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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.
Lisa Levinson

Center on Education and the Workforce - - 0 views

cew.georgetown.edu/undereducated

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  • Lisa Levinson on 27 Jun 11
     
    The Undereducated American is a report from the Center on Education and the Worforce that highlights how America has not been producing enough highly skilled college-educated persons for the workforce.
Bruce Vandal

Access to what? Mission differentiation and academic stratification in U.S. public high... - 0 views

www-personal.umich.edu/...bastedo.gumport.HE2003.pdf

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  • Bruce Vandal on 29 Apr 10
     
    Paper by Bastedo and Gumport suggesting that efforts at mission differentiation often have distinct impacts on access issues. Examines the movement to eliminate remedial education as one example.
Mary Fulton

Pathway to the Baccalaureate: How One Community College Is Helping Underprepared Studen... - 1 views

education.newamerica.net/...NOVA_Report_Final_2.pdf

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  • Mary Fulton on 27 Apr 10
     
    The Pathway to the Baccalaureate program at Northern Virginia Community College gives students a structured system of support from high school to community college to a four-year university. Pathway is designed to meet a range of student needs -- academic, financial or personal -- through one coherent program. Specially designed "fast-track remediation" classes in math and English attempt to steer some students clear of traditional remedial classes, where they can get bogged down unnecessarily. The program also uses learning communities.
Mary Fulton

New Evidence on College Remediation - 2 views

www.gse.uci.edu/...JHE%20remediation%20final.pdf

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  • Mary Fulton on 27 Dec 10
     
    Documents how much and what kinds of remedial coursework students take; examines the effects of taking remedial courses on graduation rates and time to degree; explores whether some kinds of remediation are more consequential than others; assesses the effects of remedial coursework completion on degree completion; and suggests implications for policies about remediation. (Paul Attewell, David Lavin, Thurston Domina and Tania Levey, Journal of Higher Education, Education, September/October 2006)
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