David P Baker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3686306 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David P Baker |
| NOMBRES | David P |
| APELLIDO | Baker |
| FIRMA | BAKER D P |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6635-3784 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 359 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Is More Science Really Less Science? The Scientization of Science, 1900–2020
Sixty years ago, Derek de Solla Price’s influential Little Science, Big Science first documented that from 1900 scientific publications doubled every 10–15 years and then predicted that limited resources would end rapid progress leading to an imminent “scientific doomsday”—a strikingly false prediction given that contemporary global mega-science annually yields 3.5 million mainline STEMM journal research papers. Nevertheless, the idea of a coming…
Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa
This study examines the changing relationship between education and HIV in Africa over time. While a negative relationship between education and morbidity is generally well-established, conflicting reports on the education-HIV gradient in Africa raised doubts about its consistency. Studies found positive, null, or negative gradients, suggesting that education might not influence HIV risk as expected. This paper argues that these conflicting findi…
A Symbiosis of Access
Cyber Charter Schools and Growing Resource Inequality among Public Districts
An analysis from 2002 to 2014, aligning media reporting of the effectiveness of the fully online K–12 cyber charter school model with data on enrollment flows to cyber charter schools and expenditure and demographic indicators across all 500 residential public school districts in Pennsylvania, finds a three-part geospatial-social process. Initial high-tech cachet surrounding the option stimulated statewide spread in enrollments, but over time gro…
The great antagonism that never was
The Population Education Transition Curve
The salutary effect of formal education on health-risk behaviors and mortality is extensively documented: ceteris paribus, greater educational attainment leads to healthier lives and longevity. Even though the epidemiological evidence has strongly indicated formal education as a leading “social vaccine,” there is intermittent reporting of counter-education gradients for health-risk behavior and associated outcomes for certain populations during s…
Shadow Education
Over the past few decades shadow education has expanded worldwide and become a multi‐billion dollar global service‐industry offering many different and costly tutoring services from after‐school classes to a host of on‐line options. While much remains to be explored as to why this transformation is occurring, the worldwide expansion of shadow education is now a substantial topic in the sociology of education. This essay briefly describes the foun…
Non-linear education gradient across the nutrition transition
Objective Previous studies found that developed and developing countries present opposite education–overweight gradients but have not considered the dynamics at different levels of national development. An inverted U-shaped curve is hypothesized to best describe the education–overweight association. It is also hypothesized that as the nutrition transition unfolds within nations the shape of education–overweight curve changes. Design Multilevel lo…
Assessing the Cognitive Demands of a Century of Reading Curricula
This research investigated the cognitive demands of reading curricula from 1910 to 2000. We considered both the nature of the text used and the comprehension tasks asked of students in determining the cognitive demands of the curricula. Contrary to the common assumption of a trend of simplification of the texts and comprehension tasks in third- and sixth-grade curricula, the results indicate that curricular complexity declined early in the centur…
A meta-analysis of education effects on chronic disease
The Schooled Society
The Schooled Society shows how mass education interjects itself and its ideologies into culture at large: from the dynamics of social mobility, to how we measure intelligence, to the values we promote.
Comparative education research framed by neo-institutional theory
The rise in globalisation studies in comparative education places neo-institutional theory at the centre of many debates among comparative education researchers. However, uncertainty about how to interpret neo-institutional theory still persists among educational comparativists. With this uncertainty comes misinterpretation of its principles, variations and explanatory power. Two problematic misconceptions prevail: (1) the belief that the ‘world …
Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. S97–S100. In the article cited above, the degrees of two authors are misrepresented. Peter Mendel and David P. Baker should be listed as Peter Mendel, PhD, and David P. Baker, PhD
Lessons Learned and Future Directions
In this special issue, we have described results from the IMPAQ-RAND team’s formal longitudinal evaluation of HHS’s National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-associated Infections1 and have discussed efforts to address healthcare–associated infections (HAIs) at the state, regional, and local levels. In this final article, we take a step back to consider briefly the overall impact of the Action Plan and to describe some possible future directions…
Understanding the Association Between Maternal Education and Use of Health Services in Ghana
This paper examines the role of health knowledge in the association between mothers' education and use of maternal and child health services in Ghana. The study uses data from a nationally representative sample of female respondents to the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. Ordered probit regression models evaluate whether women's health knowledge helps to explain use of three specific maternal and child health services: antenatal care, gi…
The Education Effect on Population Health
