Cabeiri Debergh Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 126495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cabeiri Debergh Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cabeiri Debergh |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0663-1589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Power of Personalized Attention
Tutoring has played a significant role in pandemic-related learning recovery, supporting student learning and engagement. This paper follows up on a recent randomized controlled trial (RCT) estimating that one-on-one virtual early literacy tutoring was nearly twice as effective as two-on-one tutoring for improving student learning. To better understand this gap, we analyze transcripts from 16,629 tutoring sessions from this RCT—which included ove…
Answering the call
College students often make employment decisions with incomplete information, particularly about compensation. As a result, they may rely on misleading heuristics (such as assuming that interesting or prosocial jobs pay badly) and overlook campus positions that would support both their financial needs and their development. We test whether highlighting job characteristics changes students' application behavior in a preregistered field experiment …
The Impact of Tutor Gender Match on Girls’ STEM Interest, Engagement, and Performance
Gender disparities in STEM persist despite girls performing as well as boys academically, suggesting girls may benefit from role models who shape their perceptions of STEM. We examine whether female math tutors influence girls’ STEM interest, attendance, and performance. We randomly assigned 422 ninth-grade students taking Algebra 1 to a same-gender or opposite-gender tutor. Girls assigned to female tutors reported higher STEM interest (.73 SD) a…
Integrating Open Science Principles into Quasi-Experimental Social Science Research
Quasi-experimental methods are a cornerstone of applied social science, answering causal questions to inform policy and practice. Although open science principles have influenced experimental research norms across the social sciences, related practices are rarely implemented in quasi-experimental scholarship. In this perspective article, we describe open science research practices and discuss practical strategies for quasi-experimental researcher…
The Inequity of Opt-in Educational Resources and an Intervention to Increase Equitable Access
Billions of dollars are invested in opt-in educational resources to support struggling students. Yet there is no guarantee these students will use these resources. We report results from a school system’s implementation of on-demand tutoring. The take-up was low. At baseline, only 19% of students ever accessed the platform, and low-performing students were even less likely to log in. We conducted a randomized controlled trial ( N = 4,763) testing…
Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications
Many states mandate districts or schools notify parents when students have missed multiple unexcused days of school. We report a randomized experiment ( N = 131,312) evaluating the impact of sending parents truancy notifications modified to target behavioral barriers that can hinder effective parental engagement. Modified truancy notifications that used simplified language, emphasized parental efficacy, and highlighted the negative incremental ef…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies takes displacement in Asia as its focal point in order to conceptualize the multiple legal orders and organizational structures that govern the lives of forced migrants, the interfacing of such institutional processes with the experiential perspectives of forced migrants themselves and the multiplicities of displacement experiences and mobilities. The articles in this collection examine a varie…
Reducing Student Absenteeism in the Early Grades by Targeting Parental Beliefs
Attendance in kindergarten and elementary school robustly predicts student outcomes. Despite this well-documented association, there is little experimental research on how to reduce absenteeism in the early grades. This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment in 10 school districts evaluating the impact of a low-cost, parent-focused intervention on student attendance in grades K–5. The intervention targeted commonly held parenta…
Partition, Its Refugees, and Postcolonial State-Making in South Asia
Three recently published books make an important contribution to the post-colonial historiography of South Asia. There is now a fine body of literature in South Asian studies on the violence which
Life and Words
Reducing Student Absenteeism in the Early Grades by Targeting Parental Beliefs
Attendance in kindergarten and elementary school robustly predicts student outcomes. Despite this well-documented association, there is little experimental research on how to reduce absenteeism in the early grades. This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment in 10 school districts evaluating the impact of a low-cost, parent-focused intervention on student attendance in grades K–5. The intervention targeted commonly held parenta…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies takes displacement in Asia as its focal point in order to conceptualize the multiple legal orders and organizational structures that govern the lives of forced migrants, the interfacing of such institutional processes with the experiential perspectives of forced migrants themselves and the multiplicities of displacement experiences and mobilities. The articles in this collection examine a varie…
Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications
Many states mandate districts or schools notify parents when students have missed multiple unexcused days of school. We report a randomized experiment ( N = 131,312) evaluating the impact of sending parents truancy notifications modified to target behavioral barriers that can hinder effective parental engagement. Modified truancy notifications that used simplified language, emphasized parental efficacy, and highlighted the negative incremental ef…
