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Center for Teaching Excellence Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The Genetics of Self-Compatibility and Associated Floral Characters in Tolpis (Asteraceae) in the Canary Islands
(The University of Chicago Press, 2013-02)Members of the genus Tolpis (Asteraceae) endemic to the Canary Islands comprise a monophyletic group with the dispersal of one species to the Cape Verde Islands. Most species are self-incompatible or pseudo-self-compatible ... -
Timing and Tempo of Early and Successive Adaptive Radiations in Macaronesia
(Public Library of Science, 2008-05-14)Abstract The flora of Macaronesia, which encompasses five Atlantic archipelagos (Azores, Canaries, Madeira, Cape Verde, and Salvage), is exceptionally rich and diverse. Spectacular radiation of numerous endemic plant ... -
Put Down that Phone and Talk to Me: Understanding the Roles of Mobile Phone Norm Adherence and Similarity in Relationships
(Sage Publications, 2014-05-01)This study uses co-orientation theory to examine the impact of mobile phone use on relational quality across three co-present contexts. It investigates the relationship between perceived similarity, actual similarity, and ... -
Self-perceived gender typicality, gender-typed attributes, and gender stereotype endorsement in elementary-school-aged-children
(Springer Verlag, 2012)This study examined relations among self-perceived gender typicality, gender-typed attributes, and gender stereotype endorsement with a sample of elementary-school-aged children (N = 100, ages 6 to 12) from the Midwestern ... -
Preschool Children's Attention to Environmental Messages about Groups: Social Categorization and the Origins of Intergroup Bias
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)The present study was designed to examine the effects of adults’ labeling and use of social groups on preschool children’s intergroup attitudes. Children (N = 87, aged 3 to 5) attending daycare were given measures of ... -
Effects of Physical Atypicality on Children's Social Issues and Intergroup Attitudes
(SAGE, 2007)Individuals vary in the degree to which they are representative, or typical, of their social groups. To investigate the effects of atypicality on intergroup attitudes, elementary-school-age children (N = 97) attending a ... -
An Analysis of Sportswomen on the Covers and in the Feature Articles of Women's Sport and Fitness Magazine, 1975-1989
(SAGE Publications, 1992)This study analyzes the treatment of athletes in Women's Sports and Fitness between 1975 and 1989. Author, article length, gender, sport, race, and sporting role were assessed for each article; the number of accompanying ... -
Sport and Human Values
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Three Keys to Success for Principals (and Their Teachers)
(Taylor and Francis, 2008)What is successful leadership and how can leadership concepts be applied to schools? Hundreds of books and articles and a plethora of executive seminars describe what leadership is and propose strategies for what effective ... -
Ten School-Based Strategies for Student Success
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)To enhance student learning, implement positive school-wide charges that effectively support teachers and principals. -
Interscholastic Sports: A Character-Building Privilege
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)High school coaches should teach, model, and reinforce to their athletes that participation in interscholastic sports is a character-building privilege earned by showing respect, playing fair, and striving to win while ... -
Follow the Yellow Brick Road to a Successful Professional Career in Higher Education
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)Mentors and other colleagues can help guide faculty through various career stages as they develop and demonstrate their competence in teaching, research, and service; earn tenure and promotion; balance personal and ... -
Caring Teachers -- The Key to Student Learning
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)When students know that their teachers genuinely care, they respond by exerting greater effort to reach their potential. -
A Model for Mentoring University Faculty
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)Operational characteristics for successful mentoring programs of new university faculty include clarity of purpose of the program, methods for matching mentors and protégés, mentor training, mentor-protégé relationship ... -
A College of Eduation'sTechnology Journey -- From Neophyte to National Leader
(Taylor and Francis, 2001)Technology is integral to education and learning in today’s world. It is especially important that teacher educators and pre-service and in-service teachers are taught by faculties who are competent users of technologies ... -
The Growth of National Women's Tennis, 1904 -1940
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An analysis of Sports Illustrated feature articles, 1954-1987
(Human Kinetics, 1991)All Sports Illustrated feature articles between 1954-1987 were examined with reference to sport, gender, race, role of the person featured, length of article, author, number of pictures, individuals pictured, and descriptive ... -
Students' perceptions of physical education objectives
(Human Kinetics, 1987)This study surveyed 2559 students enrolled in the physical education program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to determine which physical education objectives students considered to be most and least ... -
Physical education activity program survey
(Human Kinetics, 1986)This survey assessed the perceptions of students in the spring semester, 1984, about characteristics of and courses in the University of North Carolina's Physical Education Activities Program and obtained their suggestions ... -
How Context Matters: Predicting Men's Homophobic Slang Use
(SAGE Choice, 2012)This manuscript reports two experiments exploring heterosexual men’s use of homophobic slang in social contexts, varied by sex-ratio. Study 1 (N = 127) experimentally demonstrated that compared to a mixed-sex audience, ...