David S Webster
Biographic Data
| ID | 371563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Webster |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Webster |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSTER D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oklahoma State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The concept of affordance and GIS: A note on Llobera (1996)
Llobera (1996) seeks to utilize the concept of affordance in his GIS study of Wessex linear ditches. Unfortunately, he does not seem fully to appreciate what is implied in the concept of affordance, nor the role that it plays within Gibson's theory of direct perception. I offer this short note as an addendum to Llobera's discussion of affordance and its uses with GIS
David Riesman: American scholar
Object recognition from point‐light stimuli: Evidence of covariation structures in conceptual representation
Current theories of concepts and categorization involve easily identifiable attributes or features as the basic informational fodder of representation, and some composite of such features as the conceptual representation. This ‘standard model’ is now being questioned on a number of empirical and theoretical grounds, especially those concerning the informational origins of features. In this paper we examine the evocation of conceptual functions by…
Analogical reasoning and the nature of context: A research note
Recent theorising about children's reasoning has tended to move towards a ‘contextualist’ view of cognition and away from the idea of an overall, context‐free, mechanism, varying in efficiency, which is the presupposition underlying traditional standardised reasoning tests. An earlier study suggesting improved reasoning performance among children on socio‐cognitively meaningful versions of Raven's Matrices tended to support this shift. The main p…
Books in review
The Evidence for Quality: Strengthening the Tests of Academic and Administrative Effectiveness
"The Evidence for Quality: Strengthening the Tests of Academic and Administrative Effectiveness,." The Journal of Higher Education, 65(5), pp. 639–640
Books in review
Books and articles of academic interest
Books in review
Objective and Reputational Rankings of Ph.D.-Granting Departments of Sociology, 1965–1982
From its inception in 1965 until 1975 when it stopped publishing such studies, The American Sociologist (TAS) published numerous quality rankings of Ph.D.-granting sociology departments and several articles that compared different rankings. During these years TAS published far more rankings of sociology departments than did any other journal This article reviews these studies as well as the rankings of sociology departments found in three major m…
Baptist Colleges in the Development of American Society, 1812-1861
Academic Quality Rankings of American Colleges and Universities
The Bureau of Education's Suppressed Rating of Colleges, 1911-1912
THE EARLIEST academic quality ranking ever discussed by those few scholars who have written comprehensive reviews of such rankings was a 1925 rating of graduate departments in 20 disciplines at American Ph.D.-granting universities. It was published by Raymond M. Hughes in 1925.' In actuality, academic quality rankings existed before then; as early as 1911, for example, the United States Bureau of Education produced one that stratified hundreds of…
Higher Education and its Useful Past: Applied History in Research and Planning
A note on a very early academic quality ranking by James McKeen Cattell
Academic quality rankings are efforts to rank order colleges and universities or their individual departments in order of their presumed quality, based upon one or more criteria. The earliest such ranking is generally believed to have been published by Raymond M. Hughes in 1925. In actuality, however, the eminent psychologist James McKeen Cattell published one as early as 1910. He did so because he wanted to show the institutions where leading Am…
Reputation and Productivity Among U.S. Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs: A Ranking Error
The idea of the academic procession in david riesman's writings on american higher education, 1956‐present
The Culture of a Community College
Academic Rewards in Higher Education
Prefatory note
The concept of affordance and GIS: A note on Llobera (1996)
Llobera (1996) seeks to utilize the concept of affordance in his GIS study of Wessex linear ditches. Unfortunately, he does not seem fully to appreciate what is implied in the concept of affordance, nor the role that it plays within Gibson's theory of direct perception. I offer this short note as an addendum to Llobera's discussion of affordance and its uses with GIS
Objective and Reputational Rankings of Ph.D.-Granting Departments of Sociology, 1965–1982