Demographic research frequently reports consistent and signifcant associations between formal educational attainment and a range of health risks such as smoking, drug abuse, and accidents, as well as the contraction of many diseases, and health outcomes such as mortality-almost all indicating the same conclusion: better-educated individuals are healthier and live longer. Despite the substantial reporting of a robust education effect, there is ina…
The worldwide transformation of higher education
Sociology of Higher Education
Global Trends in Educational Policy
The Worldwide Explosion of Internationalized Education Policy The History and Problems in the Making of Education Policy at the World Bank, 1960-2000 Implementing Educational Transformation Policies: Investigating Issues of Ideal Versus Real in Developing Countries Education Decentralization in Africa: Great Expectations and Unfulfilled Promises Free Primary Education in Malawi: The Practice of Global Policy in Aid-Dependent States Re-Positioning…
National Differences, Global Similarities
Using American schools as a reference point, this book provides a comprehensive, comparative description of schooling as a global institution. Each chapter develops a story about a particular global trend: continuing gender differences in achievement, new methods nations employ to govern their schools, the rapidly increasing use of private tutoring, school violence, the development of effective curriculums, and the everyday work of teachers, amon…
Global Trends in Educational Policy (International Perspectives on Education and Society)
Socioeconomic Status, School Quality, and National Economic Development
Student Victimization
School violence is a problem in many nations, and rates of school violence in the United States are not among the highest in the world. The authors utilize a section of the TIMSS survey data to (a) explore the amount of school violence among the 37 nations in the study; (b) ascertain whether the traditional national-level predictors of crimes and delinquency explain cross-national variation in school violence; and (c) test whether factors related…
Worldwide Shadow Education
The growth of structured, outside-school activities for improving students’ mathematics achievement is an enduring feature of modern schooling with major policy implications. These "shadow education " activities mimic, or shadow, formal schooling processes and requirements. Using extensive cross-national data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, we examine shadow education as a macro-phenomenon of modern schooling through i…
Worldwide Growth and Institutionalization of Statistical Indicators for Education Policy-Making
The use of widely published statistical indicators (also referred to as social indicators when outside the purely economic realm) on the condition of national education systems has in recent decades become a standard part of the policy-making process throughout the world. Uniquely different from the usual policy-related statistical analysis, statistical indicators are derived measures, often combining multiple data sources and several statistics …
Mothers' Strategies for Children's School Achievement
The American educational system requires parents to manage their child's school career to maximize their child's school achievement. But parents differ in the specific strategies they select to help their children through school. These strategies are one way in which family background influences children's school achievement. We expand the extant model of how parents influence their children's school careers to encompass various pragmatic strateg…
The Education Effect on Population Health
Demographic research frequently reports consistent and signifcant associations between formal educational attainment and a range of health risks such as smoking, drug abuse, and accidents, as well as the contraction of many diseases, and health outcomes such as mortality-almost all indicating the same conclusion: better-educated individuals are healthier and live longer. Despite the substantial reporting of a robust education effect, there is ina…
Shadow Education and Allocation in Formal Schooling
Shadow education is a set of educational activities that occur out-side formal schooling and are designed to enhance the student's formal school career. Analyses of data from a longitudinal study of high school seniors in Japan indicate that students from higher socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to participate in shadow education and that students who participate in certain forms of shadow education are more likely to attend university. E…
Gender and young children's expectations for performance in arithmetic
Teachers’ Work
Policy debates in the U.S. are increasingly informed by use of internationally generated, comparative data. Many arguments revolve around whether or not such comparison makes “cultural sense” or whether specific educational activities that appear successful in one nation are “culturally appropriate” in another. These arguments clash with the work of anthropologists and sociologists who demonstrate that global cultural dynamics influence national …
Creating Gender Equality
This study uses data on sex differences in the eight-grade mathematica performance of over 77 000 students in 19 countries, 1964 and 1982 data on such differences in 9 countries, and data on gender stratification of advanced educational and occupational opportunities to explore when and where gender will affect student's performance in mathematics. The analyses show that there is cross-national variation in the performance of mathematics and that…
Student Victimization
School violence is a problem in many nations, and rates of school violence in the United States are not among the highest in the world. The authors utilize a section of the TIMSS survey data to (a) explore the amount of school violence among the 37 nations in the study; (b) ascertain whether the traditional national-level predictors of crimes and delinquency explain cross-national variation in school violence; and (c) test whether factors related…
Sociology of Higher Education
Gender Stratification in the Science Pipeline
This study uses a 'science pipeline' model and cross-national data to examine women's participation in science education and occupations in seven countries. Gender stratification in later science education and in science occupations is found in every country examined. Young women's participation in science education decreases with each stage in the science pipeline, but there is considerable cross-national variation in the extent of gender strati…
