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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.
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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity.</div>

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Community colleges should be at the front line of economic recovery - 0 views

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By Thomas J. Snyder in The Hechinger Report, May 3 2011. Snyder, president of the nation's largest state-wide community college (Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana), argues that governors who cut funding to community colleges are being short-sighted, and argues for the importance of community colleges in the economic recovery.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">By Thomas J. Snyder in The Hechinger Report, May 3 2011. Snyder, president of the nation's largest state-wide community college (Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana), argues that governors who cut funding to community colleges are being short-sighted, and argues for the importance of community colleges in the economic recovery.</div>

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Successful Students - 0 views

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Posted online by Dr. Norman E. Cameron, Professor of Economics and Fellow of St. John's College.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Posted online by Dr. Norman E. Cameron, Professor of Economics and Fellow of St. John's College.</div>

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College Persistence and Completion: What impacts student success? - 0 views

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A collection of related studies looking at college completion and student success from the ECS Research Studies Database. Studies are from a variety of sources -- not the ECS (e.g. Journal of Higher Education, National Bureau of Economic Research, and American Educational Research Journal).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A collection of related studies looking at college completion and student success from the ECS Research Studies Database. Studies are from a variety of sources -- not the ECS (e.g. Journal of Higher Education, National Bureau of Economic Research, and American Educational Research Journal).</div>

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College Discovery Programs at LaGuardia Community College - 0 views

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"...were created in 1965 at the City University of New York to assist students who have the potential to succeed in college but lack the educational foundation and economic resources necessary to pursue a degree."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"...were created in 1965 at the City University of New York to assist students who have the potential to succeed in college but lack the educational foundation and economic resources necessary to pursue a degree."</div>

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Institutional Responses to Reduce Inequalities in College Outcomes: Remedial and Develo... - 0 views

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By Eric Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long, forthcoming in Economic Inequality and Higher Education: Access, Persistence and Success, Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein, eds., Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2006. Looks at preparation and remediation generally, but also focuses on a database of students maintained by the Ohio Board of Regents.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">By Eric Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long, forthcoming in Economic Inequality and Higher Education: Access, Persistence and Success, Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein, eds., Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2006. Looks at preparation and remediation generally, but also focuses on a database of students maintained by the Ohio Board of Regents. </div>

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Students of the Great Recession - 0 views

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By David Leonhardt, New York Times, The Way We Live Now column, May 3, 2010. The search for solutions to increase college completion. The author of this article takes the perspective of economic downturns, when there is a greater incentive for students to stay in school, or to return.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">By David Leonhardt, New York Times, The Way We Live Now column, May 3, 2010. The search for solutions to increase college completion. The author of this article takes the perspective of economic downturns, when there is a greater incentive for students to stay in school, or to return.</div>

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Referral, Enrollment, and Completion in Developmental Education - 0 views

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shared by KPI_Library Bookmarks on 01 Aug 11 - No Cached

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By Thomas Bailey, Dong Wook Jeong and Sung-Woo Cho, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University in Economics of Education Review, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 255-270. "The purpose of this paper is to analyze the patterns and determinants of student progression through sequences of developmental education starting from initial referral. Our results indicate that fewer than one half of the students who are referred to remediation actually complete the entire sequence to which they are referred..."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">By Thomas Bailey, Dong Wook Jeong and Sung-Woo Cho, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University in Economics of Education Review, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 255-270. "The purpose of this paper is to analyze the patterns and determinants of student progression through sequences of developmental education starting from initial referral. Our results indicate that fewer than one half of the students who are referred to remediation actually complete the entire sequence to which they are referred..."</div>

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KPI_Library Bookmarks on 01 Aug 11

For GSCC faculty, there is a copy of this article available in Coffee Klatch

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Why America Needs a Smithsonian of Basic Skills by Mike Rose - 1 views

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This article in the Aug 8 Chronicle of Higher Ed makes the bold proposal that "we need something grander and more comprehensive, something that will lead to a conceptual sea change in the way the nation understands and deals with the issue of academic underpreparation. "I propose that a wealthy foundation or consortium of foundations support with great fanfare a National Center for the Study and Teaching of Basic Skills. Such a center would have a long-term effect on education, social justice, and economic prosperity." Rose continues, something like the Smithsonian Institution or a National Endowment for Basic Studies.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This article in the Aug 8 Chronicle of Higher Ed makes the bold proposal that "we need something grander and more comprehensive, something that will lead to a conceptual sea change in the way the nation understands and deals with the issue of academic underpreparation. "I propose that a wealthy foundation or consortium of foundations support with great fanfare a National Center for the Study and Teaching of Basic Skills. Such a center would have a long-term effect on education, social justice, and economic prosperity." Rose continues, something like the Smithsonian Institution or a National Endowment for Basic Studies.</div>

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Waiting For "Superman" - 0 views

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Trailer and official movie site of the documentary by Davis Guggenheim, released fall 2010. The movie looks at the failing American public school system, as well as those who are trying to save it.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Trailer and official movie site of the documentary by Davis Guggenheim, released fall 2010. The movie looks at the failing American public school system, as well as those who are trying to save it. </div>

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KPI_Library Bookmarks on 13 Jul 12

Mentioned in the Learning thread of the Jam. SB says that he was a little disappointed in the film.

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Recession's Impact Widespread - 0 views

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Reported by Anthony Mason of CBS News, September 28 2010. A look at the discrepancy between rich and poor, as the gap grows. Video.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Reported by Anthony Mason of CBS News, September 28 2010. A look at the discrepancy between rich and poor, as the gap grows. Video. </div>

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