Search Results - "Halpin, Peter F."

Mobile health school screening and telemedicine referral to improve access to specialty care in rural Alaska: a cluster- randomised controlled trial by Emmett, Susan D, Platt, Alyssa, Turner, Elizabeth L, Gallo, Joseph J, Labrique, Alain B, Inglis, S Meade, Jenson, Cole D, Parnell, Heather E, Wang, Nae-Yuh, Hicks, Kelli L, Egger, Joseph R, Halpin, Peter F, Yong, Michael, Ballreich, Jeromie, Robler, Samantha Kleindienst

“…School-based programmes, including hearing screening, provide essential preventive services for rural children. However, minimal evidence on screening…”
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Differential Item Functioning via Robust Scaling by Halpin, Peter F.

“…This paper proposes a method for assessing differential item functioning (DIF) in item response theory (IRT) models. The method does not require…”
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The Importance of Minority Teachers: Student Perceptions of Minority Versus White Teachers by Cherng, Hua-Yu Sebastian, Halpin, Peter F.

“…The demographic divide between teachers and students is of growing public concern. However, few studies have explicitly addressed the common argument that…”
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Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue on Forecasting with Intensive Longitudinal Data by Halpin, Peter F., Gates, Kathleen, Liu, Siwei

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Measuring Early Learning and Development Across Cultures: Invariance of the IDELA Across Five Countries by Halpin, Peter F, Wolf, Sharon, Yoshikawa, Hirokazu, Rojas, Natalia, Kabay, Sarah, Pisani, Lauren, Dowd, Amy Jo

“…Relatively little research has addressed whether conceptual frameworks of early learning generalize across different national contexts. This article reports on…”
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Dyadic analysis of illness perceptions among individuals with stroke and their caregivers: effects on activity engagement in community living by Shi, Yun, Howe, Tsu-Hsin, Halpin, Peter F, Hu, Lu, Wu, Bei

“…To explore the relationship between activity engagement and dyadic illness perceptions of community-dwelling individuals with stroke and their caregivers. We…”
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Poststroke activity engagement in community dwellers: Association with illness perceptions and perceived environment by Shi, Yun, Howe, Tsu-Hsin, Halpin, Peter F, Wu, Bei

“…Objectives To investigate whether individuals’ poststroke activity engagement is associated with their perceptions of stroke, as well as their perceptions of…”
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Online crowdsourcing for efficient rating of speech: A validation study by McAllister Byun, Tara, Halpin, Peter F, Szeredi, Daniel

“…Highlights • Obtaining expert ratings of speech data can be a slow and challenging process. • Ratings are easily obtained via crowdsourcing, e.g. Amazon…”
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Describing Profiles of Instructional Practice: A New Approach to Analyzing Classroom Observation Data by Halpin, Peter F., Kieffer, Michael J.

“…The authors outline the application of latent class analysis (LCA) to classroom observational instruments. LCA offers diagnostic information about teachers'…”
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Psychometric Models of Small Group Collaborations by Halpin, Peter F., Bergner, Yoav

“…The social combination theory of group problem solving is used to extend existing psychometric models to collaborative settings. A model for pairwise group…”
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Assessment of Positive and Stimulating Home Environments for Global Monitoring by Frongillo, Edward A., Basnet, Sulochana, Halpin, Peter F., Petrowski, Nicole, Cappa, Claudia

“…Non-optimal early childhood development adversely affects educational attainment, productivity, and income, and may result in inter-generational cycles of…”
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Deriving gradient measures of child speech from crowdsourced ratings by Byun, Tara McAllister, Harel, Daphna, Halpin, Peter F, Szeredi, Daniel

“…Highlights • Ratings aggregated across non-experts listeners can yield gradient speech measures. • Continuous measures can be derived from either continuous…”
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Teaching Bias? Relations between Teaching Quality and Classroom Demographic Composition by Cherng, Hua-Yu Sebastian, Halpin, Peter F, Rodriguez, Luis A

“…Purpose: Prior work has drawn consistent conclusions about systematic racial disparities in the allocation of high-quality teachers in US public schools, such…”
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Promoting children's learning and development in conflict-affected countries: Testing change process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Aber, J Lawrence, Tubbs, Carly, Torrente, Catalina, Halpin, Peter F, Johnston, Brian, Starkey, Leighann, Shivshanker, Anjuli, Annan, Jeannie, Seidman, Edward, Wolf, Sharon

“…Improving children's learning and development in conflict-affected countries is critically important for breaking the intergenerational transmission of…”
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Modelling Dyadic Interaction with Hawkes Processes by Halpin, Peter F., De Boeck, Paul

“…We apply the Hawkes process to the analysis of dyadic interaction. The Hawkes process is applicable to excitatory interactions, wherein the actions of each…”
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How Can We Improve the Measurement of "Non-Academic" Competencies? by Halpin, Peter F.

“…The target paper, "Rethinking Traditional Methods of Survey Validation" (Andrew Maul), raises some interesting critical ideas, both old and new, about the…”
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Measuring Student Engagement During Collaboration by Halpin, Peter F., von Davier, Alina A., Hao, Jiangang, Liu, Lei

“…This article addresses performance assessments that involve collaboration among students. We apply the Hawkes process to infer whether the actions of one…”
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Direction of attentional focus in biofeedback treatment for /r/ misarticulation by McAllister Byun, Tara, Swartz, Michelle T., Halpin, Peter F., Szeredi, Daniel, Maas, Edwin

“…Background Maintaining an external direction of focus during practice is reported to facilitate acquisition of non‐speech motor skills, but it is not known…”
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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach to Test Anxiety by Halpin, Peter F., da-Silva, Cibele, De Boeck, Paul

“…This article addresses the role of test anxiety in aptitude testing. Our approach is rooted in confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). We find that the usual…”
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Violence in the Massage Parlor Industry: Experiences of Canadian-Born and Immigrant Women by Bungay, Vicky, Halpin, Michael, Halpin, Peter F., Johnston, Caitlin, Patrick, David M.

“…We examined and contrasted 129 Canadian-born and immigrant women's experiences of violence and associated structural and interpersonal factors within indoor…”
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