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Large‐scale science education intervention research we can use
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-03)
This article develops an argument that the type of intervention research most useful for improving science teaching and learning and leading to scalable interventions includes both research to develop and gather evidence ...
The Price Sensitivity Of Medicare Beneficiaries: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.The AEI Press, 2013-01)
We use 4 years of data from the retiree health benefits program of the University of Michigan to estimate the effect of price on the health plan choices of Medicare beneficiaries. During the period of our analysis, changes ...
Assessment and science education: Our essential new priority?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-08)
Cultural clashes in a “merger of equals”: The case of high‐tech start‐ups
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-09)
Mergers of equals are often considered simply symbolic. Whereas existing literature on the topic views equality as underscoring the importance of distributive justice, power, or identity, the role of culture remains ...
Guiding explanation construction by children at the entry points of learning progressions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-02)
Policy documents in science education suggest that even at the earliest years of formal schooling, students are capable of constructing scientific explanations about focal content. Nonetheless, few research studies provide ...
An impression management perspective on job design: The case of corporate directors
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-02)
In this essay I introduce a sociopolitical perspective on job design. In particular, I suggest how job design may be the subject of impression management, and illustrate this idea in the context of a specific corporate ...
Crafting scholarly life: Strategies for creating meaning in academic careers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011-08)
Job crafting, which occurs when individuals proactively make changes to their jobs, can be a useful tool for academics seeking more meaningful careers. We suggest changes to the cognitive, task, and relational aspects of ...
Why are gasoline prices sticky? A test of alternative models of price adjustment
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-09)
Macroeconomic models of business cycles rely on the assumption that firms adjust prices infrequently to generate the short-run non-neutrality of money documented by the monetary transmission literature. They posit different ...
Opportunity costs and non-scale free capabilities: profit maximization, corporate scope, and profit margins
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-07)
The resource-based view on firm diversification, subsequent to Penrose ( 1959 ), has focused primarily on the fungibility of resources across domains. We make a clear analytical distinction between scale free capabilities ...
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 ...