Learning assessments in search-as-learning: A survey of prior work and opportunities for future research

2022 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 102821
Author(s):  
Kelsey Urgo ◽  
Jaime Arguello
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Learning Assessments

scholarly journals Lock-In and Team Effects

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-387
Author(s):  
Trey Dronyk-Trosper ◽  
Brandli Stitzel
Keyword(s):  
Set Covering ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Omitted Variable Bias ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Heterogeneous Effects ◽  
Team Success ◽  
Variable Bias ◽  
Lock In ◽  
Least Squares Approach

How important is recruiting to a football program’s success? While prior research has attempted to answer this question, we utilize an extensive panel set covering 13 years of games along with a two-stage least squares approach to investigate the effects of recruiting on team success. This article also includes new control variables to account for omitted variable bias that prior work may have missed. We also split our sample to investigate whether recruiting displays heterogeneous effects across schools. Additionally, we find evidence that the benefits of recruiting are driven by team-specific effects, indicating that team success may be more heavily derived from the ability of teams to harness and improve their recruits than their ability to utilize each athlete’s raw abilities. This leads to important revelations regarding future research into both the value of recruits and what drives a football team’s success.

scholarly journals Acquisition of Verb Meaning From Syntactic Distribution in Preschoolers With Autism Spectrum Disorder

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3S) ◽  
pp. 668-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Horvath ◽  
Elizabeth McDermott ◽  
Kathleen Reilly ◽  
Sudha Arunachalam
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Verb Learning ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Syntactic Frames

Purpose Our goal was to investigate whether preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can begin to learn new word meanings by attending to the linguistic contexts in which they occur, even in the absence of visual or social context. We focused on verbs because of their importance for subsequent language development. Method Thirty-two children with ASD, ages 2;1–4;5 (years;months), participated in a verb-learning task. In a between-subjects design, they were randomly assigned to hear novel verbs in either transitive or intransitive syntactic frames while watching an unrelated silent animation or playing quietly with a toy. In an eye-tracking test, they viewed two video scenes, one depicting a causative event (e.g., boy spinning girl) and the other depicting synchronous events (e.g., boy and girl waving). They were prompted to find the referents of the novel verbs, and their eye gaze was measured. Results Like typically developing children in prior work, children with ASD who had heard the verbs in transitive syntactic frames preferred to look to the causative scene as compared to children who had heard intransitive frames. Conclusions This finding replicates and extends prior work on verb learning in children with ASD by demonstrating that they can attend to a novel verb's syntactic distribution absent relevant visual or social context, and they can use this information to assign the novel verb an appropriate meaning. We discuss points for future research, including examining individual differences that may impact success and contrasting social and nonsocial word-learning tasks directly.

The Use of Social Media in Disaster Situations

2012 ◽  
pp. 11-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Lang ◽  
Raquel Benbunan-Fich
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Public ◽  
Virginia Tech Tragedy ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Recent disasters highlight the importance of social media supporting critical information gathering and dissemination efforts by members of the public. Given that disasters pose unique challenges and social media are evolving rapidly, how can one compare the effectiveness of social media in different disaster situations? Drawing from prior work on e-participation, this paper proposes a novel framework for social media use based on four key modules: selection, facilitation, deliberation, and aggregation. A comparative analysis of social media use following a man-made disaster (the 2007 Virginia Tech tragedy) and during a natural disaster (the 2009 Britain blizzard) exemplifies the value of the proposed framework. Future research can build on and leverage the present work by analyzing and incorporating additional cases on the use of social media in disaster situations.

How Branded Entertainment Shapes Consumers' Brand Attitudes

2015 ◽  
pp. 189-201
Author(s):  
Yann Verhellen ◽  
Nathalie Dens ◽  
Patrick De Pelsmacker
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Brand Attitudes ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Brand Placement ◽  
Advanced Form

This chapter investigates how consumers' brand attitudes are influenced by an advanced form of branded entertainment: the Advertiser-Funded Program. Based on prior work on brand placement, hybrid advertising, and branded entertainment, a model is constructed that captures the interplay of three key determinants of brand attitudes: program liking, viewing frequency, and program connectedness. Results indicate that liking of the program is transferred to brand attitudes. This effect is complementarily mediated by connectedness with the program but not by viewing frequency. The chapter concludes with a discussion of implications for theory and practice and provides an overview of potential avenues for future research.

scholarly journals People, Means, and Activities: A Conceptual Framework for Realizing the Educational Potential of Makerspaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avneet Hira ◽  
Morgan M. Hynes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Maker Culture ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Educational Potential

Makerspaces are environments where individuals use technologies to make physical artifacts within a community of fellow Makers. There has been growing interest in the educational potential of Making activities which has resulted in many schools procuring tools and technologies to set up their Makerspaces. However, there is scant research investigating the efficacy of Making these newly emerging Makerspaces intended for learning. In our work, we narrow this gap in knowledge between the claimed educational potential of Making and its attainment. By synthesizing prior work and publically available data on Makerspaces, we introduce a framework to situate the educational considerations for Makerspaces and recommend directions for future research on educational Makerspaces. Being cognizant of the Maker culture having emerged outside of the academic literature, we synthesize publically available data from 53 untraditional but relevant sources. These sources include definitions of Making forwarded by 3 well-established Maker initiatives (Makerspace, Hackerspace, and Fab Lab), 18 relevant sites of Making activities across the United States, 17 sites from other countries (namely, China, India, Morocco, and Spain), and 15 Maker initiatives at schools in the United States. After proposing and detailing the framework, we recommend directions for future research to attain the potential of educational Making.

