D P Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 20600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D P Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | D P |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9967-8249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
An evolving international research collaboration network
Co-authored research articles in the disciplinarily heterogeneous field of higher education have dramatically increased in this century. As in other fields, rising international co-authorships reflect evolving international collaboration networks. We examine higher education research over two decades, applying automated bibliometric topic identification and social network analysis of 9067 papers in 13 core higher education journals (1998–2018). R…
An inevitable phenomenon
Explaining the Education-Health Gradient in Preventing STIs in Andean Peru
CONTEXT: Little is known about the pathways mediating the relationship between education and health. It is widely assumed that formal schooling leads to awareness of health risks (e.g., STIs) and, in turn, to adoption of preventive behavior (e.g., condom use); however, evidence supporting this mechanism has been limited. METHODS: Survey data were collected in 2010 from a sample of 247 adults aged 30-62 living in an isolated Andean district of Per…
Policy reformer’s dream or nightmare
In this Forum we suggest that a growing intensity of contradictory public and private interests in education is a persistent force in education development stemming from the increasing centrality o
University vs. Research Institute? The Dual Pillars of German Science Production, 1950–2010
The world’s third largest producer of scientific research, Germany, is the origin of the research university and the independent, extra-university research institute. Its dual-pillar research policy differentiates these organizational forms functionally: universities specialize in advanced research-based teaching; institutes specialize intensely on research. Over the past decades this policy affected each sector differently: while universities su…
Engineering a World Class University? The Impact of Taiwan’s World Class University Project on Scientific Productivity
Is education a risk factor or social vaccine against HIV/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa? The effect of schooling across public health periods
Making citizens of the world
Unique cross-national data on adolescents’ civic skills, knowledge, and political attitudes are used to examine the democratic processes of modern mass schooling, effects of national political systems, and patterns of youth political socialization in 27 nations. Compared to the generally weak reported effects on mathematics and reading achievement, we find robust effects of schooling on youths’ civics knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Secondly, t…
Forward and backward, horizontal and vertical
The origin of universal shadow education
Facts, Attitudes, and Health Reasoning About HIV and Aids
The Research University in Transition
The Institutional Crisis of the German Research University
Three faces of international inequality
Assessing Barriers to the Reform of U.S. Mathematics Instruction From an International Perspective
The authors assessed five commonly perceived barriers to increased use of conceptual teaching in mathematics in the United States related to teacher autonomy, trade-offs with computational strategies, student achievement, class size, and teacher qualifications. These barriers were examined through the use of data from nationally representative samples of eighth-grade mathematics classrooms across 38 nations that took part in the Third Internation…
Response to K. Anderson-Levitt’s Rejoinder
Anderson-Levitt raises several useful issues about our recent article on global versus national cultures, institutionalization, and comparative analysis of teaching in three nations.--In this response, we clarify some of our arguments and illustrate some of our differences in emphasis from Anderson-Levitt
Worldwide Growth and Institutionalization of Statistical Indicators for Education Policy-Making
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Common Cold
This paper focuses on conceptualizations of common cold among Latin Americans, as compared with middle-class Americans. Four geographically dispersed groups of Latin Americans were chosen for study: Guatemalans in Guatemala; Mexicans in Guadalajara, Mexico; persons of Mexican descent in Edinburg, Texas (on Texas-Mexican border); and Puerto Ricans in Hartford, Connecticut. In addition, a comparison group of middle-income Americans living in Tampa,…
Taylor and Parfit on personal identity
In this paper the author attempts to show that Lötter is not justified in ignoring orthodox views of personal identity on the basis of arguments offered by Taylor. It is argued that Taylor's arguments against the orthodoxy do not establish what he, and Lötter, hope they establish, namely, that the orthodox position, represented by the work of Parfit, fails to account for personal identity. The author also attempts to show the importance of this a…
Human Capital Formation and School Expansion in Asia
Theories of national development, and in particular endogenous economic growth theories, have focused attention on the northern Asia-Pacific Rim countries. Several factors have been deemed responsible for rapid and sustained economic growth in Japan and the so-called Asian Tigers of Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Although most accounts of how the growth occurred include some combination of economic, demographic and politi…
Institutional Context of an Adolescent Transition
The transition from high school to college occurs within an institutional context and this institutional context influences the academic transitional tasks faced by adolescents. Key characteristics of the institutional context of the transition to college in the United States were the size of higher education, the similarity among colleges in their admission applications, and the nonselectiveness of admission to most colleges. Key characteristics…
A Note Concerning the Predictive Validities of Selected Cognitive and non-Cognitive Measures for Freshman Students in a Liberal Arts College
The Research University in Transition
Forward and backward, horizontal and vertical
Making citizens of the world
Unique cross-national data on adolescents’ civic skills, knowledge, and political attitudes are used to examine the democratic processes of modern mass schooling, effects of national political systems, and patterns of youth political socialization in 27 nations. Compared to the generally weak reported effects on mathematics and reading achievement, we find robust effects of schooling on youths’ civics knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Secondly, t…
Three faces of international inequality
University vs. Research Institute? The Dual Pillars of German Science Production, 1950–2010
The world’s third largest producer of scientific research, Germany, is the origin of the research university and the independent, extra-university research institute. Its dual-pillar research policy differentiates these organizational forms functionally: universities specialize in advanced research-based teaching; institutes specialize intensely on research. Over the past decades this policy affected each sector differently: while universities su…
Engineering a World Class University? The Impact of Taiwan’s World Class University Project on Scientific Productivity
Response to K. Anderson-Levitt’s Rejoinder
