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Beyond Chronicity: Evaluation and Temporality in Spanish-Speaking Children’s Personal Narratives
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)This chapter focuses on Spanish-speaking children’s evaluation and temporality in the construction of personal narratives. The study analyzes 32 personal narratives produced by 8 Andean Spanish-speaking children from the ... -
Beyond the numbers: institutional influences on experiences with diversity on elite college campuses
(Wiley, 2015-12-14)In this paper we bring together the burgeoning qualitative literature on the socializing influence of residential colleges; the predominantly survey-based literature on campus racial climate; and the literature on diversity ... -
Beyond Vocabulary: Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Academic-Language Proficiency and Its Association With Reading Comprehension
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Despite a longstanding awareness of academic language as a pedagogically relevant research area, the construct of academic language proficiency, understood as a more comprehensive set of skills than just academic vocabulary, ... -
Big Data Analysis in Higher Education: Promises and Pitfalls
(2016)The grand challenge in data-intensive research and analysis in higher education is to find the means to extract knowledge from the extremely rich data sets being generated today and to distill this into usable information ... -
Bilingualism is not a categorical variable: Interaction between language proficiency and usage
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)Bilingual experience is dynamic and poses a challenge for researchers to develop instruments that capture its relevant dimensions. The present study examined responses from a questionnaire administered to 110 heterogeneous ... -
Bilingualism, Biliteracy, and Learning to Read: Interactions Among Languages and Writing Systems
(Informa UK Limited, 2005)Four groups of children in first grade were compared on early literacy tasks. Children in three of the groups were bilingual, each group representing a different combination of language and writing system, and children ... -
Bilingualism, Language Proficiency, and Learning to Read in Two Writing Systems.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2005)Two hundred and four 5- and 6-year-olds who were monolingual English-, bilingual English–Chinese-, or Chinese-speaking children beginning to learn English (2nd-language learners) were compared on phonological awareness and ... -
Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind and Brain
(2012)Building on earlier evidence showing a beneficial effect of bilingualism on children’s cognitive development, we review recent studies using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods to examine the effects of bilingualism ... -
A Bioinspired and Hierarchically Structured Shape-Memory Material
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-08-31)Shape memory polymeric materials lack long-range molecular order enabling more controlled and efficient actuation mechanisms. Here, we develop a hierarchical structured keratin-based system that has long-range molecular ... -
Borders and belonging: displaced Syrian youth navigating symbolic boundaries in Lebanon
(Informa UK Limited, 2020-03-23)We examine the ways in which young Syrian refugees perceive and navigate the symbolic boundaries of belonging when displaced in Lebanon. Using portraiture, we identify three dimensions of belonging for refugees – safety, ... -
Brain Bases of Reading Fluency in Typical Reading and Impaired Fluency in Dyslexia
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Although the neural systems supporting single word reading are well studied, there are limited direct comparisons between typical and dyslexic readers of the neural correlates of reading fluency. Reading fluency deficits ... -
Brain network activity in monolingual and bilingual older adults
(Elsevier BV, 2015)Bilingual older adults typically have better performance on tasks of executive control (EC) than do their monolingual peers, but differences in brain activity due to language experience are not well understood. Based on ... -
Bridging Home: Building Relationships Between Immigrant and Long-Time Resident Youth
(2010)Background: There is rising evidence that relationships that bridge between immigrants and long-time residents are critical to immigrant integration and to the overall heath of communities. The processes by which this ... -
Bringing values back in: How purposes shape practices in coherent school designs
(Springer Nature, 2015)Perhaps the most daunting challenge in building good educational systems is generating quality practice consistently across classrooms. Recent work has suggested that one way to address this dilemma is by building an ... -
Can a Mixed-Method Literacy Intervention Improve the Reading Achievement of Low-Performing Elementary School Students in an After-School Program?: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial of READ 180 Enterprise
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2011)This article describes an independent evaluation of the READ 180 Enterprise intervention designed by Scholastic, Inc. Despite widespread use of the program with upper elementary through high school students, there is ... -
Can Silent Reading in the Summer Reduce Socioeconomic Differences in Reading Achievement?
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Castles in the Clouds: The Irrelevance of Vertical Scales for Most Practical Concerns
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Causes and consequences of psychological distress among orphans in eastern Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)Substantial resources are invested in psychological support for children orphaned or otherwise made vulnerable in the context of HIV/AIDS (OVC). However, there is still only limited scientific evidence for greater psychological ... -
The Challenge of Academic Language
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Challenging Deliberation
(SAGE Publications, 2003)Civic education is a primary aim of public schooling in liberal democratic states, which rely on a well-educated, civic-minded citizenry for their perpetuation. Because liberal democracies can differ, it is important to ...