Project Activities
Research themes within the program included experimental research methodology (such as standards-based assessment, continuous monitoring of student progress, experimental and quasi-experimental design with an emphasis on experimental designs, and longitudinal studies) and cognitive science as applied to educational issues (such as training in theories and data-gathering methods in education-related fields of cognition such as cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, psychology of higher-order thinking and learning).
Key outcomes
Seventeen fellows received funding support from this award and completed the training program.
People and institutions involved
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Project contributors
Completed fellows
Products and publications
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Books
Hilk, C., & Mensink, M. (2010). Gangs. In C. S. Clauss-Ehlers (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology. New York: Springer.
Book chapters
Mensink, M. C. (2011). Focusing effects from online and offline reading tasks. In M. T. McCrudden, J. P. Magliano, & G. Schraw (Eds.), Text relevance and learning from text(pp. 141-164). IAP Information Age Publishing.
Pellegrini, A. D., Long, J., Dupuis, D., Solberg, D.W., Bohn, C. M., Hickey, M. & Roseth, C. (2009). Bullying and social status during school transitions. In S. R. Jimerson, S. M. Swearer, & D. L. Espalage (Eds.), The International Handbook of School Bullying. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Pellegrini, A. D., Ostrov, J. M., Roseth, C., Solberg, D. W. & Dupuis, D. (2013). Using observational methods to study children's and adolescents' development. In G. Melton, A. Ben-Arieh, & J. Cashmore (Eds.), Handbook of Child Research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Rapp, D. N., & Mensink, M. C. (2011). Focusing effects from online and offline reading tasks. In M. T. McCrudden, J. P. Magliano, & G. Schraw (Eds.), Text relevance and learning from text (pp. 141-164). IAP Information Age Publishing.
Journal articles
Arbeit, C. A., & Warren, J. R. (2013). Labor market penalties for foreign degrees among college educated immigrants. Social Science Research, 42(3), 852-871.
Carlson, S. E., Seipel, B., & McMaster, K. (2014). Development of a new reading comprehension assessment: Identifying comprehension differences among readers. Learning and Individual Differences, 32, 40-53.
Clinton, V.(2015). Examining associations between reading motivation and inference generation beyond reading comprehension skill. Reading Psychology, 36(6), 473-498.
Clinton, V. (2014). The relationship between students' preferred approaches to learning and behaviors during learning: An examination of the process stage of the 3P model. Instructional Science, 42(5), 817-837.
Clinton, V., & Van den Broek, P. (2012). Interest, inferences, and learning from texts. Learning and Individual Differences, 22(6), 650-663.
Clinton, V., Carlson, S. E., & Seipel, B. (2016). Linguistic markers of inference generation while reading. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(3), 553-574.
Clinton, V., Seipel, B., van den Broek, P., McMaster, K. L., Kendeou, P., Carlson, S. E., & Rapp, D. N. (2014). Gender differences in inference generation by fourth-grade students. Journal of Research in Reading, 37(4), 356-374.
Cutuli, J. J., Desjardins, C. D., Herbers, J. E., Long, J. D., Heistad, D., Chan, C. K., ... & Masten, A. S. (2013). Academic achievement trajectories of homeless and highly mobile students: Resilience in the context of chronic and acute risk. Child development, 84(3), 841-857.
Davison, M. L., Kim, S. K., & Close, C. (2009). Factor analytic modeling of within person variation in score profiles. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44(5), 668-687.
Davison, M. L., Semmes, R., Huang, L., & Close, C. N. (2012). On the reliability and validity of a numerical reasoning speed dimension derived from response times collected in computerized testing. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 72(2), 245-263.
Desjardins, C. D. (2016). Modeling zero-inflated and overdispersed count data: An empirical study of school suspensions.The Journal of Experimental Education, 84(3), 449-472.
Fehr, C. N., Davison, M. L., Graves, M. F., Sales, G. C., Seipel, B., & Sekhran-Sharma, S. (2012). The effects of individualized, online vocabulary instruction on picture vocabulary scores: An efficacy study. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 25(1), 87-102.
Fehr, C. N., Scholin, S. E., & Davison, M. L. (2011). The Effect of Online, Large-Scale Vocabulary Instruction on Listening and Reading Vocabulary. Information Technology, Education and Society, 12(1), 5-18.
Lewis, M. R., & Mensink, M. C. (2012). Prereading questions and online text comprehension. Discourse Processes, 49(5), 367-390.
Liou, P. Y., Desjardins, C. D., & Lawrenz, F. (2010). Influence of scholarships on STEM teachers: Cluster analysis and characteristics. School Science and Mathematics, 110(3), 128-143.
Masten, A. S., Desjardins, C. D., McCormick, C. M., Sally, I., Kuo, C., & Long, J. D. (2010). The significance of childhood competence and problems for adult success in work: A developmental cascade analysis. Development and Psychopathology, 22(3), 679-694.
Masten, A. S., Herbers, J. E., Desjardins, C. D., Cutuli, J. J., McCormick, C. M., Sapienza, J. K., ... & Zelazo, P. D. (2012). Executive function skills and school success in young children experiencing homelessness. Educational Researcher, 41(9), 375-384.
Mensink, M. C., & Rapp, D. N. (2011). Evil geniuses: Inferences derived from evidence and preferences. Memory & cognition, 39(6), 1103-1116.
Semmes, R., Davison, M. L., & Close, C. (2011). Modeling individual differences in numerical reasoning speed as a random effect of response time limits. Applied Psychological Measurement, 35(6), 433-446.
Warren, J. R., & Saliba, J. (2012). First-through eighth-grade retention rates for all 50 states: A new method and initial results. Educational Researcher, 41(8), 320-329.
Proceedings
Lewis, M., & Varma, S. (2010). Number Representations and their Development: A Connectionist Model of Number Comparison. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 32, No. 32, 1780-1785).
Wang, J., Moore, T., Plumb, S., & Roehrig, G. (2009, October). A student task model method for assessing and improving a Model-Eliciting Activity. In 2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
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