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The Value and Challenges of Using Learning Technologies to Support Students in Learning Science
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-12)
Computer-based writing tools and the cognitive needs of novice writers
(Elsevier, 1991-04)
Contextualizing instruction: Leveraging students' prior knowledge and experiences to foster understanding of middle school science
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-01)
Contextualizing science instruction involves utilizing students' prior knowledge and everyday experiences as a catalyst for understanding challenging science concepts. This study of two middle school science classrooms ...
Rater agreements in assigning stanford-binet items to Guilford's structure of intellect operations categories
(Elsevier, 1975)
Nineteen school psychologists assigned the 142 items in the Form L-M of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale to the five Operations categories of Guilford's Structure of Intellect model, following flow charts prepared for ...
Employee Health Management Programs: Review, Critique, and Research Agenda
(Sage Publications, 1987)
Employee health management programs (EHMPs) have been receiving increased attention. This paper argues that studies assessing the effect of EHMPs on individual and organizational outcomes have great potential for ...
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 ...
College and University Disaster Management: The Impact of Leader Behavior on Response and Recovery from Disaster.
(2012)
The word disaster evokes vivid and painful memories for most U.S. citizens. While for many the word brings to mind images of September 11th, for others it might trigger memories of a major earthquake, oil spill, or even ...
New Perspectives on Regression Adjustment in Causal Inference, with Applications to Educational Program Evaluation.
(2013)
Causal inference from observational data—that is, data that did not come from an experiment—is
notoriously difficult: because the probability distribution of the treatment variable Z is unknown,measured or unmeasured variables ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Education.
(2013)
This dissertation examines the effects of education policies implemented during primary and secondary school on educational attainment. Chapters 1 and 3 focus on a policy recently implemented in Michigan in which the ACT ...
Essays on the Empirical Study of Migration, Intrahousehold Trade-offs, and Infrastructure Investments
(2012)
Education and infrastructure are two important development strategies in low-income countries. They foster economic growth by improving labor productivity and facilitating market integration. Evaluating them poses a ...