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Mimi Engel
Researcher at Vanderbilt University
Publications - 32
Citations - 7046
Mimi Engel is an academic researcher from Vanderbilt University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Academic achievement & Connected Mathematics. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 32 publications receiving 6226 citations. Previous affiliations of Mimi Engel include Northwestern University & University of Colorado Boulder.
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School Readiness and Later Achievement
Greg J. Duncan,Chantelle J. Dowsett,Amy Claessens,Katherine Magnuson,Aletha C. Huston,Pamela Kato Klebanov,Linda S. Pagani,Leon Feinstein,Mimi Engel,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Holly R. Sexton,Kathryn Duckworth,Crista Japel +12 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the results shows that early math skills have the greatest predictive power, followed by reading and then attention skills, while measures of socioemotional behaviors were generally insignificant predictors of later academic performance.
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Early Predictors of High School Mathematics Achievement
Robert S. Siegler,Greg J. Duncan,Pamela E. Davis-Kean,Kathryn Duckworth,Amy Claessens,Mimi Engel,María Inés Susperreguy,Meichu Chen +7 more
TL;DR: This paper found that elementary school students' knowledge of fractions and of division uniquely predicts their knowledge of algebra and overall mathematics achievement in high school, even after statistically controlling for other types of mathematical knowledge, general intellectual ability, working memory, and family income and education.
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Kindergarten Skills and Fifth Grade Achievement: Evidence from the ECLS-K
TL;DR: This paper found that the most powerful pre-school avenue for boosting fifth-grade achievement appears to be improving the basic academic skills of low-achieving children prior to kindergarten entry, with the exception of a kindergartener's capacity to pay attention, virtually no impacts for the collection of socioemotional skills.
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How Important Is Where You Start? Early Mathematics Knowledge and Later School Success.
Amy Claessens,Mimi Engel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of early mathematics, relative to reading and socioemotional skills, for children's later success in school is highlighted, and the authors suggest that children's early skills are essential for their later success.
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The Grasshopper and the Ant: Motivational Responses of Low-Achieving Students to High-Stakes Testing:
Melissa Roderick,Mimi Engel +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the responses of 102 low-achieving sixth and eighth-grade students to Chicago's highly publicized effort to end social promotion and found that the majority of these students described increased work effort under the policy.