Jamie Decoster
Biographic Data
| ID | 193459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Decoster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Decoster |
| SIGNATURE | DECOSTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9751-6051 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Balancing Job Demands and Resources
Individual and situational expectancy, value, and cost motivational beliefs at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Relations of first-grade teacher knowledge with gains for students at risk for reading difficulties
This study used the Teacher Understanding of Literacy Constructs and Evidence-Based Instructional Practices (TULIP) survey to measure 93 Grade 1 teachers’ beginning-of-year knowledge within five domains (phonological awareness; phonics/decoding/encoding; reading fluency; oral language; reading comprehension) and reading performance in those domains at beginning and end of year for 205 students at risk for reading difficulties in teachers’ classro…
Exploring Preschoolers’ Vocabulary and Knowledge Acquisition from Informational Video and Shared Reading
Although children frequently engage with digital media, their exposure to informational content such as documentaries remains limited. This exploratory study examined how preschoolers learn vocabulary and content knowledge from a child-friendly documentary presented through shared reading, video viewing, or both formats. Sixty 4- to 5-year-old children were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions. Children either experienced one format t…
Virtual reality serious games for promoting environmental systems thinking and pro-environmental policy support
Elementary educator self-efficacy and knowledge to teach reading
The present study aimed to better understand teacher self-efficacy for teaching students with or at risk for reading difficulties and its relation to teacher knowledge to teach reading (i.e. the extent to which self-efficacy predicts knowledge). We developed and administered surveys to 313 elementary-grade teachers. They rated their self-efficacy for providing reading instruction to students with or at risk for reading difficulties as moderately …
Facilitating meta-analysis inclusion decisions with Elicit AI
Literacy Profiles of Kindergarten Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Difficulties with reading development have been well documented in samples of individuals with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). This study utilized a state-level dataset of early literacy skills in kindergarten students with EBD ( N = 522) to investigate the development of foundational reading skills across the kindergarten year. The study employed latent profile analysis and latent transition analysis (LTA) to empirically derive profile…
Determinants to implementing a new early literacy screener
Early literacy screening is critical for identifying students at risk for reading difficulties and enabling timely intervention. However, the implementation of new screening tools often encounters significant barriers that hinder effective adoption. This mixed-methods study investigates the barriers and facilitators reported by educators during the early implementation of a new early literacy and language screener. Data from survey ( n =694) and …
Teacher-child relationship quality and kindergarten outcomes
Development of self-regulation of bilingual children and the role of teacher-child interactions
Bilingualism has been systematically associated with better self-regulatory skills (), however, this advantage does not seem to automatically transfer for most dual language learners. This suggests that there are other contextual factors that are necessary to trigger this advantage. This study examines the role of teacher–child interactions in the development of Spanish-speaking bilingual preschoolers’ self-regulation in an English-speaking conte…
Elucidating linkages of executive functioning to school readiness skill gains
Pre-Prison and Indigenous Predictors of Institutional Misconduct
This study prospectively predicted institutional misconduct over a 34-month period using pre-prison factors—intrinsic characteristics an individual brings into prison—stemming from importation theory and indigenous factors—prison environment factors that affect an incarcerated adult—stemming from deprivation theory. Participants were 114 male and female incarcerated adults. Poisson regressions predicting the number of institutional infractions pa…
Patterns of children's readiness at school entry and their association with kindergarten academic and social-emotional outcomes
Perceptions of Emotional Functionality
Emotions are linked to wide sets of action tendencies, and it can be difficult to predict which specific action tendency will be motivated or indulged in response to individual experiences of emotion. Building on a functional perspective of emotion, we investigate whether anger and shame connect to different behavioral intentions in dignity, face, and honor cultures. Using simple animations that showed perpetrators taking resources from victims, …
Observed Quality and Consistency of Fifth Graders' Teacher-Student Interactions
This study examined how overall quality and within-day consistency in fifth graders' teacher-student interactions related to feelings about, engagement, and academic performance in school. Participants were 956 children in a national study. Students who experienced higher quality interactions reported more positive feelings about school, were more engaged, performed better in math and reading, and had more closeness and less conflict with teacher…
Understanding the relationship between teachers' use of online demonstration videos and fidelity of implementation in MyTeachingPartner-Math/Science
Exploring Teachers’ Depressive Symptoms, Interaction Quality, and Children’s Social-Emotional Development in Head Start
Research Findings: This study explored the role Head Start teachers’ (n = 355) depressive symptoms play in their interactions with children and in children’s (n = 2,203) social-emotional development, specifically changes in children’s problem behaviors and social skills as reported by parents and teachers during the preschool year. Results of the multilevel path analyses revealed that children in classrooms with more depressed teachers made signi…
Unpacking intervention effects
Opportunistic biases
Researchers commonly explore their data in multiple ways before deciding which analyses they will include in the final versions of their papers. While this improves the chances of researchers finding publishable results, it introduces an "opportunistic bias," such that the reported relations are stronger or otherwise more supportive of the researcher's theories than they would be without the exploratory process. The magnitudes of opportunistic bi…
