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Measuring What Matters: A Case Study of Measurement Development Methods for Institutionally Identified Student Learning Outcomes
(Colorado State University Journal of Student Affairs, 1/1/2015)Divisions of student affairs are impacted by an increased demand for accountability and the assessment of student learning in the co curricular must be addressed. This study documented the measurement development processes ... -
When Policy Opportunity is not Enough: College Access and Enrollment Patterns among Texas Percent Plan Eligible Students
(Journal of Applied Research on Children, 1/1/2012)In 1998, Texas initiated a bold new statewide university admission policy aimed at increasing college access for traditionally underserved students in the state. House Bill 588 (known as the Texas Top 10 Percent Plan (TTPP)) ... -
Testing and Diversity in Postsecondary Education: The Case of California
(Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1/7/2002)The past several years have seen numerous efforts to scale back or eliminate affirmative action in postsecondary admissions. In response, policymakers and postsecondary institutions in many states are searching for ways ... -
A Case for Competencies: Assessing the Value of Trait-Based Performance Appraisal for Non-Faculty University Employees
(Educational Policy Analysis Archives, 5/11/2016)A case study analyzed how supervisors at one university selected competencies, or trait-based skills, for non-faculty employees. This case study provides a valuable contribution by focusing on employees at one institution ... -
The U.S. Supreme Count's Use of Non-Legal Sources and Amicus Curiae Brieds in Fisher v. University of Texas
(Journal of College and University Law, 1/1/2017)In February 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that challenged the constitutionality of a race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin (“the university”). In addition to the evidence ... -
Uses of Extra-Legal Sources in Amicus Curiae Briefs Submitted in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
(Education Policy Analysis Archives, 3/19/2018)As the political arena becomes increasingly polarized, the legal arena is playing a more important role in the creation of education policy in the United States. One critical stage in the legal process for such efforts is ... -
Does Our Diversity Talk Match Our Walk? Aligning Institutional Goals and Practice
(College and University Journal, 1/1/2017)The article focuses on aligning Institutional goals and practice in the U.S. and the role of admissions professionals in the U.S. It mentions need for adopting a strategy for helping admissions professionals aimed at ... -
Understanding Loan Use and Debt Burden Among Low-income and Minority Students at a Large Urban Community College
(Journal of Student Financial Aid, 4/2/2018)This study examined a sample of community college students from a diverse, large urban community college system in Texas. To gain a deeper understanding about the effects of background characteristics on student borrowing ... -
Physical Growth and Nonverbal Intelligence: Associations in Zambia
(Journal of Pediatrics, 11/1/2014)Objective: To investigate normative developmental body mass index (BMI) trajectories and associations of physical growth indicators—height, weight, head circumference (HC), and BMI—with nonverbal intelligence in an ... -
Capturing Age-group Differences and Developmental Change with the BASC Parent Rating Scales
(Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 7/1/2015)Estimation of age-group differences and intra-individual change across distinct developmental periods is often challenged by the use of age-appropriate (but non-parallel) measures. We present a short version of the Behavior ... -
Differences in Judgments of Creativity: How Do Academic Domain, Personality, and Self-Reported Creativity Influence Novice Judges’ Evaluations of Creative Productions?
(Journal of Intelligence, 9/14/2015)Intelligence assessment is often viewed as a narrow and ever-narrowing field, defined (as per IQ) by the measurement of finely distinguished cognitive processes. It is instructive, however, to remember that other, broader ... -
Epigenetic Patterns Modulate the Connection between Developmental Dynamics of Parenting and Offspring Psychosocial Adjustment
(Child Development, 1/1/2017)This study attempted to establish and quantify the connections between parenting, offspring psychosocial adjustment, and the epigenome. The participants, 35 African-American young adults (19 females and 16 males; age = 17 ... -
Paired Associate Learning Tasks and their Contribution to Reading Skills
(Learning and Individual Differences, 1/1/2017)Associative learning has been identified as one of several non-linguistic processes involved in reading acquisition. However, it has not been established whether it is an independent process that contributes to reading ... -
Getting something out of nothing: Analyzing patterns of null responses to improve data collection methods in sub-Saharan Africa
(Learning and Individual Differences, 2/1/2017)Careful development and adaptation of assessments is imperative for cultural psychological research. However, despite the best efforts, the use of assessments in new contexts can reveal atypical and/or unexpected patterns ... -
School effects on non-verbal intelligence and nutritional status in rural Zambia
(Learning and Individual Differences, 2/1/2017)This study uses hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to examine the school factors (i.e., related to school organization and teacher and student body) associated with non-verbal intelligence (NI) and nutritional status (i.e., ... -
Associations between household responsibilities and academic competencies in the context of education accessibility in Zambia
(Learning and Individual Differences, 10/1/2013)The relationship between education and socioeconomic status has been demonstrated in studies of the developed and the developing world, yet there are communities in which schooling is either not available to all children ... -
Identifying Learning Patterns of Children at Risk for Specific Reading Disability
(Developmental Science, 5/1/2017)Differences in learning patterns of vocabulary acquisition in children at risk (+SRD) and not at risk (SRD) for Specific Reading Disability (SRD) were examined using a microdevelopmental paradigm applied to the multi-trial ... -
Child internalizing problems and mother-child discrepancies in perceptions of parenting: Evidence for bidirectional associations
(Journal of Family Psychology, 3/1/2018)We investigated the bidirectional associations between mother–child discrepancies in their perceptions of maternal rejection and children’s internalizing problems over 10 years from pre/early adolescence to early adulthood. ... -
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