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Investigation of chemistry graduate teaching assistants’ teacher knowledge and teacher identity
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020-08)
Graduate students play an integral role in undergraduate chemistry education at doctoral granting institutions where they routinely serve as instructors of laboratories and supplementary discussion sessions. Simultaneously, ...
Collaboratively engineering for justice in sixth grade STEM
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-09)
In this article, it is argued that processes of co‐production can support teachers and students in organizing resources for justice through science learning. Drawing upon a critical justice conceptual framework, critical ...
Beyond assessing knowledge about models and modeling: Moving toward expansive, meaningful, and equitable modeling practice
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-08)
Essays on Individual and Collective Decision Making
(2023)
This dissertation contains three essays on individual and collective decision making. Understanding and modeling how individuals make choices is at the heart of economics. In chapter I, I empirically estimate the degree ...
The Influence of Price Changes on Enrollment: Research Designs to Examine Price Responsiveness in Graduate and Professional Schools
(2023)
A number of studies have examined the impact of changes in price on students’ enrollment decisions at the undergraduate level, but little is known about the price responsiveness of graduate and professional students. This ...
Essays in the Economics of Education
(2021)
This dissertation studies the reasons for and consequences of different choices in human capital investment. The theme connecting the three essays is a desire to understand reasons for inequality in educational choices and ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...
Essays on Generational Economic Links Between Childhood and Adulthood
(2021)
My dissertation examines the economic links between people's experiences in early and later-life. It offers new empirical evidence on the effect of income in infancy on later-life outcomes, and investigates the performance ...
Essays on the Economics of Human Capital
(2020)
An extensive literature documents the instrumental role of early childhood in improving individuals' life chances. This dissertation consists of three connected chapters that study the effects of early childhood circumstances ...