Relating prekindergarten teacher beliefs and knowledge to children's language and literacy development
Risky sexual behavior and substance use among adolescents
Teacher–child conversations in preschool classrooms
Dose–response relations between preschool teachers’ exposure to components of professional development and increases in quality of their interactions with children
MyTeachingPartner-Math/Science pre-kindergarten curricula and teacher supports
Teacher–child conversations in preschool classrooms
Risky sexual behavior and substance use among adolescents
Race/ethnicity and the factor structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine racial/ethnic differences in the factor structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). The total number of participants (N) in the assessed studies (k) varied according to whether the original study had used either Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA; N = 19,206, k = 13) or Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA; N = 65,554, k = 16). The factor structures of the CES-D were comp…
Knowledge acquisition, accessibility, and use in person perception and stereotyping
Connectionist models contrast in many ways with the symbolic models that have traditionally been applied within social psychology. In this article the authors apply an autoassociative connectionist model originally developed by J. L. McClelland and D. E. Rumelhart (1986) to reproduce several well-replicated and theoretically important phenomena related to person perception and stereotyping. These phenomena are exemplar-based inference, group-base…
Dose–response relations between preschool teachers’ exposure to components of professional development and increases in quality of their interactions with children
MyTeachingPartner-Math/Science pre-kindergarten curricula and teacher supports
Variation in the effectiveness of instructional interactions across preschool classroom settings and learning activities
Using a standardized video-based assessment in a university teacher education program to examine preservice teachers knowledge related to effective teaching
Relating prekindergarten teacher beliefs and knowledge to children's language and literacy development
Lessons on Stigma
Teaching about the sociology of HIV/AIDS involves teaching about the causes and effects of stigma. We describe a Sociology of HIV/AIDS course at the University of Alabama in which stigma reduction was assessed as a primary objective. The syllabus involved theory-based instruction, class visits, service learning, and student research on community attitudes toward HIV/AIDS. We report on how stigma affected the service learning and other elements of…
Efficacy of the Responsive Classroom Approach
This randomized controlled field trial examined the efficacy of the Responsive Classroom ( RC) approach on student achievement. Schools ( n = 24) were randomized into intervention and control conditions; 2,904 children were studied from end of second to fifth grade. Students at schools assigned to the RC condition did not outperform students at schools assigned to the control condition in math or reading achievement. Use of RC practices mediated …
Transfer to adult court
Patterns of children's readiness at school entry and their association with kindergarten academic and social-emotional outcomes
Observed Quality and Consistency of Fifth Graders' Teacher-Student Interactions
This study examined how overall quality and within-day consistency in fifth graders' teacher-student interactions related to feelings about, engagement, and academic performance in school. Participants were 956 children in a national study. Students who experienced higher quality interactions reported more positive feelings about school, were more engaged, performed better in math and reading, and had more closeness and less conflict with teacher…
Reconciling questions about dichotomizing variables in criminal justice research
Teacher-child relationship quality and kindergarten outcomes
Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Communication Research
The field of communication supports a healthy literature based on both quantitative and qualitative methods. However, individual researchers commonly focus on using only one of these two techniques. The current paper promotes the use of multiple methods to investigate research questions and emphasizes the potential benefits of using quantitative and qualitative techniques interactively and interdependently. The general goals and procedures of eac…
Knowledge acquisition, accessibility, and use in person perception and stereotyping
Connectionist models contrast in many ways with the symbolic models that have traditionally been applied within social psychology. In this article the authors apply an autoassociative connectionist model originally developed by J. L. McClelland and D. E. Rumelhart (1986) to reproduce several well-replicated and theoretically important phenomena related to person perception and stereotyping. These phenomena are exemplar-based inference, group-base…
Dual-Process Models in Social and Cognitive Psychology
Models postulating 2 distinct processing modes have been proposed in several topic areas within social and cognitive psychology. We advance a new conceptual model of the 2 processing modes. The structural basis of the new model is the idea, supported by psychological and neuropsychological evidence, that humans possess 2 memory systems. One system slowly learns general regularities, whereas the other can quickly form representations of unique or …
Ask, Answer, and Announce
Discrimination towards members of low-status groups takes a variety of forms, and results in a variety of negative consequences for its victims. Furthermore, discrimination may influence its targets either directly (for instance, when housing discrimination makes insurance, mortgage rates, or rents higher for African Americans than for whites) or indirectly, that is via perceptions on the part of the stigmatised. In the latter case the outcomes a…
Transfer to adult court
Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Communication Research
The field of communication supports a healthy literature based on both quantitative and qualitative methods. However, individual researchers commonly focus on using only one of these two techniques. The current paper promotes the use of multiple methods to investigate research questions and emphasizes the potential benefits of using quantitative and qualitative techniques interactively and interdependently. The general goals and procedures of eac…
A large-scale meta-analysis relating the Hare measures of psychopathy to antisocial conduct.
