
Overview
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Tonette S. Rocco is a Professor of Adult Education and Human Resource Development in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. She serves as graduate program leader for the master’s in Adult Education and Human Resource Development and the doctorate in Adult Education and Human Resource Development. She served as the director of the Office of Academic Writing and Publication Support in the former College of Education for five years.
Dr. Rocco graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, a Master of Science in Labor & Human Resources, a Master’s in Education, and a PhD in Adult Education & Human Resource Development. She earned all four degrees after returning to complete her undergraduate degree as a nontraditional student who was also a single mother. She worked for The Ohio State University for the Center of Special Needs Populations, in Columbus, Ohio, and in Lima, Ohio, as coordinator of welfare to work, and school to work programs.
She is one of only 25 Houle Scholars from the U.S., a member of the 2016 class of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame, 2016 Outstanding HRD Scholar and recipient of more than 35 awards for scholarship, mentoring, and service. Dr. Rocco has published eleven books receiving the 2009 University Continuing Education Association Frandson Book Award for Challenging the Parameters of Adult Education: John Ohliger and the Quest for Social Democracy (with Grace, Jossey-Bass, 2009) and an honorable mention for the 2017 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Professional, Continuing, and/or Online Education for Disrupting adult and community education: Teaching, learning, and working in the periphery (with Mizzi and Shore, SUNY Press, 2016). Two books earned the Forward Award by the Academy of Human Resource Development — the Handbook of HRD (with Chalofsky and Morris; Wiley, 2014) and the Routledge Companion to HRD (with Poell and Roth; Routledge, 2014). She is co-editor of the 2020 Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education (Rocco, Smith, Mizzi, Merriweather, and Hawley; Stylus, 2020) making her the only person to have co-edited a handbook for the field of HRD and a handbook for the field of adult and continuing education. Her bestselling book is the Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing (with Tim Hatcher, Jossey-Bass, 2011).
She is Editor-in-Chief of New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, and serves on a dozen editorial boards such as Human Resource Development Review, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Human Resource Development International, European Journal of Training and Development, Journal of Transformative Education, and Adult Education Quarterly. She is a founding board member for the Journal of Mixed Methods Research; Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal; Journal of Global Education and Research; New Directions in Adult and Continuing Education; and Nursing & Health Sciences Research Journal.
She has over 300 publications in journals, books, and proceedings on continuing professional education, equity and privilege (specifically in terms of race/critical race theory, sexual minorities/LGBT, disability, and age), employability/career development, fostering student research and professional writing, and qualitative methods. Twenty three articles, chapters, and conference papers have won awards. Many of these publications are with students and beginning scholars. Dr. Rocco has received the FIU TOP Scholars recognition twice (Notable Awards/Honors; Award Winning Publications), CASE Award for research twice, and the University Excellence in Mentorship Award, and the LGBTQA Faculty Member of the Year Award. She participates in the AHRD Faculty Mentoring Partner program, served as a Panther Life Mentor, a mentor with Educate Tomorrow, and the LGBTQ Mentoring program. She is still in contact with her mentees through these programs and also mentors informally (not through a program) scholars and scholar practitioners nationally and internationally.
