Featured PsTL faculty research

Podcasting, vodcasting (online video broadcasting), wikis, and blogs are being used as part of Universal Instructional Design (UID), an educational approach aimed at meeting a wide variety of student learning styles and needs. Discover how David Arendale and Murray Jensen use these technologies in their classes. [Read "Technology for all"]

Blong Xiong specializes in parent/adolescent relationships in Hmong families. "Parents may get cultural assistance," Pioneer Press [PDF]

Research by Karen Miksch, assistant professor of higher education and law in PsTL, predicts that legal scholars in education-related fields are poised to play a key role in breaking down legal barriers that make moving from high school to college difficult-to-impossible for certain groups of students.

David Ghere, associate professor of history in PsTL, has discovered that the historic massacre fictionalized in James Fennimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans was actually instigated by a group of Penobscot warriors exacting revenge for an English atrocity. The Mohican nation was not involved.

PsTL research programs and departments

Pedagogy and Student Services for Institutional Transformation (PASS IT)

Outreach

African American Read-In

The Read-In is a literacy initiative addressing the attainment of reading and writing skills in African American students and encouraging reading and writing across the curriculum.

Native American Math and Science Summer Camp

This camp encourages Native teenagers to study math and science through traditional Native uses of the sciences and mathematics. Read more about the Native American Math and Science summer camp.