curriculum & instruction
Grad Student Article
Garners Award
Five graduate students in the Department of Curriculum
and Instruction have co-authored an article that has won
the Cynthia Peterson JCRL Outstanding Article Award for
the Journal of College Reading and Learning’s 44th
volume. The doctoral students are Pamela Correll (current),
P Jane Clouse (current), and Kimberly Creech (‘14) as
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well as master’s students Danielle Owens (‘12) and Sharon
Bridges (‘11).
“The article is the result of a graduate seminar course
I taught in spring 2011 during which the students and I
collaborated on designing, implementing, and writing a
study on students’ reading motivation and engagement,”
says Dr. Susan Cantrell, associate professor of Curriculum
and Instruction and Director of Research for the
Collaborative Center for Literacy Development. “After the
course had ended, the doctoral students presented the study
at AERA in Montreal, Canada, and then we submitted the
paper for publication in the Journal of College Reading and
Learning. I am thrilled beyond measure that they now get
to experience this recognition for their hard work.”
Cantrell and the students are planning to accept the
award in St. Paul, Minn., at the College Reading and
Learning Association conference in November.
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English
Social Studies
The middle school program had
100 percent placement of new
graduates in full-time teaching
positions last semester.
early childhood, special ed & rehab
Vamos, Y’ALL! EDSRC is Teaching a
New Group of Educators to Include
All Learners
EDSRC is offering a new Inclusive Education program
this fall. With funding from the U.S. State Department, 45
educators, therapists, and psychologists from Latin America
will engage in five, 40-hour professional learning courses
on how to include students with disabilities in their general
education classrooms. Eight of these students will enroll as
graduate students taking the courses for credit. The faceto-face portion of the first course will kick off in San Jose,
Costa Rica at the Tri Association conference. The five-course
sequence is currently under consideration to become a
graduate certificate, which will be available once approved to
all of UK’s students, here and internationally. EDSRC is eager
to bring special education content to more general educators
and related personnel around the globe.
COE COMMUNICATOR | SEPTEMBER 2014
Bishop Receives Grant
Dr. Malachy Bishop (professor and doctoral program
coordinator, Rehabilitation Counseling) has received a twoyear research grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society. Previous studies have shown that health care works
best when patients participate in its design and delivery.
However, the health care priorities and preferences of people
with MS are not well understood. To increase understanding
of what people with MS want from their health care, Bishop’s
team, including researchers from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and
Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton, are conducting a
nationwide survey of 3,000 patients with MS and National
MS Society members to determine how well different health
care settings and health care professionals are meeting their
needs and expectations. They are exploring whether people
have different health care priorities and needs based on such
characteristics as their age, general health, race/ethnicity,
educational level, where they live, and type of MS.
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