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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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09-10-24
Tags:Education psychology Teaching NY Times reports that Disney, the current parent of Baby Einstein, acknowledges the uselessness of the video series. For years I have been using this as an example of commercialization of child development in my developmental psych course. I had come to accept it as a fact of life, but this news gives […]
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09-09-15
Tags:psy117 Statstics Teaching NY Times published an article online on Sept 10 (according to the website, a version of this article appeared in print on September 11, 2009, on page A15 of the New York edition) titled Heckler’s District Mostly Supports the Outburst, in which the reporters cited 5 interviewees in support of Joe Wilson’s shouting "You lie!" during President […]
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09-09-14
Tags:Education Teaching Alliance for Childhood‘s report Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School does not seem to provide data on 2 critical questions: (a) how have the American kindergartens changed, and (b) why kindergarten?
It was a bit of a let down, after the introduction claimed that US kindergartens have gone through drammatic changes, to not being able to find a figure or a […]
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09-05-23
Tags:Statstics Teaching Data.gov can be handy in the stat course I will be teaching in the Fall.
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09-04-28
Tags:Teaching My colleague Liz Brannon has a new paper on the sense of 0 (nill, null, zero) among rhesus monkeys.
PsycNET
Empty sets as part of the numerical continuum: Conceptual precursors to the zero concept in rhesus monkeys.
Merritt, Dustin J.; Rugani, Rosa; Brannon, Elizabeth M.
Current issue feed Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Vol 138(2), May […]
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09-04-22
Tags:Computing Education Teaching Google Trends shows an interesting contrast between the search volume of "reading" and "math". It’s scaled on so that the frequency of "reading" over the years averages to 1.
A few interesting observations:
1. nobody cares about reading or math when the holidays are near. (it’s also possible that the overall search volume […]
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09-03-23
Tags:Education psy145 Teaching
E.D. Hirsch Jr. has an op ed on NY Times yesterday (Reading Test Dummies) in which he attacks what he sees as the core problem of reading tests today:
These much maligned, fill-in-the-bubble reading tests are technically among the most reliable and valid tests available. The problem is that the reading passages […]
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08-12-21
Tags:Linguistics psy145 Teaching Back in Sept this year BBC has a short story with professor John Wells on Should we relax English spelling rules?
Wells recalled times when he grew up, when ’show’ could be spelled as ’show’ or ’shew’. His proposal was not to standardize English spelling on a new platform, but to allow more […]
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08-11-26
Tags:Education math NCLB Teaching The Education Trust just published a new report on math teachers who shouldn’t be teaching math, according to NCLB. The numbers do not look good. “As a nation, we must commit ourselves to ensuring that all students – no matter where they live – are taught by strong teachers,” said Kati […]
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08-11-19
Tags:Education NCLB reading reading first Teaching And the final verdict is: Study of Reading Program Finds a Lack of Progress, at least not in reading comprehension of grades 1 through 3. There is a slight gain in decoding among 1st graders, and the effect size is small, 0.17. Washington Post quotes:
"It is a […]
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08-10-10
Tags:Education NCLB psy145 Teaching If you followed my last a couple of posts (here, and here) back in May, you are due for an update. Now the interim report is superceded by this final report, which found something positive to report.
By that I don’t mean the finding that RF schools spend more time […]
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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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08-09-11
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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08-08-29
Tags:Education parenting reading Teaching
Daniel Akst is a successful writer with at least 3 books in print and numerous articles on NYT, WSJ, and LAT. So when he speaks about parenting and the cure of education, it has a distinct tone of a successful person.
I will refrain from making comments here — […]
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08-08-25
Tags:Education reading Teaching Reading the PISA 2006 report, I was surprised to find no mentioning of USA reading scores in the Reading section. They did participate, but according to
InternationalEd.org | PISA
The PISA has been given every three years since 2000 to fifteen-year-olds in the thirty member countries of the Organisation for Economic […]
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08-07-17
Tags:Computing Education Teaching Watch List AppleInsider | Apple filing takes Podcasts to the next level Technologically this makes a lot of sense, and it will be a hit among Universities. Watch for a iTunesU boom. Ironically, tools like this can eventually kill the lecture as we know it.
A student in my lecture […]
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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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