From its inception in 1965 until 1975 when it stopped publishing such studies, The American Sociologist (TAS) published numerous quality rankings of Ph.D.-granting sociology departments and several articles that compared different rankings. During these years TAS published far more rankings of sociology departments than did any other journal This article reviews these studies as well as the rankings of sociology departments found in three major m…
Baptist Colleges in the Development of American Society, 1812-1861
Academic Quality Rankings of American Colleges and Universities
The Bureau of Education's Suppressed Rating of Colleges, 1911-1912
THE EARLIEST academic quality ranking ever discussed by those few scholars who have written comprehensive reviews of such rankings was a 1925 rating of graduate departments in 20 disciplines at American Ph.D.-granting universities. It was published by Raymond M. Hughes in 1925.' In actuality, academic quality rankings existed before then; as early as 1911, for example, the United States Bureau of Education produced one that stratified hundreds of…
Academic Rewards in Higher Education
Prefatory note
The idea of the academic procession in david riesman's writings on american higher education, 1956‐present
The Culture of a Community College
Academic Rewards in Higher Education
Reputation and Productivity Among U.S. Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs: A Ranking Error
The Bureau of Education's Suppressed Rating of Colleges, 1911-1912
THE EARLIEST academic quality ranking ever discussed by those few scholars who have written comprehensive reviews of such rankings was a 1925 rating of graduate departments in 20 disciplines at American Ph.D.-granting universities. It was published by Raymond M. Hughes in 1925.' In actuality, academic quality rankings existed before then; as early as 1911, for example, the United States Bureau of Education produced one that stratified hundreds of…
Higher Education and its Useful Past: Applied History in Research and Planning
A note on a very early academic quality ranking by James McKeen Cattell
Academic quality rankings are efforts to rank order colleges and universities or their individual departments in order of their presumed quality, based upon one or more criteria. The earliest such ranking is generally believed to have been published by Raymond M. Hughes in 1925. In actuality, however, the eminent psychologist James McKeen Cattell published one as early as 1910. He did so because he wanted to show the institutions where leading Am…
Academic Quality Rankings of American Colleges and Universities
Baptist Colleges in the Development of American Society, 1812-1861
Books in review
Objective and Reputational Rankings of Ph.D.-Granting Departments of Sociology, 1965–1982
From its inception in 1965 until 1975 when it stopped publishing such studies, The American Sociologist (TAS) published numerous quality rankings of Ph.D.-granting sociology departments and several articles that compared different rankings. During these years TAS published far more rankings of sociology departments than did any other journal This article reviews these studies as well as the rankings of sociology departments found in three major m…
Books and articles of academic interest
The Evidence for Quality: Strengthening the Tests of Academic and Administrative Effectiveness
"The Evidence for Quality: Strengthening the Tests of Academic and Administrative Effectiveness,." The Journal of Higher Education, 65(5), pp. 639–640
Books in review
Books in review
Object recognition from point‐light stimuli: Evidence of covariation structures in conceptual representation
Current theories of concepts and categorization involve easily identifiable attributes or features as the basic informational fodder of representation, and some composite of such features as the conceptual representation. This ‘standard model’ is now being questioned on a number of empirical and theoretical grounds, especially those concerning the informational origins of features. In this paper we examine the evocation of conceptual functions by…
Analogical reasoning and the nature of context: A research note
Recent theorising about children's reasoning has tended to move towards a ‘contextualist’ view of cognition and away from the idea of an overall, context‐free, mechanism, varying in efficiency, which is the presupposition underlying traditional standardised reasoning tests. An earlier study suggesting improved reasoning performance among children on socio‐cognitively meaningful versions of Raven's Matrices tended to support this shift. The main p…
The concept of affordance and GIS: A note on Llobera (1996)
Llobera (1996) seeks to utilize the concept of affordance in his GIS study of Wessex linear ditches. Unfortunately, he does not seem fully to appreciate what is implied in the concept of affordance, nor the role that it plays within Gibson's theory of direct perception. I offer this short note as an addendum to Llobera's discussion of affordance and its uses with GIS
David Riesman: American scholar
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