Faculty Articles

Faculty Articles

 
A selection of journal articles written by faculty in the Fischler College of Education at Nova Southeastern University.

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Submissions from 2005

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Quantitative research returns: Why did it leave?, Michael Simonson

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Teacher as skeuomorph. Teacher as What?, Michael Simonson

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Technology plans and distance education, Michael Simonson

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Toilet paper to toothbrushes: Planning the online course, Michael Simonson

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The Connections of Mental Health Problems, Violent Life Experiences and the Social Milieu of the 'Stroll' with the HIV Risk Behaviors of Female Street Sex Workers, Hilary L. Surratt, Steven P. Kurtz, Jason C. Weaver, and James A. Inciardi

Submissions from 2004

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Do's and don'ts of simultaneous instruction to the on-campus and distance students via videoconferencing, Mou Chakraborty and Shelley Victor

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The Internet as a Recruitment Tool for HIV studies: Viable Strategy for Reaching At-Risk Hispanic Men, M. I. Fernandez, L. Varga, Tatiana Perrino, J. Collazo, F. Subiaul, H. Torres, and Marcelo Castro

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The leadership challenge for human service agencies, Michael Gaffley

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Sex Work and "Date" Violence, Steven P. Kurtz, Hilary L. Surratt, James A. Inciardi, and Marion C. Kiley

The presence of an audience: Social facilitation or choking under pressure?, Jennifer Lyn Reeves

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A multivariate study of individual differences in performance on the reading portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test: A brief report, Chris Schatschneider, Julie Buck, Joseph K. Torgesen, Richard Wagner, Laura Hassler, Steven A. Hecht, and Kelly Powell-Smith

The web and virtual schools, Lynne Schrum

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A comet, or a tiger, or...?, Michael Simonson

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Class size: Where is the research?, Michael Simonson

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Coal slurry ponds and distance education, Michael Simonson

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Diploma mills and distance education, Michael Simonson

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Distance education, not different education, Michael Simonson

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Distance learning leaders-who are they?, Michael Simonson

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Redesigning graduate education in instructional technology: Making room for distance education, Michael Simonson

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"Thwarted innovation" or thwarted research?, Michael Simonson

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We need a plan: An instructional design approach for distance education courses, Michael Simonson and Charles Schlosser

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Sex Work and Drug Use in a Subculture of Violence, Hilary L. Surratt, James A Inciardi, Steven P. Kurtz, and Marion C. Kiley

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Sex Role Identity and Jealousy as Correlates of Abusive Behavior in Lesbian Relationships, Grace A. Telesco

Submissions from 2003

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Buy 1 get 2 free: Integrating the 3 r's in professional development, Linda Goldsmith, Audrey Henry, and Angie Su

Sources of individual differences in fraction skills, Steven A. Hecht, Linda Close, and Mirtha Santisi

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Improving the teaching of science for our future elementary school teachers, Robert W. Hill and Paul E. Baldauf

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Crystal Meth, Gay Men, and Circuit Parties, Steven P. Kurtz and James A. Inciardi

High speed internet use and academic gratifications in the college residence, Denise Matthews and Lynne Schrum

Perceptions, Maureen McDermott

Time and resource limits on working memory: cross-age consistency in counting span performance, Sarah Ellen Ransdell and Steven A. Hecht

Dimensions and strategies for online success: Voices from experienced educators, Lynne Schrum and Sunjoo Hong

A definition of the field, Michael Simonson

Assimilation, not substitution, Michael Simonson

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Distance education: Sizing the opportunity, Michael Simonson

Don’t be puzzled by math!, Angie Su

Submissions from 2002

Relations of home literacy environment (HLE) to the development of reading-related abilities: A one-year longitudinal study, Stephen R. Burgess, Steven A. Hecht, and Christopher J. Lonigan

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A Validation Study of the Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale with Urban Hispanic and African American Preschool Children, Marcelo Castro, Julia L. Mendez, and John Fantuzzo

Counting on working memory in simple arithmetic when counting is used for problem solving, Steven A. Hecht

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Emergent literacy skills and training time uniquely predict variability in responses to phonemic awareness training in disadvantaged kindergartners, Steven A. Hecht and Linda Close

Explaining the predictive accuracy of teacher judgments of their student’s reading achievement : The role of child gender, classroom behavior, and emergent literacy skills in a longitudinal sample of children exposed to poverty, Steven A. Hecht and Daryl B. Greenfield

Theories on teaching: Why are they so hard to find?!?, Jannette R. Hill and Lynne Schrum

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Education and commercialization: Raising issues and making wise decisions, Lynne Schrum

Oh, what wonders you will see: Distance education past, present and future, Lynne Schrum

From the field: Characteristics of successful tertiary online students and strategies of experienced online educators, Lynne Schrum and Sunjoo Hong

One college of education's effort to infuse technology: A systemic approach to revisioning teaching and learning, Lynne Schrum, Rosemary Skeele, and Michael Grant

In case you are asked: The effectiveness of distance education, Michael Simonson

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Online training in an online world, Michael Simonson

Organizing the online course: The 5x5 rule, Michael Simonson

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Policy and distance education, Michael Simonson

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Rescue and Recovery: Providing Crisis Intervention to the Families of the Victims of the World Trade Center Attack, Grace A. Telesco

Submissions from 2001

Latent variable modeling and cross-national differences in college-level academic performance, Steven A. Hecht