The present meta-analysis integrated effect sizes from 95 non-overlapping studies (N=15,826) to summarize the relation between Hare Psychopathy Checklists and antisocial conduct. Whereas prior meta-analyses focused on specific subdomains of the literature, we used broad inclusion criteria, incorporating a diversity of samples, settings, methodologies, and outcomes in our analysis. Our broad perspective allowed us to identify general trends consis…
A conceptual and empirical examination of justifications for dichotomization.
Despite many articles reporting the problems of dichotomizing continuous measures, researchers still commonly use this practice. The authors' purpose in this article was to understand the reasons that people still dichotomize and to determine whether any of these reasons are valid. They contacted 66 researchers who had published articles using dichotomized variables and obtained their justifications for dichotomization. They also contacted 53 aut…
Predicting the trajectories of emotional well‐being of Chinese community dwelling oldest old adults
The paper explores the longitudinal changes of emotional well‐being of Chinese oldest old adults (80 years or older) and discloses significant factors that influence the trajectories, with a focus on the differences between those residing in rural and urban settings. Data were derived from three waves (1998, 2000, and 2002) of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), which was carried out in 22 of the 31 provinces in China. We u…
The Use of Morycz’s Desire-to-Institutionalize Scale Across Three Racial/Ethnic Groups
Findings suggest that Morycz's DTI scale is a consistently reliable measure for assessing the desire to institutionalize across White, African American, and Hispanic dementia caregivers
Best Practices for Using Median Splits, Artificial Categorization, and their Continuous Alternatives
Methodologists have long discussed the costs and benefits of using medians or other cut points to artificially turn continuous variables into categorical variables. The current paper attempts to provide a perspective on this literature that will be of practical use to experimental psychopathologists. After discussing the reasons that clinical researchers might use artificial categorization, we summarize the arguments both for and against this pro…
Pain, Disability, and Depression in Osteoarthritis
Race and sex influence affective response to OA pain and disability in complex ways, with African American men showing paradoxical effects. Further research is needed to elucidate mechanisms of this moderation effect
Race/ethnicity and the factor structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine racial/ethnic differences in the factor structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). The total number of participants (N) in the assessed studies (k) varied according to whether the original study had used either Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA; N = 19,206, k = 13) or Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA; N = 65,554, k = 16). The factor structures of the CES-D were comp…
Teaching through Interactions
Validating frameworks for understanding classroom processes that contribute to student learning and development is important to advance the scientific study of teaching. This article presents one such framework, Teaching through Interactions, which posits that teacher-student interactions are a central driver for student learning and organizes teacher-student interactions into three major domains. Results provide evidence that across 4,341 presch…
Variation in the effectiveness of instructional interactions across preschool classroom settings and learning activities
Using a standardized video-based assessment in a university teacher education program to examine preservice teachers knowledge related to effective teaching
Reconciling questions about dichotomizing variables in criminal justice research
Teacher–child conversations in preschool classrooms
Dose–response relations between preschool teachers’ exposure to components of professional development and increases in quality of their interactions with children
MyTeachingPartner-Math/Science pre-kindergarten curricula and teacher supports
Lessons on Stigma
Teaching about the sociology of HIV/AIDS involves teaching about the causes and effects of stigma. We describe a Sociology of HIV/AIDS course at the University of Alabama in which stigma reduction was assessed as a primary objective. The syllabus involved theory-based instruction, class visits, service learning, and student research on community attitudes toward HIV/AIDS. We report on how stigma affected the service learning and other elements of…
Efficacy of the Responsive Classroom Approach
This randomized controlled field trial examined the efficacy of the Responsive Classroom ( RC) approach on student achievement. Schools ( n = 24) were randomized into intervention and control conditions; 2,904 children were studied from end of second to fifth grade. Students at schools assigned to the RC condition did not outperform students at schools assigned to the control condition in math or reading achievement. Use of RC practices mediated …
Opportunistic biases
Researchers commonly explore their data in multiple ways before deciding which analyses they will include in the final versions of their papers. While this improves the chances of researchers finding publishable results, it introduces an "opportunistic bias," such that the reported relations are stronger or otherwise more supportive of the researcher's theories than they would be without the exploratory process. The magnitudes of opportunistic bi…
Relating prekindergarten teacher beliefs and knowledge to children's language and literacy development
Risky sexual behavior and substance use among adolescents
Exploring Teachers’ Depressive Symptoms, Interaction Quality, and Children’s Social-Emotional Development in Head Start
Research Findings: This study explored the role Head Start teachers’ (n = 355) depressive symptoms play in their interactions with children and in children’s (n = 2,203) social-emotional development, specifically changes in children’s problem behaviors and social skills as reported by parents and teachers during the preschool year. Results of the multilevel path analyses revealed that children in classrooms with more depressed teachers made signi…
Psychology (37 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (16 works) · Pedagogy (14 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Mathematics education (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (9 works) · Literacy (7 works)