Barbara Schneider
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Schneider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIDER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4421-1355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 590 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Improving care for SUD patients with complex trauma–relationships between childhood trauma, dissociation, and suicidal behavior in female patients with PTSD and SUD
In our sample of female patients with SUD and co-occurring PTSD, dissociation significantly increased suicidal behavior and served as a mediator of the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and suicidal behavior. Our findings underline the need to include interventions to address dissociative symptoms and other more complex consequences of childhood trauma into concepts of care for patients with SUD
Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic
Aphasie
A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement
A global priority for the behavioural sciences is to develop cost-effective, scalable interventions that could improve the academic outcomes of adolescents at a population level, but no such interventions have so far been evaluated in a population-generalizable sample. Here we show that a short (less than one hour), online growth mindset intervention—which teaches that intellectual abilities can be developed—improved grades among lower-achieving …
The Effects of Alignment of Educational Expectations and Occupational Aspirations on Labor Market Outcomes
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth of 1979, this article examines the relationship between adolescents‘ educational and occupational expectations, and how they correspond to their subsequent labor market outcomes in adulthood. We show that over-aligned adolescents, those who expect to obtain more education than is necessary for their desired occupation, are predicted to have hourly wages 30% higher than under-aligned adoles…
Teachers’ Social Networks, College-Going Practices, and the Diffusion of a School-Based Reform Initiative
This study examines the association between high school teachers’ collegial networks and their own familiarity with, and practices related to, supporting students’ admission to college. Using survey data collected at two time points from 163 teachers in four mid-Michigan high schools in 2011-2012, this study (a) employs cluster analysis to map collegial networks by school, and (b) uses social network influence modeling to examine how teachers may…
Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article
Dressing for the dance
This article examines clothing practices within the square dance community in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, whose members are mainly older adults in the 60–80 age range. What square dancers call ‘traditional dress’ is no longer required and is, even, overtly criticized by those seeking to update the image of square dance, but it remains the favourite of long-time dancers. Our focus is on the pleasures and practices of this clothing, with particular a…
The Impact of Being Labeled as a Persistently Lowest Achieving School
Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, grading and labeling of schools as low performing have been increasingly used as means to incentivize failing schools to raise student achievement. Using statewide high school data from Michigan, our regression discontinuity analyses show that the bottom 5% of schools identified as persistently lowest achieving (PLA), which is publicly announced and has consequential accountability, increased their …
Using design thinking to improve psychological interventions
3,676). Although the intervention could still be improved even further, the current research provides a model for how to improve and scale interventions that begin to address pressing educational problems. It also provides insight into how to teach a growth mindset more effectively.
Conserving a Legacy
This essay briefly describes some of the early AERA presidents who were empiricists, several of them directors of research, and how their work connects with some of the issues of design, measurement, analysis, and interpretation today. Beginning with the first president of AERA, a number of presidents through the late 1940s are highlighted, as well as how their work spoke to the times they lived in and how its impact continues through this centen…
Schneider Comment on Downey and Condron
Becoming Adult
This essay examines a range of meanings and markers of adulthood, from biological to social, psychological, and legal. It describes a shift from more universal and traditional definitions of adulthood, which were also heavily gendered, to an increasingly diverse and personalized set of definitions. This shift reflects the prolonged, complex, and highly unequal spectrum of pathways that young people take into adulthood today. And yet, public perce…
Vocational Interests, Values, and Preferences, Psychology of
Passion and Motivation
Aphasie
Life Writing and Schizophrenia
Reviewed by: Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning by Mary Elene Wood Barbara Schneider (bio) Mary Elene Wood. Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning. Clio Medico 90. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 364pp. ISBN 978-9042036840, 75 euro, $105.00. Schizophrenia is widely regarded as the worst of the serious mental illnesses, associated with experiences such as hearing voices, having delusions, and spea…
Homelessness
This article draws on data gathered in focus groups to analyze how people talk about homelessness and compares the findings to how homelessness is represented in the media, specifically newspapers. It examines how ideas about homelessness that circulate in society are taken up, used, and reproduced by people in social interaction. People “care” about homelessness and use emotion discourse in the focus group context to construct a moral identity a…
Thomas A. DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann, The Rise of Women
The Changing Relationship Between Fertility Expectations and Educational Expectations
This article examines the relationship between young women's fertility expectations and educational expectations in late adolescence and at the outset of adulthood. Given progressive macro-level changes in the United States beginning in the 1960s, we compare the expectation patterns of youth from two cohorts using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys. We find that the relationship between education and fertility expectations is statistical…
