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The Impacts of Removing College Entrance Exams: Evidence From the Test‐Optional Movement

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Before 2020, around 250 four‐year colleges and universities adopted a test‐optional application procedure that allowed students to apply for admission without submitting college entrance exam score. Many schools adopted this procedure to encourage greater racial and socioeconomic diversity.
Brianna Felegi
wiley   +1 more source

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Modulation of the pupillary response by the content of visual working memory. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019
Zokaei N   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

Localization of Neuronal Gain Control in the Pupillary Response. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Neurol, 2019
Carle CF, James AC, Rosli Y, Maddess T.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
wiley   +1 more source

“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study of first‐year primary school draws on Goffman's concept of “collective behavior” to examine how order is established and disrupted through the mutual adjustment of all participants' actions. We employed a multi‐method longitudinal design, using semi‐standardized observations and qualitative interviews with teachers and children at three ...
Doris Bühler‐Niederberger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Finding One's Place: ESL Teachers' Experiences of Language and Identity in the School Spaces of Quebec

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates how English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers navigate their professional and linguistic identities within Quebec's complex linguistic landscape. Drawing on critical approaches to conceptualizing space, we examine physical and metaphorical spaces in schools as sites of identity negotiation and community building. Data
Philippa Parks   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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