Scholarly & Creative Works
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2022Familismo, Religiosidad, and Marianismo: College Latina Lesbians Navigating Cultural Values and RolesFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/15348431.2022.2071899 Web of Science: 000792023700001
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2022Differentiating Between Conceptual and Theory Articles: Focus, Goals, and ApproachesFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/15344843211069795 Web of Science: 000753173600001
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2021Contesting "Authenticity" in Authentic Leadership through a Mad Studies LensFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/15344843211020571 Web of Science: 000657983300001
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2021Negotiating Self: Navigating Feminist and Submissive IdentitiesFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/15283488.2021.1903900 Web of Science: 000639897400001
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2020Student Perspectives on Educational Helping Instructor-Student RelationshipsFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1045159520977728 Web of Science: 000600221700001
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2020Teaching management students to write research papers: A case of a Russian English-Medium instruction universityFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20271 Web of Science: 000510000500004
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2018Human Resources Development and Career Development: Where Are We, and Where Do We Need to GoFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20205 Web of Science: 000424824400002
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2017(Dis)Ableing Notions of Authentic Leadership Through the Lens of Critical Disability TheoryFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1523422317728732 Web of Science: 000413663500003
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2017A Critique of Kirkpatrick's Evaluation ModelFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20178 Web of Science: 000405959600005
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2016The Unheard, Unseen, and Often Forgotten: An Examination of Disability in the Human Resource Development LiteratureFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534484316671194 Web of Science: 000388857400001
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2016Increasing Writing Self-Efficacy of Adult Learners Different Approaches, Different ResultsFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1045159515611879 Web of Science: 000452807800003
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2016Institutional Ethnography: A Holistic Approach to Understanding SystemsFull Text via DOI: 10.4018/IJAVET.2016070103 Web of Science: 000413363500004
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2016Deconstructing the Privilege and Power of Employee Engagement: Issues of Inequality for Management and Human Resource DevelopmentFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534484316643904 Web of Science: 000375726900004
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2015The Problem of Transgender Marginalization and Exclusion: Critical Actions for Human Resource DevelopmentFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534484315581755 Web of Science: 000354268300005
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2014Critical Race Theory and HRD: Moving Race Front and CenterFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1523422314544294 Web of Science: 000213036000005
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2014The "Critical" Turn: An Important Imperative for Human Resource DevelopmentFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1523422314543847 Web of Science: 000213036000010
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2014From Foster Care to College: Barriers and Supports on the Road to Postsecondary EducationFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/2167696814526715 Web of Science: 000409581700007
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2014Disparities in Healthcare for Racial, Ethnic, and Sexual MinoritiesFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/ace.20090
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2014How Teachers Use Power in the Classroom to Avoid or Support Exclusionary School Discipline PracticesFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/0042085913478620 Web of Science: 000333619700003
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2013Going global: Professional mobility and concerns for LGBT workersFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/13678868.2013.771869
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2011Shifting lenses: A critical examination of disability in adult educationFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/ace.426
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2011Employee engagement: an examination of antecedent and outcome variablesFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/13678868.2011.601587 Web of Science: 000212718600005
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2009The Older-Worker-Younger-Supervisor Dyad: A Test of the Reverse Pygmalion EffectFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.20006 Web of Science: 000207807100006
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2009Framing the Issue/Framing the Question: A Proposed Framework for Organizational Perspectives on Sexual MinoritiesFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1523422308328528 Web of Science: 000213008400002
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2009Sexual Minorities, Earnings, and Career Development: Insights From EconomicsFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1523422308329372 Web of Science: 000213008400007
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2009A View to Our Past and Future: The Development of Professional OrganizationsFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.10324
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2008Improving Outcomes for Workers with Mental RetardationFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.1246 Web of Science: 000207803700006
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2008Education for sustainable human development Towards a definitionFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1477878508091114 Web of Science: 000437773200007
