Nicholas Sorensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 139663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Sorensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorensen |
| SIGNATURE | SORENSEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reaping the Benefits of Investment
We describe core tensions as to the federal government's role in the funding, focus, and locus of education in the United States: is public education a federal responsibility, if so, does that imply funding public schools or allocating public funds to education, irrespective of setting. We trace changes in legislation connected to these core tensions and what they imply for American education. America's founders viewed an educated public as vital…
Response to Technical Comment on Rickles, Heppen, Allensworth, Sorensen, and Walters (2018)
In response to the concerns White raises in his technical comment on Rickles, Heppen, Allensworth, Sorensen, and Walters (2018), we discuss whether it would have been appropriate to test for nominally equivalent outcomes, given that the study was initially conceived and designed to test for significant differences, and that the conclusion of no difference was not solely based on a null hypothesis test. To further support the article’s conclusion,…
Engaging race and racism for socially just intergroup relations
This study examines the impact of interracial/interethnic dialogue, a model of intergroup contact that highlights the salience of racial and ethnic group membership, to improve intergroup relations on college campuses. A field experiment involving 737 participants demonstrated that participants randomized to enrol in an intergroup dialogue course increased thinking about and understanding of race and racial/ethnic group membership more than the r…
Online Credit Recovery and the Path to On-Time High School Graduation
Many high schools use online courses to allow students to retake failed classes in an effort to help get students back on track and graduate. However, there is limited evidence available on the effectiveness of online credit recovery in improving students’ long-term outcomes compared with traditional face-to-face credit recovery courses. In this paper, we examine longer term outcomes for ninth graders who failed Algebra I and were randomly assign…
Connecting and separating mind-sets
5 Hong Kong Chinese; STUDY 6: Americans; STUDY 7: Norwegians; STUDY 8: African-, European-, and Asian-heritage Americans). Meta-analyses (d = .34) demonstrated homogeneous effects across geographic place (East-West), racial-ethnic group, task, and sensory mode-differences are cued in the moment. Contrast and separation are salient individual mind-set procedures, resulting in focus on a single target or main point. Assimilation and connection are …
From Separate Corners to Dialogue and Action
Connecting and separating mind-sets
5 Hong Kong Chinese; STUDY 6: Americans; STUDY 7: Norwegians; STUDY 8: African-, European-, and Asian-heritage Americans). Meta-analyses (d = .34) demonstrated homogeneous effects across geographic place (East-West), racial-ethnic group, task, and sensory mode-differences are cued in the moment. Contrast and separation are salient individual mind-set procedures, resulting in focus on a single target or main point. Assimilation and connection are …
From Separate Corners to Dialogue and Action
Online Credit Recovery and the Path to On-Time High School Graduation
Many high schools use online courses to allow students to retake failed classes in an effort to help get students back on track and graduate. However, there is limited evidence available on the effectiveness of online credit recovery in improving students’ long-term outcomes compared with traditional face-to-face credit recovery courses. In this paper, we examine longer term outcomes for ninth graders who failed Algebra I and were randomly assign…
Reaping the Benefits of Investment
We describe core tensions as to the federal government's role in the funding, focus, and locus of education in the United States: is public education a federal responsibility, if so, does that imply funding public schools or allocating public funds to education, irrespective of setting. We trace changes in legislation connected to these core tensions and what they imply for American education. America's founders viewed an educated public as vital…
Connecting and separating mind-sets
5 Hong Kong Chinese; STUDY 6: Americans; STUDY 7: Norwegians; STUDY 8: African-, European-, and Asian-heritage Americans). Meta-analyses (d = .34) demonstrated homogeneous effects across geographic place (East-West), racial-ethnic group, task, and sensory mode-differences are cued in the moment. Contrast and separation are salient individual mind-set procedures, resulting in focus on a single target or main point. Assimilation and connection are …
From Separate Corners to Dialogue and Action
Engaging race and racism for socially just intergroup relations
This study examines the impact of interracial/interethnic dialogue, a model of intergroup contact that highlights the salience of racial and ethnic group membership, to improve intergroup relations on college campuses. A field experiment involving 737 participants demonstrated that participants randomized to enrol in an intergroup dialogue course increased thinking about and understanding of race and racial/ethnic group membership more than the r…
Online Credit Recovery and the Path to On-Time High School Graduation
Many high schools use online courses to allow students to retake failed classes in an effort to help get students back on track and graduate. However, there is limited evidence available on the effectiveness of online credit recovery in improving students’ long-term outcomes compared with traditional face-to-face credit recovery courses. In this paper, we examine longer term outcomes for ninth graders who failed Algebra I and were randomly assign…
Response to Technical Comment on Rickles, Heppen, Allensworth, Sorensen, and Walters (2018)
In response to the concerns White raises in his technical comment on Rickles, Heppen, Allensworth, Sorensen, and Walters (2018), we discuss whether it would have been appropriate to test for nominally equivalent outcomes, given that the study was initially conceived and designed to test for significant differences, and that the conclusion of no difference was not solely based on a null hypothesis test. To further support the article’s conclusion,…
Reaping the Benefits of Investment
We describe core tensions as to the federal government's role in the funding, focus, and locus of education in the United States: is public education a federal responsibility, if so, does that imply funding public schools or allocating public funds to education, irrespective of setting. We trace changes in legislation connected to these core tensions and what they imply for American education. America's founders viewed an educated public as vital…
Psychology (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Redress (2 works)