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- Dr. John Baer, professor of teacher education,
co-authored a chapter for the just-released Special Education
Almanac on "Creativity and the Special Education Student"; a theoretical
article on the APT Model of Creativity for the Roeper Review;
and a research report on how gifted student writers evaluate the
creativity of others' work for Gifted Child Quarterly.
This summer, he co-chaired a symposium on Creativity and the Issues
of Gender, Race, Culture, and Fairness and presented a paper on
"Gender Differences in Creativity" at the annual meeting of the
American Psychological Association; presented a paper on "Myths
and Misconceptions about Creativity" at the 16th International
Conference on College Teaching and Learning; and spoke on "Knowledge
Acquisition and Creativity" for the Florida Association for Media
in Education.
- Dr. Michele Kamens, associate professor of
teacher education, attended the Center for Teacher Quality (CTQ)
Annual Forum on October 5-8 in San Diego, CA, sponsored by the
Council of Chief State School Officers. She participated in two
presentations - one with the New Jersey Department of Education
as a representative of their State team, and the second facilitating
a panel discussion on service delivery models for students with
disabilities. This is the third CTQ meeting in which Dr. Kamens
has participated as part of the New Jersey Team. The CTQ is a
national center created to work with states on developing models
for improving the preparation, licensing, and professional development
of teachers in both special and general education who teach students
with disabilities.
- Dr. Drew J. Procaccino, assistant professor
of computer information systems; Dr. Marvin E. Darter
and Dr. William J. Amadio, associate
professors of computer information systems, and Dr. June M. Verner,
National Information and Computing Technology in Australia, published
the paper, "Toward Predicting Software Development Success From
The Perspective of Practitioners: An Exploratory Bayesian Model,"
in the Journal of Information Technology, Volume 20,
Number 3 (September 2005) p.187-200. Dr. Procaccino, Dr. Katherine
M. Shelfer, Baruch College at The City University of New York,
and Dr. David Gefen, Drexel University, also published the paper,
"What Do Software Practitioners Really Think About Project Success:
An Exploratory Study", in the Journal of Systems & Software,
Volume 78, Number 2 (November 2005), p. 194-203.
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