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LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volume
LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volum
A Critical Review Of Post-Secondary Education Writing During A 21st Century Education Revolution
Educational materials are effective instruments which provide information and report new discoveries uncovered by researchers in specific areas of academia. Higher education, like other education institutions, rely on instructional materials to inform its practice of educating adult learners. In post-secondary education, developmental English programs are tasked with meeting the needs of dynamic populations, thus there is a continuous need for research in this area to support its changing landscape. However, the majority of scholarly thought in this area centers on K-12 reading and writing. This paucity presents a phenomenon to the post-secondary community. This research study uses a qualitative content analysis to examine peer-reviewed journals from 2003-2017, developmental online websites, and a government issued document directed toward reforming post-secondary developmental education programs. These highly relevant sources aid educators in discovering informational support to apply best practices for student success. Developmental education serves the purpose of addressing literacy gaps for students transitioning to college-level work. The findings here illuminate the dearth of material offered to developmental educators. This study suggests the field of literacy research is fragmented and highlights an apparent blind spot in scholarly literature with regard to English writing instruction. This poses a quandary for post-secondary literacy researchers in the 21st century and establishes the necessity for the literacy research community to commit future scholarship toward equipping college educators teaching writing instruction to underprepared adult learners
Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks in Adolescence
We investigate the returns to adolescent friendships on earnings in
adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to
Adult Health, we document that individuals make investments to accumulate
friends in addition to educational investments. Because both education and
friendships are jointly determined in adolescence, OLS estimates of their
returns are biased. To estimate the causal returns to friendships, we implement
a novel procedure that assumes the returns to schooling range from 5 to 15% (as
the literature has documented), and instrument for friendships using homophily
(similarity) measures among peers to obtain bounds on the returns to
friendships. We find that having one more friend in adolescence increases
earnings between 7 and 14%, which is substantially larger than the OLS
estimates: measurement error and omitted variables lead to significant downward
bias
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