Browsing GSE Scholarly Articles by Title
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Making social studies social: Engaging students through different forms of social perspective taking
(2011)People are intrinsically motivated to connect to others socially. One of the most important mechanisms in fostering social relationships is social perspective taking (SPT) – our capacity to discern the thoughts and feelings ... -
Many Ways to Walk a Mile in Another’s Moccasins: Type of Social Perspective Taking and its effect on Negotiation Outcomes
(Elsevier, 2015)The process of social perspective taking holds tremendous promise as a means to facilitate conflict resolution. Despite rapidly accumulating knowledge about social perspective taking in general, scholars know little about ... -
Mapping Multicultural Education
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Master of Education for Health Care Professionals – Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Mastering Academic Language: Organization and Stance in the Persuasive Writing of High School Students
(Sage Publications, 2012)Beyond mechanics and spelling conventions, academic writing requires progressive mastery of advanced language forms and functions. Pedagogically-useful tools to assess such language features in adolescents’ writing, however, ... -
Maternal Correlates of Growth in Toddler Vocabulary Production in Low-Income Families
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)This study investigated predictors of growth in toddlers’ vocabulary production between the ages of 1 and 3 years by analyzing mother – child communication in 108 low-income families. Individual growth modeling was used ... -
Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study
(2004)This article addresses the question of whether literacy could be mediating the relationships of schooling to maternal health behavior in populations undergoing demographic transition. Recent studies in which literacy was ... -
Measure twice, cut down error: A process for enhancing the validity of survey scales
(2011)For years psychologists across many subfields have undertaken the formidable challenge of designing survey scales to assess attitudes, opinions, and behaviors. Correspondingly, scholars have written much to guide researchers ... -
Measuring Parent Perceptions of School Climate
(American Psychological Association, 2014)Parents' attitudes about their children’s schools matter. Their views can shape their children’s attitudes about school, affect their levels of family-school engagement, and influence their residential and school enrollment ... -
Measuring productive vocabulary of toddlers in low-income families: concurrent and predictive validity of three sources of data
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2004)This study examined parental report as a source of information about toddlers’ productive vocabulary in 105 low-income families living in either urban or rural communities. Parental report using the MacArthur Communicative ... -
Meeting the Needs of Students with Learning Disabilities in Inclusive Mathematics Classrooms: The Role of Schema-Based Instruction on Mathematical Problem-Solving
(2011)In this article, we discuss schema-based instruction (SBI) as an alternative to traditional instruction for enhancing the mathematical problem solving performance of students with learning disabilities (LD). In our most ... -
A meta-analysis of functional reading systems in typically developing and struggling readers across different alphabetic languages
(Frontiers Media SA, 2015)Functional neuroimaging research has identified multiple brain regions supporting reading-related activity in typical and atypical readers across different alphabetic languages. Previous meta-analyses performed on these ... -
Model breaking points conceptualized
(Springer Verlag, 2014)Current curriculum initiatives (e.g. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010) advocate that models be used in the mathematics classroom. However, despite their ... -
Moral Injury and the Ethics of Educational Injustice
(Harvard Education Publishing Group, 2015)This article uses a case study of a student who is on the verge of expulsion for bringing pot to school in order to explore a class of ethical dilemmas in which educators have the obligation to enact justice—to take action ... -
More Powerful Multiple Testing in Randomized Experiments with Non-Compliance
(2016)Two common concerns raised in analyses of randomized experiments are (i) appropriately handling issues of non-compliance, and (ii) appropriately adjusting for multiple tests (e.g., on multiple outcomes or subgroups). ...