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UK
MIC program to celebrate International cultures at Kentucky Theater
exhibit
Graduate
students from the Masters with Initial Certification (MIC) program at
the UK College of Education and International students from Henry Clay
High School will be co-sponsored of an exhibit entitled “The
International Flavor of Henry Clay” which opened Friday, Feb.
7, 2003, at the Kentucky Theater, on Main Street. The exhibition will
celebrate the wide variety of cultures that make up Henry Clay High
School’s student body. It will feature photographs of students in their
native countries. It also featured a PowerPoint presentation on opening
night of these students working and interacting with their mentors from
the UK College of Education.
College
of Education faculty, students and alums contribute to Encyclopedia
of Education.
Several
alumni, doctoral students and professors from all disciplines at the
UK College of Education contributed over 25 articles and materials to
the six-volume Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd edition. Contributors
include professors Margaret Bausch, Tom Guskey, Ted Hasselbring,
Bonnie Johnson, Edward “Skip” Kifer, and John R. Thelin, doctoral
students Eric Moyen and Jason Edwards, and alumnae Amy Wells
of the University of New Orleans.
FACULTY
Richard
Angelo, an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational
Policy Studies & Evaluation, has been appointed to a four-year term
on the Editorial Board of EDUCATIONAL THEORY. Published at the
University of Illinois, this quarterly journal is the official organ
of the John Dewey Society and the Philosophy of Education Society.
Elinor
Brown, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, took six students
(4 PhD, 2 masters) to present with her at the American Association Council
for Teacher Education (AACTE). Each presented research on culturally
responsive education from the secondary schools to higher education.
Tricia
Browne-Ferrigno, a professor in the Department of Administration
and Supervision (EDA), received news from the US Department of Education
that the grant application, School Leadership Development Program:
Kentucky’s Collaborative Model for Developing School Leaders for Rural
High-Need Schools, was approved for funding in the amount of $475,874.
EDA professors Keith Gurley and Bonnie C. Johnson, who
will serve as project Co-Investigators, assisted Ferrigno, the project’s
Principal Investigator. The three-year funding grant is to support advanced
leadership development for practicing and non-practicing certified administrators
in Pike County, Kentucky. The grant application was ranked 7th nationally
out of 175 evaluated by the technical reviewers. Only 19 projects were
funded.
Henry
Cole, Professor, Educational Psychology, and Joan Mazur,
Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, on January 29, 2003,
were invited presenters to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Alice
Hamilton Laboratory in Cincinnati Ohio. Cole and Mazur made three presentations
of their research. The presentation was broadcast nationwide to all
CDC Occupational Safety and Health Research Centers by the interactive
compressed video Envison system. The three papers presented at the seminar
were Narrative Approaches to Health Behavior Research; The Kentucky
ROPS Project - A Community Trials Tractor Safety Intervention; and Integration
of Community-Relevant Public Health Materials into Required Public School
Curricula. Cole and Mazur spent the remainder of the day discussing
their research and planning future studies with NIOSH scientists at
the Alice Hamilton and Robert Taft Laboratories in Cincinnati.
Thomas
Guskey, Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies
and Evaluation, recently published several articles: New Challenges
for Staff Developers Under No Child Left Behind in The
Networker; Professional Development and Teacher Change in
Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice; Using Classroom Assessments
to Improve Student Learning in Educational Leadership; and
Grading Practices in Schools in the Encyclopedia of Education
(2nd ed.).
In addition
to his publications, Professor Guskey, with co-author Robert
Marzano of the Midcontinental Educational Research Laboratory, developed
the Grading and Reporting Student Learning Professional Development
Inquiry Kit, a self-contained training program published and distributed
by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Bonnie
C. Johnson, of the Department of Administration and Supervision,
made a presentation entitled Full Service Schools, Coordinated Social
Services and School Reform at the annual meeting of The International
Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement in Sydney, Australia.
January 5-9, 2003. She is also a contributor to three published articles:
School public relations and the principalship: An interview with
Denny R. Vincent, Journal of School Public Relations; The
reality and myth of the superintendent shortage: Implications for research
and educational policy with Lars Bjork, of the Department
of Administration and Supervision, and M. Grogan in The Journal of
School Leadership; and, with W.L. Boyd, Intergovernmental relations
in education in The Encyclopedia of Education (Vol. 2).