Anderson-Levitt raises several useful issues about our recent article on global versus national cultures, institutionalization, and comparative analysis of teaching in three nations.--In this response, we clarify some of our arguments and illustrate some of our differences in emphasis from Anderson-Levitt
Human Capital Formation and School Expansion in Asia
Theories of national development, and in particular endogenous economic growth theories, have focused attention on the northern Asia-Pacific Rim countries. Several factors have been deemed responsible for rapid and sustained economic growth in Japan and the so-called Asian Tigers of Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Although most accounts of how the growth occurred include some combination of economic, demographic and politi…
Assessing Barriers to the Reform of U.S. Mathematics Instruction From an International Perspective
The authors assessed five commonly perceived barriers to increased use of conceptual teaching in mathematics in the United States related to teacher autonomy, trade-offs with computational strategies, student achievement, class size, and teacher qualifications. These barriers were examined through the use of data from nationally representative samples of eighth-grade mathematics classrooms across 38 nations that took part in the Third Internation…
Policy reformer’s dream or nightmare
In this Forum we suggest that a growing intensity of contradictory public and private interests in education is a persistent force in education development stemming from the increasing centrality o
The Institutional Crisis of the German Research University
Worldwide Growth and Institutionalization of Statistical Indicators for Education Policy-Making
A Note Concerning the Predictive Validities of Selected Cognitive and non-Cognitive Measures for Freshman Students in a Liberal Arts College
Institutional Context of an Adolescent Transition
The transition from high school to college occurs within an institutional context and this institutional context influences the academic transitional tasks faced by adolescents. Key characteristics of the institutional context of the transition to college in the United States were the size of higher education, the similarity among colleges in their admission applications, and the nonselectiveness of admission to most colleges. Key characteristics…
Human Capital Formation and School Expansion in Asia
Theories of national development, and in particular endogenous economic growth theories, have focused attention on the northern Asia-Pacific Rim countries. Several factors have been deemed responsible for rapid and sustained economic growth in Japan and the so-called Asian Tigers of Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Although most accounts of how the growth occurred include some combination of economic, demographic and politi…
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Common Cold
This paper focuses on conceptualizations of common cold among Latin Americans, as compared with middle-class Americans. Four geographically dispersed groups of Latin Americans were chosen for study: Guatemalans in Guatemala; Mexicans in Guadalajara, Mexico; persons of Mexican descent in Edinburg, Texas (on Texas-Mexican border); and Puerto Ricans in Hartford, Connecticut. In addition, a comparison group of middle-income Americans living in Tampa,…
Taylor and Parfit on personal identity
In this paper the author attempts to show that Lötter is not justified in ignoring orthodox views of personal identity on the basis of arguments offered by Taylor. It is argued that Taylor's arguments against the orthodoxy do not establish what he, and Lötter, hope they establish, namely, that the orthodox position, represented by the work of Parfit, fails to account for personal identity. The author also attempts to show the importance of this a…
Worldwide Growth and Institutionalization of Statistical Indicators for Education Policy-Making
Response to K. Anderson-Levitt’s Rejoinder
Anderson-Levitt raises several useful issues about our recent article on global versus national cultures, institutionalization, and comparative analysis of teaching in three nations.--In this response, we clarify some of our arguments and illustrate some of our differences in emphasis from Anderson-Levitt
Assessing Barriers to the Reform of U.S. Mathematics Instruction From an International Perspective
The authors assessed five commonly perceived barriers to increased use of conceptual teaching in mathematics in the United States related to teacher autonomy, trade-offs with computational strategies, student achievement, class size, and teacher qualifications. These barriers were examined through the use of data from nationally representative samples of eighth-grade mathematics classrooms across 38 nations that took part in the Third Internation…
Three faces of international inequality
The Research University in Transition
The Institutional Crisis of the German Research University
The origin of universal shadow education
Facts, Attitudes, and Health Reasoning About HIV and Aids
Making citizens of the world
Unique cross-national data on adolescents’ civic skills, knowledge, and political attitudes are used to examine the democratic processes of modern mass schooling, effects of national political systems, and patterns of youth political socialization in 27 nations. Compared to the generally weak reported effects on mathematics and reading achievement, we find robust effects of schooling on youths’ civics knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Secondly, t…
Forward and backward, horizontal and vertical
Is education a risk factor or social vaccine against HIV/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa? The effect of schooling across public health periods
Engineering a World Class University? The Impact of Taiwan’s World Class University Project on Scientific Productivity
An inevitable phenomenon
Explaining the Education-Health Gradient in Preventing STIs in Andean Peru
CONTEXT: Little is known about the pathways mediating the relationship between education and health. It is widely assumed that formal schooling leads to awareness of health risks (e.g., STIs) and, in turn, to adoption of preventive behavior (e.g., condom use); however, evidence supporting this mechanism has been limited. METHODS: Survey data were collected in 2010 from a sample of 247 adults aged 30-62 living in an isolated Andean district of Per…
Policy reformer’s dream or nightmare
In this Forum we suggest that a growing intensity of contradictory public and private interests in education is a persistent force in education development stemming from the increasing centrality o
University vs. Research Institute? The Dual Pillars of German Science Production, 1950–2010
The world’s third largest producer of scientific research, Germany, is the origin of the research university and the independent, extra-university research institute. Its dual-pillar research policy differentiates these organizational forms functionally: universities specialize in advanced research-based teaching; institutes specialize intensely on research. Over the past decades this policy affected each sector differently: while universities su…
An evolving international research collaboration network
Co-authored research articles in the disciplinarily heterogeneous field of higher education have dramatically increased in this century. As in other fields, rising international co-authorships reflect evolving international collaboration networks. We examine higher education research over two decades, applying automated bibliometric topic identification and social network analysis of 9067 papers in 13 core higher education journals (1998–2018). R…
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