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Authors: Matthew T. Hora, Zi Chen, Emily Parrott, Pa Her March 2019, 27 pp. Abstract: Internships for college students are widely promoted as a “high-impact” practice, yet the academic literature is limited by terminological imprecision, lack of data on intern demographics, and insufficient attention to the impacts of program format on student academic and developmental …

Author: Caktus Group December 2018, 78 pp. Abstract: This report is a companion piece to WCER working paper 2018-14, “A Cyberinfrastructure for Design-Based Research: A Collaborative Design Project Proposal.” That paper stressed that the educational research community would be well served by a mutually created cyberinfrastructure that encourages and supports engagement by multiple design-based researchers …

Authors: Sharon J. Derry, Alan Hackbarth, Sadhana Puntambekar December 2018, 21 pp. Abstract: Like numerous others before us, we argue that the educational research community would be well served by a mutually created cyberinfrastructure that encourages and supports engagement by multiple design-based researchers in working toward answers to important theory-driven research questions, moving our field …

Authors: Peter Goff, Yasmin Rodriguez-Escutia, Minseok Yang October 2018, 26 pp. Abstract: Representative bureaucracy suggests that supervisors are representative of their employees, based in part on shared values and identity. In education, we often observe representative asymmetries among school principals and the teaching faculty, particularly by race. This study explores the ways in which race …

Authors: Ahyoung Alicia Kim, Daniella Molle, Jason Kemp, H. Gary Cook October 2018, 25 pp. Abstract: High-stakes decisions are often made for English learners in the K–12 context based on their performance on English language proficiency assessments. Although states and districts provide guidelines for making such decisions, little is known regarding how educators actually make …

Authors: Matthew T. Hora, Bailey B. Smolarek, Kelly Norris Martin, Lee Scrivener October 2018, 39 pp. Abstract: One of the problematic features of the increasingly influential discourse of student employability in higher education is the widespread conception of “skills” as de-contextualized bits of knowledge, ability, and disposition. Instead, how particular competencies are valued, defined, and …

Authors: Jaymes Pyne, Eric Grodsky August 2018, 18 pp. Abstract: When planning for college, students face a range of constrained choices governed in part by variation between institutions. What are the economic consequences of those decisions and constraints both during and after college? We know borrowing patterns vary by institutional sector, yet colleges within a …

Authors: Jaymes Pyne, Eric Grodsky August 2018, 32 pp. Abstract: Recent efforts to understand aggregate student loan debt have shifted the focus away from undergraduate borrowing and toward dramatically rising debt among graduate and professional students. We suggest educational debt plays a key role in social stratification by either deterring bachelor’s degree holders from disadvantaged …

Authors: Mun Yuk Chin, Chelsea A. Blackburn Cohen, Matthew T. Hora June 2018, 29 pp. Abstract: Existing research on the effectiveness of college career services centers (CSCs) has primarily focused on students’ utilization rates and their satisfaction with the programs and services offered. Based on survey (n = 372) and focus group data (n = …