Melissa Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 7710652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montclair State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lessons learned from an undergraduate seminar to prepare preservice physical education teachers as whole-of-school physical activity leaders
Background Most youth worldwide do not reach the recommended 60 min of daily physical activity (PA). Schools provide a distinct public health infrastructure for implementing Whole-of-School (WOS) approaches, which draw upon social-ecological supports to increase PA. Although WOS PA training in physical education teacher education has expanded, gaps remain in preparing preservice teachers as school PA leaders. The purpose of this study was to exam…
‘We Talked about Solitude’
Before they met in 1917, Virginia Woolf envisioned a peculiar setting for her first encounter with Katherine Mansfield, the promising young writer who had ‘dogged [her] steps for three years’. Intriguingly, Woolf imagined she might glimpse Mansfield, not in the drawing-room of a mutual friend or at a literary soirée, but ‘on a rock or in the sea’ – there, ‘I shall accost her’.1 Woolf pictures Mansfield in an attitude reminiscent of Frederic Leigh…
Drug Testing and Community Supervision Outcomes
The requirement to submit to drug testing is either a standard or special condition of adult community correctional supervision in most jurisdictions. Positive drug test results are one of the most common violations of probation that result in official action by a supervising officer. This study examines the relationship between individual characteristics, drug test results, and federal supervision outcomes. Results indicate that individual risk …
The Development and Implementation of a Faculty–Student Collaborative Research Project
Criminal Justice faculty collaborated with undergraduate and graduate students to evaluate federal probation officers’ use of evidence-based skills following the implementation of a new training program designed to improve officer supervision skills and offender outcomes. The project resulted in the coding of over 100 audio recordings of actual officer–offender interactions based upon a developed assessment instrument. Overall, officers demonstra…
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The Development and Implementation of a Faculty–Student Collaborative Research Project
Criminal Justice faculty collaborated with undergraduate and graduate students to evaluate federal probation officers’ use of evidence-based skills following the implementation of a new training program designed to improve officer supervision skills and offender outcomes. The project resulted in the coding of over 100 audio recordings of actual officer–offender interactions based upon a developed assessment instrument. Overall, officers demonstra…
Drug Testing and Community Supervision Outcomes
The requirement to submit to drug testing is either a standard or special condition of adult community correctional supervision in most jurisdictions. Positive drug test results are one of the most common violations of probation that result in official action by a supervising officer. This study examines the relationship between individual characteristics, drug test results, and federal supervision outcomes. Results indicate that individual risk …
‘We Talked about Solitude’
Before they met in 1917, Virginia Woolf envisioned a peculiar setting for her first encounter with Katherine Mansfield, the promising young writer who had ‘dogged [her] steps for three years’. Intriguingly, Woolf imagined she might glimpse Mansfield, not in the drawing-room of a mutual friend or at a literary soirée, but ‘on a rock or in the sea’ – there, ‘I shall accost her’.1 Woolf pictures Mansfield in an attitude reminiscent of Frederic Leigh…
Lessons learned from an undergraduate seminar to prepare preservice physical education teachers as whole-of-school physical activity leaders
Background Most youth worldwide do not reach the recommended 60 min of daily physical activity (PA). Schools provide a distinct public health infrastructure for implementing Whole-of-School (WOS) approaches, which draw upon social-ecological supports to increase PA. Although WOS PA training in physical education teacher education has expanded, gaps remain in preparing preservice teachers as school PA leaders. The purpose of this study was to exam…
Computer Science (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Officer (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Cannabis (1 work)