Teacher Education and Learning Sciences

What challenges do faculty face in adopting synchronous virtual classroom?

Association of Educational Communications and Technology Conference. Presented at the Association of Educational Communications and Technology Conference, Jacksonville, FL.

Measuring Success in a Synchronous Virtual Classroom

In S. B. Eom & J. B. Arbaugh (Eds.), Student Satisfaction and Learning Outcomes in E-Learning (pp. 249–266).

Evaluating reactions and transfer of skills from Blackboard training

Performance Improvement, 50(1), 26–33.

Instructional Design and the Importance of Instructional Alignment

Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 35(12), 955–972.

A digital view of history: Drawing and discussing models of historical concepts

Social Education, 75(2), 102–106.

Leveraging the affordances of educational blogs to teach low-achieving students United States history

Social Studies Research and Practice, 6(2), 95–105.

Situational factors in coping with racial discrimination

Byrd, C. M., Hoggard, L. H., & Sellers, R. M. (2011, August). Poster presented at the 2011 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

Beyond intergroup contact: What’s racial about the climate at an HBCU?

Byrd, C. M. (2011, June). Presented at the Black Graduate Conference in Psychology, Coral Gables, Florida.

The importance of racial attitudes and racial climate in academic and psychological outcomes

Byrd, C. M. (2011, August). Presented at the Impact of Race and Discrimination in Educational Settings during Adolescence to Young Adulthood, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

The Measurement of Racial/Ethnic Identity in Children

Journal of Black Psychology, 38(1), 3–31.

Racial Identity, School Racial Climate, and School Intrinsic Motivation Among African American Youth: The Importance of Person-Context Congruence

Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21(4), 849–860.

Literacy Development for English-Language Learners

Relyea, J. E. (2011, October). Presented at the EDUC 413: Language and Literacy Learning, School of Education, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

Prediction of English reading in young Spanish-speaking English language learners

Relyea-Kim, J. E. (2011, February 16). Presented at the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Promoting global awareness and cultural communication for ESL pre-service teachers in UNC-China Technology Learning Program

Kim, J. Y., & Relyea-Kim, J. E. (2011, March). Presented at the North Carolina Reading Association (NCRA) Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.

Do literacy skills developed in first-language transfer to second-language?

Relyea-Kim, J. E. (2011, March). Presented at the North Carolina Reading Association (NCRA) Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC.

Cross-linguistic influence on young Latino/as’ second language reading achievement

Relyea-Kim, J. E. (2011, March). Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Is oral-English ability related to young Latino’s English-reading trajectory?

Garcia, S., Amendum, S. J., Relyea-Kim, J. E., & Fitzgerald, J. (2011, April). Presented at the American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Is oral-English ability related to young Latino’s English-reading trajectory?

Relyea-Kim, J. E., Garcia, S., Amendum, S. J., & Fitzgerald, J. (2011, November). Presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA) 2011 Conference, Jacksonville, FL.

Careers in Educational Psychology

DeCuir-Gunby, J. T. (2011, August). Presented at the American Psychological Association annual meeting, Washington, DC.

Higher value-added writing instruction with African-American students: What observational data tells us

Alston, C. L. (2011, October). Presented at the Educational Studies Colloquium, University of Michigan School of Education, Ann Arbor, MI.