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Book Review: The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-Structuralism, and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa. Helen Malson.
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
Racial Stereotypes and Gender in Context: African Americans at Predominantly Black and Predominantly White Colleges
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-07)
In this study, relationships among stereotype expectations, gender, and academic self-concept and performance of African American students in predominantly White and predominantly Black college contexts were examined. ...
Expanding students' involvement in proof problems: Are geometry teachers willing to depart from the norm?
(2013-04-30)
Using a multimedia questionnaire we explore the extent to which secondary mathematics teachers recognize a hypothesized norm of doing proofs in geometry—that the teacher is in charge of providing the 'given' and the 'prove.' ...
Undergraduate political attitudes: An examination of peer, faculty, and social influences
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-10)
A socialization perspective is used to examine the processes through which undergraduate student political attitudes are influenced by peers, faculty, and social trends. Using the model of undergraduate socialization ...
Model of students' mathematics enrollment decisions
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1985-08)
Decision type, structure, and process evaluation: A contingency model
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1972-05)
Governance proposals for higher education in the United States are often promulgated on the basis of some utopian goal or on the assumption that a given proposal is the panacea for multifaceted problems or that it is equally ...
DIRECTING FOCUS AND ENABLING INQUIRY WITH REPRESENTATIONS OF PRACTICE: WRITTEN CASES, STORYBOARDS, AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(Hoosier Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators., 2017-10-08)
We discuss affordances and liabilities of using a storyboard to depict a written case of a teacher’s dilemma that involves race, opportunity to learn, and student community. We rely on reflections by the teacher educator ...
College impact, student impact: A reconsideration of the role of students within American higher education
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-09)
American college students tend to be viewed in terms of inputs and outcomes, due in part to the assessment movement and long-standing interest in college impact. A more complete view is one in which the relationship between ...
Latino student transition to college: Assessing difficulties and factors in successful college adjustment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-04)
The primary purpose of this study is to understand the factors that affect Latino student adjustment in the first and second year of college. The study examines data from a national, longitudinal survey along with the ...
The Ecology of School Improvement: Notes on the School Improvement Industry in the United States
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-12)
This paper explains how organizations otherthan schools and governing agencies affect thescope and pace of change in American education.In particular, the paper discusses a set oforganizations operating in what can be ...