K A Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 51827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K A Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | K A |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6116-5509 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Factors affecting students' learning from a design‐based implementation research project in diverse education systems
This article reports on quantitative findings from a design‐based implementation research (DBIR) project Carbon TIME that focused on teaching carbon cycling at multiple scales, from atomic‐molecular to global. We report results from a large dataset from diverse schools, including 59,654 student assessments of three‐dimensional learning aligned with Next Generation Science Standards collected in classrooms of 133 middle‐ and high‐school teachers o…
The probability of a robust inference for internal validity
The internal validity of observational study is often subject to debate. In this study, we define the counterfactuals as the unobserved sample and intend to quantify its relationship with the null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST). We propose the probability of a robust inference for internal validity, that is, the PIV, as a robustness index of causal inference. Formally, the PIV is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis again based…
The role of social networks in partnership development with state wildlife agencies
The emergence of partnerships between state wildlife agencies and public or private organizations has allowed for more efficient and effective strategies to address conservation concerns. Cultivating such partnerships can increase public engagement in decision-making processes and ensure better relationships with constituents. Grant programs are a proven method for many state wildlife agencies to create, improve, and maintain habitat with partner…
Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services
Social Media, Education, and Digital Democratization
Sensitivity analysis for network observations with applications to inferences of social influence effects
The validity of network observations is sometimes of concern in empirical studies, since observed networks are prone to error and may not represent the population of interest. This lack of validity is not just a result of random measurement error, but often due to systematic bias that can lead to the misinterpretation of actors’ preferences of network selections. These issues in network observations could bias the estimation of common network mod…
Innovation diffusion within large environmental NGOs through informal network agents
Implementation of Evidence‐based Practice in Human Service Organizations
Much of the impact of a policy depends on how it is implemented, especially as mediated by organizations such as schools or hospitals. Here, we focus on how implementation of evidence-based practices in human service organizations (e.g., schools, hospitals)is affected by intraorganizational network dynamics. In particular, we hypothesize intraorganizational behavioral divergence and network polarization are likely to occur when actors strongly id…
Burnout contagion
The Impact of Being Labeled as a Persistently Lowest Achieving School
Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, grading and labeling of schools as low performing have been increasingly used as means to incentivize failing schools to raise student achievement. Using statewide high school data from Michigan, our regression discontinuity analyses show that the bottom 5% of schools identified as persistently lowest achieving (PLA), which is publicly announced and has consequential accountability, increased their …
Understanding Peer Influence in Hunter Harvest Decisions Using Social Network Theory and Analysis
State wildlife agencies are increasingly seeking the advice and cooperation of wildlife stakeholders, including that of private hunting cooperatives. While there is some evidence that the interests and actions of private deer cooperatives align with those of state wildlife agencies, little is known about the internal social mechanisms that explain this. Social network theory and analysis can shed some light on these internal group dynamics. This …
Increasing information usability for climate adaptation
What Is a “Good” Social Network for Policy Implementation? The Flow of Know-How for Organizational Change
This study concerns how intraorganizational networks affect the implementation of policies and practices in organizations. In particular, we attend to the role of the informal subgroup or clique in cultivating and distributing locally adapted and integrated knowledge, or know‐how. We develop two hypotheses based on the importance of intraorganizational coordination for an organization's capacity for change. The first emphasizes the importance of …
Network Location and Policy‐Oriented Behavior
This study explores how a scientist's location in science‐based policy networks can affect her policy‐oriented behaviors. In particular, we hypothesize that those scientists who fill structural holes in their networks will be more likely than others to engage in policy‐oriented behaviors. The network data are defined by scientists' coauthorship on policy documents regarding climate change in the Great Lakes. We employ a two‐mode network analysis …
Dollars, Distinction, or Duty? The Meaning of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards for Teachers’ Work and Collegial Relations
