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08-10-02
Tags:Education Paperville Research Teaching I am quoting the closing paragraph, which I wish I could use to conclude a paper I am writing.
Although storybook reading remains the single most extensively researched aspect of the field of emergent literacy, still much is to be discovered about how exactly children acquire knowledge during this activity. […]
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08-09-17
Tags:Paperville psychology theory of mind How we know our own minds: The relationship between mindreading and metacognition" by Peter Carruthers
ABSTRACT: Four different accounts of the relationship between third-person mindreading and first-person metacognition are compared and evaluated. While three of them endorse the existence of introspection for propositional attitudes, the fourth (defended here) claims that our knowledge […]
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08-09-11
Tags:Education Paperville Teaching Andrew Ho argues that the use of percentage of proficient students (PPS) is problematic both statistically and as a policy tool. There […]
Educational Research has an interesting paper on its latest issue:
Ho, A. D. (2008). The Problem With “Proficiency”: Limitations of Statistics and Policy Under No Child Left Behind. Educational Researcher, 37, 351-360.
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08-09-09
Tags:Paperville psychology Teaching TITLE: The propositional nature of human associative learning
AUTHORS: Chris J. Mitchell, Jan De Houwer, and Peter F. Lovibond
ABSTRACT: The past 50 years have seen an accumulation of evidence suggesting that associative learning depends on high-level cognitive processes that give rise to propositional knowledge. Yet many learning theorists maintain a belief […]
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08-07-30
Tags:Cuneiform History Linguistics Paperville Research symbol system writing system
I’ve been reading The Invention of Cuneiform by Jean-Jacques Glassner, originally published Paris: Seuil, 2000, in series L’univers historique (ISBN 0-801807389-4), translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop.
I will reserve comments for later. Here’s some quotables from the […]
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08-05-30
Tags:CiteULike Computing Paperville psy145 Psy97 Research Teaching
I just noticed a link to post to CiteULike while looking up this paper DIVERSITY: Culture, Gender, and Math — Guiso et al. 320 (5880): 1164 — Science
The paper itself isn’t exactly groundbreaking, but is nonetheless a useful update for teaching.
I also […]
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08-05-27
Tags:adoption Paperville Psy97 psychology race Teaching
This is material for teaching Developmental Psych: De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized, according to NY Times. I skimmed through the executive summary of the report. What struck me was that the psychological and sociological publications cited are mostly 5-15 years old. It looks […]
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08-05-01
Tags:Education NCLB Paperville politics psy145 reading first Teaching It’s on the news: Reading First is this much effective. Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report - Introduction PDF: Full Report (1.64 MB) Created under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, the Reading First program provides assistance to states and districts […]
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08-04-26
Tags:Paperville Research Statstics Teaching I knew F-test is generally robust against violations of normality. I also knew there are a lot of subtleties in this. But I never looked up the sources, until now. This is a good place to start: JSTOR: Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol. 17, No. 4, (1992 ), pp. 315-339
Summarizing […]
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08-03-24
Tags:evolution language Linguistics Paperville Research Babel’s Dawn is filing a number of interesing reports from the Evolang conference. No time to comment on all, but here’s a partial list. Babel’s Dawn: Words Are More Human than Syntax
Neanderthals Had Language
Recursion Can Be a "Side Effect"
"Words Are More Human than Syntax"
"Fossil Evidence of […]
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08-03-06
Tags:brain evolution number Paperville psychology Research It’s always exciting to speculate what the authors will say when you see a fascinating title like this. I haven’t read it, and the following is NOT a response to the paper, but reactions to the abstract.
TITLE: From Numerical Concepts to Concepts of Number
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08-02-25
Tags:Linguistics Paperville Research Babel’s Dawn: Chomsky’s Theory of Language Origins The founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky, was famous for decades for his dismissal of interest in the evolution of language. In recent years he has moderated his position and in a lecture recently made available on line (here, registration required) he outlines his scenario […]
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08-02-03
Tags:Linguistics Paperville Research To what extent is the HTTP protocol shaped by individual computers at each node? BBS upcoming article, abstract below.
Let’s set aside the evolution vs design debate here; it is self evident that the communications protocol is logically constrained by what individual nodes can and cannot do. But the actual solution — […]
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08-01-24
Tags:Paperville Research psychology + semiology of mathematics
So I went first to linguistics and then, to what proved to be a lot more promising , to semiotics. Since then, I’ve written about mathematics from a semiotic/semiological point of view, first from the French structuralist one stemming […]
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07-12-17
Tags:Education Paperville reading Teaching Twilight of the Books: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
Twilight of the Books
What will life be like if people stop reading?
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07-11-04
Tags:matlab modeling Paperville Research rt statistics
TRISHA VAN ZANDT - Ohio State University has a number of Matlab scripts to model response time distributions, including exgaussian and other distributions. Looks like it requires the Statistics Toolbox.
Related publications:
Van Zandt, T.(2000). How to fit a response time distribution. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, […]
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07-10-15
Tags:Paperville Research A Bibliography on Writing and … - Google Book Search
This bibliography provides information on research about writing and written language in the late 20th century. It contains a selection of some 27,500 titles and covers literature in all scientific fields relating to writing. Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary organization.
Published 1996 […]
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07-10-03
Tags:evolution Linguistics Paperville statistics Linguistics (and […]
Babel’s Dawn: Was the First Language Tonal? starts with 3 maps aimed to show how the distribution of tonal languages coincides with the distribution of 2 genetic structures (distributions of alles in a population, I think). It’s based on a recent PNAS paper by Dediu & Ladd.
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07-10-02
Tags:Computing Paperville Research Carol Whitney has a number of Publications on the SERIOL model of word recognition, which emphasize on the problem of letter position encoding. The Internet Archive has a video of her talk back in 2006 on this topic at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley .
Relevant […]
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07-09-26
Tags:Linguistics Paperville
Cutting and Breaking is the special topic of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 18, Iss. 2. Here’s part of the intro:
Applying statistical modeling to the descriptions of cutting and breaking events elicited from speakers of all the languages, we show that although there is crosslinguistic variation in the number of distinctions made and in the […]
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