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Lisa Levinson

The Shifting Gears Approach to Systems Change: 2010: News Items: News Room: The Joyce F... - 0 views

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  • Lisa Levinson on 09 Jul 10
     
    Joyce Foundation approach to systems change for state policy for ensuring that state postecondary, adult basic education, skills, and credentials needed to advance and succeed in our changing economy. Their approach: uses data to foster improvements;pursues policy changes to leverage improvements; engages the field to generate ideas for buy-in; and builds strategic communications to cultivate skakeholder support for systemic change.
Lisa Levinson

Reassurance About College Transition Could Raise Black Students' GPA's - Students - The... - 0 views

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  • Lisa Levinson on 18 Mar 11
     
    When black students reflected on the idea that everybody, regardless of race or ethnicity, initially struggles to adjust to college, their academic performance and longer-term well-being benefited, according to a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science.
Lisa Levinson

Developing Discipline-Based Critical Thinking Skills via Use of Interactive Technologie... - 0 views

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  • Lisa Levinson on 05 May 11
     
    "This article provides a rationale for incorporating the development of critical thinking skills into the online learning environment. The author also presents possibilities for building these cognitive skills into online classes. She maintains that incorporating critical thinking skills is a necessary component of learning; these skills assist learners to evaluate and link the abundance of information and ideas that is available via information communication technologies (ICTs). "
Bruce Vandal

Education Week: Charting a Course After High School - 0 views

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  • Bruce Vandal on 27 Aug 10
     
    Story from Ed Week on the challenges students with disabilities face when attempting to transition to higher education.
Mary Fulton

Rethinking Developmental Education in Community College - 5 views

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    Publication from the Community College Research Center that reviews evidence on students entering community colleges needing developmental education.
  • Mary Fulton on 17 Feb 10
     
    This brief, reviews evidence on students who enter community college with weak academic skills, and it summarizes study findings on the effectiveness of developmental education. The brief offers recommendations for a broad reform agenda based on a comprehensive approach to improving developmental education. (Thomas Bailey, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, February 2009))
  • Bruce Vandal on 23 Feb 10
     
    Shorter overview of Bailey's ideas for reforming developmental education.
Mary Fulton

That Old College Lie - 1 views

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  • Mary Fulton on 27 Apr 10
     
    In this editorial, Kevin Carey, policy director of think tank Education Sector, argues that colleges are not fulfilling their mission to students: costs are rising and students are not learning (or even graduating). He argues for transparency and studies of the effectiveness of teaching and learning, and warns of the education-related lobbies that keep the rest of us in the dark about higher education. (Kevin Carey in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Issue #15, Winter 2010).
Lisa Levinson

Personality Psychology and Economics - 0 views

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  • The predictive power of personality measures is compared with the predictive power of measures of cognition captured by IQ and achievement tests. For many outcomes, personality measures are just as predictive as cognitive measures, even after controlling for family background and cognition. Moreover, standard measures of cognition are heavily influenced by personality traits and incentives. Measured personality traits are positively correlated over the life cycle. However, they are not fixed and can be altered by experience and investment. Intervention studies, along with studies in biology and neuroscience, establish a causal basis for the observed effect of personality traits on economic and social outcomes. Personality traits are more malleable over the life cycle compared to cognition, which becomes highly rank stable around age 10. Interventions that change personality are promising avenues for addressing poverty and disadvantage.
  • Lisa Levinson on 23 May 11
     
    This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity.
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