Comparing the predictive validity of first grade teacher ratings and reading related tests on third grade levels of reading skills in young children exposed to poverty, Steven A. Hecht and Daryl B. Greenfield

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Pure Short-term memory capacity has implications for understanding individual differences in math skills, Steven A. Hecht and Todd K. Shackelford

The relations between phonological processing abilities and emerging individual differences in mathematical computation skills: A longitudinal study from second- to fifth-grade, Steven A. Hecht, Joseph K. Torgesen, Richard K. Wagner, and Carol A. Rashotte

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Supervision: Developing a course in supervision at the graduate level, Nancy Lefkowitz and Shelley Victor

Distance education and online instruction: Profession or field?, Michael Simonson

Distance education in South Dakota: A statewide project, Michael Simonson

Examining barriers to distance education, Michael Simonson

Signal fires, Michael Simonson

Guest editor's introduction: Distance education in South Dakota, Michael Simonson and Kristin Sparks

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Learning at a distance in South Dakota: Evaluation of the process, Michael Simonson and Kristin Sparks

Creating mathematical sparks!, Angie Su

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Theater of the Recruits: Boal Techniques in the New York Police Academy, Grace A. Telesco and Alisa Solomon

Submissions from 2000

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Investigation, design and implementation of a therapeutic milieu for youth in residential care in the new South Africa, Michael Gaffley

Explaining social class differences in growth of reading skills from beginning kindergarten through fourth-grade: The role of phonological awareness, rate of access, and print knowledge, Steven A. Hecht, Stephen R. Burgess, Joseph K. Torgesen, Richard K. Wagner, and Carol A. Rashotte

Hispanics: A problem of definition in higher education policies, Gabriela Mendez, M. Fernanda Astiz, and Yolima Beltran

Guarding the promise of online learning: Threads to keeping the pie in the sky in the oven longer, Lynne Schrum

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A case study of one online MBA program: Lessons from the first iteration of an innovative educational experience, Lynne Schrum and Angela Benson

Online professional education: A case study of an MBA program through its transition to an online model, Lynne Schrum and Angela Benson

Online learning in the academy: The conundrum that may divide us, Lynne M. Schrum

Myths and distance education: What the research says (and does not say), Michael Simonson

Stand up and sit down: Training for the next decade, Michael Simonson

Who will be the next Charles Martel of distance education?, Michael Simonson

Making decisions: The use of electronic technology in online classrooms, Michael R. Simonson

Beginning, Michael R. Simonson and Charles Andrew Schlosser

Submissions from 1999

Dimensionality of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in children exposed to disaster: Results from confirmatory factor analyses, Jason L. Anthony, Christopher J. Lonigan, and Steven A. Hecht

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Limitations of Counseling and Testing in CDC's HIV Prevention Efforts, William W. Darrow, Robert D. Webster, Steven P. Kurtz, Abraham K. Buckley, and Robert R. Stempel

Individual solution processes while solving addition and multiplication math facts in adults, Steven A. Hecht

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Butterflies under Cover: Cuban and Puerto Rican Gay Masculinities in Miami, Steven P. Kurtz

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Without Women: Masculinities, Gay Male Sexual Culture and Sexual Behaviors in Miami, Florida, Steven P. Kurtz

Professional development in technology for educators, Lynne Schrum

Technology in the classroom: Asking the right questions, Lynne Schrum

Technology professional development for teachers, Lynne Schrum

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Equivalency theory and distance education, Michael Simonson

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Everyone wants to...!, Michael Simonson

Theory and distance education: A new discussion, Michael Simonson, Charles Schlosser, and Dan Hanson

Submissions from 1998

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Linking strategic planning with program implementation for distance education, Zane L. Berge and Lynne Schrum

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Impact of HIV Counseling and Testing on HIV-Infected Men who have Sex with Men: The South Beach Health Survey, William W. Darrow, Robert D. Webster, Steven P. Kurtz, Abraham K. Buckley, Kesuri I. Patel, and Robert R. Stempel

Toward an information processing account of individual differences in fraction skills, Steven A. Hecht

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A review of leadership is an art: Max DePree, David B. Ross and Rande Matteson

Online professional development for educators: Strategies for success, Lynne Schrum

Meeting the future: A teacher education program joins the information age, Lynne Schrum and Joanne Dehoney

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The DaVinci project: Multimedia for art and chemistry, Michael Simonson and Charles Schlosser

Submissions from 1997

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Freedom of expression within the public sector: The balancing standard, David B. Ross

Ethical research in the information age: Beginning the dialogue, Lynne Schrum

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Creating student interaction within the educational experience: A challenge for online teachers, Lynne Schrum and Zane L. Berge

Computer networks as instructional and collaborative distance learning environments, Lynne Schrum and Theodore A. Lamb

Evaluating teaching and learning at a distance, Michael R. Simonson

The contributions of phonological awareness and rapid autonomic naming ability to the growth of word reading skills in second to fifth grade children, Joseph K. Torgesen, Richard K. Wagner, Carol A. Rashotte, Stephen R. Burgess, and Steven A. Hecht

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Changing relations between phonological processing abilities and word-level reading as children develop from beginning to skilled readers: A 5-year longitudinal study, Richard K. Wagner, Joseph K. Torgesen, Carol A. Rashotte, Steven A. Hecht, Theodore A. Barker, Stephen R. Burgess, John Donahue, and Tamara Garon