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Academic Resilience in Contexts of Inequality: Motivational and Self‐Efficacy Profiles of Disadvantaged High Achievers

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Socioeconomic disparities in academic achievement are well‐documented in France and emerge early in schooling. Yet, a subset of students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds attains high academic performance, challenging deterministic accounts of educational inequality.
Margot Rémeau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ten simple rules for an effective mentor-mentee writing partnership. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Comput Biol
Quynn K   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Improving the Finite Sample Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Using Double/Debiased Machine Learning With Propensity Score Calibration

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Double/debiased machine learning (DML) uses for estimating an average treatment effect (ATE) a double‐robust score function that relies on the prediction of nuisance functions, such as the propensity score, which is the probability of treatment assignment given covariates.
Daniele Ballinari, Nora Bearth
wiley   +1 more source

The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Do Linking‐Expression Substitutions Mitigate Deterministic Interpretations of Genetic Information?

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is a common concern that broader audiences interpret scientific information about the genetic correlates and causes of complex human traits in an overly deterministic manner. A frequently proposed way to address this issue is to carefully select the linking expressions used to describe gene–trait relationships when communicating genetic ...
Riin Kõiv
wiley   +1 more source

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