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Testing a series of causal propositions relating time in child care to children’s externalizing behavior
(American Psychological Association, 2010)Prior research has documented associations between child care hours and children’s externalizing behavior. A series of longitudinal analyses were conducted to address five propositions, each testing the hypothesis that ... -
The Career Pathways Movement: A Promising Strategy for Increasing Opportunity and Mobility
The career pathways movement—based on the premise that everyone needs something beyond a high school diploma but not necessarily a 4-year degree, and designed to connect young people to middle-skill jobs in such growing ... -
Time, source, and responsibility: understanding changing uses of the past in ‘post-conflict’ South African history teaching, 1998 and 2019
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To Adjust or Not to Adjust? Sensitivity Analysis of M-Bias and Butterfly-Bias
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015)“M-Bias”, as it is called in the epidemiological literature, is the bias introduced by conditioning on a pretreatment covariate due to a particular “M-Structure” between two latent factors, an observed treatment, an outcome, ... -
Toward Cognitive and Temporal Mobility: Language Considerations in Refugee Education
(Wiley, 2021-06)‘What language?’ Over the past two decades of work in the field of refugee education, this is the question most asked in conversations with parents, students, teachers, government officials, policymakers, in local, national, ... -
Tracing pathways to higher education for refugees: the role of virtual support networks and mobile phones for women in refugee camps
(Informa UK Limited, 2016)In this paper, we explore the role of online social networks in the cultivation of pathways to higher education for refugees, particularly for women. We compare supports garnered in local and offline settings to those ... -
Turning Transfer Inside Out: The Affordances of Virtual Worlds and Mobile Devices in Real World Contexts for Teaching About Causality Across Time and Distance in Ecosystems
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2014)Reasoning about ecosystems includes consideration of causality over temporal and spatial distances; yet learners typically focus on immediate time frames and local contexts. Teaching students to reason beyond these boundaries ... -
Understanding the development of flexibility in struggling algebra students
(2011)The ability to flexibly solve problems is considered an important outcome for school mathematics and is the focus of this paper. The paper describes the impact of a three-week summer course for students who struggle with ... -
The universality of symbolic representation for reading in Asian and alphabetic languages
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)Neuroimaging studies of reading have identified unique patterns of activation for individuals reading in alphabetic and Asian languages, suggesting the involvement of different processes in each. The present study investigates ... -
The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
(2009)This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a ... -
Using a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) to Develop an Adaptive K–2 Literacy Intervention With Personalized Print Texts and App-Based Digital Activities
(SAGE Publications, 2019-07)This study employs a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design to develop an adaptive intervention with personalized print and digital content for kindergarten to Grade 2 children (n = 273). In Stage ... -
Using a three-dimensional thinking graph to support inquiry learning
(Wiley, 2018-03-08)The use of external representations has a potential to facilitate inquiry learning, especially in hypothesis generation and scientific reasoning, which are typical difficulties encountered by students. This study proposes ... -
Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness
(American Economic Association, 2014)Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet random variation in school attendance is necessary to test the validity of VAMs, and to guide the selection of models for measuring causal ... -
Using Strategic Interruptions to Effectively Integrate Whole Class and Small Group Instruction in Mathematics
(2013)In this paper we explore a new way to think about the use of group work in mathematics instruction through what we refer to as strategic interruptions. Strategic interruptions involve frequent and often rapid transitions ... -
Using the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Technique to Analyze Learning Outcomes Changes over Time: An Application to Indonesia’s Results in PISA Mathematics
(2011)The Oaxaca-Blinder technique was originally used in labor economics to decompose earnings gaps and to estimate the level of discrimination. It has been applied since in other social issues, including education, where ... -
Using the Theory of Satisficing to Evaluate the Quality of Survey Data
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)Increasingly colleges and universities use survey results to make decisions, inform research, and shape public opinion. Given the large number of surveys distributed on campuses, can researchers reasonably expect that busy ...