# positions[].organizations[].parent[].label
School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

# positions[].label
Director of the Center for Educational Technologies

# positions[].organizations[].label
School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

# overview
Dr. Nicola Ritter received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University in 2014. Dr. Ritter joined the Veterinary Integrative Biosciences Department at Texas A&M University as an Instructional Assistant Professor in 2016. Dr. Ritter's research focuses on developing and evaluating veterinary medical educational resources. She is the lead investigator for and director of her research lab, the Center for Educational Technologies (CET). She has received over $4.9 million in research funding, with the majority of funds from the United States Department of Agriculture. Dr. Ritter secures funding to develop instructional materials with subject matter experts for the Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine's professional program. She has numerous original articles and copyrighted works. Dr. Ritter's curriculum programs are used in 90 countries with over 4,000 students and 1,000 teachers reached. In addition to her research, Dr. Ritter oversees the CET's service center consisting of 2 faculty and 8 technical staff. Dr. Ritter received the TAMU GoWeb award for Transformational Education in 2018.

# researchAreas[].label
Evaluation research (Social action programs)

# hrJobTitle
Director of the Center for Educational Technologies/ Instructional Associate Professor

# keywords[]
5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

# keywords[]
5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

# keywords[]
5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# publications[].label
Technology Acceptance Model of Online Learning Management Systems in Higher Education: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Mode

# publications[].publisher
Egypts Presidential Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research

# publications[].label
Standards Based Design: Teaching K-12 Educators to Build Quality Online Courses.

# publications[].label
The Need for Meta-Analytic Thinking in Educational Technology Research

# publications[].label
Adopting Learning Analytics in a First-Year Veterinarian Professional Program: What We Could Know in Advance about Student Learning Progress.

# publications[].label
Students with access to 3D study materials are better able to translate spatial relationships between abdominal organs and correctly interpret abnormal radiographic images.

# publications[].label
Undergraduates' Facebook use: evidence-based practice to implement social media in education

# publications[].label
Understanding Parents Perceptions of Communication Technology Use

# publications[].publisher
International Online Journal of Educational Sciences

# publications[].label
Statistical Methods Used in Gifted Education Journals, 2006-2010

# publications[].label
Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-4 (TONI-4)

# publications[].label
Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, 2nd edition (CTONI-2)

# publications[].label
Adopting Learning Analytics in a First-Year Veterinarian Professional Program: What We Could Know in Advance about Student Learning Progress.

# publications[].label
Modified B-QUIET scoring of kidney images acquired by veterinary students in live canines with versus without sequential practice on ultrasound phantoms.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Antibiotic Use, Resistance, and Stewardship in Veterinary Practice for Domain 8

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)

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DHHS-Centers For Disease Control and Prevention

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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service - (Riverdale Park, Maryland, United States)

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USDA-MIS-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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USDA Foreign Animal Disease Continuing Education

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service - (Riverdale Park, Maryland, United States)

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USDA-MIS-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

# researcherOn[].label
A Computer-based, Student-Centered Middle-School Approach to One Health Learning

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of General Medical Science

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; TAMU MS 4458; 4458 TAMU

# organizations[]
School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

# schools[]
School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences