Laurie O. Campbell

• Professor (Associate) at University of Central Florida

A meta-analytic study was conducted of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to understand higher education instructors use of technology in teaching and learning. Through broad searches of the years 2003–2023, 117 records were identified for initial review. After reviewing the studies and removing those studies that were duplicate...

Aims This study investigated counsellor education Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) programs generative artificial intelligence (AI) policies in doctoral‐level counselor education programs. We aimed to contribute to emerging research on the use of generative AI within counselor education. Methods A c...

Academic incivility has contributed to (a) disruptions in learning, (b) poor mental health, (c) diminished academic achievement, and (d) increased financial costs. Understanding and characterizing human roles in academic incivility is foundational to developing plans and policies to mitigate the damaging effects of academic incivility. The purpose...

Emerging technologies in education, such as wearable devices, tangible user interfaces, virtual reality, augmented reality, and robotics can support learners’ motivations, achievement, engagement, and collaboration skills. However, knowledge of teachers’ intentions to adopt and utilize emerging technologies are limited. In this study, a path analys...

Bullying and academic incivility are significant public health issues associated with serious mental health outcomes and harmful behaviors for both perpetrators and victims. In this quantitative study, academic incivility and prior bullying experiences related to suicidality, self-destructive behaviors, and harm to others were explored. Higher educ...

Factors that support learner engagement and achievement are vast. School learning environments can promote care for learners. The present year-long study examined the Designed Caring Classroom Intervention in 17 s grade classrooms in a large school district. To examine the effect of the intervention on second grade learners’ mathematics and reading...

Higher education faculty members incorporate technologies into their teaching and learning practices in higher education for the benefit of their learners. Hence, general technologies, such as presentation software, online classrooms, and learning management systems are ubiquitous in higher education teaching practices. However, emerging technologi...

Recent tensions in society have led to protests and demonstrations to raise awareness and consciousness ultimately for change. These efforts can be draining. Domestic increases in youth activism has illustrated transformative community action as well as the need to determine themes related to activist sustainability and mental health. Therefore, a...

The purpose of this scoping review was to identify, review, and map the concept of experiential learning in counselor education. The review provides an overview of the types of studies, the theoretical positioning, definitions, and positionality of experiential learning in counselor education. The study includes an overview of N = 38 studies that m...

Although several factors influence Hispanic Latina/o/x degree attainment, less is known regarding student-to-faculty ratio at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) in Florida. We examined publicly available data for HSI ( n = 14) and non-HSI ( n = 88) degree attainment among Hispanic Latina/o/x students in Florida. Pearson correlations and regression...

Academic incivility can create divisiveness and affect learners’ sustainability towards degree attainment. Therefore, there is a need to empirically assess learner views on what constitutes academic incivility in higher education. To fill this gap, we developed the Incivility Indicators Instrument (i³), a multifaceted scale that measures the extent...

Counselor education pedagogy entails multiple unique instructional modalities, including supervision, group counseling, and skills instruction. Counseling programs often include courses such as practicum and internship, which embed experiential learning throughout the curriculum. However, little is known about the motivations and perceptions counse...

An online assessment and remediation protocol with accompanying Python-based toolset is developed to engage undergraduate tutors who identify and fill knowledge gaps of at-risk learners. Digitized assessments, personalized tutoring, and automated micro-credentialing scripts for Canvas LMS are used to issue skill-specific badges which motivate the l...

Introduction Bullying is an increasing concern for education, health, and policy. Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable period for the development of depressive symptoms and suicidality following exposure to bullying. However, limited research investigating the potential impact of depressive symptoms on the bullying‐suicide relationship exists....

The RETAIN Model is a game design and evaluation model for serious games. In this study, educators evaluated social change web-based and mobile app games using the RETAIN model rubric. In general, web-based games scored higher on the RETAIN rubric than their mobile app counterparts. In addition, the educators analyzed the social change games for th...

Although an increasing body of reading research explores motivation among students from underrepresented racially minoritized groups in academic settings, the research tends to either lump students into an “underrepresented racial minority” (URM) or an “Other” category or focus on students from specific racial backgrounds (e.g., White, Asian, or Bl...

Reading in upper-elementary grades includes comprehending complex texts and learning disciplinary-specific vocabulary. This study aims to determine the effects of a computer-adaptive supplementary reading program on fifth-grade students’ reading achievement. Using propensity score matching to create equivalent groups of 450 students for both contro...

Background Teachers are important gatekeepers in suicide prevention for children and youth, yet little is known about factors that contribute to suicide prevention training effectiveness and the influence of student suicidality on teachers’ role as gatekeepers. Objective This study examined teachers’ attitudes and self-efficacy in suicide preventi...

