May 6, 2014

Human development and education faculty, students receive recognition

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Several College of Human Development and Education faculty members and students recently gave presentations, had research published or received grants to support their work.

Recent teacher education master’s degree graduate David Schultz received confirmation his research on flipping his classroom was accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Education. The title of the article is “Effects of the Flipped Classroom Model on Student Performance for Advanced Placement High School Chemistry Students.” Co-authors are Stacy Duffield, associate professor in the School of Education; Seth Rasmussen, professor of chemistry and biochemistry; and Justin Wageman, associate professor in the School of Education. Schultz is a chemistry teacher at Davies High School in Fargo.

Sherri Stastny, associate professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences, and colleagues Ardith Brunt, associate professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences; Julie Garden-Robinson, Extension specialist and professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences; and Max Johnson of Retina Consultants had a paper, titled “Eye clinic nutrition: Nutrition education and lutein supplements for individuals diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration,” accepted for presentation at the Hawaii International Conference on Education Jan. 5-8 in Honolulu. It was published in conference proceedings, post-conference.

Kwangsoo Park, assistant professor of apparel, design and hospitality management, and Brent Hill, assistant professor in the School of Education, co-wrote a paper titled “The impact of smoke-free policies on casino gambling revenues.” The paper was presented at the Annual Korea America Hospitality and Tourism Educators Conference April 25-26 in Las Vegas. The paper was selected best paper by the conference committee.

Jim Deal, professor and unit head of human development and family science, received word his article, “Documenting departmental performance in family science,” was accepted by the Family Science Review.

Margaret Fitzgerald, professor of human development and family science and unit head of health, nutrition and exercise sciences, and Glenn Muske from the NDSU Extension Center for Rural Vitality, along with colleagues from the NC 1030 Regional Research Project on Family Firms and Policy in Times of Disruption, were invited to present a session on “Family-owned Businesses: The Family as a Producer and Consumer” at the American Council on Consumer Interests annual conference in April. Their paper was titled “A longitudinal study of copreneurial couples: Factors contributing to continuance over a decade.”

Kelly Sassi, assistant professor of English and education, presented at the conference, “Forward ACTion! Building the Education Pipeline” April 16, in Mandan, N.D. Her presentation was titled "Writing on Demand for the New Common Core Assessments." Sassi is the new director of the Red River Valley Writing Project.

Brent Hill and Chris Ray, assistant professors in the School of Education, presented a paper titled “A Misunderstanding and Misuse of Parallel Analysis” at the annual meeting for the American Educational Research Association April 3-7 in Philadelphia. The paper focused on a common misconception regarding the theoretical rationale behind parallel analysis and its subsequent misapplication. A Monte Carlo simulation was conducted to better understand the appropriate uses of the procedure when testing dimensionality in exploratory factor analysis.

Ardith Brunt, associate professor in dietetics, had the following publications with graduate students; some past, some current.

  • “Using e-mail health interventions and transtheoretical model to promote wellness: a pilot study,” by L.W. Aneson, Brunt, D. Terbizan and B. Christensen, in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion
  • “Older adults fighting obesity with bariatric surgery: Benefits, side effects and outcomes,” by C. Marihart, Brunt and A. Geraci, in SAGE Open Medicine
  • “Social support systems: A qualitative analysis of female bariatric patients after the first two years post-operative,” by A. Geraci, Brunt and C. Marihart, in Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care

WooMi Jo Phillips, assistant professors of apparel, design and hospitality management, and Choong-Ki Lee, professor in the College of Hotel and Tourism at Kyung Hee University in Korea, had a manuscript, “Behavioral Intentions of International Visitors to the Korean Hanok Guesthouses: Quality, Value and Satisfaction,” accepted for publication in Annals of Tourism Research.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.

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