Martha A Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 331383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha A Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina Central University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5581-455X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
India Ukre Giya: Loss and Change in Light of and in the Shadows of War
The Thar Desert is located at the confluence of Sindh, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. The region’s folklore refers to the desert as a sea through which a cast of warriors, merchants, and adventurers traveled. Oral histories connect it with business and subsistence exchanges. These histories tell of crossing the Rann of Kutch (i.e., into India from Pakistan). They illustrate a strong connection between Tharparkar (in the Pakistani province of Sindh) and …
Coping Motivated Alcohol Use: The Role of Social Anxiety and Dissociation
Background: Social anxiety has been associated with higher rates of negative alcohol use consequences, and this relationship appears to be accounted for by coping drinking motives. Dissociation is commonly present in anxiety disorders, including social anxiety disorder, and may serve to unconsciously reduce negative emotions when more effortful coping strategies are not effective. Objectives: The present study examined whether the relationship be…
Language Shift and Identity Reproduction among Diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia
This article examines the relationship between language shift and identity among diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia. It focuses on questions concerning how members of this community reproduce identity through language shift. The first part of the article describes identity and language shift among diaspora Sindhis in post-partition India. It argues that language shift facilitates the reproduction of core cultural modalities among diaspo…
Organizations and Values in Human Services
A congruence framework, emphasizing person-environment fit, is utilized to examine selected dimensions of staff members' values and agency characteristics of structure and technology. Drawing from the fields of ethics and organizational theory, this article explores the interactions of individual staff, work group, and organizational levels of service delivery, with particular attention to their respective emphases on means versus ends of action …
Curricula and Coursework: A Surprise Ending to a Familiar Story
Previous research on high school tracking has neglected students' course enrollments and students' course grades as possible selection criteria for curriculum assignments and as possible mechanisms whereby track membership exercises its influence on school outcomes. The present study extends the Alexander, Cook, and McDill (1978) curriculum process model to include detailed information on students' coursework patterns over the junior high school …
Measure for Measure: On the Use of Endogenous Ability Data in School-Process Research
The appropriate use of ability test performance in evaluating schools has been a subject of considerable debate. The present study evaluates three strategies for controlling input-level ability differences in such research: longitudinal, predetermined ability measures; cross-sectional, endogenous ability measures; and SES measures as proxies for ability. In general, endogenous measures of ability behave much like predetermined measures, while SES…
Design and Substance in Educational Research: Adolescent Attainments, A Case in Point
Much non-experimental educational research has relied upon cross-sectional designs, while many of the theories which motivate such inquiry imply some sort of developmental sequencing of the relationships of interest. This paper explores the practical implications of this disjuncture between perspective and practice by comparing the conclusions reached in the estimation of a recursive school process model of educational goal formation across sever…
The Motivational Relevance of Educational Plans: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom
Employing two complementary data sets, the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 and the Study of Academic Prediction and Growth, we question the conventional interpretation of educational plans as motives, and thereby as determinants of educational attainment. We find that when questioned about their educational plans: (1) perhaps as many as 20% of youth supply extemporaneous responses; (2) another 20% report goals of quit…
Making Inequality: The Hidden Curriculum of High School Tracking
Curricula and Coursework: A Surprise Ending to a Familiar Story
Previous research on high school tracking has neglected students' course enrollments and students' course grades as possible selection criteria for curriculum assignments and as possible mechanisms whereby track membership exercises its influence on school outcomes. The present study extends the Alexander, Cook, and McDill (1978) curriculum process model to include detailed information on students' coursework patterns over the junior high school …
The Motivational Relevance of Educational Plans: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom
Employing two complementary data sets, the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 and the Study of Academic Prediction and Growth, we question the conventional interpretation of educational plans as motives, and thereby as determinants of educational attainment. We find that when questioned about their educational plans: (1) perhaps as many as 20% of youth supply extemporaneous responses; (2) another 20% report goals of quit…
Measure for Measure: On the Use of Endogenous Ability Data in School-Process Research
The appropriate use of ability test performance in evaluating schools has been a subject of considerable debate. The present study evaluates three strategies for controlling input-level ability differences in such research: longitudinal, predetermined ability measures; cross-sectional, endogenous ability measures; and SES measures as proxies for ability. In general, endogenous measures of ability behave much like predetermined measures, while SES…
