Patrick Finn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4860763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Finn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Finn |
| SIGNATURE | FINN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9607-7552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Preparing for Power in Elite Boarding Schools and in Working-Class Schools
Elite boarding schools endeavor to instill in their students elite-class solidarity, strong beliefs in both meritocracy and the essential rightness of the status quo, and practical political know-how. Each of these objectives is wholly compatible with the self-interest of their students and their families. In the vast majority of working-class schools, class-consciousness is discouraged, individual effort is valorized, and collective effort is de…
Word Frequency, Information Theory, and Cloze Performance
HYPOTHESIZES THAT CLOZE EASINESS (the percent of subjects filling in the correct word in a cloze task) is a measure of information as defined by Shannon and Weaver (1949). A theory is developed that information is a function of 2 variables: a) the number of lexical markers associated with the word, and b) the number of lexical markers supplied for the word through what Weinrich (1966) calls transfer features. The theory states that frequent words…
Preparing for Power in Elite Boarding Schools and in Working-Class Schools
Elite boarding schools endeavor to instill in their students elite-class solidarity, strong beliefs in both meritocracy and the essential rightness of the status quo, and practical political know-how. Each of these objectives is wholly compatible with the self-interest of their students and their families. In the vast majority of working-class schools, class-consciousness is discouraged, individual effort is valorized, and collective effort is de…
Word Frequency, Information Theory, and Cloze Performance
HYPOTHESIZES THAT CLOZE EASINESS (the percent of subjects filling in the correct word in a cloze task) is a measure of information as defined by Shannon and Weaver (1949). A theory is developed that information is a function of 2 variables: a) the number of lexical markers associated with the word, and b) the number of lexical markers supplied for the word through what Weinrich (1966) calls transfer features. The theory states that frequent words…
Word Frequency, Information Theory, and Cloze Performance
HYPOTHESIZES THAT CLOZE EASINESS (the percent of subjects filling in the correct word in a cloze task) is a measure of information as defined by Shannon and Weaver (1949). A theory is developed that information is a function of 2 variables: a) the number of lexical markers associated with the word, and b) the number of lexical markers supplied for the word through what Weinrich (1966) calls transfer features. The theory states that frequent words…
Preparing for Power in Elite Boarding Schools and in Working-Class Schools
Elite boarding schools endeavor to instill in their students elite-class solidarity, strong beliefs in both meritocracy and the essential rightness of the status quo, and practical political know-how. Each of these objectives is wholly compatible with the self-interest of their students and their families. In the vast majority of working-class schools, class-consciousness is discouraged, individual effort is valorized, and collective effort is de…
Psychology (2 works) · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Class (philosophy (1 work) · Class consciousness (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Democracy (1 work) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (1 work) · Elite (1 work)