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James O. Uanhoro

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Educational Psychology

Email: James.Uanhoro@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Ohio State University, 2021
    Major: Educational Studies
    Specialization: Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • EPSY 5210 - ED STATISTICS, 2 courses.
  • EPSY 5350 - Foundations of PsychoEducational Measurement, 2 courses.
  • EPSY 6005 - Statistical Theory and Simulations, 2 courses.
  • EPSY 6020 - Research Methods in Education, 1 course.
  • EPSY 6030 - Practicum, Field Problem or Internship, 1 course.
  • EPSY 6210 - Multiple Regression Analysis and Related Methods, 4 courses.
  • EPSY 6225 - Applied Bayesian Data Analysis, 1 course.
  • EPSY 6270 - Structural Equation Modeling, 4 courses.
  • EPSY 6900 - Special Problems, 5 courses.
  • EPSY 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 4 courses.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Jestratijevic, I., Uanhoro, J.O., Md Rana Islam , R. Transparency of Sustainability Disclosures among Luxury and Mass-market Fashion Brands: Longitudinal Approach. ITAA.
  • Njeri, M.W., Uanhoro, J.O., Williams, K.H., Allen, J.M., Kemp, E. (2023). A Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Perceived Private Club Members’ Benefits. Phoenix, AZ, 2023 International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) conference.
  • Jestratijevic, I., Uanhoro, J., Creighton, R. (2022). To disclose or not to disclose? Fashion brands' strategies for transparency in sustainability reporting. ITAA.

    • Conference Proceeding

  • Uanhoro, J.O. (2024). A comparison of different prior choices for estimating the influence of minor factors in Bayesian structural equation models. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Philadelphia, PA,
  • Echeverria, S., Uanhoro, J.O. (2021). A Bayesian Approach to a Cross-Level Dimension of Collocations in Spanish Students and Native Speakers. American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting. Virtual,
  • Uanhoro, J.O. (2021). A Web-Based Application to Support Applied Bayesian Data Analysis. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Virtual,
  • Uanhoro, J.O., Echeverria, S. (2021). Multivariate Count Data Analysis Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Multinomial-t Compound Regression: A Demonstration with Collocations. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Virtual,
  • Uanhoro, J.O., O'Connell, A.A. (2018). A web-based application for effect sizes and their confidence intervals: standardized mean differences, binary outcomes, variance explained, and two-level multilevel models. AERA online paper repository. New York City, NY, American Educational Research Association.
  • Uanhoro, J.O., Young, S., Lin, Y. (2016). Empirical study on the effect of digital badges in a general physics homework system. ICCE 2016 - 24th international conference on computers in education: Think global act local - main conference proceedings.

