What Can Different Measures Tell Us about the Quality of the Teacher Workforce? CALDER Research Brief No. 38

Authors: Ben Backes, James Cowan, Michael DeArmond, Dan Goldhaber, Roddy Theobald, National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research (AIR)

Source: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). 2024.

Peer Reviewed: N

Page Count: 6

Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing, Value Added Models, Alternative Assessment, Student Behavior, Attendance, Progress Monitoring, Educational Benefits

A Moderate Albedo from Reflecting Aerosols on the Dayside of WASP-80 b Revealed by JWST/NIRISS Eclipse Spectroscopy

Authors: Morel, Kim, Coulombe, Louis-Philippe, Rowe, Jason F., Lafrenière, David, Albert, Loïc, Artigau, Étienne, Cowan, Nicolas B., Dang, Lisa, Radica, Michael, Taylor, Jake, Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Caroline, Roy, Pierre-Alexis, Benneke, Björn, Darveau-Bernier, Antoine, Pelletier, Stefan, Doyon, René, Johnstone, Doug, Langeveld, Adam B., Allart, Romain, Flagg, Laura, Turner, Jake D.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15665

Constraining the Scattered Light properties of LTT 9779 b Using HST/WFC3 UVIS

Authors: Radica, Michael, Taylor, Jake, Wakeford, Hannah R., Lafrenière, David, Allart, Romain, Cowan, Nicolas B., Jenkins, James S., Parmentier, Vivien

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05581

Gaia Net: Towards robust spectroscopic parameters of stars of all evolutionary stages

Authors: Huson, Dylan, Cowan, Indiana, Sizemore, Logan, Kounkel, Marina, Hutchinson, Brian

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02958

The Geometry of Optimal Gait Families for Steering Kinematic Locomoting Systems

Authors: Choi, Jinwoo, Deng, Siming, Justus, Nathan, Cowan, Noah J., Hatton, Ross L.

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Robotics, Mathematics - Optimization and Control

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17672

Diminishing Waters: The Great Salt Lake's Desiccation and Its Mental Health Consequences

Authors: Neelam, Maheshwari, Bhui, Kamaldeep, Cowan, Trent, Freitag, Brian

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computers and Society, Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Physics - Physics and Society

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05745

Toward Metaphor-Fluid Conversation Design for Voice User Interfaces

Authors: Desai, Smit, Chin, Jessie, Wang, Dakuo, Cowan, Benjamin, Twidale, Michael

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Computers and Society, Computer Science - Emerging Technologies

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11554

Magnetic Phase Diagram of YbRh$_{2}$Si$_{2}$: the Influence of Hyperfine Interactions

Authors: Knapp, Jan, Levitin, Lev V., Nyeki, Jan, Cowan, Brian, Saunders, John, Brando, Manuel, Geibel, Christoph, Kliemt, Kristin, Krellner, Cornelius

Subject Terms: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17560

Highly reflective white clouds on the western dayside of an exo-Neptune

Authors: Coulombe, Louis-Philippe, Radica, Michael, Benneke, Björn, D'Aoust, Élyse, Dang, Lisa, Cowan, Nicolas B., Parmentier, Vivien, Albert, Loïc, Lafrenière, David, Taylor, Jake, Roy, Pierre-Alexis, Pelletier, Stefan, Allart, Romain, Artigau, Étienne, Doyon, René, Jayawardhana, Ray, Johnstone, Doug, Kaltenegger, Lisa, Langeveld, Adam B., MacDonald, Ryan J., Rowe, Jason F., Turner, Jake D.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14016

Femtosecond temperature measurements of laser-shocked copper deduced from the intensity of the x-ray thermal diffuse scattering

Authors: Wark, J. S., Peake, D. J., Stevens, T., Heighway, P. G., Ping, Y., Sterne, P., Albertazzi, B., Ali, S. J., Antonelli, L., Armstrong, M. R., Baehtz, C., Ball, O. B., Banerjee, S., Belonoshko, A. B., Bolme, C. A., Bouffetier, V., Briggs, R., Buakor, K., Butcher, T., Cafiso, S. Di Dio, Cerantola, V., Chantel, J., Di Cicco, A., Coleman, A. L., Collier, J., Collins, G., Comley, A. J., Coppari, F., Cowan, T. E., Cristoforetti, G., Cynn, H., Descamps, A., Dorchies, F., Duff, M. J., Dwivedi, A., Edwards, C., Eggert, J. H., Errandonea, D., Fiquet, G., Galtier, E., Garcia, A. Laso, Ginestet, H., Gizzi, L., Gleason, A., Goede, S., Gonzalez, J. M., Gorman, M. G., Harmand, M., Hartley, N., Hernandez-Gomez, C., Higginbotham, A., Höppner, H., Humphries, O. S., Husband, R. J., Hutchinson, T. M., Hwang, H., Keen, D. A., Kim, J., Koester, P., Konopkova, Z., Kraus, D., Krygier, A., Labate, L., Lazicki, A. E., Lee, Y., Liermann, H-P., Mason, P., Masruri, M., Massani, B., McBride, E. E., McGuire, C., McHardy, J. D., McGonegle, D., McWilliams, R. S., Merkel, S., Morard, G., Nagler, B., Nakatsutsumi, M., Nguyen-Cong, K., Norton, A-M., Oleynik, I. I., Otzen, C., Ozaki, N., Pandolfi, S., Pelka, A., Pereira, K. A., Phillips, J. P., Prescher, C., Preston, T., Randolph, L., Ranjan, D., Ravasio, A., Redmer, R., Rips, J., Santamaria-Perez, D., Savage, D. J., Schoelmerich, M., Schwinkendorf, J-P., Singh, S., Smith, J., Smith, R. F., Sollier, A., Spear, J., Spindloe, C., Stevenson, M., Strohm, C., Suer, T-A., Tang, M., Toncian, M., Toncian, T., Tracy, S. J., Trapananti, A., Tschentscher, T., Tyldesley, M., Vennari, C. E., Vinci, T., Vogel, S. C., Volz, T. J., Vorberger, J., Willman, J. T., Wollenweber, L., Zastrau, U., Brambrink, E., Appel, K., McMahon, M. I.

