This collection contains scholarly articles, reports and other publications authored by faculty and staff members from various departments and units at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
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Submissions from 2014
MavCLASS: Real-World Analystics to Power Student Success, Lynn D. Akey, Jeffrey Henline, and Jude Higdon
MavCLASS: Deep, Real-World Learning Analytics to Enhance Student Success, Lynn D. Akey and Jude Higdon
Leading Large-Scale Change in an Engineering Program, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Rebecca Bates, Jennifer Karlin, Ron Ulseth, and Dan Ewert
Design of Geogrid Reinforced Earth Walls: Transition of Limits and Critical Surfaces, Izzaldin Almohd, Osama Nusier, Ahmed Ashteyat, and Mohammad M. Yamin
A Review of Absenteeism and Truancy: Interventions and Universal Procedures, Emily Marie Bartholomay and Daniel Houlihan
Analyzing Mix Parameters in ASR Concrete using Response Surface Methodology, Fatih Bektas and Başak Aldemir Bektaş
The Video Lifecycle: Selection and Processing of Video Collections, Barbara J. Bergman, Jessica Schomberg, and Dorie Kurtz
Do doggies go to heaven = ¿Los perritos van al cielo?- A story in English and Spanish, Luz Carime Bersh
Exploring the "Place" of Sport: The Community Center as a Catalyst for Friendship of African American Female Athletes, Jennifer Bhalla and Emily J. Houghton
Coaching Education Needs in Youth Sport: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Nicole D. Bolter, Laura J. Petranek, Shelley M. Lucas, and Emily J. Houghton
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Man-Made Vacuum, Roy C. Booth and Nicholas Johnson
Bubbles, Roses, and Rump, Marilyn Janice Bos
An Adjunct Professor's Perspectives on the Skills LIS Students Need and How Practitioners and Educators can Collaborate to Provide Them, Robert L. Bothmann
Cataloging Media with RDA Session, Robert L. Bothmann
Cataloging Moving Images with RDA, Robert L. Bothmann
Cataloging Non-Musical Audio Recordings with RDA, Robert L. Bothmann
CAVM 5.5: An RDA Companion, Robert L. Bothmann
Hitting a Moving Target: Cataloging in the Age of Emerging Technologies, Robert L. Bothmann
We Go Together: LGBT Users' Needs and Librarians' Support, Robert L. Bothmann, Heather Tompkins, and Rachel Wexelbaum
Screening for Early Reading Skills: Using Data to Guide Resources and Instruction, Matthew W. Burns, Katherine M. Haegele, and Shawna Petersen-Brown
Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Community Service Involvement: Students Helping Locally, Kristie L. Campana
Feminist Challenges or Feminist Rhetorics?: Locations, Scholarship, Discourse, Kirsti Cole
Golden Arches & White Spaces: Race in Early Fast Food Places, Angela Jill Cooley
Sensory Integration for Children with Autism: A Review of the Literature, Aaron R. Deris and Cynthia DiCarlo
Effects of Using a Weighted or Pressure Vest for a Child with Autism, Aaron R. Deris, Cynthia DiCarlo, and Cathie Koss
Yes, I am Still a Special Education Teacher: Voices from the Field, Aaron R. Deris and Cathie Koss
I am Here for the Long Haul: ECSE Teacher Retention, Aaron R. Deris, Andrea Robins, and Kellie Krick-Oborn
Preschool Teachers' Perceptions of Aggression in Preschool-Age Boys, Cynthia DiCarlo, Aaron R. Deris, Jennifer Baumgartner, Carrie Ota, and Charlene Jenkins
A Phenomenological Examination of the Influence of Culture on Treating and Caring for Hispanic Children with Autism, Lynette Estrada and Aaron R. Deris
Twin City Public Television (TPT) documentary Independence to Inclusion., Nancy M. Fitzsimons
Are Sociodemographic Characteristics, Education and Training, and Attitudes Toward Older Adults' Sexuality Predictive of Willingness to Assess Sexual Health in a Sample of US Psychologists?, Margaret Flaget-Greener, Cesar A. Gonzalez, and Eric L. Sprankle
Evaluating American Rainwater Harvesting Policy: A Case Study of Three U.S. Cities, Russell J. Fricano and Alison Grass
Putting the Gender in "Gender Parity": Breaking New Methodological Ground in the Debate over Gender Equality in Forensics, Jessica Furgerson and Justin J. Rudnick
Synthesis, characterization and electrical properties of Pb(8-x)Na2Ndx(Vo4)6O(x/2) solid solutions, Eugeni I. Get’man, Tatiana M. Savankova, Alexey V. Ignatov, K. G. Didorenko, A. Y. Talykova, and Lyudmyla I. Ardanova