    • Journal Article

  • Njeri, M.W., Line, N.D., Uanhoro, J.O., Allen, J., Williams, K.H. (2025). Measuring the relational benefits of private club membership: A factor analytic evaluation. International Journal of Hospitality Management. 124 103971. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278431924002834
  • Nichols, E., Aslanyan, V., Adrien, T.V., Andrews, R.M., Fardo, D.W., Gavett, B.E., Paterson, T.S., Turney, I.C., Young, C.B., Uanhoro, J.O., Gross, A.L., Initiative, A.D. (2024). Measurement Error and Methodologic Issues in Analyses of the Proportion of Variance Explained in Cognition. Neuropsychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-024-09655-1
  • Chaparro-Moreno, L.J., Uanhoro, J.O., Curenton, S.M., Justice, L.M. (2024). A 5-year longitudinal study of bilinguals’ vocabulary growth and the role of the prekindergarten home language and literacy environments.. Journal of Educational Psychology. American Psychological Association (APA). https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000907
  • Uanhoro, J.O. (2024). Bayesian Structural Equation Models of Correlation Matrices. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. 31 (4) 685--695. Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2306532
  • Uanhoro, J.O. (2024). Modeling Misspecification as a Parameter in Bayesian Structural Equation Models. Educational and Psychological Measurement. 84 (2) 245-270. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644231165306
  • Devine, S., Uanhoro, J.O., Otto, A.R., Flake, J.K. (2024). Approaches for Quantifying the ICC in Multilevel Logistic Models: A Didactic Demonstration. Other. 10 (1) 94263. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.94263
  • Uanhoro, J.O. (2024). Handling dependent samples in meta-analytic structural equation models: A Wishart-based approach. Behavior Research Methods. 56 (6) 6101-6118. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02340-4
  • Jestratijevic, I., Uanhoro, J.O., Rana, M. (2024). Transparency of Sustainability Disclosures among Luxury and Mass-market Fashion Brands: Longitudinal Approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652623046395
  • Stone-Sabali, S., Uanhoro, J.O., McClain, S., Devese, K. (2023). Disentangling the discrimination and mental health relationship among diverse college students: Moderation analyses of shame-proneness across race, gender, and race-by-gender interactions. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. No Pagination Specified--No Pagination Specified.
  • Stewart, N.D., Uanhoro, J.O. (2023). The Quantitative Debt Owed to Africa: A Call to Action. Other. 2 (1) 121--129. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/article/911267
  • Uanhoro, J.O. (2023). Hierarchical covariance estimation approach to meta-analytic structural equation modeling. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. 30 (4) 532-546.
  • Uanhoro, J.O. (2023). minorbsem: An R package for structural equation models that account for the influence of minor factors. Journal of Open Source Software. 8 (86) 5292. The Open Journal. https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05292
  • Oliver, M., Jestratijevic, I., Uanhoro , J., Knight , D. (2023). Investigation of a Consumer’s Purchase Intentions and Behaviors towards Environmentally Friendly Grocery Packaging. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/11/8789
  • Stone-Sabali, S., Uanhoro, J.O., McClain, S., Bernard, D., Makari, S., Chapman-Hilliard, C. (2023). Impostorism and Psychological Distress among College Students of Color: A moderation analysis of Shame-proneness, Race, Gender, and Race-Gender Interactions. Other. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04579-0
  • Uanhoro, J.O., Stone-Sabali, S. (2023). Beyond group mean differences: A demonstration with scale scores in psychology.. Other. 9 (1) 57610. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.57610
  • Uanhoro, J.O. Probability of superiority for comparing two groups of clusters. Behavior Research Methods.
  • Chaparro-Moreno, L.J., Lin, T.J., Justice, L.M., Mills, A.K., Uanhoro, J.O. The influence of context on the abstraction level of children’s conversations in the preschool classroom. Early Education and Development.
  • Minjung, K., Winkler, C., Uanhoro, J.O., Peri, J., Lochman, J. (2022). Using a cross-classified multilevel mediation model (CC-M3) with longitudinal data having changes in cluster membership.. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. 29 (2) 218-232.
  • Uanhoro, J.O., Young, S.S. (2022). Investigation of the Effect of Badges in the Online Homework System for Undergraduate General Physics Course. Education Sciences. 12 (3) 217. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/3/217
  • Jestratijevic, I., Uanhoro, J.O., Creighton, R. (2022). To disclose or not to disclose? Fashion brands' strategies for transparency in sustainability reporting. Other. 26 (1) 36--50. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMM-09-2020-0182
  • Uanhoro, J.O., Wang, Y., O’Connell, A.A. (2021). Problems with Using Odds Ratios as Effect Sizes in Binary Logistic Regression and Alternative Approaches. The Journal of Experimental Education. 89 (4) 670–689.
  • Merkle, E.C., Fitzsimmons, E., Uanhoro, J.O., Goodrich, B. (2021). Efficient Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling in Stan. Other. 100 (6) 1--22.
  • Jestratijevic, I., Uanhoro, J.O., Creighton, R. (2021). To Disclose or not to Disclose? Fashion Brands' Strategies for Transparency in Sustainability Reporting. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85103399987
  • Jestratijevic, I., Rudd, N., Uanhoro, J.O. (2020). Transparency of sustainability disclosures among luxury and mass-market fashion brands. Journal of Global Fashion Marketing. 11 (2)

    • Technical Report

  • Uanhoro, J.O. (2019). Approaches to estimating Bayesian confirmatory factor analysis: A short simulation study. 13. Columbus, OH, The Ohio State University.

Presentations Given

    Oral Presentation

  • Jestratijevic, I. (Author & Presenter), Uanhoro, J.O. (Author), MD Islam Rana , R. (Author), International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference, Transparency of Sustainability Disclosures among Luxury and Mass-market Fashion Brands: Longitudinal Approach., International Textile and Apparel Association, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Njeri, M.W. (Author & Presenter), Uanhoro, J.O. (Author), Williams, K.H. (Author), Allen, J.M. (Author), Kemp, E. (Author), 2023 Annual ICHRIE Summer Conference & Marketplace, A Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Perceived Private Club Members' Benefits, ICHRIE, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America. (2023).
  • Jestratijevic, I. (Author), Uanhoro, J. (Author), Creighton , R. (Author), International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference 2021, To disclose or not to disclose? Fashion brands' strategies for transparency in sustainability reporting, ITAA, Virtual due to the pandemic, United States of America. (2021 - 2021).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Political Science Assistant Professor Searches. (September 1, 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Doctoral Program. (August 23, 2021 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Special Education Assistant Professor Search. (October 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022).