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Kelly L. Rulison

**Education: (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA) 2010 Ph.D. Human Development and Family Studies--2009 M.A.S. Applied Statistics--2005 M.S. Human Development and Family Studies (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY) 2001 B.A. Psychology, Summa cum laude; Minor: Biology

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Delinquency and the Structure of Adolescent Peer Groups 2011 87 Gangs and group-level processes were once central phenomena for criminological theory and research. By the mid-1970s, however, gang research primarily was displaced by studies of individual behavior using randomized self-report surveys, a shift that ...
I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up: Can High-Ability Students Recover From Early Mistakes in CAT? 2009 228 A difficult result to interpret in Computerized Adaptive Tests (CATs) occurs when an ability estimate initially drops and then ascends continuously until the test ends, suggesting that the true ability may be higher than implied by the final estimate...
A Reputation for Success (or Failure) : The Association of Peer Academic Reputations With Academic Self-Concept, Effort, and Performance Across the Upper Elementary Grades 2008 205 Studies of the socialization of achievement-related beliefs and academic skills typically focus on the influence of teachers and parents (Eccles, Wigfield, & Schiefele, 1998; Guay, Boivin, & Hodges, 1999; Guay, Marsh, & Boivin, 2003; Harter, 1998), b...