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is the most prominent contemporary effort to professionalize teaching. Along with identifying exceptional teachers, the NBPTS seeks to alter teachers’ work by establishing a cadre of expert teachers capable of and obligated to leading school improvement efforts. This article reports findings from a mixed methods study of teachers’ responses to the NBPTS in four urban elementary school…
Sizing up Peers
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and multi-level modeling, we examine the role of social comparison with schoolmates in adolescent girls' weight control. Specifically, we focus on how girls' own weight control is influenced by the body sizes and weight-control behaviors of their schoolmates. Our findings suggest that comparisons with similar others (in this case, girls of a similar body size) appear to have the strongest…
Analyzing Teachers’ Professional Interactions in a School as Social Capital
Background/Context Researchers have proposed a number of lenses for analyzing teacher professional communities in recent years. These lenses have been useful in describing key dynamics of professional communities; however, none provides a compelling approach to how to integrate data from the school as a whole with case study data on individual interactions to create a coherent account of the structure and dynamics of teacher professional communit…
Indices of Robustness for Sample Representation
Social scientists are rarely able to gather data from the full range of contexts to which they hope to generalize (Shadish, Cook, and Campbell 2002). Here we suggest that debates about the generality of causal inferences in the social sciences can be informed by quantifying the conditions necessary to invalidate an inference. We begin by differentiating the target population into two sub-populations: a potentially observed subpopulation from whic…
Parents' Union Dissolution and Adolescents' School Performance
We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study to estimate how parents' union dissolution influences changes in adolescents' mathematics course work gains, overall grade point average, and course failure rates during a window of approximately 1 year (N =2,629). A primary purpose of this study is demonstrating the utility of propensity score matching techniques for stu…
Peer Context and the Consequences of Adolescent Drinking
Journal Article Peer Context and the Consequences of Adolescent Drinking Get access Robert Crosnoe, Robert Crosnoe University of Texas at Austin Direct correspondence to: Robert Crosnoe, Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A1700, Austin, TX 78712-1088. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Chandra Mu…
The Pilgrimage
The term‘pilgrim age’, hajj, in Islam means a sacramental visit to the city of Mecca, the native city of the Prophet Muhammad, in Saudi Arabia. The pilgrimage occurs at a prescribed point in the Islamic year. Over a period of several days, pilgrims in Mecca conduct many ritual acts which prominently include circumambulating a cubical structure known as the Kaaba and maintaining a presence, or ‘standing’, on the nearby plain of Arafat. The pilgrim…
Identifying cohesive subgroups
Psychologic treatment for the type A behavior pattern and for coronary heart disease
Parents' Union Dissolution and Adolescents' School Performance
We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study to estimate how parents' union dissolution influences changes in adolescents' mathematics course work gains, overall grade point average, and course failure rates during a window of approximately 1 year (N =2,629). A primary purpose of this study is demonstrating the utility of propensity score matching techniques for stu…
Peer Context and the Consequences of Adolescent Drinking
Journal Article Peer Context and the Consequences of Adolescent Drinking Get access Robert Crosnoe, Robert Crosnoe University of Texas at Austin Direct correspondence to: Robert Crosnoe, Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A1700, Austin, TX 78712-1088. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Chandra Mu…
Sizing up Peers
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and multi-level modeling, we examine the role of social comparison with schoolmates in adolescent girls' weight control. Specifically, we focus on how girls' own weight control is influenced by the body sizes and weight-control behaviors of their schoolmates. Our findings suggest that comparisons with similar others (in this case, girls of a similar body size) appear to have the strongest…
Increasing information usability for climate adaptation
Network Location and Policy‐Oriented Behavior
This study explores how a scientist's location in science‐based policy networks can affect her policy‐oriented behaviors. In particular, we hypothesize that those scientists who fill structural holes in their networks will be more likely than others to engage in policy‐oriented behaviors. The network data are defined by scientists' coauthorship on policy documents regarding climate change in the Great Lakes. We employ a two‐mode network analysis …
What Is a “Good” Social Network for Policy Implementation? The Flow of Know-How for Organizational Change
This study concerns how intraorganizational networks affect the implementation of policies and practices in organizations. In particular, we attend to the role of the informal subgroup or clique in cultivating and distributing locally adapted and integrated knowledge, or know‐how. We develop two hypotheses based on the importance of intraorganizational coordination for an organization's capacity for change. The first emphasizes the importance of …
Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services
Burnout contagion
