Papers by Christina Romero
Women in Higher Education
Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting
Higher Education Studies
This article discusses findings from the qualitative research study which was conducted at a K-12... more This article discusses findings from the qualitative research study which was conducted at a K-12 parochial school in Midwestern city. The study was conducted to understand how first and second graders who were located in one particular educational setting, with reading levels that ranged from low to high in a split classroom, made meanings from stories they read while in leveled reading circles. Using the frameworks of how learners respond to literature and share lived experiences with peers, student engagement was closely analyzed to understand readers’ connections to stories. Observations with field notes, active participation, and casual talk were used for gathering data. Three students from different reading circles and their teacher were participants in the study.
Families, Systems, & Health, 2021
This poem focuses on Body Duality and recounts the experience of child sexual abuse. (PsycInfo Da... more This poem focuses on Body Duality and recounts the experience of child sexual abuse. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
Families, Systems, & Health, 2020
Butlerov Communications, 2020
At present, in order to obtain high-tech hybrid products, high demands are placed on modern adhes... more At present, in order to obtain high-tech hybrid products, high demands are placed on modern adhesives for creating durable joints between dissimilar materials. It is known that adhesion depends on the compatibility of the adhesives with the surfaces of the materials. For epoxy compositions, amine compounds are the main hardeners. In this regard, in the presented work, silicon-containing amines were synthesized based on polyfunctional aminoalkoxysiloxanes for epoxy compositions, the strength of attachment of which to various metal substrates was studied using these adhesion promoters. Aminoalkoxysiloxanes were prepared by reacting 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane with monoethanolamine in nitrogen at atmospheric pressure in the presence of a binary antioxidant and catalytic amounts of an alkali metal alcoholate. To carry out the reaction in a homogeneous phase, the reaction mixture was heated to a temperature of 100-110 °C and distilled off to 90% of ethanol from the theoretically calcula...
English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 2021
Purpose This study centers on high school pre-teacher education students’ reviews of their peers’... more Purpose This study centers on high school pre-teacher education students’ reviews of their peers’ digital stories. The purpose of this study is twofold: to bring digital storytelling to the forefront as a literacy practice within classrooms that seeks to privilege students’ voices and experiences and also to encapsulate the authors’ different experiences and perspectives as teachers. The authors sought to understand how pre-teacher education candidates analyzed, understood and made meaning from their classmates’ digital stories using the seven elements of digital storytelling (Dreon et al., 2011). Design/methodology/approach Using grounded theory (Charmaz, 2008) as a framework, the question of how do high school pre-teacher education program candidates reflectively peer review their classmates’ digital stories is addressed and discussed through university and high school instructors’ narrative reflections. Through peer reviews of their fellow classmates’ digital stories, students we...
International Journal of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, 2020
This article discusses findings from a qualitative research study which focused on how women from... more This article discusses findings from a qualitative research study which focused on how women from diverse backgrounds used storying as a space to make sense of life experiences that had highly impacted their lives. This article explores how women’s stories mediate their experiences of being temporarily silenced, how they resisted others’ silencing over their own viewpoints, and how their storying mediates different ways of “talking back” through story-writing in letters and journals and story-living through an intentional practice of wearing an artifact of trauma. Multiple interviews were used as the primary data sources, and through these the participants’ stories emerged. Intersections of gender, race, religion, and socioeconomic status in the participants’ stories were analyzed, and the categories of silencing, resistance/talking back, and resilience developed. Findings included the participants’ abilities to navigate issues related to others’ forced perspectives on their bodies ...
Higher Education Studies, 2020
This article addresses reflections of one University instructor’s teaching and her pre-teacher ed... more This article addresses reflections of one University instructor’s teaching and her pre-teacher education students’ innovative digital learning practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in Spring 2020. The question of How has one instructor embedded digital practices in her virtual teaching to engage and purposefully introduce and connect pre-teacher education students with diverse technologies and multimodalities of learning during a mandatory virtual instruction time? will be addressed and discussed. Student-centered practices such as group work, pair work, the use of Zoom breakout rooms, and multimodal literary responses through technology applications such as Flipgrid and Google Docs will be described and reflected upon. The instructor’s own teaching practices that have included weekly mentoring meetings with her education students and continuing individual coffee meetings in diverse settings will be highlighted as ways of demonstrating care and encouragement toward face-to-face stu...
