Northern Illinois University

Beyond Divides: Theoretical and Methodological Pluralism as a Principled Stance in Literacy Research

This integrative research review panel examines how literacy researchers can cultivate more productive scholarship by working across, between, and against the methodological and theoretical boundaries that have traditionally organized our field. Each paper takes up a different di...

Community College Religious Accommodation Policies: A Critical Analysis in a State Context

In 2010, the North Carolina General Assembly amended state laws that required all community colleges to adopt a religious observance policy that would provide students with a minimum of two excused absences for religious activities “required by the faith of the student.” Drawing...

Aligning artificial intelligence and human judgment in IELTS speaking assessment to develop a hybrid pedagogical framework for test preparation

This study investigates the alignment between human judgment and artificial intelligence (AI) in IELTS speaking assessment to inform effective pedagogical practices. Through a comparative analysis of 30 Indonesian EFL learners’ performances evaluated by two experienced human rate...

Evaluating In-Vehicle Drunk-Driving Warning Symbols Using Generative AI: A Comparison with Human Judgments

This study examined whether Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) can evaluate in-vehicle drunk-driving warning symbols (telltales) in ways comparable to human perceptual and semantic judgments. Using visibility and intuitiveness ratings collected from Korean and Texas-based U....

Resolving the biome debate: ecological and palaeo‐data concur that the extensive tree‐limited grassy biomes of central and north‐western Madagascar are largely anthropogenic

ABSTRACT For millennia, human activities have transformed ecosystems globally. Determining which landscapes are predominantly anthropogenic is crucial to conservation and habitat restoration. Madagascar, a critically‐threatened biodiversity hotspot, is a prominent example. Curren...

Annual geospatial foundation model embeddings for landslide susceptibility assessment in Taiwan

Landslide susceptibility models (LSMs) must identify unstable terrain before failure is visible, yet it remains unclear whether compact geospatial foundation-model embeddings encode such pre-event information. We evaluate the efficacy of annual 64-dimensional AlphaEarth Foundatio...

Photochemistry with Plane-Polarized Light: Controlling Photochemical Reactions via Selective Choice of Excited States and Breaking Kasha’s Rule

Abstract Controlling the course of photochemical reactions hinges on the possibility to selectively form a specific singlet excited state. When alternative excited states are energetically close, they are generated simultaneously upon initial photoexcitation, with each excited st...

Preservice Teachers’ Experiences and Sense-Making of a Supreme Court Oral Argument Hearing

The decline in civic knowledge and judicial awareness among young learners is concerning for democratic citizenship and for the 21st-century U.S. democracy. In this article, we examined preservice teachers’ (PSTs) experiences and sense-making of a Supreme Court oral argument hear...

Associations Between Cyberbullying Perpetration and the Cluster B Personality Disorders Among University Students in Iran and the United States

This study examined how cluster B personality disorder traits (borderline, histrionic, antisocial, and narcissistic) relate to cyberbullying perpetration among young adults (18 to 21) in Iran and the United States controlling for face-to-face bullying perpetration. It also explor...

Psilocybin as a treatment for repetitive mild head injury: evidence from neuroradiology and molecular biology

Repetitive mild head injuries incurred while playing organized sports, during car accidents and falls, or in active military service are a major health problem. These head injuries induce cognitive, motor, and behavioral deficits that can last for months and even years with an in...

A Generalization of the Ternary Binding Model to Membrane‐Confined Systems With Finite Copy Number

ABSTRACT The standard Douglass ternary binding model (TBM) for three‐body equilibria assumes a well‐mixed, three‐dimensional solution. When applied to bispecific T‐cell engagers (BiTEs), however, the productive trimeric complex forms not in bulk solution but within a nanoscale me...

Hype vs. reality: the true impact of traditional and generative AI on users’ intention to use soft skills coaching chatbots in higher education

This study compares three soft-skills coaching chatbot configurations in higher education: traditional AI, hybrid AI, and generative AI-only systems. In collaboration with Rocky.ai, a prominent European AI coaching chatbot company, we investigate a sample of 120 higher education...

Family-Led Intervention in Improving Employment Outcomes for Persons With Intellectual Disabilities: CBT and MI: A Pilot Study

This pilot randomized controlled trial examined whether a brief, family-led cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing intervention improved employment motivation among adults with intellectual disabilities. Intellectual disability is characterized by limitations...

A harm-reduction framework for responsible AI in public health research

Abstract Artificial intelligence is reshaping population medicine and public health, yet the same systems that generate insight can amplify misleading content and blur where evidence ends and AI fabrication begins. This perspective offers a four-level harm-reduction framework, co...

Associations Between Guilt, Shame, and Psychopathology Among Women with History of Childhood Emotional Abuse

While understudied compared to other forms of childhood abuse, emotional abuse has been identified as a potentially strong, unique predictor of psychopathology. Guilt and shame may represent important factors in the path from childhood abuse to adult psychopathology. The current...

Following a Fatal Campus Shooting, Coping Self-Efficacy and Coping Styles Interact to Predict Posttraumatic Growth

Gun violence in U.S. academic settings has increased in recent years, posing significant psychological and social challenges for affected communities. In the aftermath of a campus shooting, community members employ a range of coping strategies to manage their distress; decisions...