Handbook of Education Policy Research
Tracing Entrepreneurship Orientation in Adolescence to Business Ownership
Why some individuals choose to become business owners is not entirely clear. Some scholars have argued that a more holistic approach that includes examining personality traits, social context, and developmental periods in the lifespan should provide a deeper understanding of these choices. Tracing the relationship between adolescents' entrepreneurship orientation and their educational aspirations, school engagement, and conformity when in seconda…
Blogging Homelessness
This article analyzes a blog written by a man who describes himself as having been in and out of homelessness and addictions over a long period of time. I use Foucault’s ideas about governmentality and technologies of the self to explore the material on this blog and to suggest that the blog is not only a technology of the self through which power is exercised but also a practice of freedom and a means to ethical of care of the self. I propose a …
Female and male adolescents' subjective orientations to mathematics and the influence of those orientations on postsecondary majors
Although important strides toward gender parity have been made in several scientific fields, women remain underrepresented in the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, and computer sciences (PEMCs). This study examines the effects of adolescents' subjective orientations, course taking, and academic performance on the likelihood of majoring in PEMC in college. Results indicate that racial-ethnic and gender underrepresentation in science, te…
Reporting Homelessness
In this article, I call on practice theory to analyze the activities of newspaper journalists who report on homelessness. Practice theory is an approach to understanding the social that sees practice, rather than individual action or social structure, as the basic social phenomenon. This approach provides an alternative to the long-standing division between structure and agency that underpins many social theories. Journalists have good intentions…
Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns
This study suggests that multitasking constitutes an important source of gender inequality, which can help explain previous findings that mothers feel more burdened and stressed than do fathers even when they have relatively similar workloads. Using data from the 500 Family Study, including surveys and the Experience Sampling Method, the study examines activities parents simultaneously engage in and how they feel when multitasking. We find that m…
Students on the Move
Research on the effects of mobility on children's development and educational attainment has focused on change of residence, but paid little attention to change of schools. This study used data from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) to examine the independent effects of residential and educational mobility for students who move to a new home but do not change schools (movers), change schools but do not move to a new home (changers)…
Sequences of Opportunities for Learning
Students' opportunities for learning subjects can be organized into sequences that span grades and schools. Such opportunity sequences are a form of stratification that links students' future opportunities for learning with their earlier opportunities. Using data from a national cohort of public school students, the authors examined national patterns in students' opportunities for learning mathematics and science from Grade 8 to Grade 10. They fo…
A Model for Academic Success
This article reviews the findings of a field-based study that compared the academic performance of East Asians and Anglo elementary school students. Variations in academic performance are viewed as the result of the relationship between sociocultural factors and interpersonal interactions. Results link the academic success of East Asian students to the values and aspirations they share with their parents, to the home learning activities, in which…
Opportunities For Learning
Adolescents' Extracurricular Participation in Context
To understand the meaning of high school students' participation in extracurricular activities, it is important to account for social contexts as influences on development. This study investigated how school and community contexts relate to associations among high school students' extracurricular participation, academic achievement, and educational ambition. On the basis of survey data from the Alfred P. Sloan Study of Youth and Social Developmen…
Participatory Action Research, Mental Health Service User Research, and the Hearing (our) Voices Projects
In this article I discuss participatory action research as a framework for enabling people diagnosed with mental health problems to carry out research and in doing so to promote health equity, citizenship, and social justice for people with a mental health diagnosis. The participatory approach to research aims to involve ordinary community members in generating practical knowledge about issues and problems of concern to them and through this prom…
Scaling-Up Exemplary Interventions
Scale-up is the practice of introducing proven interventions into new settings with the goal of producing similarly positive effects in larger, more diverse populations. Scale-up research examines factors that influence the effectiveness of interventions as they are brought to scale across settings. This article has three objectives. First, it defines the goals of scale-up research with respect to broader efforts to enhance the quality of educati…
Sourcing homelessness
This article describes a content and qualitative analysis of quotations from sources in Canadian newspaper items on homelessness. Experts dominate as sources on homelessness. Homeless people are not completely deprived of a voice, but are limited to the devalued voice of experience. Quotes from homeless people themselves promote a narrative of homelessness that marginalizes the people who experience it and contributes to their social exclusion
The Educational and Personal Consequences of Adolescent Employment
