December 31, 2020
Dr. Beth Phillips, Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, was a part of the team that received the Jacobs Foundation Award for the project "COVID-19 Education Challenge: Mitigating the Global Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Early English and French Reading Skills Through At-Home, Caregiver-Child Literacy Activities." The award is given to research and practice in the fields of child and youth development. Alumnus Yaacov Petscher (Sport Psychology M.S. '04, Measurement and Statistics M.S. '05) was also a part of the research team.
December 31, 2020
Dr. Robert Reiser, professor in the Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies program and associate dean for research, gave a talk at the Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics on the topic of "Effective Teaching: How to Plan and Present It." The online presentation is designed to help academics improve how they teach and the means they use to deliver information.
December 18, 2020
Dr. Valerie Shute, Mack and Effie Campbell Tyner Endowed Professor of Education in the Educational Psychology and Learning Systems department, and doctoral student Seyedahmad Rahimi appeared in an interview with Forbes about their research in stealth assessment. The article, "Science Needs a Better Way to Probe Creativity - Video Games Might Be the Answer, New Study," gives an overview on how the research team uses video games to assess difficult to measure concepts like creativity in real time.
December 10, 2020
Dr. Megan Buning, teaching faculty I in FSU COACH, was featured on the Perpetual Pandemic Podcast's episode 6, titled "Walk It Off." The episode looks at the benefits of taking daily walks to benefit both physical and mental health.
She was also a guest speaker on the softball podcast Mental Sweet Spot on the topic of Coach Development Past & Future.
December 10, 2020
Dr. Eunhui Yoon, assistant professor of counseling psychology and school psychology, co-authored a book chapter titled "Exploring how school counselors position low-income African American girls as mathematics and science learnings: Findings from year two data." The chapter is found in Girls and women of color in STEM: Navigating the double bind in K-12 education. Yoon was also invited to lecture at the Korean College Counseling Association on December 5. There, she gave a talk about "Counseling for sexual and gender-expansive students in higher education."
December 8, 2020
Drs. James Du and Jason Pappas, faculty members in the Department of Sport Management, and doctoral students Carter Floyd and Susmit Gulavani received the Atlantic Coast Conference Center for Research in Intercollegiate Athletics Award for their research project, "A Tale of Two Cities: COVID-19 and Student-Athletes’ Psychological Well-Being." The four will present their findings to ACC athletics administrators in 2021 during the conference fall meeting.
December 7, 2020
Dr. Tim Baghurst, professor of education and director of FSU COACH: Interdisciplinary Center for Athletic Coaching, published an article in the American Swimming Coaches Association newsletter titled, "NCAA Head Swimming Coaches and Stress." The article, co-authored with Dr. Robert Pearson, looks at how swimming coaches handle stress as discovered by a 2018 research survey.
December 3, 2020
Dr. David Eccles, professor of sport psychology, joined the Editorial Board of Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, the American Psychological Association Division 47 journal.
December 3, 2020
Dr. Joshua Newman, professor of sport, media and culture studies and director of the Center for Sport, Health, and Equitable Development, edited a book titled "Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body," which won a 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award.
December 2, 2020
Dr. Laura Steacy, assistant professor of special education, co-authored an article titled "Modeling and Visualizing the Codevelopment of Word and Nonword Reading in Children From First Through Fourth Grade: Informing Developmental Trajectories of Children With Dyslexia" in the journal Child Development.
December 2, 2020
Drs. Christine Mokher and Toby Park-Gaghan were quoted in an article titled "Developmental Education Reform Improved Passing Rates," which appeared on Inside Higher Ed. The article looks at the way that higher education has successfully increased "students taking and passing general education requirements in math and English."
December 1, 2020
Drs. Cameron Beatty and Kathy Guthrie recently co-authored two manuscripts for the National Leadership Education Research agenda published in the Journal of Leadership Studies. The first article is titled "A Critical Look at Leadership Educator Preparation: Developing an Intentional and Diverse Approach To Leadership Learning and Development: Priority 4 of the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020–2025." The second article is titled "A Call for Centering Social Identities: Priority 1 of the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020–2025."
December 1, 2020
Dr. Kathy Guthrie, associate professor of higher education, authored a chapter in the Handbook of Teaching with Technology in Management, Leadership, and Business. The chapter is titled "Using Twitter as a technology tool to teach leadership." She also published an article in the Journal of Contemporary Education Theory & Research titled "The adaptive leadership of social media influencers related to COVID-19."
