Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations (LEPF) Faculty Publications

Understanding and Improving Outcomes for Students in an Underserved Secondary School in Kenya: A School-Community-University Partnership

Wasonga, Teresa A.; Burgin, Ximena D.; Daniel, Mayra C. (Kenya Scholars and Studies Association, 2021)

Although universities are positioned to lead change, specifically by improving educational systems, there is no evidence of universities in Kenya engaging with schools. Concurrently, the quality of education in Kenya is ...
Public School Choice and Student Achievement: Evidence From Michigan’s Interdistrict Open Enrollment System

Cowen, Josh; Creed, Benjamin (2017-09-27)

In this article, we focus on a statewide system of interdistrict open enrollment in Michigan, known as Schools of Choice. Our previous work indicated that students who take advantage of this program are disproportionately ...
Lexical Stress and Linguistic Predictability Influence Proofreading Behavior

Harris, Lindsay N., 1979--; Perfetti, Charles A. (2016-02-09)

There is extensive evidence that the segmental (i.e., phonemic) layer of phonology is routinely activated during reading, but little is known about whether phonological activation extends beyond phonemes to subsegmental ...