42nd Annual Conference
October 19-21, 2011
Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
Conference Theme: Building Research Partnerships
Conference Proceedings Co-Editors:
Xing Liu, Eastern Connecticut State University
Helen Marx, Eastern Connecticut State University
Liaison to Proceedings:
Thomas Levine, University of Connecticut
Conference Program Co-Chairs:
Abby Lau
Carol Barry
Submissions from 2011
Crisis Preparedness: Do School Administrators and First Responders Feel Ready to Act?, David J. Alba and Robert Gable
College Student Perceptions of Student Life Programs, Felice D. Billups
Collegiate Administrator Perceptions of Organizational Culture: An Analysis of Metaphors, Felice D. Billups
A COMPARISON of TWO ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY PROGRAMS in SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHER CERTIFICATION, Brian R. Evans
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ MATHEMATICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE, EFFICACY, and PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITIES in ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION, Brian R. Evans
Promoting Student Engagement through Bulletin Board Style Virtual Learning Communities, Anthony R. Fruzzetti
Aligning Voices, Urban Teachers and Leaders, Jess L. Gregory, Damon Lewis, Lori A. Noto, and Ethan Margolis
The Nonwhite Speech Language Impaired Student Population: The "Cycle-of-Silence" and the "Possessive Investment in Whiteness", Nicholas D. Hartlep and Antonio L. Ellis
Exploring Language as a Source of DIF in a Math Test for English Language Learners, Minji K. Lee and Jennifer Randall
Do PAX-RN Scores Predict First Year Success in Nursing School for Minority Disadvantaged Students?, Gavrielle Levine and Carmelle Bellefleur
Item Response Theory (IRT) Analysis of Item Sets, Liwen Liu, Fritz Drasgow, Rosemary Reshetar, and YoungKoung Rachel Kim
Eliciting Student Judgments of Intrinsic Difficulty for Studying Student Misconceptions in Solving Basic Mathematics Items, Eric Magaram, Jean Phanor, Charles Secolsky, and Preston Hasbrouck
Perspectives of Resilience and Recidivism Among Hispanic Male Adolescents, Javier Montañez and Ralph Jasparro
For the Good of the Multicultural Society in One Urban Third Grade, Margaret Lally Queenan
Enhancing Student Learning Through Discussion Boards and Blogs, Barbara Rosenfeld, Sharon O’Connor-Petruso, Jeremy Bletterman, and Isis Shorter
Influencing Higher Education Pedogogy through Focused Study and Peer Review, Mary B. Schreiner
Will the U.S. Poverty Achievement Gap Narrow by 2015? Probably Not, Stuart E. Smith
Perspectives of Suburban Public School Teachers on the Characteristics of Students At-Risk for Dropping out of School, Michael Sollitto and Robert Gable
Gender Differences in Engineering Classrooms: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice?, Jennifer Walter, Candice Stefanou, Jonathan Stolk, Michael Prince, Susan Lord, John Chen, and Katharyn Nottis
Fitting-in: Sociocultural Adaptation of International Graduate Students, Georgette P. Wilson
“It’s a Process”: An Initial Grounded Theory Framework for Success with Social Studies Simulations, Cory Wright-Maley