Publications, Research Papers

In addition to publishing reports for our own clients, ASR has contributed to several professional publications and produced original research papers. Our expert staff also have published independently. This list is a sample of that work.

ASR STAFF PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS:

Child Development/Education:

Health:

Homelessness:

Quality of Life:

  • Brutschy S., Anderson-Ochoa J., Connery J., Maurillo D.R. (2021) “How Local Communities Can Align with United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: A Santa Cruz County Case Study”. In: Abraham D.B., Iyer S.D. (eds) Promoting the Sustainable Development Goals in North American Cities. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59173-1_6

  • Ja, N., Moran, C., Eng-Marsh, A. (2021) “Resident leaders’ perspectives about leadership engagement and development: Evaluating a place-based initiative in Santa Clara County’s most vulnerable neighborhoods” (Research Paper) 149th APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition 2021.

  • Brutschy S., Frost K., Luedtke M., Maurillo D.R. (2020) “Leveraging Data for Meaningful Improvements: How Credible Data Enables Partnership Alignment to Achieve Well-Being at the Population Level”. In: Ridzi F., Stevens C., Davern M. (eds) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators. Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48182-7_9

  • Brutschy S., Zachary D. (2014) “Marginalized Communities”. In: Michalos A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_1725

  • Brutschy S., Zachary D. (2014) “Santa Cruz County (USA) Community Assessment Project”. In: Michalos A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3883

  • Brutschy S., Zachary D. (2014) “Community QOL Measures”. In: Michalos A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_473

  • Brutschy, S., Archer, D. (1983) “Environmental concerns regarding the proposed UC R&D Center”. Applied Survey Research, (OCoLC)10427362

INDEPENDENT STAFF RESEARCH:

Child Development/Education:

  • Miller, C.A. (2017) Playing with academic language: Teacher prompts for digital games. Poster presentation at the American Educational Research Association,  San Antonio, Tex.

  • Miller, C.A. (2016) Digital games and emergent academic language: Learning about ELL preschoolers through single-case methodology. Paper Presentation at the Literacy Research Association, Nashville, Tenn.

  • Miller, C.A. (2015) Building emergent academic language with English-language learner preschool children: Multi-touch tables and teacher prompts. Paper presentation at the Literacy Research Association, Carlsbad, Calif.

  • Higgs, J., Miller, C.A., Pearson, P.D. (2015) Misleading metaphors for classroom discussion in a collaborative e-reader. Poster session presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago

  • Miller, C.A. (2015) Scaffolding emergent academic language with ELL children: Multi-touch tables in preschool. (Doctoral Dissertation).

  • Miller, C., Sharp, A., Adamson, A. (2013) Knowledge building through vocabulary use with ConcertChat. Poster Presentation at Carnegie Mellon Summer LearnLab, Pittsburgh, Penn.

  • Miller, C.A. (2013) First grade passing strategies: A multiparty participatory framework analysis of instructional conversations. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association, Dallas, Tex.

  • Miller, C.A. (2000) Rhythm, keyboard, music: Qualitative evaluation of a K-2 arts-infused language development program for ELL students. Paper presented at the meeting of the California Association of Bilingual Education, San Diego, Calif.

  • Miller, C.A., Parchment, C. (2002) Delivering early English language through the arts. Paper presented at the meeting of the California Association of Bilingual Education, San Diego, Calif.

  • Miller, C.A. (2000) Linking novices to mentor peers: Ethnography of a middle-school transition program for at-risk minority youth. Paper presented at the meeting of American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, La.

Gender:

  • Mullins, A. (2018). “Join the club” or “don’t have kids”? Exploring contradictory experiences, pressures, and encouragement to have children in pronatalist social fields. In N. Sappleton (Ed.), Voluntary and involuntary childlessness: The joys of otherhood? (pp. 147-172). https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181006/full/html

  • Mullins, A. (2018). Capital in pronatalist fields: Exploring the influence of economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital on childbearing habitus. In N. Sappleton (Ed.), Voluntary and involuntary childlessness: The joys of otherhood? (pp. 97-124). https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-78754-361-420181005/full/html

  • Crisafi, D., Mullins, A., Jasinski, J. (2016). The rise of the “virtual predator”: Technology and the expanding reach of intimate partner abuse. In J. N. Navarro, S. Clevenger, & C. D. Marcum (Eds.), The intersection between intimate partner abuse, technology, and cybercrime: Examining the virtual enemy (pp. 95-123). https://cap-press.com/pdf/9781611636727.pdf

  • Archer, D., Brutschy, S. (1989) “A Survey of judicial officers in the State of California”. Judicial Council's Advisory Committee on Gender Bias in the Courts.

  • Maes, P.L., Brutschy, S. (1983) “Sexual harassment at U.C. Santa Cruz : An exploratory study”.

Homelessness:

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