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New York City School Evaluations: Comparing Parent, Teacher, and Government Assessments
(2012-04-20)
This thesis contains two studies examining survey evaluations of public schools. Survey evaluation results provide a novel means of measuring program performance, which is of particular interest to public administration ...
The Educational Potential of the Comic Hero
(2013-09-19)
My project intends to analyze the education potential of comic heroes for the humanities in the development of a democratic citizenry. Drawing on critiques of certain Enlightenment conceptions of an individual autonomous ...
Homework Effort and Course Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(2017-05-10)
We conduct a field experiment at Texas A&M in which students enrolled in an online course are provided information about the correlation of homework effort on exam scores via a one-time email. Due to randomization of ...
Using Self-Monitoring to Improve a Fourth Grade Student's Writing
(2012-05-07)
A single case study was conducted with a 10-year-old fourth-grader who struggled with writing. The goal of the study was to increase the quantity and quality of words written by the student when he wrote a story. The ...
Demand for Empirical Course Data
(2019-04-19)
We perform a randomized control trial in which we provide students with a tool that visualizes empirical grade information of classes at a large public university. Visualization viewership is monitored and demand is linked ...