Research Publications

Faculty and researchers in the NC State College of Education, including the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, are sharing their scholarly work through journal articles, books and presentations that are shaping PK-16 education.

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Publications and Presentations Roundup

Faculty and researchers at the NC State College of Education are publishing their research related to pressing educational topics in journals and sharing their work through national and international presentations.

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Publication Highlights

Promoting Positive Classroom Discussion

“Measuring Student Discussion Engagement in the College Classroom: A Scale Validation Study,” authored by Associate Professor Paula McAvoy, presents findings from a scale validation study of discussion engagement using data from multiple in-person courses from public flagship universities in the United States. Findings demonstrate that the Discussion Engagement Scale has potential for measuring student-reported experiences with discussion in university courses. The paper was published on July 30, 2021, in Studies in Higher Education.

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Exploring Equity in Schools

“The Past, Present, and Future of Brown’s Mandate: A View from North Carolina,” co-authored by Assistant Professor Jenn Ayscue, uses North Carolina as a case study to evaluate factors that may influence whether all students will have access to de-segregated, high quality public education by 2054, a century after the Brown V. Board of Education decision. The article was published on Aug. 8, 2021, in American Behavioral Scientist.

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Promoting Success for Rural College Students

“Defining Rural: The Impact of Rural Definitions on College Student Success Outcomes,” co-authored by W. Dallas Herring Professor and Belk Center Executive Director Audrey Jaeger, compares three definitions of rurality to better help avoid inappropriate or inaccurate decisions in assessment, programming and policy standpoints related to assessment and student success data. The article was published on July 16, 2021, in Theory and Practice in Rural Education.

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Measuring How Students Engage with Science

“Understanding Science Career Aspirations: Factors Predicting Future Science Task Value,” authored by Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor Gail Jones, examines factors that have been shown to predict middle school students’ task values related to engaging with science in the future. Findings document important ways in which youth access and exposure to science experiences, tools and scientists lay the groundwork for science motivation and ultimately to valuing future science tasks. The article was published on July 1, 2021, in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.

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Examining the Impact of Digital Games

“Co-Teaching with an Immersive Digital Game: Supporting Teacher-Game Instructional Partnerships,” co-authored by Professor and Friday Institute Senior Research Fellow Eric Wiebe, investigates implementation approaches of nine biology teachers using an immersive digital game in their science classes, focusing on factors that contributed to their ability to instruct with the game and how their enactment of the game influenced the class experience. The study was published on Aug. 1, 2021, in Educational Technology and Research Development.

Helping Teachers Design Effective Interventions

Designing Effective Math Interventions, authored by Assistant Professor Jessica Hunt, is intended to help educators design effective, learner-driven math interventions that promote participation and understanding and develop student thinking, as well as how to assess student work in a way that measures learning. The book was published on Aug. 13, 2021, by Routledge.

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Our Faculty Editors

Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor Sarah Carrier, Editor of the International Journal of Science Education and Research in Science Teacher Education
Associate Professor Anna Egalite, Editor of Education Next
Assistant Professor Michelle Falter, Editor of Fringes
Teaching Professor Valerie Faulkner, Co-editor of the Mathematics Teacher Educator
Associate Professor Chad Hoggan, Editor of the Journal of Transformative Education
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation Karen Hollebrands, Editor of the Mathematics Teacher Educator
Alumni Distinguished Professor Gail Jones, Co-editor of the International Journal of Science Education