The R software provides packages and functions that provide data analysis in classical true score, generalizability theory, item response theory, and Rasch measurement theories. A brief list of notable articles in each measurement theory and the first measurement journals is followed by a list of R psychometric software packages. Each psychometric…

This bibliography contains citations from publications or papers presented at professional meetings concerning Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory, research, and practice based on work completed at Florida State University and other organizations in various locations. CIP theory applies general principles of cognitive information…

The Israeli contemporary artist, psychoanalyst, philosopher and aesthetics theorist, Bracha L. Ettinger, has made significant impacts with her "Ettingerian Matrixial Theory" since the early 1980s. This feminine-centric post-Lacanian theorizing has been taken up by many scholars and practitioners across diverse countries and disciplines…

AuthorIT and TutorIT represent a fundamentally different approach to building and delivering adaptive learning systems. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) guide students as they solve problems. BIG DATA systems make pedagogical decisions based on average student performance. Decision making in AuthorIT and TutorIT is designed to model the human…

Connected learning is "an emerging, synthetic model of learning whose principles are consistent with those of positive youth development, sociocultural learning theory, and findings from ethnographic studies of young people's interest-related interactions with digital media" (Maul et al., 2017, p. 2). It seeks to harness new media…

From the 1990s until 2017 the High Ability and Inquiry Research Group (HAIR) at McGill University in Montreal, received C$1.3M in research funds from Canadian, Quebec, and US agencies to support its research and graduate training in education and educational psychology. Their research encompassed two principal areas, Inquiry in Education and…

Students have social and personal needs to fulfill and communicate these needs in different ways. This annotated bibliographic review examined communication studies to provide educators of diverse classrooms with ideas to build an environment that contributes to student well-being. Participants in the studies ranged in age, ability, and cultural…

Courses in the arts develop skills specific to the discipline. Research also suggests that the arts contribute to enhanced attentiveness, engagement in school, communication skills, and critical and divergent thinking. Other studies point out benefits for at-risk students in reducing negative outcomes such as dropout and crime rates. Studies…

This column provides brief summaries of transition-related articles published in 2008 in other professional journals. The 70 articles included descriptive, experimental, and qualitative research as well as program descriptions, conceptual papers, and practitioner pieces. All areas of Kohler's (1996) Kohler, P. D. (1996). "Preparing youth with…

Annotates 44 references focused on the theories behind writing-across-the-curriculum programs and on how these theories are implemented in actual practice. Excludes discussions of specific classroom techniques and uses of writing in particular disciplines. (RAE)

Stereotyped views of active masculinity and passive femininity have recently come under increasingly critical scrutiny. From the abstract to the practical, the authors see a growth of efforts toward equality of social opportunity regardless of biological differences. The central thesis of the paper is that women are repeatedly subject to…

Asserts that the renewed interest in rhetoric, evident throughout the professional discourse of English studies, is having a salutary effect on the theory and practice of the teaching of composition and basic writing. (MG)

Offers an annotated list of 14 significant books in the field of critical theory and literature in the secondary classroom. (SR)

This bibliography is meant to reflect the growing diversity and complexity of the theory and social thought that contribute to contemporary planning. The purpose of this bibliography is to explore this diversity as it pertains to the various biases in planning as a social process. The organization of the document reflects the various…

A discussion of the theoretical and practical work of Peter Newmark on translation asserts that despite his claims to the contrary, Newmark does have a single, coherent theory of translation, that it is a wrong and didactically dangerous one, and that he nonetheless has made a substantive and welcome contribution to the development of translation…