Linda Reichwein Zientek
November 11, 2009
	Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education Department of Mathematics & Statistics Sam Houston State University

Short Bio

Linda Zientek is an Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education at Sam Houston State University. She is an active member of the Southwest Educational Research Association (SERA) and has served as Newsletter Editor and as an At-Large Member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Zientek currently serves as the SERA Program Chair/President-Elect. For ten years, she was a community college mathematics instructor. Her research interests include mathematics education, the preparation of mathematics teachers, community college and P16 initiatives, and quantitative research methods. Linda has served as president of the Texas Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Conference Chair for the 2007 Southwest Regional Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Chair of the Mathematics Section of the Texas Community College Teachers Association (TCCTA) and as a member of the TCCTA Legislative Committee, 4th Year of Mathematics Committee, and Phase I of the Texas Higher Education College Readiness Vertical Team. She currently serves as chair for the Texas Partners in P-16 Mathematics (TPiPM) Committee.

Hyperlink to: Bootstrap Exploratory Factor Analysis Syntax - SPSS

Publications

• Zientek, L. R., & Yetkiner, Z. E. (In Press 2010). Pooled Variance. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Zientek, L. R., Yetkiner, Z. E., & Thompson, B. (in press). Characterizing the mathematics anxiety literature using confidence intervals as a literature review mechanism. The Journal of Educational Research.
• Zientek, L. R., & Thompson, B. (2009). Matrix Summaries Improve Research Reports: Secondary Analyses Using Published Literature. Educational Researcher, 38(5), 343-352.
• Zientek, L. R., & Thompson, B. (2008). Preparing high-quality mathematics and science teachers: Are we meeting the challenge? Research in The Schools, 15, 1-19.
• Yetkiner, Z. E., Capraro, R. M., Zientek, L. R., & Thompson, B. (2008). Examining quantitative reports in mathematics education: The benefits of meta-analytic thinking for all quantitative analyses. Proceedings of the 11th meeting of the International Congress on Mathematical Education. Monterrey, Mexico
• Zientek, L. R., Capraro, M. M., & Capraro, R. M. (2008). Reporting practices in quantitative teacher education research: One look at the evidence cited in the AERA panel report. Educational Researcher, 37(4), 208-216.

• Zientek, L. R. (2007). Preparing high quality teachers: Views from the classroom. American Educational Research Journal: Teaching, Learning, and Human Development, 44, 959-1001.

• Zientek, L. R., & Thompson, B. (2007). Applying the bootstrap to the multivariate case: Bootstrap factor analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 318–325.

• Zientek, L. R., & Gann, L. (2007). College readiness vertical teams: An inside view. Texas Community College Teachers Association Messenger, XLIII, 6.

• Zientek, L. R., & Thompson, B. (2006). Commonality analysis: Partitioning variance to facilitate better understanding of data. Journal of Early Intervention, 28, 299-307.

• Zientek, L.R., Wahrmund, T., & Garlick, B. (2006, July). Essential components of effective certification programs. Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) Update.

• Zientek, L. R., Kadhi, T. G., & Capraro, R. M. (2005). Alternative certification programs analysis. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 9, 121-125. 

• Book Reviews
• Book Review: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis: Understanding concepts and applications. B. Thompson. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 2004. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 15, 729-734.