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Exclusionary discipline and student outcomes
What are educators perceptions of disciplinary alternative schools? What are student academic and behavioral performance outcomes at such a school?
Challenges associated with measuring attitudes using the SATS family of instruments
The Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS) is a widely used family of instruments for measuring attitude constructs in statistics …
Douglas Whitaker
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Alana Unfried
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Marjorie E. Bond
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Challenges to using and interpreting the SATS-36 instrument: Do you like statistics? Do your students like statistics? How do you know?
The Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS-36; Schau, 2003) is the most widely-used instrument for measuring attitude-related …
May 18, 2019 —
State College, Pennsylvania (USCOTS 2019)
Douglas Whitaker
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Alana Unfried
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Marjorie Bond
Project
“Maybe That Helps Folks Feel Better About What They're Doing”: Examining Contradictions Between Educator Presumptions, Student Experiences, and Outcomes at an Alternative School
The use of alternative schools as exclusionary discipline for students found guilty of committing behavioral infractions raises …
Brianna L. Kennedy-Lewis
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Douglas Whitaker
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Olivia Soutullo
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DOI
Educators' Justifications for Sending Students to a Disciplinary Alternative School Versus Student Outcomes: Examining Consistencies and Contradictions
Educators assign students with challenging behaviors to disciplinary alternative schools despite evidence that these placements …
Apr 9, 2016 —
Washington, DC (AERA 2016)
Brianna L. Kennedy-Lewis
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Douglas Whitaker
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Olivia Soutullo
Project
Students’ understanding of histograms and bar graphs: results from the LOCUS assessments
Histograms and bar graphs are standard data displays, and fluency with their use is a requisite for understanding many important …
Jun 16, 2015 —
Halifax, Nova Scotia (SSC 2015)
Douglas Whitaker
Project
Middle school (ages 10 – 13) students’ understanding of statistics
This paper will present results from the administration of the LOCUS assessments to measure students’ statistical …
Tim Jacobbe
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Steven Foti
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Douglas Whitaker
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The LOCUS assessment at the college level: Conceptual understanding in introductory statistics
LOCUS is a collection of assessments designed to measure conceptual understanding of statistics at the levels hypothesized by the …
Tim Jacobbe
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Douglas Whitaker
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Catherine Case
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Steven Foti
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High school (ages 14 – 18) students’ understanding of statistics
This paper will present results from the administration of the LOCUS assessments to measure students’ statistical …
TimJacobbe
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Steven Foti
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Catherine Case
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Douglas Whitaker
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Lessons from the LOCUS assessments (part 1): Comparing groups
Douglas Whitaker
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Tim Jacobbe
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