and Isabel Amaro
Editorial note: Designing microlearning for how people learn, Joseph Rene Corbeil and Maria Elena Corbeil
Developing AI chatbots to enhance student learning experiences in online courses, Rene Corbeil and Maria Elena Corbeil
Disease Associations among Patients Afflicted with Both Glaucoma and Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Lauren Dimalanta, Kishan Pithadia, Nathan T. Shenkute, Bryan Strelow, Zhidong Zhang, Jan Ulrich, Alice Y. Zhang, and David Fleischman
A Science Teacher’s Experiences When Fostering Intercultural Competence among Students in Multilingual Classrooms: A Narrative Study, Uma Ganesan and Amanda R. Morales
Editorial: Risky behaviors faced by youth in an internet-based learning environment, Chiao Ling Huang, Seokmin Kang, and Shi Ching Yuan
Mindful movements matter: differentiating active body movements in underprivileged students’ learning of physics concepts, Seokmin Kang, MingTsan Lu, John B. Black, and Sungyeun Kim
Correlates of creativity and elementary school students’ perceptions of individual and sociocultural factors, Seokmin Kang and Hye-sook Park
Exploring Integrated Active Learning Practices in an Accelerated Fully Online Graduate-Level Course at a Hispanic Serving Institution, P. Ming-Tsan Lu and Seokmin Kang
A non-verbal teaching behaviour analysis for improving pointing out gestures: The case of asynchronous video lecture analysis using deep learning, Ho Young Yoo, Seokmin Kang, and Sungyeun Kim
Mapping the Problem Statement and Study Purposes to the Quantitative Analysis: Insights From Mixed Methods Perspectives, Zhidong Zhang and Blanca N. Ibarra
Submissions from 2023
La conciencia crítica empieza temprano: Young Transborder Children’s Critical Conciousness y lo que implica para las escuelas primarias, Melissa Adams Corral and Sarah Gallo
“Va a Cambiar” - Identifying and Rejecting Border Patrol Pedagogies in a Dual Language Classroom, Melissa Adams Corral, Gladys Krause, and Luz A. Maldonado Rodríguez
Innovating with in-service mathematics teachers’ professional development: The intersection among mixed-reality simulations, approximation-of-practice, and technology-acceptance, Jair J. Aguilar and Seokmin Kang
Microlearning: The “OG” or Hot New Trend?, Rene Corbeil and Maria Elena Corbeil
The effect of microlearning and multimedia design on knowledge and skills acquisition of students in e-courses, Rene Corbeil, Didem Tufan, and Maria Elena Corbeil
Is it Real? An Exploratory Case Study of Empathy in a Virtual Game, Leticia De Leon
Designing a UDL and UX Heuristic to Evaluate the Design of Online On-Demand Modules, Leticia De Leon, Maria Elena Corbeil, and Rene Corbeil
Reconceptualization of borderlands, borders, and spaces within a multi-theoretical perspective, Alejandro J. Gallard Martínez and Angela M. Chapman
Documentation Status and Youth’s Critical Consciousness across Borders, Sarah Gallo and Melissa Adams Corral
Transborder Literacies of (In)Visibility, Sarah Gallo and Melissa Adams Corral
Resistant Traditions of the Rio Grande Valley, Aztlan, Raul Garza, Gricelda Eufracio, and James C. Jupp
Regional Disparity in the Educational Impact of COVID-19: A Spatial Difference-in-Difference Approach, Dohyo Jeong, Dohyeong Kim, Heba Mohiuddin, Seokmin Kang, and Sungyeun Kim
Why anti-racism and critical whiteness now? A (tentative, subjunctive) conceptual geography of the empire of whiteness, James Jupp, Pauli Badenhorst, and Jenna Min Shim
The pernicious whiteness of coloniality in elementary science classrooms: the multigenerationality of subtractive schooling in El Sur de Tejas, Aztlán, Nora Alicia Luna and James Jupp
The relationships among Taiwanese youth’s polychronicity, multitasking behavior and perceived learning performance in online learning, Yi Fang Luo, Seokmin Kang, Shu Ching Yang, and Chia Mei Lu
Incouple numbers and dedómetros: listening for meaning in bilingual children’s mathematical lexical inventions, José Martínez Hinestroza, Romina S. Peña-Pincheira, and Melissa Adams Corral
A longitudinal study of the effect of individual and socio-cultural factors on students’ creativity, Hye-sook Park, Seokmin Kang, and Sungyeun Kim
Territorializing-Deterritorializing: The Tireless Path of Becoming Less Incomplete, Gabriel Vega Torres, Alma Karina Garcia Torres, Dafne Reyes Jurado, and James C. Jupp
Examining Dimensionality and Validity of the Academic Integrity Survey Instrument, Zhidong Zhang and Luis Garcia
Analyzing Cooperative Learning Thematically: An Exploratory Case Study With a Composite Qualitative Model, Zhidong Zhang and Liza Ramos
Exploring a Cooperative Learning Model With a Mixed Methods Design, Zhidong Zhang and Liza Ramos