This study examines the characteristics of school shootings and investigates the relationship between perpetrators’ race and how shootings are reported by the media. Findings, utilizing data from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, demonstrate differences by race in the characteristics of school shootings and media reporting of school sho...

Students’ utilization of protective behaviors in the event of gun violence may be dependent on the attitudes, actions, and beliefs they espouse regarding campus security measures in keeping with Protection Motivation Theory. In this study, 698 higher education students from 48 states completed an online survey related to: (a) attitude toward guns o...

High-profile school shootings provoke public outcry and calls for policy responses to gun violence in schools. However, policy makers face pressure from diverse stakeholders with distinct agendas, and in some areas, there is little empirical research to guide policy makers’ decisions. Active shooter drills are one such example of a hotly debated po...

This qualitative study examines the experiences of COVID‐19 job loss by individuals from minimal‐resource communities. Six participants were interviewed regarding their experience with becoming unemployed during the global pandemic. In general, participants described experiences that aligned with the core tenets of Gowan and Gatewood's (1997) model...

Bullying has become a pervasive threat for education, health, and policy. Inadequate professional development in bullying prevention and intervention has compounded this issue. Since teachers’ professional development is a critical aspect in shaping supportive, healthy, and safe learning environments as well as creating and maintaining high-quality...

This book explores technology-supported andragogical and pedagogical approaches that facilitate teamwork, collaboration, communication, and problem-solving opportunities in diverse disciplines. Collaboration and communication skills are not typically developed in traditional STEM instructional practices. The purpose of the book includes expanding t...

Although all states in the United States require school districts to adopt anti-bullying policies, relatively little research explores the content of bullying policies. A content analysis of anti-bullying policies from 76 school districts across the State of Louisiana was conducted. A 63-item coding scheme was developed to guide the analysis. The o...

This study contains an investigation of a new expressive therapeutic approach (STEM-based expressive therapy). An exploratory descriptive qualitative approach was utilized to explore how STEM-based activities provide a non-traditional expressive therapeutic approach to address children and family systems in school-based settings and professional de...

Background: Teachers play a critical role in youth suicide prevention, yet few psychometrically sound instruments exist to measure teachers' expectations and values regarding suicide prevention. Aims: This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Teacher Expectations and Values for Suicide Prevention (TEVSP) Scale. Met...

A family counseling intervention grounded in systemic family therapy was conducted in a Title I school-based setting with ( N = 48) kindergarten through sixth-grade student-clients and their primary caregivers. Families’ perception of family communication and satisfaction on the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale-IV was investigated...

More and more faculty who teach online are facing incivility in their classroom. These disruptions impede learners’ development and wellbeing and can negatively impact faculty and institutions of higher education. In this article, we review the consequences of online academic incivility and the situational factors that contribute to these disruptio...

The purpose of this study was to investigate student-created video as an active learning approach in an online environment to inform instructional practices of student-created video in STEM. Data analyzed in this study included pre-service teachers N = 107, 1-minute videos and pre- and post surveys. The findings of this qualitative study indicated...

The present study investigated the predictability of a computer-adaptive, curriculum-based reading assessment for measuring second-grade students’ overall and comprehension reading achievement on a standardized reading achievement test. Specifically, second-grade student scores (N = 428) of the Istation’s Indicators of Progress for Early Reading (I...

The rates of mental health concerns among school-aged youth are increasing and the growing rates of students considering or planning for suicide is alarming. Although school counselors are often the only professionals with the training to support students’ mental health needs in schools, they are often inaccessible to students to receive long-term...

In this case study, an active learning approach to exam preparation in engineering was investigated. The Learner Video Thumbnailing (LVT) strategy incorporated video blogs (vlogs) to reinforce course content. In this innovative method, students voluntarily choose one of two roles as either the role of a spectator (watching the vlogs) n=69 or the ro...

The use of video is prevalent in both face-to-face and online classrooms. Online learning leverages the use of video to support and provide instruction through the visuals video affords. The following study documents how undergraduate students interacted with video both in online and face-to-face environments and includes their video-watching prefe...

Open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02702711.2019.1629516 Students’ reading losses during the summer are a concern for schools in the United States. The purpose of this investigation was to examine fourth grade students’ (N = 5,113) reading development over the summer. The results indicated that students in the lowest two qu...

