Scholarly Work - Education

"Managing by not managing": How gay engineering students manage sexual orientation identity

Hughes, Bryce E. (2017-04)

From a social constructivist paradigm I explored the experiences of 7 openly gay engineering students to understand how, if at all, they made sense of the intersections between their engineering and sexual orientation ...

Leader Succession and Collective Efficacy: Conditions that Create Continuity in Transition

Versland, Tena M.; Quintana, Elizabeth; Malloy, Jenny (2014)

The purpose of this study was to understand whether or not changes in the collective efficacy of a school occurred with transition to new principal leadership. Teachers’ perceptions about collective efficacy changes as ...

Principal Efficacy: Implications for Rural ‘Grow Your Own’ Leadership Programs

Versland, Tena M. (2013-11)

Although "grow your own" principal preparation programs have become a popular method for recruiting and selecting administrator candidates for hard to fill positions in both urban and rural schools, “grow your own” prinicpal ...

Teachers and Data Literacy: A Blueprint for Professional Development to Foster Data Driven Decision Making

Green, Jennifer L.; Schmitt-Wilson, Sarah; Versland, Tena M. (2016-04)

Standardized testing and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards has brought the importance of data literacy and data driven decision making (DDDM) to the forefront of district professional development needs. ...

Exploring self-efficacy in education leadership programs: What makes the difference?

Versland, Tena M. (2015-12)

Despite attention given to principal preparation program reform, little research exists explaining how candidates develop self-efficacy or how preparation programs contribute to self-efficacy development. Researchers used ...

Leading by example: A case study of the influence of principal self-efficacy on collective efficacy

Versland, Tena M.; Erickson, Joanne L. (2017-02)

Self-efficacy is a perceived judgment that one has the ability to execute a course of action that brings about a desired result. Principal self-efficacy describes a set of beliefs that enable a principal to enact policies ...

Arizona’s reversal of fortune to no longer require educational spending to be tracked at the school level: A historical legislative analysis

Jimenez-Castellanos, O.; Barnett, J.; Ewbank, Ann D. (2010-03)

Efforts to provide equitable and adequate resources to schools continue to be debated in state legislatures across the United States. In all cases, these conversations are significantly limited by the publicly available ...

Values-oriented factors leading to retention of school librarian positions: A school district case study

Ewbank, Ann D. (2011-03)

The number of U.S. school librarians has greatly diminished despite advocacy efforts on the local and national level. This case study investigated the factors that led governing board members in a mid-size urban high school ...

Novice Researchers Find their Power: Using Technology to Support the Development of Doctoral Students

Ewbank, Ann D.; Foulger, T. S.; Wetzel, K. A. (2012)

This study examines innovative technology uses of proficient doctoral students in action research and uses the findings for doctoral program planning and revision. The authors conducted an environmental scan of students’ ...

License to drive: Safe social networking use in innovative schools

Foulger, T. S.; Ewbank, Ann D.; Carter, H. L.; Reicks, P.; Darby, S. (2013-03)

This article advocates for the use of social networking tools as a way for teachers and students to enrich learning possibilities. While some school systems resist the use of social networking tools for learning purposes, ...

Union-Active School Librarians and School Library Advocacy: A Modified Case Study of the British Columbia Teacher-Librarians’ Association and the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation

Ewbank, Ann D. (2015-01)

This modified case study examines how the members of the British Columbia TeacherLibrarians’ Association (BCTLA), a Provincial Specialist Association (PSA) of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), work together ...

Moral spaces in MySpace: Preservice teachers’ perspectives about ethical issues in social networking

Foulger, Teresa; Ewbank, Ann D.; Kay, Adam; Osborn Popp, Sharon; Carter, Heather (2009-01)

My Space and Facebook are innovative digital communication tools that surpass traditional means of social interaction. However, in some instances in which educators have used these tools, public reactions to them have ...

Education library 2.0: The establishment of a dynamic multi-site liaison program

Ewbank, Ann D. (2009-12)

Using a combination of marketing, Web 2.0 tools, videoconferencing, face-to-face instruction and site visits, a library presence including systematic information literacy instruction is embedded into multiple programs at ...

Conceptualizing the innovation: Factors influencing doctoral candidates’ interventions in the action research dissertation

Wetzel, Keith A.; Ewbank, Ann D. (2013-09)

In this action research study, we describe how doctoral candidates conceptualize innovations for their dissertations and outline how we are using the results to improve the doctoral dissertation experience for our new ...

Keeping up the good fight”: The said and unsaid in Flores v. Arizona

Hollis, M.; Aletheiani, D.; Carlson, D.; Ewbank, Ann D. (2014-01)

The authors' purpose in this article is to interrogate the mediated and political discourses that emerged alongside the Flores v. Arizona case. The authors endeavor to offer another voice, framework and approach that may ...

School Library Advocacy Literature in the United States: An Exploratory Content Analysis

Ewbank, Ann D.; Kwon, Ja Youn (2015-07)

This exploratory conceptual content analysis describes the published school library advocacy literature in the United States from 2001–2011. In 47 articles, the advocacy efforts undertaken, the responsible parties, the ...

Let His Voice Be Heard: A Community's Response to Inclusion of an Indigenous Counter-Narrative in the District Curriculum

McCarthy, Glenda; Stanton, Christine Rogers (2017-10)

Curricular counter-narratives can affirm the experiences of marginalized youth, but, given their complexity and unfamiliarity, they can also generate discord between community members. This case study analyzes documents, ...