Interview with Walter Bond, Current ALF Political Prisoner, Carol L. Glasser
The Radical Debate: A Straw Man in the Movement?, Carol L. Glasser
The Ivory Trap: Bridging the Gap Between Activism and the Academy, Carol L. Glasser and Arpan Roy
The Prosocial and Aggressive Driving Inventory (PADI): A Self-Report Measure of Safe and Unsafe Driving Behaviors, Paul B. Harris, John M. Houston, Jose A. Vasquez, Janan A. Smither, Amanda Harms, Jeffrey A. Dahlke, and Daniel Sachau
Towards Strategic and Authentic Corporate Social Responsibility in Professional Sport, Kathryn Heinze, Sara Soderstrom, and Jennifer Zdroik
Toward Strategic and Authentic Corporate Social Responsibility in Professional Sport: A Case Study of the Detroit Lions, Kathryn Heinze, Sara Soderstrom, and Jennifer Zdroik
Fat Boy vs the Cheerleaders, Geoff Herbach
MavCLASS: Deep, Real-World Learning Analytics to Enhance Student Success, Jude Higdon, Jeffrey Myers Ford, Lynn D. Akey, and Nathan Gustafson
Adolescents and the Social Media: The Coming Storm, Daniel Houlihan and Meghan Houlihan
Hernani, Victor Hugo and John J. Janc
Experimental Study on Portland Cement Pervious Concrete Mechanical and Hydrological Properties, Ahmed Ibrahim, Enad Mahmoud, Mohammad M. Yamin, and Varun Chowdary Patibandla
Reading, Eye Movement, and the Brain, Andrew P. Johnson
Reading Intervention, Andrew P. Johnson
Reading Intervention, Andrew P. Johnson
Teaching Reading Comprehension, Andrew P. Johnson
100% PBL Curriculum: Startup Phase Complete, Bart Johnson and Ron Ulseth
Professional Competency Attainment in a Project Based Learning Curriculum: A Comparison of Project Based Learning to Traditional Engineering Education, Bart Johnson and Ron Ulseth
Lean and Lab-rich Psychology: Undergraduate Research for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Jason A. Kaufman
Our Contemplative Nature, Jason A. Kaufman
Balancing Priorities: Sharing Responsibility for the Assessment of Student Learning, Andrea L. Lassiter and Lynn D. Akey
A South Dakota Country School Experience, William E. Lass
Shaping the North Star State: A History of Minnesota's Boundaries, William E. Lass
College Students' Preferences for Test Accommodations, Lawrence Lewandowski, Tonya L. Lambert, Benjamin J. Lovett, Carlos J. Panahon, and Marcia R. Sytsma
A Comparison of Covert and Videotape Modeling Strategies for Training Complex Mechanical Assembly Tasks, Peter J.N. Linnerooth, Daniel Houlihan, Melissa A. Lenz, and Jeffrey Buchanan
A Study of the Psychometric Properties of the Social Support Scale for Children, Dorothy Maria Lipski, Sarah K. Sifers, and Yo Jackson
Is Elderspeak Appropriate?: A Survey of Certified Nursing Assistants, Nathaniel Joseph Lombardi, Jeffrey Buchanan, Shelby Marie Afflerbach, Kristie L. Campana, Adam Sattler, and Duc Viet Lai
Community Organizing in Rural Areas: Yes, It's Different, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Preliminary Report: An Application of the Good Behavior Game in the Developing Nation of Belize, Julene Douty Nolan, Kevin J. Filter, and Daniel Houlihan
The Good Behavior Game: A Classroom-Behavior Intervention Effective Across Cultures, Julene Douty Nolan, Daniel Houlihan, Megan Wanzek, and William R. Jenson
Using Reflection to Assess Students' Ability to Learn and Develop Leadership Skills, Heather M. Olsen and Brooke N. Burk
Pursuing a Purpose: The Role of Career Exploration Courses and Service-Learning Internships in Recognizing and Developing Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities, Jamie J. Peterson, Clair Wardwell, Kelsey Will, and Kristie L. Campana
Providing the Fuel Needed to Blast Teacher Candidates into Employment, Lori Piowlski and Peggy Ballard
Ethical Reasoning Development in Project-based Learning, Elizabeth Pluskwik and Puteri S. Megat Hamari
'That's what children are-nought but leg-ropes': Motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs. Tregaskiss, Melissa Purdue
Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) for ESL Instruction and Curriculum, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
So, You Want to Be a Library Director?, Joan Roca