Subject Terms: Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Physics - Applied Physics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02940

Variability-Aware Machine Learning Model Selection: Feature Modeling, Instantiation, and Experimental Case Study

Authors: Tavares, Cristina, Nascimento, Nathalia, Alencar, Paulo, Cowan, Donald

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Software Engineering

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00532

Exploring Variability in Fine-Tuned Models for Text Classification with DistilBERT

Authors: Lorenzoni, Giuliano, Portugal, Ivens, Alencar, Paulo, Cowan, Donald

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00241

GPT-4 on Clinic Depression Assessment: An LLM-Based Pilot Study

Authors: Lorenzoni, Giuliano, Velmovitsky, Pedro Elkind, Alencar, Paulo, Cowan, Donald

Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00199

Transmission spectroscopy of WASP-52 b with JWST NIRISS: Water and helium atmospheric absorption, alongside prominent star-spot crossings

Authors: Fournier-Tondreau, Marylou, Pan, Yanbo, Morel, Kim, Lafrenière, David, MacDonald, Ryan J., Coulombe, Louis-Philippe, Allart, Romain, Albert, Loïc, Radica, Michael, Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Caroline, Roy, Pierre-Alexis, Pelletier, Stefan, Dang, Lisa, Doyon, René, Benneke, Björn, Cowan, Nicolas B., Darveau-Bernier, Antoine, Lim, Olivia, Artigau, Étienne, Johnstone, Doug, Kaltenegger, Lisa, Taylor, Jake, Flagg, Laura

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17072

The JWST Weather Report from the Isolated Exoplanet Analog SIMP 0136+0933: Pressure-Dependent Variability Driven by Multiple Mechanisms

Authors: McCarthy, Allison M., Vos, Johanna M., Muirhead, Philip S., Biller, Beth A., Morley, Caroline V., Faherty, Jacqueline, Burningham, Ben, Calamari, Emily, Cowan, Nicolas B., Cruz, Kelle L., Gonzales, Eileen, Limbach, Mary Anne, Liu, Pengyu, Nasedkin, Evert, Suarez, Genaro, Tan, Xianyu, O'Toole, Cian, Visscher, Channon, Whiteford, Niall, Zhou, Yifan

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16577

Chemical Fingerprints of M Dwarfs: High-Resolution Spectroscopy on 31 M Dwarfs with SPIRou

Authors: Jahandar, Farbod, Doyon, René, Artigau, Étienne, Cook, Neil J., Cadieux, Charles, Donati, Jean-François, Cowan, Nicolas B., Cloutier, Ryan, Pelletier, Stefan, Alves-Brito, Alan, Martins, Jorge H. C., Shang, Hsien, Carmona, Andrés

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07377

An exact active sensing strategy for a class of bio-inspired systems

Authors: Biswas, Debojyoti, Sontag, Eduardo D., Cowan, Noah J.

Subject Terms: Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control, Mathematics - Dynamical Systems

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06612

Four Years of Pandemic-Era Emergency Licenses: Retention and Effectiveness of Emergency-Licensed Massachusetts Teachers over Time. Working Paper No. 299-0424

Authors: Ben Backes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber, Roddy Theobald, National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research (AIR)

Source: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). 2024.

Peer Reviewed: N

Page Count: 54

Sponsoring Agency: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Descriptors: Teachers, Emergency Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Students, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Scores

Geographic Terms: Massachusetts

Departmentalized Instruction and Elementary School Effectiveness. Working Paper No. 298-0424

Authors: Ben Backes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber, National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research (AIR)

Source: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). 2024.

Peer Reviewed: N

Page Count: 64

Sponsoring Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)

Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Effectiveness, Departments, Teaching Methods, Specialization, Elementary School Teachers, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Contained Classrooms

Geographic Terms: Massachusetts

IES Funded: Yes

Misalignments between Student Teaching Placements and Initial Teaching Positions: Implications for the Early-Career Attrition of Special Education Teachers. Working Paper No. 293-0224

Authors: Ben Backes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber, Zeyu Jin, Roddy Theobald, National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research (AIR)

Source: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). 2024.

Peer Reviewed: N

Page Count: 37

Sponsoring Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)

Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Special Education Teachers, Student Teaching, Student Placement, College Graduates, Inclusion, Self Contained Classrooms, Teacher Qualifications, Student Teacher Supervisors, Teacher Certification, Students with Disabilities, Predictor Variables, Elementary Secondary Education

Geographic Terms: Massachusetts

IES Funded: Yes