October news briefs

Bill Bintz, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Sara Moore, Director of the Center for Middle School Academic Achievement at Eastern Kentucky University, led a public discussion about how parents can use award winning and high quality books across the core educational curriculum. Their discussion was the centerpiece to Joseph-Beth Booksellers’ Teacher Appreciation Night on September 7th.

Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, Department of Administration and Supervision, received word that the U.S. Department of Education School Leadership Program has funded Year 2 of the Principal's Excellence Program for $221,519. Monies will continue to support the Principals Excellence Program, a collaborative effort among UK, the Pike County School District, and Morehead State University. Recruitment of a second participant cohort is in progress. Total federal funding thus far is $418,916.

Henry Cole, Professor of Educational Psychology, was keynote speaker at the Fifth International Symposium, Future of Rural Peoples: Rural Economy, Healthy People, Environment, and Rural Communities. Professor Cole described his research that integrates learning theory, narrative psychology, and injury epidemiology to design community education programs that prevent injuries to farmers and miners. On October 28 – 30, Cole will present two papers at the third National Occupational Injury Research Symposium. The conference features leading injury prevention research.

Alan J. DeYoung, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, is the Principal Investigator for a $275,000 grant from the US Department of State entitled "Partnership in American Studies between the University of Kentucky and the Kyrgyz State National University." The project is to run for three years, and will involve approximately 12 faculty exchanges, curriculum development and professional mentoring activities between UK and the primary university of the Kyrgyz Republic, one of the former states of the USSR.

Beth Goldstein, Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation, is co-PI on a four year grant from NSF, ITR "Decision-Theoretic Planning with Constraints" for $1,287,000. The research team includes Judy Goldsmith, PI in Computer Science along with four other CS faculty members and Joan Mazur of Curriculum & Instruction.

Thomas Guskey, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, has won the "Best Non-Dissertation Research Award for 2003" from the National Staff Development Council for his paper entitled, "An Analysis of the Characteristics of Effective Professional Development." The paper was presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago and summarized in an article published in the June 2003 issue of PHI DELTA KAPPAN entitled "What Makes Professional Development Effective?"

Thomas Guskey was also interviewed on the National Public Radio program "Talk of the Nation" on Thursday, October 2, 2003. The program, hosted by Lynn Neary, focused on Assessment and Report Card Reform. The discussion featured Guskey’s ideas expressed in his book, How's My Kid Doing? A Parent's Guide to Grades, Marks, and Report Cards.

Jane Jensen, assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, recently accepted an assignment to be the coordinator of First-year initiatives for the University of Kentucky, in addition to teaching and advising within her department. The coordinator will help document and assess programs related to the first-year experience and develop a research program to study student success and progress toward degree at the University of Kentucky.

Deneese L. Jones, Curriculum & Instruction, was an invited expert witness for Representative Shelia Jackson-Lee at a Congressional Briefing in Washington, DC for the Congressional Children's Caucus on the topic, Closing the Academic Achievement Gap for African Americans and other Students of Color and served as an invited panelist at the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Conference on the topic, Closing the Academic Achievement Gap: Status of African American Children in Education.

Virginia Davis Nordin was an invited participant in the Harvard Law School Alumni Leadership Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts last September.

Faculty Publications:

Lynley H. Anderman, Educational and Counseling Psychology, had an article, Academic and Social Perceptions as Predictors of Change in Middle School Students' Sense of School Belonging, published in the Journal of Experimental Education.

William P. Bintz, Curriculum & Instruction, and Karen Shelton, 7th Grade Teacher at Sebree Elementary School, had their article "Using Written Conversation in Middle School: Lessons From a Teacher-as-Researcher Project" accepted for publication in the Journal of Adult & Adolescent Literacy (JAAL) published by the International Reading Association.

William P. Bintz, Curriculum & Instruction, and Pam Wright, Title 1 District Supervisor for Paducah Public Schools, had the article "Teacher Research: Using Ping Pong Poems to Integrate Reading, Writing, and Science" accepted for publication in Balanced Reading Instruction published by the International Reading Association.

Tricia Browne-Ferrigno published “Becoming a principal: Role conception, initial socialization, role-identity transformation, purposeful engagement” Educational Administration Quarterly. She also published a chapter in the Eleventh Annual Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration. The chapter was entitled, “Shaping the future: Policy, partnerships, and emerging perspective.”

Alan J. DeYoung is coeditor (along with Stephen Heyneman of Vanderbilt University) and contributed three chapters to the forthcoming book, The Challenges of Education In Central Asia.

Kristine Jolivette, Special Education, recently published "Ensuring student success through team-based functional behavioral assessment" in Teaching Exceptional Children with C. Michael Nelson and Drs. Scott and Liapusin. She also has had three other papers accepted for publication: (1)"Using positive behavior support at the classroom level: Preventing predictable problem behaviors and increasing student success" in Beyond Behavior. (2) A paper with professors LeeAnn Jung and Katherine McCormick "Early intervention in rural natural environments: Making the most of your time" in Rural Special Education Quarterly; and (3) "Structural analysis and intervention in a school setting: Effects on problem behavior for a student with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders" in Journal of Positive Behavioral Interventions with Drs. Stichter and Sasso.

Deneese L. Jones, Curriculum & Instruction, authored a chapter, Diverse practioners and diverse populations: Opportunities and challenges in the alignment of national standards, for the book Diversity and National Standards.

Lee Ann Jung, Special Education, recently had 3 articles published: (1) "Effects of service coordinator variables on individualized family service plans" in Journal of Early Intervention with professor Samera Baird; (2) "More is better: Maximizing natural learning opportunities" in Young Exceptional Children; and (3) "Intervention planning: Bridging the gap between IFSP and implementation" in the Young Exceptional Children Monograph Series No. 5: Family-Based with Caroline Gomez and Samera Baird. Jung also had the following paper recently accepted for publication: "Regulatory disorder identification, diagnosis, and intervention planning: Untapped resources for facilitating development" in Infants and Young Children with Caroline Gomez and Samera Baird.

John Thelin, University Research Professor and faculty member of the Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation Department, is author of an article, "Higher Education's Best Made Plans: A Historical Perspective" in The Review of Higher Education (Winter 2003). His book review of John Kleber's Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky: An Uncommon Life in the Commonwealth was featured in the The Lexington Herald-Leader. Academe, journal of the Association of American University Professors, published his review of Clark Kerr's memoirs, The Gold and The Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1867 in its July-August 2003 issue.

J.W. Yates of the College of Education’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion was co-author of two articles published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. “The initial effects of low-volume strength training on balance in untrained older men and women,” and “Effects of moist heat on hamstring flexibility and muscle temperature.”

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STUDENTS

Angela Cox, doctoral student in Curriculum & Instruction, and professor Deneese Jones, Curriculum & Instruction, presented a research paper, An Examination of Early Reading Intervention Instructional Practices with Diverse Groups for the Primary Grades, in London, England at the Institute of Education for the University of London, The Learning Conference.

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