publications

Gender segregation and decision-making in undergraduate course-taking

Fresh insight on how gender shapes academic progress in college

Multiple meanings of college: How adult students make sense of higher education and why it matters

Adults return to college for many reasons beyond career advancement. It's important to honor and celebrate this.

A bridge to graduation: post-secondary effects of an alternative pathway for students who fail high school exit exams

Multiple routes to college and career

Degrees of Risk: Navigating Insecurity and Inequality in Public Higher Education

A careful look at how different kinds of students navigate similar academic environments

Major selection as iteration: observing gendered patterns of major selection under elective curriculums

Major declaration is not a "one and done," and gender has a lot to do with how declaration unfolds.

Income and campus application disparities among European and non-European heritage Hispanic undergraduate applicants

Negotiating identity at a pivotal moment in the life course

Multilingualism and mismatching: Spanish language usage in college admissions essays

Strategic use of the Spanish language in a high-stakes evaluation

From pipelines to pathways in the study of academic progress

Enabling the study education and learning as sequential phenomena

Supporting interviews with technology: How software integration can benefit participants and interviewers

How can interview researchers take advantage of web-based platforms?

Forecasting undergraduate majors: A natural language approach

Predicting college pathways based on early coursework

Signaled or suppressed? How gender informs women’s undergraduate applications in biology and engineering

How is gender reflected in college application materials?

Application essays and the ritual production of merit in US selective admissions

What are college application essays for?

From bat mitzvah to the bar: Religious habitus, self-concept, and women’s educational outcomes

How religious commitment shapes educational progress across the early life course

Should I start at MATH 101? Content repetition as an academic strategy in elective curriculums

How do undergraduates make their first course decisions, and are these decisions fateful?

NSF report: An applied science to support working learners

Concise recommendations from a national peer review

Reimagining education for a new map of life

How should we change education to better serve longer lives?

Essay content is strongly related to household Income and SAT Scores: Evidence from 60,000 undergraduate applications

College application essays in an era of machine reading

Ambiguous credentials: How learners use and make sense of massively open online courses

What good is a MOOC?

Studying undergraduate course consideration at scale

What role does course consideration play in college students' pathways?

The confidence gap predicts the gender pay gap among STEM graduates

How is self-confidence related to the gender wage gap in STEM?

Building tomorrow’s workforce today: Twin proposals for the future of learning, opportunity and work

A federal policy proposal to assist adult learners in the wake of the pandemic

Teaching online in 2020: Experiments, empathy, discovery

What happened in college classrooms in the wake of COVID?

Course reviews reveal gender differences and other scientific insight about the students who submit them

What's in a course review?

Reinforcement learning for the adaptive scheduling of educational activities

Can reinforcement models improve learning?

AI and holistic review: Informing human reading in college admissions

Can AI improve holistic review?

Is faster better? A study of video playback speed

Fast forward?

Universities as peculiar organizations

What is a university?

What is a college education in the time of coronavirus?

Whose truth is the “ground truth”? College admissions essays and bias in word vector evaluation methods

Are word vector evaluation methods biased?

Using latent variable models to observe academic pathways

How are student enrollment decisions best modeled with large-scale datasets?

Via: Illuminating undergraduate academic pathways at scale

Which courses, and why?

Choices, identities, paths: Understanding college students’ academic decisions

How do students choose their courses?

How a data-driven course planning tool affects college students’ GPA: Evidence from two field experiments

How does a course planning tool affect college students’ grades?

OARS: Exploring instructor analytics for online learning

How can learning analytics systems improve online education?

Research universities and the future of work

What do universities owe the future?

Setting the table: Responsible use of student data in higher education

What does it mean to use student data responsibly?

Making the grade: How learner engagement changes after passing a course

How does online learners' course engagement evolve?

What we’ve learned from MOOCs

An ethically ambitious higher education data science

How do we pivot from rule compliance to ethical proaction?