The Population Education Transition Curve
The salutary effect of formal education on health-risk behaviors and mortality is extensively documented: ceteris paribus, greater educational attainment leads to healthier lives and longevity. Even though the epidemiological evidence has strongly indicated formal education as a leading “social vaccine,” there is intermittent reporting of counter-education gradients for health-risk behavior and associated outcomes for certain populations during s…
School Charter and Parental Management in West Germany
The kind, degree, and timing of parents' management of their children's school careers may reflect institutional characteristics of schooling. This article examines the relationship between parental management and an institutional characteristic of schooling, the school charter. It examines managerial actions of a sample of 238 parents with students in three types of West German secondary schools with distinctly different charters: the Gymnasium,…
State Control of the Curriculum and Classroom Instruction
David Lee Stevenson, David P. Baker, State Control of the Curriculum and Classroom Instruction, Sociology of Education, Vol. 64, No. 1, Special Issue on Sociology of the Curriculum (Jan., 1991), pp. 1-10
A meta-analysis of education effects on chronic disease
Schooling All the Masses
Many sociological theories predict that urbanization and industrialization in the postbellum United States expanded mass schooling, but, paradoxically, past empirical analyses failed to confirm this prediction. This paradox vanishes when the heretofore understudied substantial growth of Catholic schooling for the predominately urban working class is incorporated into an analysis of school expansion. Analyses of newly compiled archival data on Cat…
A Symbiosis of Access
The Influence of Mothers on the Academic Expectations of Young Children
Journal Article The Influence of Mothers on the Academic Expectations of Young Children: A Longitudinal Study of How Gender Differences Arise Get access David P. Baker, David P. Baker Catholic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Doris R. Entwisle Doris R. Entwisle The Johns Hopkins University Address correspondence to Doris R. Entwisle, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimor…
Effects of Immigrant Workers on Educational Stratification in Germany
When guestworkers arrived in West Germany in the late 1950s, they were considered a temporary labor force. However, despite government policy and public attitudes, they have become a permanent part of German society. We examine how the large-scale immigration of foreign workers into West Germany has affected the educational stratification of the native population. Two models of host society adaptation are considered: (I) an incorporation model, i…
The great antagonism that never was
Assessing the Cognitive Demands of a Century of Reading Curricula
This research investigated the cognitive demands of reading curricula from 1910 to 2000. We considered both the nature of the text used and the comprehension tasks asked of students in determining the cognitive demands of the curricula. Contrary to the common assumption of a trend of simplification of the texts and comprehension tasks in third- and sixth-grade curricula, the results indicate that curricular complexity declined early in the centur…
Worldwide Growth and Institutionalization of Statistical Indicators for Education Policy-Making
The use of widely published statistical indicators (also referred to as social indicators when outside the purely economic realm) on the condition of national education systems has in recent decades become a standard part of the policy-making process throughout the world. Uniquely different from the usual policy-related statistical analysis, statistical indicators are derived measures, often combining multiple data sources and several statistics …
Forming American Educational Policy with International Data
John W. Meyer, David P. Baker, Forming American Educational Policy with International Data: Lessons from the Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Vol. 69, Extra Issue: Special Issue on Sociology and Educational Policy: Bringing Scholarship and Practice Together (1996), pp. 123-130
Solving the Math Problem
Assessments of national differences in middle-grades mathematics have shown that Japanese students score significantly higher on achievement exams than American students. The debate over what causes this has generated many hypotheses that have not fared well in empirical tests. Because of this we examine another set of causal factors. It is hypothesized that classroom mathematics achievement is produced differently in each system. It is also hypo…
Gender and young children's expectations for performance in arithmetic
Effects of Immigrant Workers on Educational Stratification in Germany
When guestworkers arrived in West Germany in the late 1950s, they were considered a temporary labor force. However, despite government policy and public attitudes, they have become a permanent part of German society. We examine how the large-scale immigration of foreign workers into West Germany has affected the educational stratification of the native population. Two models of host society adaptation are considered: (I) an incorporation model, i…
Mothers' Strategies for Children's School Achievement
The American educational system requires parents to manage their child's school career to maximize their child's school achievement. But parents differ in the specific strategies they select to help their children through school. These strategies are one way in which family background influences children's school achievement. We expand the extant model of how parents influence their children's school careers to encompass various pragmatic strateg…
The Family-School Relation and the Child's School Performance
David L. Stevenson, David P. Baker, The Family-School Relation and the Child's School Performance, Child Development, Vol. 58, No. 5, Special Issue on Schools and Development (Oct., 1987), pp. 1348-1357
