Archive for January, 2004
04-01-23
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Posted 6/6/2001Article #01-02
The Role of Television Viewing in the Development of Reading Comprehension
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by Paul van den Broek
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04-01-23
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Posted 8/9/2001Article #01-08
Reading in the Twentieth Century
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by P. David Pearson
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04-01-23
Tags: CIERA: Tech. Report Series-Inquiry 3: Policy and Profession CIERA Report #3-006 “Discretion in the Translation of Reading Research to Policy”by Barbara M. Taylor, Richard C. Anderson, Kathryn H. Au, and Taffy E. Raphael Report Summary
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For a response by Barbara Foorman and her colleagues to the Taylor et. al. analysis of the impact of […]
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04-01-23
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CIERA Report #3-024 “The Alignment of State Standards and Assessments in Elementary Reading” by Karen K. Wixson, Maria Chesley Fisk, Elizabeth Dutro, and Julie McDaniel
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04-01-23
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CIERA Report #3-025 “The Effect of Groups and Individuals on National Decisionmaking: Influence and Domination in the Reading Policymaking Environment” by Julie E. McDaniel, and Cecil Miskel
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04-01-23
Tags: OPA News Release, 04/2001 Dr. Uri Treisman named to national committee on K-12 education
AUSTIN, TexasDr. Uri Treisman, director of The University of Texas at Austins Charles A. Dana Center, has been appointed to serve on the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Councils prestigious Strategic Education Research Plan (SERP) Committee. The committee is charged […]
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04-01-23
Tags: MICHAEL J. FEUER
MICHAEL J. FEUER
Dr. Michael J. Feuer received his Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the School of Public and Urban Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also done graduate studies in political science and public administration at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Feuer is currently the Director of the Center […]
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04-01-23
Tags: Home Page of Michael L. Kamil Appointments and courses in Stanford University School of Education AERA 1997–Using Information Text for First Grade Reading Instruction
Michael L. Kamil
VITA (Complete)Publications Awards Professional Organizations
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National Reading Conference, 1997–Trends in Publication of Research on Technology and Reading, Writing and Literacy
National Reading Conference, 1997–Using Information Text for First Grade Reading Instruction: A […]
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04-01-21
Tags: Finnish characterized (the s.c.nordic FAQ) valo “light”, valokuva “photograph” [”light picture”], valokuvaaja “photographer”, valokuvata “to photograph”, valokuvaus “photography”;
During the past century and a half Finnish has shown a strong tendency to favor derivation and calquing over borrowing. Thus
kirja “book”, kirjoittaa “to write”, kirje “letter [epistle]”, kirjain “letter [of the alphabet]”, kirjasto “library”, kirjallinen “written”, kirjailija […]
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04-01-21
Tags: Human Ecology : Urie Bronfenbrenner Urie Bronfenbrenner Urie Bronfenbrenner is the Jacob Gould Sherman Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and of Psychology at Cornell University. Born in Moscow, Russia in 1917, he came to the United States at the age of 6. After graduating from high school in Haverstraw, N.Y., he received a […]
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04-01-19
Tags: P-P Plot
Probability-Probability Plots. You can visually check for the fit of a theoretical distribution to the observed data by examining the probability-probability plot (also called Probability Plot, see example below). In probability- probability plots (or P-P plots for short) the observed cumulative distribution function is plotted against the theoretical cumulative distribution function. As in the […]
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04-01-19
Tags: California Academy of Sciences - Science Now Three distinct zones link skin color to ultraviolet radiation levels at the Earths surface. Skin color has long been considered an evolutionary response to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Now, Academy anthropologist Nina Jablonski and colleague George Chaplin substantiate this relationship and link it to reproduction.
Our skin needs UV […]
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04-01-19
Tags: Duke Institute for Genome Science & Policy GenomeLIFE GenomeLIFE, the newsletter of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, is published monthly. 2003: The Genome Year in Review
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4 Genome Project completed (Washington Post, April 15)A strange feeling is coming over us. Were being transported back to the year 2001 and Francis Collins and Craig […]
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04-01-19
Tags: On Becoming Bilingual
However, in defense of Americans, a couple of points can be made. First, the language we know is a very nice one. For one thing, it has words for all the major ideas, which cant be said of other languages. Consider, for example, the word “get” and the associated simple straightforward idea. […]
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04-01-19
Tags: Laptops and Lab Manuals
These people had the same sorts of dreams I had, it just took them longer to give them up. They dreamt about how wonderful it would be to have their laptop computers with them in these seminars. They had dreams of taking notes on their computers; keeping wonderful records of the […]
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04-01-19
Tags: The Academic Trough
But something even better happens after you have been a Full Professor for a while. As your hair turns grey and age confers a look of distinction, people begin to treat to you in a certain deferential way. One has finally made it out of what I call the Academic Trough. It […]
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04-01-19
Tags: A Plea for the Horizontally Organized
The fact is, I am a horizontal organizer. I like all the things I am working on spread out on a surface in front of me, where they can beckon me to continue working on them. When I put something in a file, I never see it again. The […]
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04-01-18
Tags: Structured Procrastination
by John Perry
Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you.
Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong tack. They try to minimize their commitments, assuming that if they have only a few things to do, they will quit procrastinating and get them done. But this goes contrary to the […]
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04-01-18
Tags: PRG: Self Help Links Researchers have identified a number of different types of academic procrastination, such as low conscientiousness and anxiety-related procrastination (e.g., Ferrari et al.,1995) . Although all of the various types are of interest in understanding students experience of procrastination, it is beyond the scope of this web page to review each individually. […]
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04-01-18
Tags: Timely Snow Miller, K. F. […]
Heres a draft of the first paper of the year from our lab. Hope there will be many more. Until I figure out a more systematic place to put preprints and reprints, just click on the link below to download a PDF version of the paper. And send comments to kevinmil@uiuc.edu
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