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View article: Moving Beyond Intelligence: Predicting Academic Behaviors and Official GPA in Undergraduate Students with Implicit Theories
Moving Beyond Intelligence: Predicting Academic Behaviors and Official GPA in Undergraduate Students with Implicit Theories Open
People view attributes, including intelligence, through implicit theories, or mindsets, whereby they are seen as unchangeable (entity mindset) or malleable (incremental mindset) (Dweck & Leggett, 1988). Previous research examining implicit…
View article: Are We on Course Yet? Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plan Technical Adequacy in Schools
Are We on Course Yet? Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plan Technical Adequacy in Schools Open
It has been more than two decades since the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; 1997) included language about the use of functional behavior assessments (FBAs) and behavior intervention plans (BIPs) to address the challengin…
View article: Global Financial Stability Report, October 2023
Global Financial Stability Report, October 2023 Open
Chapter 1 assesses that risks to global growth are skewed to the downside, similar to the assessment in the April 2023 Global Financial Stability Report. Cracks in the financial system may turn into worrisome fault lines should a soft land…
View article: Global Financial Stability Report April 2023
Global Financial Stability Report April 2023 Open
Financial stability risks have increased rapidly as the resilience of the global financial system has faced a number of tests. Recent turmoil in the banking sector is a powerful reminder of the challenges posed by the interaction between t…
View article: Politics, the Environment, and the Novel: An Interview with Ann Pancake
Politics, the Environment, and the Novel: An Interview with Ann Pancake Open
When we hear news about the environment, it often seems distant and abstract.Ann Pancake 's novel, Strange as This Weather Has Been (Counterpoint, 2007), makes us see the effects of environmental damage more immediately, showing what the f…
View article: Ecological responses and adaptive stream rehabilitation: application to degraded rural streams
Ecological responses and adaptive stream rehabilitation: application to degraded rural streams Open
"June 2005".Project Number: Ecological responses and adaptive stream rehabilitation - CRCFE Project B240.MDFRC item.31 pages.Excessive sedimentation and the formation of sand slugs is a widespread, and highly damaging form of disturbance i…
View article: Global Financial Stability Report, April 2022
Global Financial Stability Report, April 2022 Open
Chapter 1 looks at the implications of the war in Ukraine on the financial system. Commodity prices pose challenging trade-offs for central banks. Many emerging and frontier markets are facing especially difficult conditions. In China, fin…
View article: A cluster-randomized control trial targeting parents of pediatric cancer survivors with obesity: Rationale and study protocol of NOURISH-T+
A cluster-randomized control trial targeting parents of pediatric cancer survivors with obesity: Rationale and study protocol of NOURISH-T+ Open
View article: U.S. children’s understanding of the English alphabet: Its acquisition, conceptualization, and measurement.
U.S. children’s understanding of the English alphabet: Its acquisition, conceptualization, and measurement. Open
Construct confusion and measurement challenges have plagued emergent literacy research for decades. Using a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design, this study evaluated the dimensionality of alphabet knowledge and identified the sequence of developmen…
View article: Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the Buffalo National River, Arkansas
Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the Buffalo National River, Arkansas Open
Bowles, David E., Cheri, Cameron, Usrey, Faron D., Williams, Jeffrey M. (2020): Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the Buffalo National River, Arkansas. Insecta Mundi 2020 (770): 1-17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5754758
View article: A low-water crossing impacts Northern Hog Sucker <i>Hypentelium nigricans</i> movement in an Ozark stream
A low-water crossing impacts Northern Hog Sucker <i>Hypentelium nigricans</i> movement in an Ozark stream Open
Streams are complex systems that rely on connectivity to maintain natural ecological function. Low-water crossings are common in small-intermediate sized streams and can restrict longitudinal movement of fishes. The Current River in Missou…
View article: Iterative Design and Pilot Testing of the Developing Talkers Tiered Academic Language Curriculum for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten
Iterative Design and Pilot Testing of the Developing Talkers Tiered Academic Language Curriculum for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Open
Curricula are one of the most widely used educational inputs, yet few are developed and evaluated scientifically with a dearth of programs targeting academic language. This manuscript describes an iterative approach to the development of a…
View article: The Rise of the Critical Interview
The Rise of the Critical Interview Open
The Rise of the Critical Interview Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Over the last thirty years the critical interview has emerged as a major genre in literary and cultural studies. Journals such as boundary 2, differences, the Journal of Advanced…
View article: Bidirectional Associations Between Parental Responsiveness and Executive Function During Early Childhood
Bidirectional Associations Between Parental Responsiveness and Executive Function During Early Childhood Open
In this study, we examined bidirectional associations between parental responsiveness and executive function (EF) processes in socioeconomically disadvantaged preschoolers. Participants were 534 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children (71 percent Hispan…
View article: Cost-Effectiveness of Early Childhood Interventions to Enhance Head Start: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Cost-Effectiveness of Early Childhood Interventions to Enhance Head Start: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Open
We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of instructional coaching and parent coaching models in Head Start using a randomized trial. The study design allowed us to compare the individual effects of each coaching model as well as their combined…
View article: Parenting predictors of cognitive skills and emotion knowledge in socioeconomically disadvantaged preschoolers
Parenting predictors of cognitive skills and emotion knowledge in socioeconomically disadvantaged preschoolers Open