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Online Education in Community Colleges: Access, School Success, and Labor-Market Outcomes
(2014)
Chapter 1 provides the first evidence on the effect of online education on labor-market outcomes. I employ an individual-fixed-effects estimation strategy using data on over 100,000 community-college enrollees and show ...
How and when does complex reasoning occur? Empirically driven development of a learning progression focused on complex reasoning about biodiversity
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-08)
In order to compete in a global economy, students are going to need resources and curricula focusing on critical thinking and reasoning in science. Despite awareness for the need for complex reasoning, American students ...
Cognitive skills and their transfer: Discussion
(Elsevier, 1987)
Transfer is involved in all learning, remembering, problem solving and cognitive activities. Thus we need to think of dimensions and extent of transfer rather than simply consider transfer versus non-transfer. Moreover, ...
Knowledge Integration in Science Teaching: Analysing Teachers' Knowledge Development
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
This paper tests the utility of a new sociocognitive frame for analysing the development of teachers' knowledge – the knowledge integration perspective (Linn, Eylon, & Davis, in press; Linn & Hsi, 2000). In doing so, the ...
Low cost computer graphics in engineering education
(Elsevier, 1981)
The Apple II is a personal computer which provides 6 color, raster graphics via a 280 h x 192 v frame buffer. A user-programmable MOS Technology 6502 CPU addresses 48 K bytes of RAM, 12 K of ROM. and 4 K of memory-mapped ...
Managers as Agents Without Principals: An Empirical Examination of Agency and Constituency Perspectives
(Sage Publications, 1986)
This study empirically investigated the propositions generated from agency and constituency perspectives about the nature of the managerial role. The managerial role was conceptualized as an integral part of the existing ...
Teaching with difference: A response to Angela Calabrese Barton: Teaching science with homeless children: Pedagogy, representation, and identity
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998-04)
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The nature of middle school learners' science content understandings with the use of on-line resources
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-03)
Early research on using the World Wide Web indicated that middle school students did not explore much and used Web tools naively. In response to these challenges, an on-line research engine, Artemis, was designed to provide ...
Essays on the Labor Market Transitions in Taiwan.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies how the expansion in post-secondary education in 1990-2000 affected the university wage premium in Taiwan. We find that the university wage premium ...
Technology-rich inquiry science in urban classrooms: What are the barriers to inquiry pedagogy? * Any opinions, findings, and conclusion or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002-02)
What are the barriers to technology-rich inquiry pedagogy in urban science classrooms, and what kinds of programs and support structures allow these barriers to be overcome? Research on the pedagogical practices within ...