International Journal of Personality Psychology, 2019
The current project measures personality across cultures, for the first time using a forced-choic... more The current project measures personality across cultures, for the first time using a forced-choice (or idiographic) assessment instrument - the California Adult Q-set (CAQ). Correlations among the average personality profiles across 13 countries (total N = 2,370) ranged from r = .69 to r = .98. The most similar averaged personality profiles were between USA/Canada; the least similar were South Korea/Russia/Poland and China/Russia. The Czech Republic had the most homogeneous personality descriptions and South Korea had the least. In further analyses, country differences in CAQ-derived Big Five scores were compared to results obtained from previous research using nomothetic Likert scales (i.e., the NEO; the BFI). The Big Five templates produced generally similar findings to previous research comparing the Big Five across countries using Likert-type methods.
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2017
While a large body of research has investigated cultural differences in behavior, this typical st... more While a large body of research has investigated cultural differences in behavior, this typical study assesses a single behavioral outcome, in a single context, compared across two countries. The current study compared a broad array of behaviors across 21 countries ( N = 5,522). Participants described their behavior at 7:00 p.m. the previous evening using the 68 items of the Riverside Behavioral Q-sort (RBQ). Correlations between average patterns of behavior in each country ranged from r = .69 to r = .97 and, in general, described a positive and relaxed activity. The most similar patterns were United States/Canada and least similar were Japan/United Arab Emirates (UAE). Similarities in behavior within countries were largest in Spain and smallest in the UAE. Further analyses correlated average RBQ item placements in each country with, among others, country-level value dimensions, personality traits, self-esteem levels, economic output, and population. Extroversion, openness, neurotici...
Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2016
Journal of Personality, 2015
The Analyst, 1991
A method is described for the determination of trace amounts of Cu, Ni and Zn in diamminedichloro... more A method is described for the determination of trace amounts of Cu, Ni and Zn in diamminedichloropalladium and diamminedinitropalladium by flame atomic absorption spectrometry after an extraction procedure using ammonium pyrrolidin-1-yldithioformate [ammonium pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate (APDC)] as complexing agent and isobutyl methyl ketone (IBMK) as extractant. Another extraction system, NH4SCN–IBMK, was used for the preliminary removal of Pd which also forms extractable complexes with APDC. Optimum conditions for the selective separation of Pd and for the simultaneous extraction of Cu–, Ni– and Zn–PDC complexes into IBMK were determined. The sensitivity and precision of the proposed method are sufficient for quality control requirements.
Dyes and Pigments, 2002
Ground and excited state deprotonation and protonation pK a values of anthraquinones with amino, ... more Ground and excited state deprotonation and protonation pK a values of anthraquinones with amino, hydroxy and chloro substituents were determined by means of spectrophotometric titrations and Fo¨rster cycle calculations. In the mixed amino-hydroxy 9,10-anthraquinones a second stage of deprotonation and protonation was not registered, and only when the primary amino function is attached to an electron-withdrawing group (-COCH 2 Cl) a second ionization takes place. Acidity of the hydroxy-1,4-anthraquinones in the ground state is about 2.5 pK aÀ units higher than that of the related 9,10-anthraquinones. The determined values of pK a+ of protonation are within the limits of À4.46 up to À8.39. The calculated values of the excited state of deprotonation are in the range 1.15-2.57, while the excited state values for protonation vary from 0.91 to 2.57 correspondingly. It was concluded that a proton transfer in the excited state is possible for all the investigated compounds.
Education, 2019
In the latter half of the 20th century, scholars began to contest traditional conceptions of lite... more In the latter half of the 20th century, scholars began to contest traditional conceptions of literacy. According to these challenges, meaning is an interactive process achieved by a reader who applies their own knowledge and background experiences. Over the same period, new media technologies have emerged, leading scholars to expand their conceptions of literacy to consider how citizens make meaning in these new contexts. Literacy practices—reading, writing, and creating—are now understood as multiple and diverse practices that individuals enact beyond educational settings into other spaces of home and community. Literacy is sociocultural and diverse, involving individuals’ use of values, relationships, and things from their lives, discourses, or culturally imbedded practices. Literacy also involves multiliteracies or the use of different kinds of literacies for different purposes in various life circumstances. Literacy then is not isolated to a mere skill but involves a dynamic pro...
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