Selected Publications & Presentations

See my vita for a complete list of my publications and other scholarly works.

• Saldivar, M. G. (2015, February 20). Measuring 'soft skills' for program evaluation and student assessment. Annual Meeting of the UT System Kenneth I Shine MD Academy of Health Science Education, Austin, TX.
  
• Rodriguez, H., Castaneda, M. T. & Saldivar, M. G. (2015, February 20). Clinically Driven Learning Program (CDLP): Early clinical experiences among undergraduate A-PRIME TIME students. Annual Meeting of the UT System Kenneth I Shine MD Academy of Health Science Education, Austin, TX.
  
• Rodriguez, H., Castaneda, M. T. & Saldivar, M. G. (2015, February 20). Strategies for the development of professional identity among A-PRIME TIME students. Annual Meeting of the UT System Kenneth I Shine MD Academy of Health Science Education, Austin, TX.
  
• Saldivar, M. G. (2012, December 6). With STEM in mind: How the new science of the brain is changing STEM education. Florida Center for Research on STEM Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.
• Maull, K.E., Saldivar, M. G. & Sumner, T. (in press). Towards an automated method for evaluating the curriculum planning behavior of teachers. Journal of Educational Data Mining.
• Maull, K. E., Saldivar, M.G. & Sumner, T. (2011). Understanding digital library adoption: A use diffusion approach. In G. Newton, M. J. Wright & L. N. Cassel (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2011 Joint International Conference on Digital Libraries, Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 13-17 (259-268). New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
• Kirshner, B. R., Saldivar, M.G. & Tracy, R. C. (2011). How first-generation students learn to navigate education systems: A case study of First Graduate. New Directions for Youth Development, 2011(S1), 107-122.
• Saldivar, M. G. (2011). Teacher integration of digital resources into instructional practice. CCS Report No. 4. Boulder, CO: Digital Learning Sciences.
• Maull, K. E., Saldivar, M.G. & Sumner, T. (2010, June 11). Online curriculum planning behavior of teachers. Third International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Pittsburgh, PA. 
• Maull, K. E., Saldivar, M. G. & Sumner, T. (2010, April 10). Observing the online behavior of teachers: From Internet usage to personalization for pedagogical practice. Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA.
• Saldivar, M.G.,Maull, K. E., Kirshner, B. R. & Sumner, T. (2010, November 2). A two-dimensional framework for evaluating teachers’ technology adoption. National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
• Saldivar, M. G. (2009, April 15). Vygotsky’s voxel: Towards a ‘socio-cultural neuroscience’ of adolescent development. American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA.