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The Depth and Dynamics of Context: Tracing the Sources and Channels of Engagement and Disengagement in Students' Response to Literature
(Journal of Literacy Research, 1998-12-01)
In this article, we analyze one coauthor's 12th-grade English class, focusing on a small group of students who interpreted the character of Gertrude in Hamlet through a body biography, a life-sized human outline that ...
A Research Note on the Relationship between Regulation and Audit Firm Size on Audit Fees
(Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 1994-04-01)
This study represents an initial attempt to examine some specific factors that might lead to large firms' economies of scale. Multiple regression analysis is used to test hypotheses concerning scale opportunities conferred ...
Introduction to Technology in Transition
(Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1999-10-01)
The recent changes in legislation concerning technology and transition have brought the two fields into national attention. New thinking by professionals, parents, and students about the application of technology is now ...
Talking about Generation X: Defining Them as They Define Themselves
(Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 1997-09-01)
In response to a recent explosion of media attention to so-called Generation X, the authors investigated youngpeoples'responses to media constructions of this generational category label. Twenty-six volunteers aged 19-23 ...
The Hidden Strengths in Family Business: Functional Conflict
(Family Business Review, 1998-03-01)
Conflict is likely in family businesses. Although some types of conflict are negative and should be minimized, other types are helpful and should be understood and encouraged to improve decisions. Using Jehn's (1997) ...
A Social Cognitive -and Developmental-Model of Counselor Training
(The Counseling Psychologist, 1998-03-01)
Central-City/Suburban Inequality and Metropolitan Political Fragmentation
(Urban Affairs Review, 1999-03-01)
To test the proposition that metropolitan governmental structure has social, economic, and racial consequences, the authors assume that the proliferation of local governments in a metropolitan area and the boundary constraints ...
Temptation, Willpower, and the Problem of Rational Self-Control
(Rationality and Society, 1993-10-01)
This article develops a model of consumption when individuals maximize utility knowing that they will experience varying levels of temptation and willpower over time. Examination of the optimal consumption path reveals ...
The Social Construction of Data: Methodological Problems of Investigating Learning in the Zone of Proximal Development
(Review of Educational Research, 1995-09-01)
↵PETER SMAGORINSKY is Associate Professor, College of Education, University of Oklahoma, 820 Van Vleet Oval, Norman, OK 73019-0260; smagor{at}aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu. He specializes in defining and assessing classroom literacy.
The Role of Gender in Descriptive Representation
(Political Research Quarterly, 1995-09-01)
This article broadens consideration of the gender gap from voting differ ences to the larger question of affective preferences for descriptive represen tation (Pitkin 1967). The results, based on a 1993 survey of 416 ...