Implementation of Evidence‐based Practice in Human Service Organizations
Much of the impact of a policy depends on how it is implemented, especially as mediated by organizations such as schools or hospitals. Here, we focus on how implementation of evidence-based practices in human service organizations (e.g., schools, hospitals)is affected by intraorganizational network dynamics. In particular, we hypothesize intraorganizational behavioral divergence and network polarization are likely to occur when actors strongly id…
Indices of Robustness for Sample Representation
Social scientists are rarely able to gather data from the full range of contexts to which they hope to generalize (Shadish, Cook, and Campbell 2002). Here we suggest that debates about the generality of causal inferences in the social sciences can be informed by quantifying the conditions necessary to invalidate an inference. We begin by differentiating the target population into two sub-populations: a potentially observed subpopulation from whic…
Dollars, Distinction, or Duty? The Meaning of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards for Teachers’ Work and Collegial Relations
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is the most prominent contemporary effort to professionalize teaching. Along with identifying exceptional teachers, the NBPTS seeks to alter teachers’ work by establishing a cadre of expert teachers capable of and obligated to leading school improvement efforts. This article reports findings from a mixed methods study of teachers’ responses to the NBPTS in four urban elementary school…
Innovation diffusion within large environmental NGOs through informal network agents
Sensitivity analysis for network observations with applications to inferences of social influence effects
The validity of network observations is sometimes of concern in empirical studies, since observed networks are prone to error and may not represent the population of interest. This lack of validity is not just a result of random measurement error, but often due to systematic bias that can lead to the misinterpretation of actors’ preferences of network selections. These issues in network observations could bias the estimation of common network mod…
The Impact of Being Labeled as a Persistently Lowest Achieving School
Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, grading and labeling of schools as low performing have been increasingly used as means to incentivize failing schools to raise student achievement. Using statewide high school data from Michigan, our regression discontinuity analyses show that the bottom 5% of schools identified as persistently lowest achieving (PLA), which is publicly announced and has consequential accountability, increased their …
Psychologic treatment for the type A behavior pattern and for coronary heart disease
Identifying cohesive subgroups
The Pilgrimage
The term‘pilgrim age’, hajj, in Islam means a sacramental visit to the city of Mecca, the native city of the Prophet Muhammad, in Saudi Arabia. The pilgrimage occurs at a prescribed point in the Islamic year. Over a period of several days, pilgrims in Mecca conduct many ritual acts which prominently include circumambulating a cubical structure known as the Kaaba and maintaining a presence, or ‘standing’, on the nearby plain of Arafat. The pilgrim…
Peer Context and the Consequences of Adolescent Drinking
Journal Article Peer Context and the Consequences of Adolescent Drinking Get access Robert Crosnoe, Robert Crosnoe University of Texas at Austin Direct correspondence to: Robert Crosnoe, Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A1700, Austin, TX 78712-1088. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Chandra Mu…
Indices of Robustness for Sample Representation
Social scientists are rarely able to gather data from the full range of contexts to which they hope to generalize (Shadish, Cook, and Campbell 2002). Here we suggest that debates about the generality of causal inferences in the social sciences can be informed by quantifying the conditions necessary to invalidate an inference. We begin by differentiating the target population into two sub-populations: a potentially observed subpopulation from whic…
Parents' Union Dissolution and Adolescents' School Performance
We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study to estimate how parents' union dissolution influences changes in adolescents' mathematics course work gains, overall grade point average, and course failure rates during a window of approximately 1 year (N =2,629). A primary purpose of this study is demonstrating the utility of propensity score matching techniques for stu…
Analyzing Teachers’ Professional Interactions in a School as Social Capital
Background/Context Researchers have proposed a number of lenses for analyzing teacher professional communities in recent years. These lenses have been useful in describing key dynamics of professional communities; however, none provides a compelling approach to how to integrate data from the school as a whole with case study data on individual interactions to create a coherent account of the structure and dynamics of teacher professional communit…
Dollars, Distinction, or Duty? The Meaning of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards for Teachers’ Work and Collegial Relations
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is the most prominent contemporary effort to professionalize teaching. Along with identifying exceptional teachers, the NBPTS seeks to alter teachers’ work by establishing a cadre of expert teachers capable of and obligated to leading school improvement efforts. This article reports findings from a mixed methods study of teachers’ responses to the NBPTS in four urban elementary school…
