Rider University

About: Rider University is a education organization based out in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Dosimetry & Creativity. The organization has 881 authors who have published 1934 publications receiving 50752 citations.

Ethical and Empirical Considerations in the Identification of Learning Disabilities.

Abstract: The authors encourage those in the field of school psychology to consider the use of learning disabilities assessment practices in relation to specific American Psychological Association and National Association of School Psychologists ethical codes and in regard to the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and National Council on Measurement in Education test standards. The authors also ask the field to consider the evidence regarding the role of response-to-intervention data and cognitive processing assessment in learning disabilities identification as the field continues its move away from the discrepancy model. The absence of an efficient and accurate method of learning disabilities identification may disproportionately affect children of lower socioeconomic status and minorities who may not be able to access services outside of the public school system. The authors posit that consideration of the issues presented in this article should help raise questions and...

Record values and the geometric distribution

Abstract: Suppose {Xn, n≥1} is a sequence of independent and identically distributed discrete random variables having the common distribution function F(x). The exact distribution of the n-th record value is given under the assumption that F(x) has the geometric distribution. Various properties of the record values and some new characterizations of the geometric distribution are presented.

Prenatal drug use and the production of infant health

Abstract: We estimate the effect of illicit drug use during pregnancy on two measures of poor infant health: low birth weight and abnormal infant health conditions. We use data from a national longitudinal study of urban parents that includes postpartum interviews with mothers, hospital medical record data on the mothers and their newborns, and information about the neighborhood in which the mother resides. We address the potential endogeneity of prenatal drug use. Depending on how prenatal drug use is measured, we find that it increases low birth weight by 4-6 percentage points and that it increases the likelihood of an abnormal infant health condition by 7-12 percentage points.