Language Shift and Identity Reproduction among Diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia
This article examines the relationship between language shift and identity among diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia. It focuses on questions concerning how members of this community reproduce identity through language shift. The first part of the article describes identity and language shift among diaspora Sindhis in post-partition India. It argues that language shift facilitates the reproduction of core cultural modalities among diaspo…
Organizations and Values in Human Services
A congruence framework, emphasizing person-environment fit, is utilized to examine selected dimensions of staff members' values and agency characteristics of structure and technology. Drawing from the fields of ethics and organizational theory, this article explores the interactions of individual staff, work group, and organizational levels of service delivery, with particular attention to their respective emphases on means versus ends of action …
Design and Substance in Educational Research: Adolescent Attainments, A Case in Point
Much non-experimental educational research has relied upon cross-sectional designs, while many of the theories which motivate such inquiry imply some sort of developmental sequencing of the relationships of interest. This paper explores the practical implications of this disjuncture between perspective and practice by comparing the conclusions reached in the estimation of a recursive school process model of educational goal formation across sever…
Making Inequality: The Hidden Curriculum of High School Tracking
The Motivational Relevance of Educational Plans: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom
Employing two complementary data sets, the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 and the Study of Academic Prediction and Growth, we question the conventional interpretation of educational plans as motives, and thereby as determinants of educational attainment. We find that when questioned about their educational plans: (1) perhaps as many as 20% of youth supply extemporaneous responses; (2) another 20% report goals of quit…
Design and Substance in Educational Research: Adolescent Attainments, A Case in Point
Much non-experimental educational research has relied upon cross-sectional designs, while many of the theories which motivate such inquiry imply some sort of developmental sequencing of the relationships of interest. This paper explores the practical implications of this disjuncture between perspective and practice by comparing the conclusions reached in the estimation of a recursive school process model of educational goal formation across sever…
Measure for Measure: On the Use of Endogenous Ability Data in School-Process Research
The appropriate use of ability test performance in evaluating schools has been a subject of considerable debate. The present study evaluates three strategies for controlling input-level ability differences in such research: longitudinal, predetermined ability measures; cross-sectional, endogenous ability measures; and SES measures as proxies for ability. In general, endogenous measures of ability behave much like predetermined measures, while SES…
Curricula and Coursework: A Surprise Ending to a Familiar Story
Previous research on high school tracking has neglected students' course enrollments and students' course grades as possible selection criteria for curriculum assignments and as possible mechanisms whereby track membership exercises its influence on school outcomes. The present study extends the Alexander, Cook, and McDill (1978) curriculum process model to include detailed information on students' coursework patterns over the junior high school …
Organizations and Values in Human Services
A congruence framework, emphasizing person-environment fit, is utilized to examine selected dimensions of staff members' values and agency characteristics of structure and technology. Drawing from the fields of ethics and organizational theory, this article explores the interactions of individual staff, work group, and organizational levels of service delivery, with particular attention to their respective emphases on means versus ends of action …
Coping Motivated Alcohol Use: The Role of Social Anxiety and Dissociation
Background: Social anxiety has been associated with higher rates of negative alcohol use consequences, and this relationship appears to be accounted for by coping drinking motives. Dissociation is commonly present in anxiety disorders, including social anxiety disorder, and may serve to unconsciously reduce negative emotions when more effortful coping strategies are not effective. Objectives: The present study examined whether the relationship be…
Language Shift and Identity Reproduction among Diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia
This article examines the relationship between language shift and identity among diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia. It focuses on questions concerning how members of this community reproduce identity through language shift. The first part of the article describes identity and language shift among diaspora Sindhis in post-partition India. It argues that language shift facilitates the reproduction of core cultural modalities among diaspo…
India Ukre Giya: Loss and Change in Light of and in the Shadows of War
The Thar Desert is located at the confluence of Sindh, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. The region’s folklore refers to the desert as a sea through which a cast of warriors, merchants, and adventurers traveled. Oral histories connect it with business and subsistence exchanges. These histories tell of crossing the Rann of Kutch (i.e., into India from Pakistan). They illustrate a strong connection between Tharparkar (in the Pakistani province of Sindh) and …
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · School Choice and Performance (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works)