Willis
Johnson, Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, presented Kentucky’s Approach to Standards-Based
Mathematics Education at the International Conference on Children’s
Mathematical Development and Standards-Based Assessment sponsored by
the Ministry of Education, Taipei Municipal Teachers College, in Taipei,
Taiwan.
Kristine
Jolivette, an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education
and Rehabilitation Counseling, along with colleagues, recently published,
Naturally occurring opportunities for preschool children with and
at-risk for disabilities to make choices in Education and Treatment
of Children and a second article with C. Michael Nelson,
professor, and Christine A. Christle, doctoral student, both
also from the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling,
recently published, Addressing the needs of at-risk and adjudicated
youth through positive behavior support: Effective prevention practices
in Education and Treatment of Children.
John
R. Thelin, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation,
is the author of Higher Education's Best Made Plans: A Historical
Perspective, in THE REVIEW OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
Guichun
Zong, An assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and
Instruction recently published, Can Computer Mediated
Communication Help to Prepare Global Teachers? An Analysis of Pre-service
Social Studies Teachers’ Experiences in Theory and Research in Social
Education.
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STUDENTS
Chase
Allen, who earned his Master's in Rehabilitation Counseling in 2002,
and Barbara Slevin, a doctoral student in the Department of Educational
& Counseling Psychology, each presented research they conducted
with Malachy Bishop, Assistant Professor in the Department of
Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, at the American Epilepsy
Society (AES) Meeting in Seattle, Washington.
David
Kimweli, who earned his Ph. D. last year in Educational and Counseling
Psychology, is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University.
He recently collaborated with Bill Stilwell on a recently published
article Community Subjective Well-being, Personality Traits and Quality
of Life Therapy in Social Indicators Research.
John
Mowbray, a doctoral graduate from the Department of Educational
Administration and Supervision, presented his dissertation research
to a conference in Louisville on August 2002 for Family and Consumer
Sciences Agents. In April 2003
he will be making a presentation in Roanoke, Virginia, to the Southern
Region Extension Middle Management Conference and in Albuquerque, NM,
to the Extension Service Administrative Officers meeting.
The title of Dr. Mowbray’s dissertation research is Factors
affecting turnover of county extension agents in the University of Kentucky
Cooperative Extension Service. Dr. Joyce Logan, Associate Professor,
in the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision,
was director of his research study.
Gina
Owens, a doctoral student in the Department of Educational and Counseling
Psychology, and Bill Stilwell, Counseling and Psychology Professor,
recently published Recording Practicum Hours: Help for Psychology
Graduate Students Seeking Internships in The Behavior Therapist.
Elizabeth
A. Towles, a doctoral student in the Department of Educational and
Counseling Psychology, along with colleagues at the Interdisciplinary
Human Development Institute, a University Center for Excellence at the
University of Kentucky, recently published “Alternate Assessment
Scores and Life Outcomes for Students with Significant Disabilities:
Are They Related?” and “Portfolios in Large-Scale Alternate Assessment
Systems: Frameworks for Reliability” with Brent Garrett in the periodical Assessment for Effective
Intervention. Towles will also join the Interdisciplinary
Human Development Institute for a presentation entitled “What Are
the Consequences? Validation of Large-Scale Alternate Assessment Systems
and Their Influence on Instruction” at the National Council for
Measurement in Education's (NCME) 2003 conference to be held in Chicago,
Illinois.
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ALUMNI
Rodney Dean Grusy, who earned a doctorate in vocational education
through the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision,
will present his dissertation research on February 13, 2003, in Louisville
at the National Farm Machinery Show held at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition
Center. In Louisville, he will also make a presentation at the UK College
of Agriculture Conference and the Conference on Developing and Assessing
Precision Agriculture Technology for Kentucky Producers held during
the National Farm Machinery Show. Dr. Grusy’s dissertation research
title is Precision farming in Kentucky: Evaluating public and private
sector influence on the adoption decision. Dr. Charles Byers,
Professor of Agricultural Education, and Dr. Joyce Logan, Associate
Professor for Educational Administration and Supervision, were Co-directors
of the study. A summary of Dr. Grusy’s research was published
in Science News & Views, a publication of the University
of Kentucky Agronomy Department in the College of Agriculture.
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