Teachers receive minimal training regarding mental health literacy and more specifically behavioral indicators for suicide ideation, suicidality, and self-injurious behaviors that may be occurring among their students. Yet, research has identified the value of training teachers on self-injury and suicide as findings indicate that intentional traini...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of a nutrition module and activities (Go, Slow, Whoa) in a literacy environment through an active learning approach. Second graders (N = 85) from diverse socioeconomic status (SES) areas completed the 12-week program. The participants’ perceptions of healthy food choices were measured...

Female and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Sociocultural influencers, such as YouTubers, may be contributing to STEM awareness and identity. The purpose of this content analysis was to investigate social media influencers related to explicit and implicit messaging. A curated list of 41 ST...

The study described herein provides evidence that Istation's Indicators of Progress (ISIPTM) Reading cut scores can predict the STAR Reading Assessment (STAR) statewide examination scores for all achievement levels among first and second grade students. The study examined kindergarten, first, and second grade ISIP-ER scores (Overall Reading Ability...

The RETAIN Model is a game design and evaluation model for serious games. In this study, educators evaluated social change web-based and mobile app games using the RETAIN model rubric. In general, web-based games scored higher on the RETAIN rubric than their mobile app counterparts. In addition, the educators analyzed the social change games for th...

Researchers conducted a content analysis of nine social media platforms’ bullying policies based on the American School Counseling Association position statement on bullying to determine the content of the social media platforms’ bullying policies as they connect to school counseling guidelines. Main findings indicated (a) common terms are often un...

In this mixed-methods study, undergraduate students identified with a learning disability indicated their preferred instructional approaches to learning in college-level STEM courses. The relationships between preferred instructional strategies and learner characteristics: (a) declared major; (b) learning disability; and (c) gender were examined. P...

Through an active and experiential learning approach that incorporated multimodal strategies, the Jr. Chef program contributed to increased nutrition knowledge among elementary students living in an urban food desert.

The study provides evidence that Istation's Indicators of Progress (ISIP™) Reading cut scores can predict the Florida Standards Assessment English Language Arts (FSA-ELA) statewide examination scores for all achievement levels among third grade students. The study examined third grade ISIP-ER scores (Overall Reading Ability and Reading Comprehensio...

Students within this study followed the ICSDR (Identify, Conceptualize/Connect, Storyboard, Develop, Review/Reflect /Revise) development model to create digital video, as a personalized and active learning assignment. The participants, graduate students in education, indicated that following the ICSDR framework for student authored video guided the...

Sociocultural influences include mobile apps and online games A content analysis of mobile apps and online games in STEM was conducted to determine gender and stereotypical representations The results of the content analysis included a gender imbalance, stereotypical representations, and passive female STEM roles The implications for educators incl...

The inclusion of makerspaces in K-12 learning environments has been explored as a way to encourage computational thinking skills through experiential and active learning approaches Pop-up Makerspaces provide teachers opportunities to integrate computational thinking skills into their classroom despite these limitations Through a mixed-methods analy...

Inservice K-12 educators participated in a pilot study that incorporated digital story development and creation to build STEM and interdisciplinary content knowledge. Prior to completing their STEM-based narrative, the teachers developed their story through using online timelines, storyboarding, and advanced organizers. Next the teachers developed...

Integrating console games into educational settings has been increasingly both applauded and criticized. The vast interest in game playing of people of all ages appears to be a motivating source for educators and trainers to find ways to effectively integrate serious games into their educational settings in order to inspire their own students towar...

There is known gender disparity and inequity of women leaders in technology and STEM fields. A rapid gender decline in these burgeoning fields has sparked a national renewed interest in purposefully attracting and mentoring more women to roles in technology leadership. The gender disparity is not only in attracting young women to consider a technol...

At a national and international level, the need for initiating and sustaining professional networks focused on improvement is becoming more transparent with an impetus on educating students for a global workplace, with a goal on the innovative use of knowledge to educate students for college and career. In response, we’ve created a professional net...

There is known gender disparity and inequity of women leaders in technology and STEM fields. A rapid gender decline in these burgeoning fields has sparked a national renewed interest in purposefully attracting and mentoring more women to roles in technology leadership. The gender disparity is not only in attracting young women to consider a technol...

Combining games with mobile devices can promote learning opportunities at the learners' fingertips and enable ubiquitous learning experiences. As teachers increasingly assign games to reinforce language learning, it becomes essential to evaluate how effective these applications are in helping students learn the content or develop the skills that th...

Minimal research has been accumulated in the field of social studies education for Novakian concept mapping, yet there are many benefits from adding this learning tool to a teacher's instructional toolbox. The article defines Novakian concept mapping and invites readers to adopt digital Novakian concept mapping into the social studies classroom as...