Research Matters | College of Education

Marjori Krebs speaks about the potential of Service Learning to combine service to the community with activities, exercises, and processes that bring deeper meaning to the experience - both for students and for those benefitting from their service.

Glenn Hushman shares his work combining the allure of video games and modern entertainment with effective practice in Physical Education.

Dr. David Scott provides a welcome and brief introduction to the Research Department at the University of New Mexico's College of Education.

Our project is designed to raise awareness and to provide supportive resources to teachers, counselors, and other education professionals working to prevent and effectively respond to face-to-face and electronic bullying of students, especially those who do not conform to traditional gender norms, such as LGBTQ students.

This research project brings together a selection of theoretical and creative Chicana and Latin American feminists works from the U.S. and those compiled at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. These conceptual and creative works are used as the source for framing transborder Global South women-centered ontologies and epistemologies.

In this study we interviewed local elementary school administrators to determine the knowledge administrators have regarding special education teacher instructional knowledge and skills, the types of induction support new special educators receive, and the knowledge of and support given to new special educators from alternate certification routes.

The Out-of-School Learning in Mathematics and Engineering (OLME) project is an interdisciplinary effort designed to support interactive and visual learning in engineering and mathematics of middle school students from underrepresented groups. Through an integrated curriculum, the OLME project provides engaging experiences in engineering through digital image and video processing of digital images and video that are connected to mathematical practices different from but related to school mathematics.

The SPIRITED team conducted exploratory research aimed at understanding two things: how to support teachers as designers of learning experiences, and how immersive, interactive projection might reconfigure inquiry learning.

This programmatic research agenda will conduct research with intent to establish a valid and reliable standards-based system to measure student achievement in physical education, explore how current methods of measuring teacher effectiveness map onto physical education, and develop a valid and reliable system that measures teacher performance in physical education settings.