The Exploratory Sequential Design With Generalized Linear Models for the Learning Strategy Analysis, Zhidong Zhang and Liza Ramos
Consistency Examination of a Systematic Review and Data Analysis Report for a Social Justice Study—A Mixed Research Model, Zhidong Zhang and David Smith
Submissions from 2022
A conflicted question, Pauli Badenhorst, James Jupp, and Jenna Min Shim
Doesn't Your Work Just Re-Center Whiteness? The Fallen Impossibilities of White Allyship, Pauli Badenhorst, James Jupp, Jenna Min Shim, Timothy J. Lensmire, Zachary A. Casey, Samuel J. Tanner, Veronica Watson, and Erin Miller
Eliciting Youth Digital Mathematics Stories: The Impact of a Digital Mathematics Storytelling Summer Camp Experience, Theodore Chao, Melissa Adams Corral, Ayse Ozturk, Ho-Chieh Lin, and Anga Hidayat
It Helps to Know Spanish: A Multicultural Approach by Tapping into Latinx Learners’ Native Language to Learn Science, Angela M. Chapman and Patricia Alvarez McHatton
The Effects of Teaching Undergraduate Freshmen Biology Courses in Spanish and English, Angela M. Chapman, Amy A. Weimer, Mirayda Torres-Avila, Cristina Trejo, and Alexis Racelis
Digital transformation of higher education through disruptive pedagogies: Wrapping a course around a course to promote learner agency, Maria Elena Corbeil and Rene Corbeil
Coloniality of Power and the Curriculum of Violence: Understanding Contemporary Educational Racism in the Americas [La colonialidad del poder y el currículum de la violencia: comprendiendo el racismo educacional contemporáneo en las Américas], Noah De Lissovoy and Raúl Olmo Fregoso Bailón
I Live in Nepantla; I Live in the Borderlands, Gricelda Eufracio
Decolonial Discourses and Practices: Geopolitical Contexts, Intellectual Genealogies, and Situated Pedagogies, Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, and James Jupp
Intersections of Identity, Culture, and Curriculum on the Threshold of a Latinx Transforming EdD program at a Hispanic Serving Institution, Caroline A. Hesse and Laura M. Jewett
Understanding SEL to Create a Sense of Belonging: The Role Teachers Play in Addressing Students’ Social and Emotional Well-Being, Blanca N. Ibarra
The Nomadic Curriculum for the Digital Age, Blanca N. Ibarra and Brittni K. Kalich
We Matter Too: Employing Counterstorytelling to Expose the Equity Paradoxes Arresting Mattering and Racial Healing Among Faculty of Color, Marlon C. James, Ana C. Díaz Beltrán, John A. Williams III, Jemimah Young, Mónica V. Neshyba, and Quinita Ogletree
Preparing Teachers In Clinical Field Experiences Through Improvement Science: A Conceptual Analysis, Lucinda M. Juárez, Melissa Mosly Wetzel, Samuel R. Brower, Patsy Y. Sosa-Sánchez, Criselda Garcia, Veronica L. Estrada, Denise Davila, Erinn Whiteside, and Kerry Alexander
Lessons Learned from Topic Modeling Analysis of COVID-19 News to Enrich Statistics Education in Korea, Seokmin Kang and Sungyeun Kim
Reform-Based Mathematics Teaching in the United States, Sumeyra Karatas, Reyhan Safak, Gamze Bulut, and Veysel Karatas
Racialized Language and Social Complexity: The Multilayered Plurilingual Lives of Filipina Migrants in South Korea, MinSoo Kim-Bossard and Pauli Badenhorst
Developing Awareness Around Language Practices in the Elementary Bilingual Mathematics Classroom, Gladys Krause, Melissa Adams Corral, and Luz A. Maldonado Rodríguez
The Effectiveness of the Link2Success Program on Freshman Level Math Course Achievement, Ming-Tsan P. Lu and Shaghayegh Azadi Setayesh
A review of Standardized Testing and its relevance to public education, Johnny Salinas and Cassia Guajardo
Employing the Urban Education Typology Through a Critical Race Spatial Analysis, John A. Williams 3rd, Marlon James, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, Jemimah Young, Mónica Vásquez Neshyba, and Quinita Ogletree
A Mixed Methods Design for Assessing Physics Learning in the Online Learning Environment, Zhidong Zhang
A Mixed Methods Design for Assessing Physics Learning in the Online Learning Environment, Zhidong Zhang
Diagnostically Cognitive Assessment of Complex Semantic Explanations and Learning: A Bayesian Network Approach, Zhidong Zhang
A Mixed Assessment for the Science Learning via a Bayesian Network Representation, Zhidong Zhang and Angelica Guanzon
Submissions from 2021
High School Students’ Reasons for disliking Mathematics: The Intersection Between Teacher’s Role and Student’s Emotions, Belief and Self-efficacy, Jair J. Aguilar
Sisterhood & Scholarship While Black, Stephanie Anckle
DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL DISPOSITIONAL RESILIENCE AMONG TEACHER CANDIDATES: REFRAMING CHAOTIC EXPERIENCE AS RESOURCE FOR TEACHER LEARNING, Pauli Badenhorst
Predatory White Antiracism, Pauli Badenhorst
The Limitations of Being a Good Antiracist, Pauli Badenhorst and Jenna Min Shim
