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The State of the HR Profession
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2013-05)
We want to create a new narrative about the human resource (HR) profession. HR professionals have often been plagued with self‐doubts, repeatedly re‐exploring HR's role, value, and competencies. If HR is to fully (and ...
The impact of an integrated approach to science and literacy in elementary school classrooms
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-05)
This study investigates the efficacy of an integrated science and literacy approach at the upper‐elementary level. Teachers in 94 fourth grade classrooms in one Southern state participated. Half of the teachers taught the ...
Curriculum design for inquiry: Preservice elementary teachers' mobilization and adaptation of science curriculum materials
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-09)
Curriculum materials are crucial tools with which teachers engage students in science as inquiry. In order to use curriculum materials effectively, however, teachers must develop a robust capacity for pedagogical design, ...
Validity Evidence for Learning Progression‐Based Assessment Items That Fuse Core Disciplinary Ideas and Science Practices
(AblexWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-05)
This article evaluates a validity argument for the degree to which assessment tasks are able to provide evidence about knowledge that fuses information from a progression of core disciplinary ideas in ecology and a progression ...
What do we learn from the price of crude oil futures?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-06)
Despite their widespread use as predictors of the spot price of oil, oil futures prices tend to be less accurate in the mean-squared prediction error sense than no-change forecasts. This result is driven by the variability ...
The Ironic Interplay of Choice and Sadness.
(2014)
The experience of emotions in decision-making processes involves a recursive cycle: emotions not only influence the decisions people make, but the decision-making process also changes people’s emotional state. In this ...
Alcohol consumption and body weight
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-07)
The number of Americans who are overweight or obese has reached epidemic proportions. Elevated weight is associated with health problems and increased medical expenditures. This paper analyzes Waves 1 and 2 of the National ...
A Study of Skills, Problem Solving, and Collaboration Networks.
(2010)
Problem solving plays an important role in many contexts, including scientific innovation and economic production. Individual problem solvers work together, combining their skills to innovate and solve problems that none ...
Examining General Managers in the North American Professional Sport Context: Upper Echelons and Logics of Action as Determinants of Performance.
(2012)
This study integrates and extends the literature on upper echelons theory (UET) and institutional theory by investigating general manager (GM) strategic decision making in the North American professional sport context. ...
Essays in Development Economics and Econometrics.
(2013)
Chapter 1 studies students' relative academic performance when they are tracked or randomly assigned to university dormitories. This shows how peer effects differ under different group assignment rules, speaking to the ...