Browsing GSE Scholarly Articles by Title
Now showing items 268-287 of 362
-
Quality Child Care Supports the Achievement of Low-Income Children: Direct and Indirect Pathways Through Caregiving and the Home Environment
(2007)Existing studies of child care have not been able to determine whether higher quality child care protects children from the effects of poverty, whether poverty and lower quality child care operate as dual risk factors, or ... -
Racial Politics and Double Consciousness: Education for Liberation in an Inescapably Diverse Polity
(2011)Political power and ethnoracial, cultural, and/or religious identities often interact such that clear patterns of political empowerment and exclusion emerge along demographic lines. One could try to eliminate the interaction ... -
Randomization Inference for Outcomes with Clumping at Zero
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)In randomized experiments, randomization forms the “reasoned basis for inference.” While randomization inference is well developed for continuous and binary outcomes, there has been comparatively little work for outcomes ... -
Randomization inference for treatment effect variation
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Applied researchers are increasingly interested in whether and how treatment effects vary in randomized evaluations, especially variation that is not explained by observed covariates. We propose a model-free approach for ... -
A randomized experiment of a cognitive strategies approach to text-based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English language learners in grades 6-12.
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)This study reports year 1 findings from a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial of a cognitive strategies approach to teaching text-based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English Language learners (ELLs) ... -
A randomized experiment of a mixed-methods literacy intervention for struggling readers in grades 4–6: effects on word reading efficiency, reading comprehension and vocabulary, and oral reading fluency
(Springer Nature, 2009)The purpose of this study was (1) to examine the causal effects of READ 180, a mixedmethods literacy intervention, on measures of word reading efficiency, reading comprehension and vocabulary, and oral reading fluency and ... -
Reading and Language in the Early Grades
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)How does literacy develop in children’s early years, and what programs or practices promote adequate literacy for all children? These are the questions Catherine Snow and Timothy Matthews tackle in this article. Fundamental ... -
Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual adults
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)English receptive vocabulary scores from 797 monolingual and 808 bilingual participants between the ages of 17 and 89 years old were aggregated from 20 studies to compare standard scores across language groups. The ... -
Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)Studies often report that bilingual participants possess a smaller vocabulary in the language of testing than monolinguals, especially in research with children. However, each study is based on a small sample so it is ... -
Refugee education and medium of instruction: Tensions in theory, policy, and practice.
(Brill | Sense, 2021)This chapter analyzes the under-explored issue of medium of instruction for refugees, focusing on South Sudanese refugees in Uganda and Burundian refugees in Tanzania as illustrative cases through which to explore language ... -
Refugee education in countries of first asylum: Breaking open the black box of pre-resettlement experiences
(SAGE Publications, 2015)The number of refugees who have fled across international borders due to conflict and persecution is at the highest level in recorded history. The vast majority of these refugees find exile in low-income countries neighboring ... -
Refugee education: Education for an unknowable future
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)Conflict and displacement are increasingly protracted, requiring rethinking of refugee education as a long-term endeavor, connected not only to the idea of return but to the on-going nature of exile. In this essay, I examine ... -
Refugee Education: The Crossroads of Globalization
(Sage, 2016)In this article, I probe a question at the core of comparative education – how to realize the right to education for all and ensure opportunities to use that education for future participation in society. I do so ... -
The relationship between siblings’ college choices: Evidence from one million SAT-taking families
(Elsevier BV, 2015)Research consistently shows that college choice in an important predictor of college completion and labor market outcomes. These longer term implications of college choice, combined with suboptimal choices made by many ... -
Relationships between anaemia and parasitic infections in Kenyan schoolchildren: A Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach
(Elsevier Science, 2008)Abstract Anaemia is multi-factorial in origin and disentangling its aetiology remains problematic, with surprisingly few studies investigating the relative contribution of different parasitic infections to anaemia amongst ... -
Replicating the effects of a teacher-scaffolded voluntary summer reading program: The role of poverty.
(Wiley, 2014)A randomized trial involving 19 elementary schools (K-5) was conducted to replicate and extend two previous experimental studies of the effects of a voluntary summer reading program that provided (a) books matched to ... -
A Research Agenda for Educational Linguistics
(Wiley Blackwell, 2008) -
Response to Comment on “Log or Linear? Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western and Amazonian Indigene Cultures
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009)The performance of the Mundurucu on the number-space task may exemplify a general competence for drawing analogies between space and other linear dimensions, but Mundurucu participants spontaneously chose number when other ... -
Response to the Review Symposium of No Citizen Left Behind
(Springer-Verlag, 2013)