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A conceptual guide to natural history museum visitors' understanding of evolution
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
Museum visitors are an ideal population for assessing the persistence of the conceptual barriers that make it difficult to grasp Darwinian evolutionary theory. In comparison with other members of the public, they are more ...
Developing a hypothetical multi-dimensional learning progression for the nature of matter
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-08)
We describe efforts toward the development of a hypothetical learning progression (HLP) for the growth of grade 7–14 students' models of the structure, behavior and properties of matter, as it relates to nanoscale science ...
Manipulative Games of Gifts by Corporate Executives
(2016-02)
Executives use a variety of manipulative games to maximize the value of their gifts, including backdating, spring-loading, bullet-dodging and insider information. We find that executives exploit a legal loophole to backdate ...
Legacies in Organizations.
(2013)
Within some organizations, certain individuals seem to “live on” after they are gone. We often refer to these individuals as having a legacy, or a representation that endures in the collective memory of the group after ...
Inducing Employees to Leave: A Comparison of Four Severance Options
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2013-03)
This study examines the demographic, economic, and psychographic characteristics of 324 blue‐collar workers who were offered four options for either retirement or severance from the organization. Consistent with previous ...
Re‐conceptualization of scientific literacy in South Korea for the 21st century
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-08)
As the context of human life expands from personal to global, a new vision of scientific literacy is needed. Based on a synthesis of the literature and the findings of an online survey of South Korean and US secondary ...
Ending Executive Manipulations of Incentive Compensation
(2016-02)
In this article, we analyze whether the manipulation of stock options still continues to
this day. Our evidence shows that executives continue to employ a variety of manipulative devices to increase their compensation, ...
The Effects of State Innovation Programs on Entrepreneurial Firms: Three Essays.
(2013)
My dissertation provides new evidence regarding the effects of state innovation programs on the performance and behavior of entrepreneurial firms in the Great Lakes region. Specifically, I assemble novel databases and use ...
Optimal process adjustment by integrating production data and design of experiments
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011-04)
This paper proposes a method to improve the process model estimation based on limited experimental data by making use of abundant production data and to achieve the optimal process adjustment based on the improved process ...
Examining the effect of teachers' adaptations of a middle school science inquiry-oriented curriculum unit on student learning
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-02)
Reform based curriculum offer a promising avenue to support greater student achievement in science. Yet teachers frequently adapt innovative curriculum when they use them in their own classrooms. In this study, we examine ...