Journal Article The Educational and Personal Consequences of Adolescent Employment Get access Mark Schoenhals, Mark Schoenhals University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marta Tienda, Marta Tienda Princeton University Direct all correspondence to Marta Tienda, Princeton University, Office of Population Research, Notestein Hall, 21 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08544-2901. Search for other works…
Non-standard work schedules, work-family conflict and parental well-being
Parent Surveillance in Schools
Because teachers work in relatively closed classroom spaces, they are notoriously difficult for administrators or parents to observe. At the same time, middle‐class parents have demonstrated an interest in “opening” the closed classroom door. Findings from this research suggest that surveilling parents provided advantages for their child during the school day. Using their social networks, middle‐class and socially connected working‐class parents …
Female and male adolescents' subjective orientations to mathematics and the influence of those orientations on postsecondary majors
Although important strides toward gender parity have been made in several scientific fields, women remain underrepresented in the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, and computer sciences (PEMCs). This study examines the effects of adolescents' subjective orientations, course taking, and academic performance on the likelihood of majoring in PEMC in college. Results indicate that racial-ethnic and gender underrepresentation in science, te…
Reporting Homelessness
In this article, I call on practice theory to analyze the activities of newspaper journalists who report on homelessness. Practice theory is an approach to understanding the social that sees practice, rather than individual action or social structure, as the basic social phenomenon. This approach provides an alternative to the long-standing division between structure and agency that underpins many social theories. Journalists have good intentions…
Communication Between People With Schizophrenia and Their Medical Professionals
The authors describe a participatory research project undertaken by a group of people with schizophrenia under the guidance of a university researcher. Participatory research involves members of the research group in meaningful participation in all stages of the research process. In this study, group members chose the topic-experiences with medical professionals-and method of data collection-in-depth interviews that they conducted with each other…
Social Capital, Information, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Math Course Work
Analysis of the National Education Longitudinal Study revealed that socioeconomically advantaged students persist in high school math at higher rates than their disadvantaged peers, even when they have the same initial placements and skill levels. These disparities are larger among students with prior records of low academic status because students from more privileged backgrounds persist in math coursework even when their prior performance predi…
The Effects of Alignment of Educational Expectations and Occupational Aspirations on Labor Market Outcomes
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth of 1979, this article examines the relationship between adolescents‘ educational and occupational expectations, and how they correspond to their subsequent labor market outcomes in adulthood. We show that over-aligned adolescents, those who expect to obtain more education than is necessary for their desired occupation, are predicted to have hourly wages 30% higher than under-aligned adoles…
Design of an Intervention to Promote Entry of Minority Youth into Clinical Research Careers by Aligning Ambition
The theory of aligned ambition posits that adolescents’ career aspirations are shaped by both contextual and attitudinal factors. Minority students are less likely to exhibit career-specific knowledge, realistic attitudes, and successful behaviors, which could exacerbate racial disparities in the health care workforce. This article describes the theoretical grounding and preliminary implementation of an intervention designed to promote aligned am…
Recent life events and suicide
Representations of Homelessness in Four Canadian Newspapers
This article reports on a content analysis of homelessness representations in four Canadian newspapers: two city broadsheets, one city tabloid, and one national newspaper. Clear differences between the papers emerged showing that in general coverage of homelessness in Calgary was much more positive than coverage in Vancouver. It conveyed a stronger sense of crisis or urgency and a stronger sense of optimism that the problem should and can be solv…
Drinking, Socioemotional Functioning, and Academic Progress in Secondary School
Secondary schools are sites of academic instruction but also contexts of socioemotional development, and the intertwining of these two functions has consequences for adolescents' future health and education. Drawing on nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health ( n = 8,271), this study explored the bidirectional associations among indicators of adolescents' alcohol use and their feelings of social int…
Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity
James M. McPartland, Barbara Schneider, Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity: Prospects and Pitfalls of a Common Core Curriculum, Sociology of Education, Vol. 69, Extra Issue: Special Issue on Sociology and Educational Policy: Bringing Scholarship and Practice Together (1996), pp. 66-81
Making a Case for Workplace Flexibility
Assessing an Advanced Level Introductory Sociology Course
The Impact of Being Labeled as a Persistently Lowest Achieving School
Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, grading and labeling of schools as low performing have been increasingly used as means to incentivize failing schools to raise student achievement. Using statewide high school data from Michigan, our regression discontinuity analyses show that the bottom 5% of schools identified as persistently lowest achieving (PLA), which is publicly announced and has consequential accountability, increased their …
Schweizer Auswanderer in der Sowjetunion. Die Erlebnisse der Schweizer Kommunarden im revolutionaren Russland (1924-1930)
A Model for Academic Success
This article reviews the findings of a field-based study that compared the academic performance of East Asians and Anglo elementary school students. Variations in academic performance are viewed as the result of the relationship between sociocultural factors and interpersonal interactions. Results link the academic success of East Asian students to the values and aspirations they share with their parents, to the home learning activities, in which…
