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09-10-31
Tags:Education Paperville Statstics Teaching NAEP Studies - State Mapping Executive Summary Since 2003, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has sponsored the development of […]
Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales: 2005-2007
October 2009
Authors: Victor Bandeira de Mello, Charles Blankenship, Don McLaughlin
Download the complete report in a PDF file for viewing and printing. (2985K PDF)
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09-10-30
Tags:Paperville psychology Research Teaching Behavioral and Brian Sciences upcoming article:
Target Article: "The Weirdest People in the World?"Authors: Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan
Deadline for proposals: November 19, 2009
Abstract (short): Broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on narrow samples from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies are regularly published […]
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08-11-08
Tags:Computing Linguistics Paperville psychology statistics Bob Port lists many interesting papers on this page in support of Rich Phonology, which I know little other than that it seems to emphasize on the richness (high dimensionality) of memory/representation of spken words (or do words exist if we are anti-segmental all the way?).
I am […]
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(Computing, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics, Statstics) | 1
08-11-05
Tags:Linguistics Paperville statistics A couple of interesting papers to augment probability with "perception" — I think that’s a misnomer, though. The "perception" Zadeh talks about has little psychological reality. It refers to words, an expanded collection of modals. The direction of the pursue makes practical sense (as much as gHit counts makes linguistic sense). […]
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08-10-31
Tags:Education Linguistics Paperville Research: Phonics abstracts Farrar, J., Ashwell, S. & Maag, L. (2005). The emergence of phonological awareness: Connections to language and theory of mind development. First Language, 25(2), 157-172. The emergence of phonological awareness was examined in a longitudinal study. Two issues were of particular interest: (1) the relationship between phonological […]
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08-10-18
Tags:Chinese English eye movement Linguistics orthography Paperville phonology psychology Research Looking at the title and abstract, I wonder why this one is published on JEP:HPP
Are phonological representations of printed and spoken language isomorphic? Evidence from the restrictions on unattested onsets. Pages 1288-1304 Berent, Iris Are […]
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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 statistics 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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