Linda Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5972102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5100-5707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“You Have to be Resilient”
Research infrequently includes the perspectives of vulnerable and marginalized youth. As the population of newcomer youth in Canada continues to grow, it is imperative that attention is devoted not only to challenges they experience, but also to resilience factors they perceive to support their adjustment and well-being. To address this gap, this qualitative research explored newcomer youths’ experiences and advice for other newcomer youth who ha…
Voices of Experience
Poverty, Parent Involvement, and Children’s Reading Skills
Research Findings: Parent involvement is a critical way for children to learn about the importance of education and develop reading skills. Unfortunately, not all low-income parents are able to be involved in their children’s education, which can have negative implications for children’s reading development. The present study tested if the strength of the relation between low-income parents’ involvement and children’s reading skills in first grad…
From “Buzzword” to Best Practice
Empirical studies on the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on children have burgeoned over the last three decades. Notably absent from existing approaches to studying children exposed to IPV, however, is attention to how various positionalities intersect to impact the experiences of children and their families. In fact, while the importance of an intersectional framework for understanding IPV has been discussed for over two decades, littl…
Enhancing judicial skills in domestic violence cases
The overwhelming number and complexity of domestic violence cases in criminal and family courts has resulted in the development of education programmes to assist judges. There is limited research on judicial education in this area. This paper reviews one such initiative entitled ‘Enhancing Judicial Skills in Domestic Violence Cases’ (EJS) that has been developed and implemented over the last 20 years by the National Judicial Institute on Domestic…
Beginning Readers' Motivation for Reading in Relation to Parental Beliefs and Home Reading Experiences
Sixty-five 6-year-olds (first graders) from different sociocultural backgrounds and their mothers participated in a study examining children's motivation for reading in relation to parental beliefs and home literacy experiences. Each child completed an individually administered Motivations for Reading Scale that assessed several theoretical dimensions of reading motivation, including enjoyment/interest in reading, perceived competence as a reader…
Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period
Dimensions of Children's Motivation for Reading and Their Relations to Reading Activity and Reading Achievement
S Dimensions of children's motivation for reading and their relations to reading activity and reading achievement This study was designed to assess dimensions of reading motivation and examine how these dimensions related to students' reading activity and achievement. A heterogeneous urban sample of fifth‐ and sixth‐grade children completed the Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (MRQ; Wigfield & Guthrie, 1997), a questionnaire designed to asses…
Mothers' sensitivity to the competencies of their preschoolers on a concept-learning task
Differences in the Standards Used by College Students to Evaluate Their Comprehension of Expository Prose
COLLEGE STUDENTS differing in verbal ability read and evaluated their comprehension of expository passages. Three different types of problems were embedded within the passages to provide opportunities for students to reveal the use of different standards of evaluation. Half of the subjects were informed that they should use three particular standards in order to identify the problems (lexical, external consistency, and internal consistency); the …
Effects of Inconsistent Information on Text Processing
Expository passages containing either main point inconsistencies, detail inconsistencies, or no inconsistencies were presented sentence by sentence to 90 college students.Subjects read through the passages at their own pace and were encouraged to reread previous sections of text whenever they wished.As expected, subjects spent more time on sentences containing information that conflicted with information presented elsewhere, and they looked back …
Dimensions of Children's Motivation for Reading and Their Relations to Reading Activity and Reading Achievement
S Dimensions of children's motivation for reading and their relations to reading activity and reading achievement This study was designed to assess dimensions of reading motivation and examine how these dimensions related to students' reading activity and achievement. A heterogeneous urban sample of fifth‐ and sixth‐grade children completed the Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (MRQ; Wigfield & Guthrie, 1997), a questionnaire designed to asses…
Differences in the Standards Used by College Students to Evaluate Their Comprehension of Expository Prose