Integrating Open Science Principles into Quasi-Experimental Social Science Research
Quasi-experimental methods are a cornerstone of applied social science, answering causal questions to inform policy and practice. Although open science principles have influenced experimental research norms across the social sciences, related practices are rarely implemented in quasi-experimental scholarship. In this perspective article, we describe open science research practices and discuss practical strategies for quasi-experimental researcher…
The Inequity of Opt-in Educational Resources and an Intervention to Increase Equitable Access
Billions of dollars are invested in opt-in educational resources to support struggling students. Yet there is no guarantee these students will use these resources. We report results from a school system’s implementation of on-demand tutoring. The take-up was low. At baseline, only 19% of students ever accessed the platform, and low-performing students were even less likely to log in. We conducted a randomized controlled trial ( N = 4,763) testing…
Life and Words
Partition, Its Refugees, and Postcolonial State-Making in South Asia
Three recently published books make an important contribution to the post-colonial historiography of South Asia. There is now a fine body of literature in South Asian studies on the violence which
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies takes displacement in Asia as its focal point in order to conceptualize the multiple legal orders and organizational structures that govern the lives of forced migrants, the interfacing of such institutional processes with the experiential perspectives of forced migrants themselves and the multiplicities of displacement experiences and mobilities. The articles in this collection examine a varie…
Reducing Student Absenteeism in the Early Grades by Targeting Parental Beliefs
Attendance in kindergarten and elementary school robustly predicts student outcomes. Despite this well-documented association, there is little experimental research on how to reduce absenteeism in the early grades. This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment in 10 school districts evaluating the impact of a low-cost, parent-focused intervention on student attendance in grades K–5. The intervention targeted commonly held parenta…
Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications
Many states mandate districts or schools notify parents when students have missed multiple unexcused days of school. We report a randomized experiment ( N = 131,312) evaluating the impact of sending parents truancy notifications modified to target behavioral barriers that can hinder effective parental engagement. Modified truancy notifications that used simplified language, emphasized parental efficacy, and highlighted the negative incremental ef…
Integrating Open Science Principles into Quasi-Experimental Social Science Research
Quasi-experimental methods are a cornerstone of applied social science, answering causal questions to inform policy and practice. Although open science principles have influenced experimental research norms across the social sciences, related practices are rarely implemented in quasi-experimental scholarship. In this perspective article, we describe open science research practices and discuss practical strategies for quasi-experimental researcher…
The Inequity of Opt-in Educational Resources and an Intervention to Increase Equitable Access
Billions of dollars are invested in opt-in educational resources to support struggling students. Yet there is no guarantee these students will use these resources. We report results from a school system’s implementation of on-demand tutoring. The take-up was low. At baseline, only 19% of students ever accessed the platform, and low-performing students were even less likely to log in. We conducted a randomized controlled trial ( N = 4,763) testing…
The Power of Personalized Attention
Tutoring has played a significant role in pandemic-related learning recovery, supporting student learning and engagement. This paper follows up on a recent randomized controlled trial (RCT) estimating that one-on-one virtual early literacy tutoring was nearly twice as effective as two-on-one tutoring for improving student learning. To better understand this gap, we analyze transcripts from 16,629 tutoring sessions from this RCT—which included ove…
Answering the call
College students often make employment decisions with incomplete information, particularly about compensation. As a result, they may rely on misleading heuristics (such as assuming that interesting or prosocial jobs pay badly) and overlook campus positions that would support both their financial needs and their development. We test whether highlighting job characteristics changes students' application behavior in a preregistered field experiment …
The Impact of Tutor Gender Match on Girls’ STEM Interest, Engagement, and Performance
Gender disparities in STEM persist despite girls performing as well as boys academically, suggesting girls may benefit from role models who shape their perceptions of STEM. We examine whether female math tutors influence girls’ STEM interest, attendance, and performance. We randomly assigned 422 ninth-grade students taking Algebra 1 to a same-gender or opposite-gender tutor. Girls assigned to female tutors reported higher STEM interest (.73 SD) a…
Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Academic achievement (2 works) · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (2 works) · Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning (2 works) · Intervention (counseling (2 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)