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2008“But to Impose, We Must.” Two Views on Educational ImpositionFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.10304
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2007What a Trip: Working and Studying with Dr. Douglas H. SmithFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.10285
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2006Handbook of Interview Research: Context and Method, by J. F. Gubrium & J. A. Holstein (Eds.). (2002). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 981 pages. ISBN: 0‐7619‐1951‐1. $155.00 (hardcover). Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns, by J. A. Holstein & J. F. Gubrium (Eds.). (2003). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 557 pages. ISBN: 0‐7619‐2851‐0. $53.95 (paperback). Postmodern Interviewing, by J. F. Gubrium & J. A. Holstein (Eds.). (2003). Thousand Oaks,CA: Sage. 981 pages. ISBN: 0‐7619‐2850‐2. $39.95 ( paperback)Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.1164
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2006Straight privilege and moral/izing: Issues in career developmentFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/ace.234
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2003Shaping the future: Writing up the method on qualitative studiesFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.1070
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2001Helping Adult Educators Understand Disability DisclosureFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/104515950101200204
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1998Deconstructing privilege: An examination of privilege in adult educationFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/074171369804800304
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1995A framework for understanding older adults’ civic behaviorFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/0360127950210506
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2014Transforming the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Lessons from the Classroom. Ed. 60.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6209-449-9
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Book Chapter
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2021Exposing oppressive systems: Institutional ethnography as a research method in adult and workforce education. 1385-1401.Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8598-6.ch069
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2017Institutional Ethnography: A holistic approach to understanding systems. 1657-1672.Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3909-4.ch075
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2017The critical turn in human resources development. 227-244.Full Text via DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55783-4_13
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2015A synopsis of the present, future and intrigue of HRD EPILOGUE. 616-653.Web of Science: 000349985200056
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2015DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. 412-424.Web of Science: 000349985200038
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2015THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PREFACE. XIII-XIV.Web of Science: 000349985200001
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2014Disability, Health and Wellness Programs, and the Role of HRD. 299-313.Web of Science: 000362660500021
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2014Handbook of Human Resource Development PREFACE. XXXIII-XXXV.Web of Science: 000362660500002
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2014The Myths of Ageing and Decline: Career Development and Employability of Older Workers. 184-201.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-36133-2_9
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2013Human resource development and employee engagement. 116-130.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9780203076965
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2010Web 2.0 and the actualization of the ideals of adult education. 52-67.Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-906-0.ch004
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Book Review
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2008The aging workforce: Realities, myths, and implications for organizations. Ed. 34.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/03601270701831196 Web of Science: 000252582200006
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2005The power of critical theory: Liberating adult learning and teaching. Ed. 56.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/0741713605280164 Web of Science: 000232556200005
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2004Retirement: Reasons, processes, and results.. Ed. 30.Web of Science: 000220662900009
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Other Scholarly Work
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2020Death and Dying: Grief, compassion and workplace responses. 1-4.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20268 Web of Science: 000510000500001
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2019Editorial-A need for a balanced perspective about age groups. 1-3.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20253 Web of Science: 000488424900001
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2018Tenure and promotion, the status quo, and risk taking. 1-4.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20228 Web of Science: 000450523300001
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2017Sanism, Black Dogs Barking, and Mental Illness. 1-3.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20174 Web of Science: 000405959600001
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2016Advice to Tenure Earning Faculty. 1-2.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20156 Web of Science: 000387779300001
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2016A Reflection on Dysfunctional Leadership and Leadership Misplacement. 1-2.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20146 Web of Science: 000383403400001
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2013Turning a corner: The future of New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development. 1-2.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha.20001 Web of Science: 000218155300001
