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Does alleviating poverty affect mothers' depressive symptoms? A quasi-experimental investigation of Mexico's Oportunidades programme

quasi-experimental designs

Ozer EJ, Fernald LCH, Weber A.
GSID: _jal-X-IPz0J
EJ Ozer, LCH Fernald, A Weber… - International journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com

… quasi-experimental design does not benefit from the same strength of causal inference that could be interpreted from an experimental design … using the same analytical methods that confirmed that a quasi-experimental approach showed similar results to a true...

Effective proof reading strategies for comprehending mathematical proofs

instructional interventions

Weber K.
GSID: kvg6w_wO0XwJ
K Weber - International Journal of Research in Undergraduate …, 2015 - Springer

In this paper, I identify five effective proof reading strategies that mathematics majors can use to comprehend proofs. This paper reports two studies. The first study is a qualitative …

Effective but Underused Strategies for Proof Comprehension

instructional interventions

Mejia-Ramos JP, Weber K.
GSID: ESYyYYUar5UJ
K Weber, JP Mejia-Ramos - North American Chapter of the International …, 2013 - ERIC

We present five strategies that mathematics majors can use to improve their proof comprehension. We argue these strategies are effective by presenting qualitative excerpts …

Lessons learned from an instructional intervention on proof comprehension

instructional interventions

Weber K.
GSID: D-0IUl5wUNMJ
A Samkoff, K Weber - The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2015 - Elsevier

… The goal of the present paper is to report lessons that we learned from two instructional interventions in which students were taught to apply … We present instructional modifications, as well as refinements to the strategies themselves, that...

Learning opportunities from group discussions: Warrants become the objects of debate

after-school settings

Lee HS, Maher C, Powell A, Weber K.
GSID: hqHtnUvUVEMJ
K Weber, C Maher, A Powell, HS Lee - Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2008 - Springer

In the mathematics education literature, there is currently a debate about the mechanisms by which group discussion can contribute to mathematical learning and under what conditions …

Business intelligence and data analytics as a driver of dynamic capability strategic approach

engineering education

Dabab M, Weber C.
GSID: V1sT-nRbm-QJ
M Dabab, C Weber - 2018 Portland International Conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org

Papers addressing the Dynamic Capability (DC) approach either support it as the best strategy or express its defects and impediments to implementation. However, this paper …

What works? A meta analysis of recent active labor market program evaluations

Build and Broaden 3.0 AND Program Evaluation

Card D, Kluve J, Weber A.
GSID: 6Qpnlgc0u0kJ
D Card, J Kluve, A Weber - Journal of the European Economic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com

We summarize the estimates from over 200 recent studies of active labor market programs. We classify the estimates by type of program and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using regression models for the estimated...

Socioeconomic gradients and child development in a very low income population: evidence from Madagascar

socioeconomic status & related terms (e.g., low income)

Fernald LCH, Weber A, Galasso E.
GSID: H_6Wwg6op1AJ
LCH Fernald, A Weber, E Galasso… - Developmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library

… highest and lowest socioeconomic status categories doubled … between two groups (eg highest versus lowest wealth quintiles) … -term measure of anthropometric status, reached its lowest …

Using social media advertisement data to monitor the gender gap in STEM: opportunities and challenges

STEM and gender

Al R, Weber I.
GSID: s9CUM6XcTFcJ
R Al Tamime, I Weber - PeerJ Computer Science, 2022 - peerj.com

Boosting the number of women and girls entering careers involving STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is crucial to achieving gender equality, one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Girls and women tend to gravitate away from STEM fields...

To uncover new knowledge. Large-scale research effort at Iowa furthered by outside grant money.

Iowa Dental Bulletin

Weber M.
PMID: 5287534
Iowa Dent Bull. 1971;52(2):14-7.

No abstract available.

Determination of maize hardness by biospeckle and fuzzy granularity.

Food science & nutrition

Weber C, Dai Pra AL, Passoni LI, Rabal HJ, Trivi M, Poggio Aguerre GJ.
PMID: 25473513
Food Sci Nutr. 2014 Sep;2(5):557-64. doi: 10.1002/fsn3.130. Epub 2014 Jun 02.

In recent years there has been renewed interest in the development of novel grain classification methods that could complement traditional empirical tests. A speckle pattern occurs when a laser beam illuminates an optically rough surface that flickers when the...

Improved appreciation of the functioning and importance of biological soil crusts in Europe: the Soil Crust International Project (SCIN).

Biodiversity and conservation

Büdel B, Colesie C, Green TG, Grube M, Lázaro Suau R, Loewen-Schneider K, Maier S, Peer T, Pintado A, Raggio J, Ruprecht U, Sancho LG, Schroeter B, Türk R, Weber B, Wedin M, Westberg M, Williams L, Zheng L.
PMID: 24954978
Biodivers Conserv. 2014;23:1639-1658. doi: 10.1007/s10531-014-0645-2. Epub 2014 Mar 02.

Here we report details of the European research initiative "Soil Crust International" (SCIN) focusing on the biodiversity of biological soil crusts (BSC, composed of bacteria, algae, lichens, and bryophytes) and on functional aspects in their specific environment. Known as...

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