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Absenteeism and beyond: instructional time loss and consequences
(World BankDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, October 20)Studies have shown that learning outcomes are related to the amount of time students engage in learning tasks. However, visits to schools have revealed that students are often taught for only a fraction of the intended ... -
Adult Literacy: A Review of Implementation Experience
(World Bank, Operations Evaluation DepartmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2003)Worldwide, nearly a billion adults, at least 600 million of them women, are illiterate. Adult literacy is highly relevant to poverty alleviation efforts worldwide, because in the 21st century much of the information needed ... -
American Indian Students Speak Out: What's Good Citizenship?
(Ball State University, 2008)For much of our country’s history, citizenship has eluded American Indian people. With this in mind, the authors conducted a study to determine the perceptions of eighth and eleventh grade American Indian students regarding ... -
An Analysis Of Stereotype Threat In African American Engineering Students At Predominantly White, Ethnically Diverse, And Historically Black Colleges And Universities
(ProQuest, 2013)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research was to distinguish the similarities and differences in coping strategies of African American engineering students by analyzing their ... -
Are you African or African-American? Exploring the Identity Experiences of Female STEM Students Born in Africa Now Living in America
(2018)Amongst the participants of a qualitative study of Black female students in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) were two individuals who were born on the African continent. These students moved to the ... -
Around the world with geospatial technologies
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Can adults become fluent in newly learned scripts?
(Hindawi Publishing CorporationDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)Adults learning new scripts have difficulty becoming automatic readers. They typically read haltingly, understand little of what they read, and may forget letter values. This article presents the hypothesis that halting ... -
A characterization of the Burr Type III and Type XII distributions through the method of percentiles and the Spearman correlation
(Taylor & FrancisDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2015)A characterization of Burr Type III and Type XII distributions based on the method of percentiles (MOP) is introduced and contrasted with the method of (conventional) moments (MOM) in the context of estimation and fitting ... -
Characterizing Log-Logistic (LL) Distributions through Methods of Percentiles and L-Moments
(HIKARI LtdDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Arlington, January 25)The main purpose of this paper is to characterize the log-logistic (LL) distributions through the methods of percentiles and L-moments and contrast with the method of (product) moments. The method of (product) moments ... -
Characterizing Tukey h and h-h distributions through L-moments and the L-correlation
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation,Department of Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)This paper introduces the Tukey family of symmetric h and asymmetric hh-distributions in the contexts of univariate L-moments and the L-correlation. Included is the development of a procedure for specifying nonnormal ... -
Cognitive Psychology in the Seminar Room
(Economic Development Institute, World Bank, 1990)Summary: This paper looks at ways for a trainer giving a seminar to increase the chances that participants will retain the material presented and use it in their work. It also looks at the techniques which make information ... -
Deconstructing the Syllabus: Re-envisioning Digital Learning with the Shift to Canvas
(Region 11 Leveraging Canvas Conference, 2019-06-13)A group of four faculty members and a librarian present ideas for integrating innovative tools and ideas into Canvas for student in higher education (The University of Texas at Arlington), with an overarching focus on ... -
Developing a List and a Rubric of Interactive Open Education Resources (OER) for Science Teacher Candidates of Diverse Students
(UIKTENDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas Arlington, August 201)To find the interactive OER (OER) that fits to teach diverse students in science classrooms, this study designs a selection rubric and a list of OER and asks fifty science teacher-candidates to use them for their teaching ... -
Developing cross language metrics for reading fluency measurement: Some issues and options
(World BankDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)Since 2005, over 70 oral reading fluency tests have been given in many languages and scripts, either as part of the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) or as individual one-minute tests. Particularly in multilingual ... -
Discovering Africa through internet-based Geographic Information Systems: a Pan-African Summit Simulation
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“Do we teach subjects or students?” Analyzing science and mathematics teacher conversations about issues of equity in the classroom
(WILEY, 2019-05)Teachers involved in a Master's level course in diversity participated in virtual, synchronous, anonymized discussions around issues of ethnic and racial diversity, gender, and stereotypes that could impact their students’ ... -
A doubling method for the generalized lambda distributions
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation,Department of Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)This paper introduces a new family of generalized lambda distributions (GLDs) based on a method of doubling symmetric GLDs. The focus of the development is in the context of L-moments and L-correlation theory. As such, ... -
A doubling technique for the power method transformations
(Hikari Ltd,Department of Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)Power method polynomials are used for simulating non-normal distributions with specified product moments or L-moments. The power method is capable of producing distributions with extreme values of skew (L-skew) and kurtosis ... -
Education for All in Low-Income Countries: A Crucial Role for Cognitive Scientists
(Sciencedomain InternationalDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013)Donor funding has helped enroll in school most children of low-income countries. However, students get little schooling and few opportunities to encode and consolidate information. Many fail to learn and automatize the ... -
Effective teacher training in low income countries: The power of observational learning research
(World BankDepartment of Education Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, November 2)The Education for All (EFA) initiative depends on students being taught by suitably and sufficiently trained teachers. But time-on-task studies conducted in low-income countries show that relatively little time is being ...