Student Publications 2005-2009

(Alphabetical by student name, highlighted)

An, B. P. & Gamoran, A. (2009). Trends in school racial composition in the era of unitary status. In From the Courtroom to the Classroom: The Shifting Landscape of School Desegregation, eds. Claire Smrekar and Ellen Goldring, 19-48. MA: Harvard Education Press.

An, B. P. (Forthcoming). The relations between race, family characteristics, and where students apply to college. Social Science Research.

Goldrick-Rab, S. & Benson, J. (2005, April 6). Are community colleges like towns? Not really [Letter to the editor]. Education Week 24 (30): 38.

Borman, G. D., Benson, J., & Overman, L. T. (2005). Families, schools and summer learning. Elementary School Journal 106: 131-150.

Goldrick-Rab, S., & Benson, J. (2006, March). Access Wisconsin: An Exploration of college-going in the context of high school and district characteristics. Forum Paper Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education.

Borman, G. D. & Benson, J. (2006). Can brain research and computers improve literacy? A Randomized field trial of the Fast ForWord language computer-based training program. Madison: WCER Working Paper No. 2006-5, August 2006.

Benson, J. & Borman, G. D. (2007). Family and contextual socioeconomic effects across seasons: When do they matter for the achievement growth of young children? Madison: WCER Working Paper no. 2007-5, August 2007.

Borman, G. D., Benson, J. G., & Overman, L. (2009). A Randomized field trial of the Fast ForWord Language computer-based training program.  Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Prepublished December 24, 2008, DOI:10.3102/0162373708328519. 

Benson, J. & Borman, G. D. (In press). Family and contextual socioeconomic effects across seasons: When do they matter for the achievement growth of young children? Teacher's College Record.

Bodmann, S. M., Hulleman, C. S., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (In press). Achievement goal systems: An Application of goal systems theory to achievement goal research. International Review of Social Psychology.

Borman, G.D., Gamoran, A., & Bowdon, J. A. (2009). Randomized trial of teacher development in elementary science: First-year achievement effects. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 1(4): 237-264.

Soss, J., Condon, M., Holleque, M., & Wichowsky, A. (2006). The Illusion of technique: How method-driven research leads welfare scholarship astray. Social Science Quarterly 87 (4): 798–807.

Condon, M. (2006). Education. In The Reporter’s Source Book (73–87). Philipsburg, MT: Project Vote Smart.

Condon, M. (2006). Entitlement reform. In The Reporter’s Source Book (62–72). Philipsburg, MT: Project Vote Smart.

Condon, M. (2008). Education; Entitlement reform. In The Reporter's Source Book (35-58). Philipsburg, MT: Project Vote Smart.

Condon, M. & Mayer, K. (2008). Health care. In The Reporter's Source Book (69-78). Philipsburg, MT: Project Vote Smart.

Cowen, J. (2007). School choice as a latent variable: Estimating the complier average causal effect of school vouchers in Charlotte. Policy Studies Journal 36(2): 301-315.

Cowen, J. M., Fleming, D. J., & Gofen, A. (In press). Measuring the motivation to charter: An Examination of school sponsors in Texas. Journal of School Choice.

Borman, G. D., & Grigg, J. A. (2009). The Visual and narrative interpretation of research syntheses. In H. Cooper, L. Hedges, & J. Valentine (Eds.) The Handbook of research synthesis (2nd ed.). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Halverson, R., Grigg, J. A., Prichett, R., & Thomas, C. (In press). The New instructional leadership: Creating data-driven instructional systems in schools. Journal of School Leadership 17 (2): 159-194.

Halverson, R., Grigg, J. A., Prichett, R., & Thomas, C. (In press). Data-driven instructional systems: A model for understanding school capacity to meet high-stakes accountability policies. Die Deutsche Schule.

Barron, K.E. & Hulleman, C.S. (2006). Is there a formula to help understand and improve student motivation? In Essays from E-xcellence in Teaching, vol. 8. Retrieved [August 5, 2006] from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Web site: http://list.kennesaw.edu/archives/psychteacher.html

Hulleman, C. S., Durik, A.M., Schweigert, S., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2008). Task values, achievement goals, and interest: An Integrative analysis. Journal of Educational Psychology 100: 398-416.