The Influence of Mothers on the Academic Expectations of Young Children
Journal Article The Influence of Mothers on the Academic Expectations of Young Children: A Longitudinal Study of How Gender Differences Arise Get access David P. Baker, David P. Baker Catholic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Doris R. Entwisle Doris R. Entwisle The Johns Hopkins University Address correspondence to Doris R. Entwisle, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimor…
School Charter and Parental Management in West Germany
The kind, degree, and timing of parents' management of their children's school careers may reflect institutional characteristics of schooling. This article examines the relationship between parental management and an institutional characteristic of schooling, the school charter. It examines managerial actions of a sample of 238 parents with students in three types of West German secondary schools with distinctly different charters: the Gymnasium,…
The Boat People and Achievement in America
Solving the Math Problem
Assessments of national differences in middle-grades mathematics have shown that Japanese students score significantly higher on achievement exams than American students. The debate over what causes this has generated many hypotheses that have not fared well in empirical tests. Because of this we examine another set of causal factors. It is hypothesized that classroom mathematics achievement is produced differently in each system. It is also hypo…
State Control of the Curriculum and Classroom Instruction
David Lee Stevenson, David P. Baker, State Control of the Curriculum and Classroom Instruction, Sociology of Education, Vol. 64, No. 1, Special Issue on Sociology of the Curriculum (Jan., 1991), pp. 1-10
The American Kaleidoscope
Schooling Disadvantaged Children
This volume assesses the current status of children in American society and offers a set of policy recommendations for addressing their educational needs. The authors begin by describing the various definitions of disadvantaged used by researchers and policy makers, linking these definitions to the strategies and policies they imply in efforts to address the problems of the disadvantaged. Part 1 also includes a sociodemographic profile of the and…
Shadow Education and Allocation in Formal Schooling
Shadow education is a set of educational activities that occur out-side formal schooling and are designed to enhance the student's formal school career. Analyses of data from a longitudinal study of high school seniors in Japan indicate that students from higher socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to participate in shadow education and that students who participate in certain forms of shadow education are more likely to attend university. E…
[American and Japanese Achievement…Again
A Rejoinder
Creating Gender Equality
This study uses data on sex differences in the eight-grade mathematica performance of over 77 000 students in 19 countries, 1964 and 1982 data on such differences in 9 countries, and data on gender stratification of advanced educational and occupational opportunities to explore when and where gender will affect student's performance in mathematics. The analyses show that there is cross-national variation in the performance of mathematics and that…
Secondary School Examinations
All Is Forgiven
Forming American Educational Policy with International Data
John W. Meyer, David P. Baker, Forming American Educational Policy with International Data: Lessons from the Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Vol. 69, Extra Issue: Special Issue on Sociology and Educational Policy: Bringing Scholarship and Practice Together (1996), pp. 123-130
Gender Stratification in the Science Pipeline
This study uses a 'science pipeline' model and cross-national data to examine women's participation in science education and occupations in seven countries. Gender stratification in later science education and in science occupations is found in every country examined. Young women's participation in science education decreases with each stage in the science pipeline, but there is considerable cross-national variation in the extent of gender strati…
Good News, Bad News, and International Comparisons
Schooling All the Masses
Many sociological theories predict that urbanization and industrialization in the postbellum United States expanded mass schooling, but, paradoxically, past empirical analyses failed to confirm this prediction. This paradox vanishes when the heretofore understudied substantial growth of Catholic schooling for the predominately urban working class is incorporated into an analysis of school expansion. Analyses of newly compiled archival data on Cat…
The Tracking Wars
Worldwide Shadow Education
The growth of structured, outside-school activities for improving students’ mathematics achievement is an enduring feature of modern schooling with major policy implications. These "shadow education " activities mimic, or shadow, formal schooling processes and requirements. Using extensive cross-national data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, we examine shadow education as a macro-phenomenon of modern schooling through i…
Worldwide Growth and Institutionalization of Statistical Indicators for Education Policy-Making
The use of widely published statistical indicators (also referred to as social indicators when outside the purely economic realm) on the condition of national education systems has in recent decades become a standard part of the policy-making process throughout the world. Uniquely different from the usual policy-related statistical analysis, statistical indicators are derived measures, often combining multiple data sources and several statistics …
Teachers’ Work
Policy debates in the U.S. are increasingly informed by use of internationally generated, comparative data. Many arguments revolve around whether or not such comparison makes “cultural sense” or whether specific educational activities that appear successful in one nation are “culturally appropriate” in another. These arguments clash with the work of anthropologists and sociologists who demonstrate that global cultural dynamics influence national …
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