Jennifer S Beal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5000774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer S Beal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer S |
| FAMILY NAME | Beal |
| SIGNATURE | BEAL J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Valdosta State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1240-9834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Measuring the Transformation
Background: While the learning benefits of experiential education are well-documented, there are few empirical studies of program implementation and assessment. Purpose: We investigated how experiential learning (EL) was implemented and assessed within EL-endorsed courses across six academic colleges and nine courses within one university in the Southeast U.S. Method: We conducted qualitative interviews with instructors to examine how the EL acti…
Research in Practice
When an instructional strategy lacks evidence of its effectiveness with certain learner groups, educators can conduct action research in their classroom to determine strategy effectiveness. In the present study, seven preservice teachers of the deaf (TODs) implemented self-graphing interventions with deaf/hard of hearing (DHH) learners to change target on- and off-task behaviors. Preservice teachers were master's-level candidates in a university …
American Sign Language Assessments for Deaf Children
ASL Phonological Fluency
Researchers have focused on how deaf signing children acquire and use American Sign Language (ASL). One sub-skill of ASL proficiency is ASL phonology. This includes the ability to isolate and manipulate parameters within signs (i.e., handshape, location, and movement). Expressively, signed language phonological fluency tasks have investigated signers’ abilities to produce signs given handshape constraints. We expanded the handshape task with the …
Four American Sign Language Learner Groups
We investigated the receptive American Sign Language (ASL) skills of four separate groups using the 42-item ASL-Receptive Skills Test: Deaf high school-aged students who attended a residential school; deaf incoming college students who preferred signed language; deaf incoming college students who preferred spoken language; and typically hearing college-aged second language-second modality learners (M2L2) of ASL. Many deaf students learn ASL as a …
Goodnight Gorilla
The present study used an observational learning framework to investigate changes in non-native signing deaf children’s narrative renditions before (Time 1) and after (Time 2) a single viewing of a signing adult’s rendition of the same story. The deaf adult model rendered the picture book Goodnight Gorilla in American Sign Language (ASL) with the pages of the book displayed behind her. We analyzed the details children aged 6–13 years included wit…
Incoming Deaf College Students’ Sign Language Skills
There are over 135,000 deaf/hard of hearing students enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. However, deaf students who use sign language may not be aware of their sign language skills, resulting in accommodations that do not provide full access to postsecondary course content and reduced degree completion rates compared to their typically hearing peers. We documented the receptive and expressive ASL skills and self-ratings of 59 incom…
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Goodnight Gorilla
The present study used an observational learning framework to investigate changes in non-native signing deaf children’s narrative renditions before (Time 1) and after (Time 2) a single viewing of a signing adult’s rendition of the same story. The deaf adult model rendered the picture book Goodnight Gorilla in American Sign Language (ASL) with the pages of the book displayed behind her. We analyzed the details children aged 6–13 years included wit…
Incoming Deaf College Students’ Sign Language Skills
There are over 135,000 deaf/hard of hearing students enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. However, deaf students who use sign language may not be aware of their sign language skills, resulting in accommodations that do not provide full access to postsecondary course content and reduced degree completion rates compared to their typically hearing peers. We documented the receptive and expressive ASL skills and self-ratings of 59 incom…
Four American Sign Language Learner Groups
We investigated the receptive American Sign Language (ASL) skills of four separate groups using the 42-item ASL-Receptive Skills Test: Deaf high school-aged students who attended a residential school; deaf incoming college students who preferred signed language; deaf incoming college students who preferred spoken language; and typically hearing college-aged second language-second modality learners (M2L2) of ASL. Many deaf students learn ASL as a …
American Sign Language Assessments for Deaf Children
ASL Phonological Fluency
Researchers have focused on how deaf signing children acquire and use American Sign Language (ASL). One sub-skill of ASL proficiency is ASL phonology. This includes the ability to isolate and manipulate parameters within signs (i.e., handshape, location, and movement). Expressively, signed language phonological fluency tasks have investigated signers’ abilities to produce signs given handshape constraints. We expanded the handshape task with the …
Research in Practice
When an instructional strategy lacks evidence of its effectiveness with certain learner groups, educators can conduct action research in their classroom to determine strategy effectiveness. In the present study, seven preservice teachers of the deaf (TODs) implemented self-graphing interventions with deaf/hard of hearing (DHH) learners to change target on- and off-task behaviors. Preservice teachers were master's-level candidates in a university …
Measuring the Transformation
Background: While the learning benefits of experiential education are well-documented, there are few empirical studies of program implementation and assessment. Purpose: We investigated how experiential learning (EL) was implemented and assessed within EL-endorsed courses across six academic colleges and nine courses within one university in the Southeast U.S. Method: We conducted qualitative interviews with instructors to examine how the EL acti…
Hearing Impairment and Communication (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sign language (6 works) · American Sign Language (5 works) · Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Deaf education (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Sign (mathematics) (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works)