COLLEGE STUDENTS differing in verbal ability read and evaluated their comprehension of expository passages. Three different types of problems were embedded within the passages to provide opportunities for students to reveal the use of different standards of evaluation. Half of the subjects were informed that they should use three particular standards in order to identify the problems (lexical, external consistency, and internal consistency); the …
Voices of Experience
Enhancing judicial skills in domestic violence cases
The overwhelming number and complexity of domestic violence cases in criminal and family courts has resulted in the development of education programmes to assist judges. There is limited research on judicial education in this area. This paper reviews one such initiative entitled ‘Enhancing Judicial Skills in Domestic Violence Cases’ (EJS) that has been developed and implemented over the last 20 years by the National Judicial Institute on Domestic…
Mothers' sensitivity to the competencies of their preschoolers on a concept-learning task
Effects of Inconsistent Information on Text Processing
Expository passages containing either main point inconsistencies, detail inconsistencies, or no inconsistencies were presented sentence by sentence to 90 college students.Subjects read through the passages at their own pace and were encouraged to reread previous sections of text whenever they wished.As expected, subjects spent more time on sentences containing information that conflicted with information presented elsewhere, and they looked back …
Differences in the Standards Used by College Students to Evaluate Their Comprehension of Expository Prose
COLLEGE STUDENTS differing in verbal ability read and evaluated their comprehension of expository passages. Three different types of problems were embedded within the passages to provide opportunities for students to reveal the use of different standards of evaluation. Half of the subjects were informed that they should use three particular standards in order to identify the problems (lexical, external consistency, and internal consistency); the …
Mothers' sensitivity to the competencies of their preschoolers on a concept-learning task
Dimensions of Children's Motivation for Reading and Their Relations to Reading Activity and Reading Achievement
S Dimensions of children's motivation for reading and their relations to reading activity and reading achievement This study was designed to assess dimensions of reading motivation and examine how these dimensions related to students' reading activity and achievement. A heterogeneous urban sample of fifth‐ and sixth‐grade children completed the Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (MRQ; Wigfield & Guthrie, 1997), a questionnaire designed to asses…
Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period
Beginning Readers' Motivation for Reading in Relation to Parental Beliefs and Home Reading Experiences
Sixty-five 6-year-olds (first graders) from different sociocultural backgrounds and their mothers participated in a study examining children's motivation for reading in relation to parental beliefs and home literacy experiences. Each child completed an individually administered Motivations for Reading Scale that assessed several theoretical dimensions of reading motivation, including enjoyment/interest in reading, perceived competence as a reader…
From “Buzzword” to Best Practice
Empirical studies on the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on children have burgeoned over the last three decades. Notably absent from existing approaches to studying children exposed to IPV, however, is attention to how various positionalities intersect to impact the experiences of children and their families. In fact, while the importance of an intersectional framework for understanding IPV has been discussed for over two decades, littl…
Enhancing judicial skills in domestic violence cases
The overwhelming number and complexity of domestic violence cases in criminal and family courts has resulted in the development of education programmes to assist judges. There is limited research on judicial education in this area. This paper reviews one such initiative entitled ‘Enhancing Judicial Skills in Domestic Violence Cases’ (EJS) that has been developed and implemented over the last 20 years by the National Judicial Institute on Domestic…
Poverty, Parent Involvement, and Children’s Reading Skills
Research Findings: Parent involvement is a critical way for children to learn about the importance of education and develop reading skills. Unfortunately, not all low-income parents are able to be involved in their children’s education, which can have negative implications for children’s reading development. The present study tested if the strength of the relation between low-income parents’ involvement and children’s reading skills in first grad…
“You Have to be Resilient”
Research infrequently includes the perspectives of vulnerable and marginalized youth. As the population of newcomer youth in Canada continues to grow, it is imperative that attention is devoted not only to challenges they experience, but also to resilience factors they perceive to support their adjustment and well-being. To address this gap, this qualitative research explored newcomer youths’ experiences and advice for other newcomer youth who ha…
Voices of Experience
Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Reading (process) (4 works) · Domestic violence (3 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (3 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (3 works)