Children of Color in Independent Schools
Barbara Schneider, Roger Shouse, Children of Color in Independent Schools: An Analysis of the Eight-Grade Cohort from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 61, No. 2, African Americans and Independent Schools: Status, Attainment, and Issues (Spring, 1992), pp. 223-234
Parents, Their Children, and Schools
Sequences of Opportunities for Learning
Students' opportunities for learning subjects can be organized into sequences that span grades and schools. Such opportunity sequences are a form of stratification that links students' future opportunities for learning with their earlier opportunities. Using data from a national cohort of public school students, the authors examined national patterns in students' opportunities for learning mathematics and science from Grade 8 to Grade 10. They fo…
Lessons of a Generation
Parents, Their Children, and Schools
Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity
James M. McPartland, Barbara Schneider, Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity: Prospects and Pitfalls of a Common Core Curriculum, Sociology of Education, Vol. 69, Extra Issue: Special Issue on Sociology and Educational Policy: Bringing Scholarship and Practice Together (1996), pp. 66-81
Opportunities For Learning
The Educational and Personal Consequences of Adolescent Employment
Journal Article The Educational and Personal Consequences of Adolescent Employment Get access Mark Schoenhals, Mark Schoenhals University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marta Tienda, Marta Tienda Princeton University Direct all correspondence to Marta Tienda, Princeton University, Office of Population Research, Notestein Hall, 21 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08544-2901. Search for other works…
Educational Reform, Again
Protecting Youth at Work
Is Democratic Schooling Possible within an Ecology of Accountability and Outcomes
teacher student interaction that drives the productivity of the educational (p. 160). Although we agree with Coleman et al. that the United States needs a broad vision that goes beyond the idiosyncratic to better organize the experience of schooling for all students, we are concerned about what seems to be a culturally conservative agenda. For example, the authors express a dedication to manufacturing and achievement, but they do not define the c…
Students on the Move
Research on the effects of mobility on children's development and educational attainment has focused on change of residence, but paid little attention to change of schools. This study used data from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) to examine the independent effects of residential and educational mobility for students who move to a new home but do not change schools (movers), change schools but do not move to a new home (changers)…
The Ambitious Generation
Youth Crisis
Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence
HERE
A Longitudinal Study of the Self-Concept and Experiential Components of Self-Worth and Affect Across Adolescence
Classic theories depict adolescence as a period of emotional "storm and stress." Empirical evidence, mostly from cross-sectional studies, suggests that emotional development presents a mixture of continuity, swings, and resilience. We examined longitudinally the average grade trends in components of self-concept and experiential components of self-worth and affect across adolescence. We followed 1,165 6th through 12th graders for 4 years using a …
Becoming Adult
How do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-school work, and how do these experiences affect their passage to adult work? These are the questions that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Barbara Schneider posed in their five-year study of adolescents. The results provide an unprecedented window on society's future through which we can glimpse how today's youth ar…
Narratives of Schizophrenia
This paper explores how people with schizophrenia construct positive identities in the face of the negative and stigmatizing discourse of mental illness. The author regards identity not as a fixed characteristic of individuals but rather as something actively constructed and reconstructed in communicative practice. By analyzing the narratives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia, the author shows that people with schizophrenia do not simply tak…
Adolescents' Extracurricular Participation in Context
To understand the meaning of high school students' participation in extracurricular activities, it is important to account for social contexts as influences on development. This study investigated how school and community contexts relate to associations among high school students' extracurricular participation, academic achievement, and educational ambition. On the basis of survey data from the Alfred P. Sloan Study of Youth and Social Developmen…
Communication Between People With Schizophrenia and Their Medical Professionals
The authors describe a participatory research project undertaken by a group of people with schizophrenia under the guidance of a university researcher. Participatory research involves members of the research group in meaningful participation in all stages of the research process. In this study, group members chose the topic-experiences with medical professionals-and method of data collection-in-depth interviews that they conducted with each other…
Special Reviewers
Scaling-Up Exemplary Interventions
Scale-up is the practice of introducing proven interventions into new settings with the goal of producing similarly positive effects in larger, more diverse populations. Scale-up research examines factors that influence the effectiveness of interventions as they are brought to scale across settings. This article has three objectives. First, it defines the goals of scale-up research with respect to broader efforts to enhance the quality of educati…
Knowledge production and the public interest
Psychology (52 works) · Sociology (40 works) · Political science (29 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Mathematics education (18 works) · Pedagogy (16 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · School Choice and Performance (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Medicine (12 works)