Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Building a Multicontextual Model of Latino College Enrollment: Student, School, and State-Level Effects
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012-12-01)Latinos’ college enrollment rates, particularly in four-year institutions, have not kept pace with their population growth in the United States. Using three-level hierarchical generalized linear modeling, this study analyzes ... -
Using Graduation Rates to Develop Recruitment Strategies at Purdue University
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Suburban Advantage: Opportunity Hoarding and Secondary Attainment in the Postwar Metropolitan North
(Univesity of Chicago, 2011-05)This study examines urban/suburban differences in educational outcomes in light of Tilly's conception of "opportunity hoarding." Data from the U.S. Census reveal the changing circumstances of 17-year-olds in central city ... -
Patterns, correlates, and reduction of homework copying
(The American Physical Society, 2010-03)Submissions to an online homework tutor were analyzed to determine whether they were copied. The fraction of copied submissions increased rapidly over the semester, as each weekly deadline approached and for problems later ... -
Mathematical learning models that depend on prior knowledge and instructional strategies
(The American Physical Society, 2008-05)We present mathematical learning models—predictions of student’s knowledge vs amount of instruction—that are based on assumptions motivated by various theories of learning: tabula rasa, constructivist, and tutoring. These ... -
Book Review: Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools by Jonathan Zimmerman
(2004-02)Reviewed work(s): Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools by Jonathan Zimmerman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. 307 pp -
Social Capital and Secondary Schooling: Interurban Differences in American Teenage Enrollment Rates in 1950
(The University of Chicago, 2004-08)This article considers the influence of social capital on secondary enrollments in American cities in 1950. Data from the U.S. census are utilized to analyze enrollment rates across metropolitan areas with populations ... -
From Kitchen to Classroom: Reflections of a Language Broker
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Measuring student learning with item response theory
(The American Physical Society, 2008-01)We investigate short-term learning from hints and feedback in a Web-based physics tutoring system. Both the skill of students and the difficulty and discrimination of items were determined by applying item response theory ... -
Who's Teaching the Teachers? Evidence from the National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty and the Survey of Earned Doctorates
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)In light of a documented shortage of candidates for teacher education faculty positions, this study explores the academic labor market for teacher education faculty utilizing data from the National Survey on Postsecondary ... -
From Disciplinarian to Change Agent: How the Civil Rights Era Changed the Roles of Student Affairs Professionals
(Berkley Electronic Press, 2005)Little has been written about the roles and functions of student affairs administrators during the civil rights era. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine how the civil rights era influenced the student ... -
Two steps forward, one step back: Race/ethnicity and student achievement in education policy research
(CORWIN PRESS INC A SAGE PUBLICATIONS CO, 2000-09)The goal of this study is to bring the discussion of ethnic heterogeneity and the racial/ethnic classification of students for research purposes into the education policy arena. The relationship between race and ethnicity ... -
Collaborative inquiry to make data-based decisions in schools
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2003-08)The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a long-term collaborative inquiry project for diverse teams of teachers, administrators, school board members, and parents. The teams engaged in collaborative ...