Publications by authors named "Jendayi B Dillard"
The role of school safety perceptions in childhood asthma diagnosis disparities.
Health Psychol
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study explores how perceptions of unsafe school environments (USEs) contribute to asthma disparities among elementary-aged children from different racial and ethnic backgrounds in the U.S.
- It analyzes data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to show that USE is linked to increased asthma diagnoses and acts as a mediator between socioeconomic status (SES), race, and asthma.
- The findings suggest that inadequate school environments disproportionately affect Black and Latinx children, leading to higher asthma rates compared to their non-Latinx White peers, emphasizing the need to address USE as a critical factor in pediatric health disparities.
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) play a significant role in higher education and in the education of undergraduate students. Previous research suggests that undergraduate students perceive GTAs differently than faculty instructors, but little has been done to explore the nature of those perceptions. This exploratory study uses self-determination theory to investigate how university students describe the effective teaching practices of GTAs and how those descriptions vary depending on GTA gender, GTA international status, and course domain.
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