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Abstract Representations of Attributed Emotion: Evidence From Neuroscience and Development
(2015-05-12)Humans can recognize others’ emotions based on overt cues such as facial expressions, affective vocalizations, or body posture, or by recruiting an abstract, causal theory of the conditions that tend to elicit different ... -
Academic Discussions: An Analysis of Instructional Discourse and an Argument for an Integrative Assessment Framework
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2012)This article describes the structure of academic discussions during the implementation of a literacy curriculum in the upper elementary grades. The authors examine the quality of academic discussion, using existing discourse ... -
Accelerating Antimicrobial Discovery With Controllable Deep Generative Models and Molecular Dynamics
(2021-03-11)De novo therapeutic design is challenged by a vast chemical repertoire and multiple constraints such as high broad-spectrum potency and low toxicity. We propose CLaSS (Controlled Latent attribute Space Sampling) — an ... -
Adapting Educational Measurement to the Demands of Test-Based Accountability
(Informa UK Limited, 2015)Accountability has become a primary function of large-scale testing in the U.S. The pressure on educators to raise scores is vastly greater than it was several decades ago. Research has shown that high-stakes testing can ... -
Adjusting treatment effect estimates by post-stratification in randomized experiments
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Experimenters often use post-stratification to adjust estimates. Post-stratification is akin to blocking, except that the number of treated units in each stratum is a random variable because stratification occurs after ... -
Anchoring and Adjusting in Questionnaire Responses
(Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), 2012)When ordering items on attitude/opinion questionnaires, do survey designers bias respondents’ answers by the mere act of choosing to organize their survey in a particular way? We hypothesize that, under specific ... -
An Applied Researcher’s Guide to Estimating Effects From Multisite Individually Randomized Trials: Estimands, Estimators, and Estimates
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Researchers face many choices when conducting large-scale multisite individually randomized control trials. One of the most common quantities of interest in multisite RCTs is the overall average effect. Even this quantity ... -
Archiving Blackness: Reimagining and Recreating the Archive(s) as Literary and Information Wake Work
(Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 2023-01-27)“…we, Black people everywhere and anywhere we are, still produce in, into, and through the wake an insistence on existing: we insist Black being into the wake.” – Christina Sharpe, In the Wake (2016) In this paper, ... -
Art in the Advancement of Understanding
(2002)Cognitive progress often involves reconfiguring a domain, bringing previously unrecognized likenesses, differences, patterns and discrepancies to light. I argue that the arts effect such reconfigurations, enabling us to ... -
Assessing Reading Comprehension in Bilinguals
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)A new measure of reading comprehension, the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension (DARC), designed to reflect central comprehension processes while minimizing decoding and language demands, was pilot tested. We ... -
Assessment in Early Literacy Research
(Guilford Press, 2011)Much of what we know about children’s language and literacy development derives from efforts to assess those skills. In fact, language and literacy development might be taken as a case study in the history of assessment—a ... -
Assessment of cognitive abilities in multiethnic countries: The case of the Wolof and Mandinka in the Gambia
(2010)Background: The use of cognitive tests is increasing in Africa but little is known about how such tests are affected by the great ethnic and linguistic diversity on the continent. Aim: To assess ethnic and linguistic ... -
Assessment, technology and change
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Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools.
(2009)Taking early action may be key to helping students struggling with mathematics. The eight recommendations in this guide are designed to help teachers, principals, and administrators use Response to Intervention for the ... -
Atom tracker: Designing a mobile augmented reality experience to support instruction about cycles and conservation of matter in outdoor learning environments
(2016)We describe a mobile augmented reality (AR) experience called Atom Tracker designed to help middle school students better understand the cycling of matter in ecosystems with a focus on the concept of conservation of matter ... -
Auditing for Score Inflation Using Self-Monitoring Assessments: Findings from Three Pilot Studies
(Taylor and Francis, 2016)Research has shown that test-based accountability programs often produce score inflation. Most studies have evaluated inflation by comparing trends on a high-stakes test and a lower-stakes audit test. However, Koretz and ... -
Better Schools, Less Crime?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)I estimate the impact of attending a first-choice middle or high school on adult crime, using data from public school choice lotteries in Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district (CMS). Seven years after random assignment, ...