Early-Type Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift Observed with Hubble Space Telescope WFC3: Perspectives on Recent Star Formation, Michael Rutkowski, Hyunjin Jeong, Seth Cohen, Sugata Kaviraj, Rogier Windhorst, Russell Ryan, Anton Koekemoer, Sukyoung Yi, Nimish Hathi, Michael Dopita, and Michael Dopita
Differences between Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders: Rural Social Work Implications for Prevention, Assessment and Treatment, Susan M. Ryan, George S. Leibowitz, Jeanne M. Nauheimer, and Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Service-Learning in Developing Nations, Daniel Sachau, Carol Lynn Courtney, Richard Olson, Julene Nolan, and Scott T. Fee
Sandbagging: Faking Incompetence on the Golf Course, Daniel Sachau, Luke Simmering, Max Adler, and Warren Ryan
Synthesis, Crystal Structure Refinement, and Electrical Conductivity of Pb(8−x)Na2Smx(VO4)6O(x/2), Tatiana M. Savankova, Lev G. Akselrud, Lyudmyla I. Ardanova, Alexey V. Ignatov, Eugeni I. Get’man, Roman E. Gladyshevskii, and Stanislav N. Loboda
Production and Extraction of [10C]-CO2 from Proton Bombardment of Molten 10B2O3, M. J. Schueller, Robert J. Nickles, Andrew D. Roberts, and M. Jensen
Transnational Asia: Dis/orienting Identity in the Globalized World, Sachi Sekimoto
Digital Projects Made Easy: It’s All about Partnerships, Daardi Sizemore, Anne Stenzel, and Heidi J. Southworth
Recommended Laboratory Test for Predicting the Initial Retroreflectivity of Pavement Marking from Glass Bead Quality, Omar Smadi, Neal Hawkins, Başak Aldemir Bektaş, Paul Carlson, Adam Pike, and Chris Davies
100% PBL Curriculum: Startup Phase Complete, Ron Ulseth and Bart Johnson
De la muerte y otros amores = Death and the beloved, Sara B. Vanégas Coveña and Kimberly E. Contag
On Assessment, Imagination, and Agency: Using Rubrics to Inform and Negotiate the Honors Experience, Giovanna E. Walters
Techno-sexuality: The Sexual Pragmatists of the Technological Age, Dennis D. Waskul
The Link Between Cocurricular Activities and Academic Engagement in Engineering Education, Denise Wilson, Diane Jones, Mee Joo Kim, Cheryl Allendoerfer, Rebecca Bates, Joy Crawford, Tamara Floyd-Smith, Melani Plett, and Nanette Veilleux
An Assessment of Resiliency and Life Satisfaction in High School-Aged Students in Belize, Rachel Youngblom, Daniel Houlihan, and Julene Douty Nolan
Philosophy of Biology, Sun Kyeong Yu
So, I Can't Just Do Homework?: Training and Using Student Workers to the Fullest, Jessi Zimmerman, Joni D. Myers, and Anne Stenzel
Submissions from 2013
Unexpected Results from a Change in Token Type, Andrew Jonathan Ahrendt, Daniel Houlihan, and Jeffrey Buchanan
A Strategic Funding Process: Emphasizing Shared Governance and Transparency, Lynn D. Akey
Implementing the Strategic Framework Performance Metrics, Lynn D. Akey
It's Easy Being Green: Benefits of Technology-Enabled Work, Lance Andrews, Stephanie R. Klein, Jacob Forsman, and Daniel Sachau
The Procyonid Social Club: Comparison of Brain Volumes in the Coatimundi (Nasua nasua, N. narica), Kinkajou (Potos flavus), and Racoon (Procyon lotor), Bradley M. Arsznov and Sharleen T. Sakai
Written Communication in the Classroom: Resources for Teaching Methods (2013), Abigail Bakke and Kira Dreher
HST/WFC3 Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Quenched Galaxies at z ∼ 1.5 from the WISP Survey: Stellar Population Properties, A. G, Bedregal; C. Scarlata; A. L. Henry; H. Atek; M. Rafelski; H. I. Teplitz; A. Dominguez; Brian Siana; J. W. Colbert; M. Malkan; N. R. Ross; C. L. Martin; A. Dressler; C. Bridge; N. P. Hathi; D. Masters; P. J. McCarthy; and Michael J. Rutkowski
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Undergraduate Social Work Programs: How are Programs in Rural Areas Faring?, David L. Beimers, Brian Warner, and Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Weibull-Based Bridge Deterioration Models for Iowa Bridges, Başak Aldemir Bektaş and Dimitrios Bilionis
Using Classification Trees for Predicting National Bridge Inventory Condition Ratings, Başak Aldemir Bektaş, Alicia Carriquiry, and Omar Smadi
American Dream? Snapshots of the Middle-Class, Luz Carime Bersh
The Curricular Value of Teaching about Immigration through Picture Book Thematic Text Sets, Luz Carime Bersh
