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Decomposing Treatment Effect Variation
(Informa UK Limited, 2018)Understanding and characterizing treatment effect variation in randomized experiments has become essential for going beyond the "black box" of the average treatment effect. Nonetheless, traditional statistical approaches ... -
Decontextualized Language Input and Preschoolers' Vocabulary Development
(Thieme Publishing Group, 2013)This article discusses the importance of using decontextualized language, or language that is removed from the here and now including pretend, narrative, and explanatory talk, with preschool children. The literature on ... -
Defending “Something Special”: A Portrait of One School’s Response to Instability
(2014-11-06)Drawing primarily on interviews with a variety of teachers and other staff at a large urban Title-1 public school in California, Victoria Theisen-Homer paints an ethnographic portrait of how school personnel respond to ... -
Defiance, Insubordination, and Disrespect: Perceptions of Power in Middle School Discipline
(2015-05-15)Defiance, insubordination, and disrespect (together, “DID”) are the most common disciplinary infractions in U.S. secondary schools (Gregory & Weinstein, 2008). Consequences for these infractions -- challenges to the power ... -
Defining Evidence of Improvement in Student Performance: A Step Toward Operationalizing Improvement Through State Accreditation
(2023-05-22)The Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) accredits all public schools in the state through the Kansas Education System of Accreditation (KESA). KESA is designed to evaluate at a system level, meaning school districts, ... -
Delayed Effects of a Low-Cost and Large-Scale Summer Reading Intervention on Elementary School Children’s Reading Comprehension.
(Taylor and Francis, 2016)To improve the reading comprehension outcomes of children in high poverty schools, policymakers need to identify reading interventions that show promise of effectiveness at scale. This study evaluated the effectiveness ... -
Delivering Blended Value in the Education Marketplace
(2017-05-01)I served as a resident at Education First (Ed First), a national, mission-driven, for-profit organization that provides a wide array of policy- and strategy-related services to support states, districts, policymakers, ... -
Democracy, Accountability, and Education
(SAGE, 2011)Educational standards, assessments, and accountability systems are of immense political moment around the world. But there is no developed theory exploring the role that these systems should play within a democratic polity ... -
Democratic School Design: Reimagining School Turnaround in Denver Public Schools
(2016-05-02)After a decade of focused attention and millions of dollars, school turnaround remains one of the education sector's most pressing challenges. Research shows that tackling it requires the implementation of tried and true ... -
Democratizing Education? Examining Access and Usage Patterns in Massive Open Online Courses
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015)Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are often characterized as remedies to educational disparities related to social class. Using data from 68 MOOCs offered by Harvard and MIT between 2012 and 2014, we found that course ... -
Demystifying Differentiated Instruction
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The Dependence of Growth-Model Results on Proficiency Cut Scores
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)States participating in the Growth Model Pilot Program reference individual student growth against “proficiency” cut scores that conform with the original No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Although achievement results from ... -
Describing bilinguals: A systematic review of labels and descriptions used in the literature between 2005–2015
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017)Recent years have seen a surge in research comparing bilinguals to monolinguals, yet synthesizing this literature is complicated by the diversity of language and social backgrounds behind these dichotomous labels. The ... -
Descriptive Statistics for Modern Test Score Distributions: Skewness, Kurtosis, Discreteness, and Ceiling Effects
(SAGE Publications, 2014)Many statistical analyses benefit from the assumption that unconditional or conditional distributions are continuous and normal. Over fifty years ago in this journal, Lord (1955) and Cook (1959) chronicled departures from ... -
Designing and Developing the Pennsylvania Early Care and Education Career Pathway System
(2017-05-01)The early care and education (ECE) workforce plays a vital role in supporting the development of our youngest learners, and putting them on track for a lifetime of success. These critical practitioners work hard for little ... -
Designing Middle School Program Models for Multilingual Learners in Boulder Valley
(2023-05-08)To effectively serve multilingual learners, it is critical that school districts articulate a thoughtful program model for service delivery that maximizes its available resources to positively impact student outcomes. There ... -
Detecting Differential Score Inflation in Charter Schools
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Developing a Team Capable of Learning while Executing – Story About a Non-Profit Startup: Character Lab
During the Ed.L.D. Residency, I served as the Director of Implementation for Character Lab, a start-up non-profit that translates psychology research into school-based experiences so students can learn and flourish. The ... -
Developing Novel Approaches to Analyzing Vocabulary, Syntax, and Discourse Structure in Fifth-to-Eighth Grade Argumentative Writing
(2021-05-14)This dissertation consists of three studies on adolescents’ argumentative writing. Standards, assessments, and most research in the field of adolescent writing development rely primarily on holistic rubrics to analyze ... -
Developing Operational Systems of Principal Growth and Development: A Systematic Agreement Approach
(2016-04-27)This capstone details the process of developing a qualitative principal appraisal system for the Houston Independent School District (HISD). I employed observational research, in-person interviews, and historical data ...