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Differences In The Civic Knowledge And Attitudes Of Adolescents In The United States By Immigrant Status And Hispanic Background

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  1. Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Judith Torney-Purta, Carolyn Barber & Britt Wilkenfeld

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Judith Torney-Purta (United States)

Professor of Human Development at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was the International Steering Committee Chair for the IEA Civic Education Study conducted in 1999–2000 with 140,000 adolescents in 29 countries. Since co-authoring several books and articles reporting the Study’s results, she has been providing assistance to researchers using these data through CEDARS (Civic Education Data and Research Services). She was the 2005 recipient of the Decade of Behavior Research Award for psychological research relating to democracy. E-mail: jtpurta@umd.edu

Carolyn Barber (United States)

Third-year doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in the Educational Psychology Program in the Department of Human Development, and master’s student in the Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation at the University of Maryland. She has interests in the social aspects of schooling and in the multilevel analysis of large-scale quantitative studies; she has co-authored several articles analyzing data from the IEA Civic Education Study. E-mail: cbarber@umd.edu.

Britt Wilkenfeld (United States)

Second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland. She has interests in youth development and in assessing the impact of community volunteer experiences on university students. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica. E-mail: bsw@umd.edu.

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Torney-Purta, J., Barber, C. & Wilkenfeld, B. Differences In The Civic Knowledge And Attitudes Of Adolescents In The United States By Immigrant Status And Hispanic Background. Prospects 36, 343–354 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-006-0015-2

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