Prather, R. W. (2007). Implicit learning of arithmetic principles. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsch (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1839. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Prather, R. W., & Alibali, M. W. (2008a). Understanding and using principles of arithmetic: Operations involving negative numbers. Cognitive Science 32 (2): 445-457.

Prather, R. W., & Alibali, M. W. (2008b). Implicit learning of arithmetic principles. In J. McClelland & J. Weng (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning.

Darnon, C., Muller, D., Schrager, S. M., Pannuzzo, N., & Butera, F. (2006). Mastery and performance goals predict epistemic and relational conflict regulation. Journal of Educational Psychology 98: 766–776.

Berkowitz, L., Schrager, S. M., & Dunand, M. A. (2006). Shared suffering can mitigate aversively-generated aggression: On the role of the target’s stimulus characteristics. Aggressive Behavior 32: 80-87.

Heinrich, C., Shager, H., Rothe, I. & Cancian, M. (2005). Families Forward child support arrears forgiveness program and evaluation: Implementation report. Madison, WI: Institute for Research on Poverty. Report prepared for the State of Wisconsin Bureau of Child Support.

Cancian, M., Heinrich, C., Rothe, I., Shager, H., & Burkhardt, B. (2006). Families Forward: Child support arrears forgiveness program and evaluation report. Madison, WI: Institute for Research on Poverty. Report prepared for the State of Wisconsin Bureau of Child Support

Heinrich, C., Burkhardt, B., & Shager, H. (2008). The Families Forward Program: Preliminary evaluation findings and recommendations. Madison, WI: Institute for Research on Poverty. Report prepared for the State of Wisconsin Bureau of Child Support.

Heinrich, C., Burkhardt, B., & Shager, H. (2008). The Families Forward Program: Interim evaluation findings and recommendations. Madison, WI: Institute for Research on Poverty. Report prepared for the State of Wisconsin Bureau of Child Support

Shober, A. F., Manna, P. & Witte, J. F. (2006). Flexibility meets accountability: State charter school laws and their influence on the formation of charter schools in the United States. Policy Studies Journal 34 (4): 563-588.

Witte, J. F., Weimer, D. L., Shober, A. F., & Schlomer, P. A. (2007). The Performance of charter schools in Wisconsin. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 26 (3): 557-573.

Witte, J.F., Schlomer, P. A., & Shober, A. F. (2007). Going charter? A Study of school district competition in Wisconsin. Peabody Journal of Education 82 (2/3), 387-409.

Shober, A. F. (In press). Building Government: Autonomy, Accountability, and Accessibility in State Departments of Education. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.

Topitzes, J., Tiwari, G., Godes, O., Ceglarek, S., & Reynolds, A. J. (2006). Internal Report: Adult Health. Madison, WI: Chicago Longitudinal Study.

Topitzes, J., Mersky, J., & Reynolds, A. (2006). Internal Report: Juvenile Delinquency Updated. Madison, WI: Chicago Longitudinal Study.

Reynolds, A. J., Temple, J. A., Ou, S., Mersky, J. P., Topitzes, J., Roberson, D. L., & Niles, M.D. (2007). Effects of a school-based early childhood intervention on adult health and well-being: A 19-year-old follow-up of low-income families. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 161 (8): 730-739.

Topitzes, J., Godes, O., Mersky, J., Ceglarek, S., & Reynolds, A. (In press). Educational success and adult health: Findings from the Chicago Longitudinal Study. Prevention Science.

Palloni, A., Milesi, C., White, R. & Turner, A. (2008). Triggering inequality and health gradients: Do health selection effects matter? J. Surkyn, J. van Bavel, and P. Deboosere (Eds.), Demographic Challenges for the 21st century. A State of the art in demography. Liber amicorum for Ron Lesthaeghe. Brussels: Vrije Universiteit Press.

Lyons, D.E., Young, A.G., & Keil, F.C. (2007). The Hidden structure of overimitation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (50): 19751-19756.