Sizing up Peers
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and multi-level modeling, we examine the role of social comparison with schoolmates in adolescent girls' weight control. Specifically, we focus on how girls' own weight control is influenced by the body sizes and weight-control behaviors of their schoolmates. Our findings suggest that comparisons with similar others (in this case, girls of a similar body size) appear to have the strongest…
Network Location and Policy‐Oriented Behavior
This study explores how a scientist's location in science‐based policy networks can affect her policy‐oriented behaviors. In particular, we hypothesize that those scientists who fill structural holes in their networks will be more likely than others to engage in policy‐oriented behaviors. The network data are defined by scientists' coauthorship on policy documents regarding climate change in the Great Lakes. We employ a two‐mode network analysis …
Increasing information usability for climate adaptation
What Is a “Good” Social Network for Policy Implementation? The Flow of Know-How for Organizational Change
This study concerns how intraorganizational networks affect the implementation of policies and practices in organizations. In particular, we attend to the role of the informal subgroup or clique in cultivating and distributing locally adapted and integrated knowledge, or know‐how. We develop two hypotheses based on the importance of intraorganizational coordination for an organization's capacity for change. The first emphasizes the importance of …
Understanding Peer Influence in Hunter Harvest Decisions Using Social Network Theory and Analysis
State wildlife agencies are increasingly seeking the advice and cooperation of wildlife stakeholders, including that of private hunting cooperatives. While there is some evidence that the interests and actions of private deer cooperatives align with those of state wildlife agencies, little is known about the internal social mechanisms that explain this. Social network theory and analysis can shed some light on these internal group dynamics. This …
Burnout contagion
The Impact of Being Labeled as a Persistently Lowest Achieving School
Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, grading and labeling of schools as low performing have been increasingly used as means to incentivize failing schools to raise student achievement. Using statewide high school data from Michigan, our regression discontinuity analyses show that the bottom 5% of schools identified as persistently lowest achieving (PLA), which is publicly announced and has consequential accountability, increased their …
Innovation diffusion within large environmental NGOs through informal network agents
Implementation of Evidence‐based Practice in Human Service Organizations
Much of the impact of a policy depends on how it is implemented, especially as mediated by organizations such as schools or hospitals. Here, we focus on how implementation of evidence-based practices in human service organizations (e.g., schools, hospitals)is affected by intraorganizational network dynamics. In particular, we hypothesize intraorganizational behavioral divergence and network polarization are likely to occur when actors strongly id…
Social Media, Education, and Digital Democratization
Sensitivity analysis for network observations with applications to inferences of social influence effects
The validity of network observations is sometimes of concern in empirical studies, since observed networks are prone to error and may not represent the population of interest. This lack of validity is not just a result of random measurement error, but often due to systematic bias that can lead to the misinterpretation of actors’ preferences of network selections. These issues in network observations could bias the estimation of common network mod…
The role of social networks in partnership development with state wildlife agencies
The emergence of partnerships between state wildlife agencies and public or private organizations has allowed for more efficient and effective strategies to address conservation concerns. Cultivating such partnerships can increase public engagement in decision-making processes and ensure better relationships with constituents. Grant programs are a proven method for many state wildlife agencies to create, improve, and maintain habitat with partner…
Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services
Factors affecting students' learning from a design‐based implementation research project in diverse education systems
This article reports on quantitative findings from a design‐based implementation research (DBIR) project Carbon TIME that focused on teaching carbon cycling at multiple scales, from atomic‐molecular to global. We report results from a large dataset from diverse schools, including 59,654 student assessments of three‐dimensional learning aligned with Next Generation Science Standards collected in classrooms of 133 middle‐ and high‐school teachers o…
The probability of a robust inference for internal validity
The internal validity of observational study is often subject to debate. In this study, we define the counterfactuals as the unobserved sample and intend to quantify its relationship with the null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST). We propose the probability of a robust inference for internal validity, that is, the PIV, as a robustness index of causal inference. Formally, the PIV is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis again based…
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