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2013The relationship between human resource development and adult education: Working towards an understanding. 1-3.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/nha3.20041 Web of Science: 000218161400001
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2012The nature of peer-review: confessions of a formerly-good reviewer and observations of an emerging scholar. 395-397.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/13678868.2012.708605 Web of Science: 000212726800001
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2010Criteria for evaluating qualitative studies. 375-378.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/13678868.2010.501959 Web of Science: 000212710900001
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2020What Is a Resource: Toward a Taxonomy of Resources for Employee Engagement. 5-38.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534484319853100 Web of Science: 000512397700002
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2019Navigation of Feminist and Submissive Identity by Women in the BDSM Community: A Structured Literature Review. 1594-1618.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12119-019-09681-9 Web of Science: 000501352800001
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2019Mentoring Functions and Outcomes: An Integrative Literature Review of Sociocultural Factors and Individual Differences. 114-162.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534484318810267 Web of Science: 000458747800005
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2012Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgendered People and Human Resource Development: An Examination of the Literature in Adult Education and Human Resource Development. 326-348.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534484312447193 Web of Science: 000209167400004
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2009Internal versus external control of reinforcement: A review of the locus of control construct. 463-483.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534484309342080
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2009Literature reviews, conceptual frameworks, and theoretical frameworks: Terms, functions, and distinctions. 120-130.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534484309332617
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2008Workplace commitment: A conceptual model developed from integrative review of the research. 339-357.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534484308318760
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Meeker, Carolyn, Negotiating Self: An Exploration of Women's Perceptions of Their Feminist and Submissive Identities 2018
- Magana, Nelson, A Phenomenological Exploration of the Non-Academic Factors that Cuban Female Non-Native English Speakers Perceived to have been Principal Influences on their Successful Attainment of a Baccalaureate Degree in the U.S. 2018
- Eatman, Canela, An Exploration of Black National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Sorority Membership as it Relates to Academic Achievement and Civic Engagement 2017
- McGill, Craig M, Professionalization of Academic Advising 2017
- Wright, Ursula Tiershatha, Institutional Ethnography: Utilizing Battered Women’s Standpoint to Examine How Institutional Relations Shape African American Battered Women’s Work Experiences In Christian Churches 2017
- Grey, Keisha S, Exploring the Relationship between U.S. Jamaican Immigrants’ Cultural Beliefs and Conflict Management Styles as These Correlations are Related to Their Perceived Job Satisfaction and Job Performance 2017
- Vega, Gisela P., Latina Lesbian Students: Understanding their Experiences and Perceived Sexual Identity Development at a Hispanic-Serving Institution 2016
- Salters, Gregory A., A Phenomenological Exploration of Black Male Law Enforcement Officers' Perspectives of Racial Profiling and Their Law Enforcement Career Exploration and Commitment 2013
- Nackoney, Claire K, Living on Both Sides of the Fence: A Phenomenological Study of Human Resource Development Professionals as Downsizing Survivors and Strategic Human Resource Development Facilitators 2012
- Seepersad, Rehana, Island Diasporas: Perceptions of Indo-Caribbean Protégés Regarding the Effects of their Cross-Cultural Mentoring Experiences in the United States 2012
- Delgado, Antonio, A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Graduate Education Students' Understandings of Instructor Power in a Higher Education Classroom 2012
- Albornoz, Carlos A, Exploring the Goals, Content, and Methods of Entrepreneurship Professors: A Multiple Case Study 2011
- Smith, Pauline J, An Investigation of the Strategies used by Organizations Participating in the Welfare-to-Work Network Programs and Correlation of the Strategies with the Retention Data to Determine Best Practices for Job Retention among Former Welfare Recipients. 2010
- Plakhotnik, Maria S., How Employees with Different National Identities Experience a Geocentric Organizational Culture of a Global Corporation: A Phenomenological Study 2010
- Bernier, Judith D, A Phenomenological Exploration Of How West Indian Professionals In South Florida Perceive Their Career Construction 2010
- McDade, Regina Y, The Relationship Between Spiritualilty, Knowledge and Tuberculosis (TB) Medication Adherence Among African Americans And Haitians. 2010
- Paredes, Elsie E, Language Learning Strategy Use by Colombian Adult English Language Learners: A Phenomenological Study 2010
- Kissel, Bonnie J., The Effects of American Sign Language on General Self- Efficacy and Anxiety Among Mothers in a Residential Rehabilitation Facility for Drug Addiction and Substance Abuse 2010
- Bango-Sanchez, Vivian M, The Effects of Peer Teaching of Infant Massage on General Self-Efficacy and Mother Infant Attachment Among Mothers in a Residential Rehabilitation Facility for Drug Addiction and Substance Abuse 2010
- Cuming, Richard G, Factors Surgical Team Members Perceive Influence Choices of Wearing or not Wearing Personal Protective Equipment During Operative/Invasive Procedures 2009
- Diaz, Raquel Munarriz, The role of language in early childhood mathematics 2008
Research
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- Tonette Rocco
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- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0137-1068 (confirmed)
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