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Ways of knowing and willingness to argue

Schommer-Aikins, Marlene; Easter, Marilyn (Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2009-03)

Willingness to argue is associated with higher level thinking. The authors tested the relation between ways of knowing-involving separate knowing (i.e., playing the devil's advocate) and connected knowing (i.e., empathic ...
Child care choices: Factors that predict a match in mothers' child care preferences

Burke, Danica (Wichita State University, 2009-05)

There were several issues investigated in the present study: (a) what factors are most important to mothers in choosing child care; (b) the relationship between marital status, income, education, prior child-care seeking ...
Epistemological beliefs: differences among educators

Walter, Benjamin A. (Wichita State University, 2009-07)

Epistemological beliefs are personal beliefs about learning and knowledge. Epistemological beliefs have been found to have important implications for learning, for example epistemological beliefs have been found to predict ...
Early childhood education: It's long-term impact on social competence

Swett, Megan L. (Wichita State University, 2009-12)

A majority of support for early childhood interventions comes from the strong evidence of the positive impact of rigorous evaluations of three comprehensive programs: the Abecedarian project, High Scope Perry Preschool, ...
Social Studies: A user-friendly intervention?

Crawford, Candy R. (Wichita State University, 2009-12)

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders involving impairments in social interaction, language and communication, and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped behaviors (National Institute ...
An evaluability assessment of psychological services provided by a small rural Kansas school district

Rufle, Edwin A. (Wichita State University, 2009-12)

The present study was conducted in the form of an evaluability assessment to help a small rural Kansas school district make the most of available resources and to improve psychological services provided based on input ...
The role of working memory on mood and comprehension

Mueller, Melinda (Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2010-04-23)

This study examined the relation between emotional experience and working memory, and their effects on reading comprehension processes. Previous research has shown that those with higher working memory feel emotions to the ...
Social stories: A user-friendly intervention?

Crawford, Candy R. (Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2010-04-23)

Social Stories are a popular intervention used to address the social impairments of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Parents and teachers wrote two Social Stories, the first after reading a shortened version ...
The impact of teachers’ attitudes and perceptions on the under representation of African American students in gifted education programs

Schreiner, J. Kathryn (Wichita State University, 2010-05)

This research studied the potential impact of teachers’ attitudes and perceptions on the under representation of African American students in gifted education programs. The study was conducted in an urban, Midwest school ...
A longitudinal study of preschool children's (Homo sapiens) sex segregation

Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Pellegrini, Anthony D.; Dupuis, Danielle; Hickey, Meghan; Hou, Yuefeng; Roseth, Cary; Solberg, David (American Psychological Association, 2010-05)

In this 2-year longitudinal study, we hypothesized that sex of the human child (Homo sapiens), differences in physical activity, and time of the year would interact to influence preschool children's sex segregation. We ...
Adapting ways of knowing dependent on context

Phillips, Margaret K. (Wichita State University, 2010-12)

This study is a further investigation of epistemological beliefs, specifically ways of knowing, and whether people will adapt these beliefs dependent upon social context (i.e. in-group or out-group). In addition, this ...
Do epistemological beliefs and ways of knowing predict reactions to a child with Asperger Syndrome?

Cernik, Karin Hampton (Wichita State University, 2010-12)

This study explored the relationship between epistemological beliefs, ways of knowing, parenting styles, and how one reacts to a child with Asperger Syndrome acting out in public. The purpose was to determine whether or ...
Adults' and children's monitoring of story events in the service of comprehension

Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Rapp, David N.; Van den Broek, Paul; Kendeou, Panayiota; White, Mary Jane (Springer (New York), 2011-08)

When reading narratives, adults monitor shifts in time, space, characters, goals, and causation. Shifts in any of these dimensions affect both moment-by-moment reading and memory organization. The extant developmental ...
Depending on my mood: mood-driven influences on text comprehension

Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Rapp, David N. (American Psychological Association, 2011-08)

Reading comprehension is a critical component of success in educational settings. To date, research on text processing in educational and cognitive psychological domains has focused predominantly on cognitive influences ...
Making the right connections: Differential effects of reading intervention for subgroups of comprehenders

McMaster, Kristen L.; Van den Broek, Paul; Espin, Christine A.; White, Mary Jane; Rapp, David N.; Kendeou, Panayiota; Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Carlson, Sarah (Elsevier, 2012-02)

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of different types of questioning interventions on students' reading comprehension. Fourth-grade students (n = 246) were identified as struggling, average, or good readers ...
Examining Native American epistemological beliefs

Bird, Tera L. (Wichita State University, 2012-05)

The purpose of this study is to examine the epistemological beliefs of Native Americans in order to gain a better understanding of their beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning. Fifteen adults were interviewed ...
The role of mood on inferential processing

Mueller, Melinda K. (Wichita State University, 2012-05)

The way a reader comprehends a text is influenced by a number of factors; and one factor that may play a critical role is the reader’s mood. The extant literature documents that happy and sad moods elicit different processing ...
Epistemological and learning beliefs of trainee teachers studying education

Schommer-Aikins, Marlene; Beuchat-Reichardt, Marianne; Hernandez-Pina, Fuensanta (University of Murcia, 2012-05)

Educational reforms have brought about transformations about the ways in which teaching and learning are carried out. Learning is contextualized and learning means how we learn. This is directly related to Education student ...
Relationships between instrumental music participation and academic achievement in low SES students

Ricketts, Teddi (Wichita State University, 2012-12)

The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between student participation in instrumental music class and academic achievement, specifically in low socioeconomic status (SES) students. The hypothesis was that ...
Evolution, not revolution: school psychologists' changing practices in determining specific learning disabilities

Unruh, Susan; Mckellar, Nancy A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-04)

The profession of school psychology has been impacted by the response to intervention (RTI) model in various ways. RTI data are being used to make decisions regarding academic and behavioral interventions and to make ...