Understanding student learning pathways in traditional online history courses: utilizing process mining analysis on clickstream data, Matt Crosslin, Kimberly Breuer, Nikola Milikic, and Justin T. Dellinger
Developing Cultural Competence in an Occupational Therapy Program in a Border Institution in South Texas, Criselda Garcia and Roel Garcia
Maintaining Middle School Students’ Engagement in Virtual Learning Environments, Blanca N. Ibarra and Ming-Tsan P. Lu
Year two: Effect of procrastination on academic performance of undergraduate online students, Irma S. Jones and Dianna Blankenship
Learning to Teach in Mixed-Reality Simulated Virtual Environments at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), Veronica Lopez-Estrada, Carmen Pena, and Denise Love
Reconciling the Past: Language Validation in a First-Year Experience Course at a Border, Jose Saldivar
Mario “Mike” de la Fuente: Died a Longhorn Legend, Rene Torres
Employing the Urban Education Typology Through a Critical Race Spatial Analysis, John A . Williams III, Marlon James, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, Jemimah Young, Mónica Vásquez Neshyba, and Quinita Ogletree
Submissions from 2020
Perceptions and Opinions of the Usability of Simulations in a Mathematics Methods Course for Elementary Pre-Service Teachers, Jair J. Aguilar and James A. Telese
“Nothing is impossible”: characteristics of Hispanic females participating in an informal STEM setting, Angela M. Chapman, Felicia D. Rodriguez, Carmen Pena, Erica Hinojosa, Lizbeth Morales, Valeria Del Bosque, Yakeline Tijerina, and Constantine Tarawneh
Learning to Transform, Transforming to Learn: Children’s Creative Thinking with Fractions, Higinio Dominguez, Sandra Crespo, Tamara del Valle, Melissa Adams Corral, Megan Coupe, Gustavo Gonzalez, and Yordhan Ormazabal
Nací Allá: Meanings of US Citizenship for Young Children of Return Migrants to Mexico, Joanna Dreby, Sarah Gallo, Florencia Silveira, and Melissa Adams Corral
Counter-Storytelling to Build Teacher Agency in STEM Educators at a Hispanic-Serving College of Education, Ariana Garza Garcia, Felicia D. Rodriguez, and Angela M. Chapman
Mentoring as seen through the lens of doctoral students, Irma S. Jones and Dianna Blankenship
Decolonial-hispanophone curriculum: A preliminary sketch and invitation to a South-South dialogue, James C. Jupp, Micaela González Delgado, Freyca Calderón Berumen, and Caroline A. Hesse
Translanguaging moves in elementary mathematics classroom number talks: Understanding linguistic repertoires, Luz A. Maldonado Rodríguez, Melissa Adams Corral, and Gladys Krause
Flowing With the Translanguaging Corriente: Juntos Engaging With and Making Sense of Mathematics, Luz A. Maldonado Rodríguez, Gladys Krause, and Melissa Adams Corral
Mathematics with Open Arms, Ricardo Martinez, Heather Lindfros-Navarro, and Melissa Adams Corral
Collaboration of Researchers and Stakeholders: Transforming Educator Preparation, Bobbette M. Morgan, Alma D. Rodriguez, Irma S. Jones, James A. Telese, and Sandra I. Musanti
How Autobiographies of Latinx Preservice Teachers Build Culturally Relevant Instruction for the Nature of Science, Noushin Nouri, Jair J. Aguilar, and Patricia Ramirez-Biondolillo
Using TeachLivE to Foster the Development of High-Leverage Practices in a Teacher Education Program, Carmen M. Pena, Pauli Badenhorst, and Denise M. Love
Assessing Program Outcomes of an M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction Program: A Comparison of Face-to-Face to Completely Online Deliverables, James A. Telese and Gregory Chamblee
Foul Balls across the Rio Grande, Rene Torres
Whose History?: Expanding Place-Based Initiatives Through Open Collaboration, Sean Visintainer, Stephanie Anckle, and Kristen Weischedel
Alternatively Assessing Conceptual Learning in an Emergency Clinical Environment—A Mixed Methods Design, Zhidong Zhang and Alice Yang Zhang
Submissions from 2019
Critical Early Childhood Mathematics For Children of Color, Melissa Adams Corral
Learning Productive Mathematical Talk Moves Through Mix-Reality Simulation: The Case of Pre-service Elementary Teachers in a Hispanic Serving Institution, Jair J. Aguilar and James A. Telese
Raced Encounter on a Hilltop: A Call for Soulful Justice alongside Social Justice Work, Pauli Badenhorst
Exploring the Impact of a Positive Psychology and Creative Journal Arts Intervention with Latina/o Adolescents, Javier Cavazos Vela, Wayne D. Smith, Keely Rodriguez, and Yvette Hinojosa
Teacher Retention: In Rural Schools Nested in Large Districts, Sandra Cerda, Veronica Estrada, and Velma D. Menchaca
Project ACCESS: High School Student Learning of Academic Vocabulary in the Rio Grande Valley, Angela M. Chapman