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Description:: In recent years, the social sciences have been ensnared in a crisis in which many research findings cannot be replicated (Ioannidis, 2005; Open Science Collaboration, 2015; Camerer et al., 2016; Makel & Plucker, 2014). This crisis has been attributed to a variety of problems including lack of transparency about research...
Keyword:: education, treatment effect heterogeneity, response surface, and experimental design
Subject:: Statistics, Education, and Social research
Creator:: Peko-Spicer, Sarah
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Description:: In the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, I find that Aristotle endorses two distinct forms of political activity. The first form, which I term statesman activity, is intrinsically valuable. Aristotle thinks that we should value this kind of political activity because it is constitutive of human well-being. The second form, which...
Keyword:: experience, education, political activity, Aristotle, and ethics
Subject:: Philosophy, Classical literature, and Political science
Creator:: Cumella, Giuseppe Angelo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14472 and etdadmin_upload_627287

Description:: This dissertation analyzes how individuals choose college majors. The choice of college major is treated as one made under uncertainty. Understanding any decision under uncertainty requires one to study how expectations and preferences are used to make the choice. However, since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of...
Keyword:: expectations, education, and social interactions
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Basit Zafar
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/06/2018
Date Modified:: 09/06/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: It's quite common for the novice musician to forget their place in the song, miss the change to a new section, or be unable to play in the key or at the tempo chosen by the leader. Every type of improvisational playing requires the player to follow a set of...
Keyword:: technology, music, education, computer aided instruction, and jazz
Subject:: Music Technology
Creator:: Marc Jacoby
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/26/2018
Date Modified:: 06/26/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-07
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Achievement gaps between students from different SES and racial/ethnic backgrounds stubbornly persist despite decades of policy interventions. My dissertation focuses on several unexpected sources of stress and disruption that may be related to the achievement gap: sunlight exposure, a sister’s teen childbearing, and nearby violent crime. I demonstrate that these...
Keyword:: sleep, education, policy, stress, academic, and K-12
Subject:: Human Development and Social Policy
Creator:: Jennifer Ann Heissel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/27/2018
Date Modified:: 03/27/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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