The Use of Social Media in Disaster Situations

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Lang ◽  
Raquel Benbunan-Fich
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Public ◽  
Virginia Tech Tragedy ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Recent disasters highlight the importance of social media supporting critical information gathering and dissemination efforts by members of the public. Given that disasters pose unique challenges and social media are evolving rapidly, how can one compare the effectiveness of social media in different disaster situations? Drawing from prior work on e-participation, this article proposes a novel framework for social media use based on four key modules: selection, facilitation, deliberation, and aggregation. A comparative analysis of social media use following a man-made disaster (the 2007 Virginia Tech tragedy) and during a natural disaster (the 2009 Britain blizzard) exemplifies the value of the proposed framework. Future research can build on and leverage the present work by analyzing and incorporating additional cases on the use of social media in disaster situations.

scholarly journals An experimental analysis of overconfidence in tariff choice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Dowling ◽  
Lucas Stich ◽  
Martin Spann
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Flat Rate ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
Incentive Compatible ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Tariff Choice

AbstractConsumers regularly have to choose between a pay-per-use and a flat-rate option. Due to the increasing number and range of (digital) services, the frequency at which consumers have to make tariff-choice decisions to use these services has become even more prevalent. Prior work has demonstrated that consumers’ tariff choices are often systematically biased and identified overconfidence as one of the key drivers. Yet, prior research is non-experimental and focused on the so-called flat-rate bias. By contrast, we examine the effects of overconfidence on the choice between a pay-per-use and a flat-rate option using an experimental approach. We develop an incentive-compatible experiment to provide causal evidence for the effect of overconfidence on tariff-choice decisions. We find that overconfident (underconfident) consumers underestimate (overestimate) their actual usage, which leads them to choose a pay-per-use (flat-rate) option relatively more frequently. Based on the results, we discuss theoretical and managerial implications as well as avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Expanding Our Resources: Including Community in the Resource-Based View of the Firm

2021 ◽  
pp. 014920632098728
Author(s):  
Cristina B. Gibson ◽  
Stephen C. Gibson ◽  
Quinn Webster
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Sustained Competitive Advantage ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Strategic Resource ◽  
Theory Research

We apply insights from organizational behavior, psychology, and sociology to make the case that the community in which a firm is embedded is a valuable, rare, inimitable, and nonsubstitutable resource that holds potential as a source of sustained competitive advantage. First, we review several key principles of the resource-based view (RBV) and show how they apply to community as a strategic resource, incorporating prior work that simultaneously addresses communities and RBV. Next, we juxtapose pairs of firms in the same industries, comparing those that have embraced this strategy with those that have not, demonstrating the superior sustainability of the firms that consider community as a strategic resource. Finally, we conclude with thoughts as to a future research agenda that allows for an expansion of the concept of resources to further the development of RBV, the firms that apply it, and the communities in which they are embedded. In doing so, we demonstrate how expanding RBV to incorporate the community as strategic resource contributes to managerial theory, research, and practice.

On the Alignment Between Self-Declared Gender Identity and Topical Content from Wikipedia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-69
Author(s):  
David W. Mcdonald ◽  
Mark Zachry
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Significant Bias ◽  
The World

Wikipedia is an important information source for much of the world. One well-established problem is that editors of Wikipedia are overwhelmingly men. This gender gap in participation has resulted in a concern that the content suffers biases as a result of the bias in participation. This problem is hard to study, because the relationships between participation, gender identity, and content have not been established. Prior studies, mostly with children, have shown some differences in topical preferences based on sex. However, this issue has not been studied with adults and has not been considered from more than a binary stance. In this study, we work to understand how gender identity relates to topical preferences. Through an empirical study, we ask participants to declare a gender identity and then present them with pairs of topical article content from Wikipedia. Through thousands of participants and tens of thousands of paired content trials, we uncover relationships between self-declared gender identity and topical preferences. Further, by focusing on topics that have a statistically significant bias, we leverage two of Wikipedia's category systems to illustrate relative categorical differences that are similar to categorical differences described in prior work. The discussion focuses on the subtly of these differences, potential future research, and the implications for interventions based on topical content. Further, the results help us reflect on relationships that might explain the persistent and worsening gender gap in participation.

scholarly journals The psychology of partner choice

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Martin ◽  
Liane Young ◽  
Katherine McAuliffe
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Partner Choice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Mechanistic Basis ◽  
Biological Market

Partner choice captures the idea that individuals exist in a biological market of potential partners, and we can therefore choose or reject our social partners. While prior work has principally explored the functional basis of partner choice, here we focus on its mechanistic basis, motivated by a surge of recent work exploring the psychology underlying partner choice decisions. This work demonstrates that partner choice is predictably sensitive to a number of factors, including 1) a potential partner’s generosity and fairness, 2) cooperative disposition, 3) moral decision-making, and 4) intentions. We then broaden our scope, first reviewing work suggesting that, in some cases, the psychology underlying partner choice may be distinct from other responses to a partner’s behavior. We then discuss work demonstrating the sensitivity of partner choice decisions to market characteristics as well as work that illuminates the neural, ontogenetic and phylogenetic basis of partner choice. We conclude by highlighting outstanding questions and suggest directions for future research.

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