Lorrie Schmid

Journal Article Biol Psychol · November 2025 BACKGROUND: Psychosocial stress and sleep disturbances are common during pregnancy and can contribute to heightened hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, potentially impacting maternal and fetal health. Hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) prov ... Full text Link to item Cite

Where Community-Engaged Research and Randomized Controlled Trials Align: Lessons from Implementation of an Experimental Evaluation in Partnership with a Community-Based Afterschool Program

Journal Article American Journal of Evaluation · September 1, 2025 There has been increased focus within the evaluation field on the value of community-engaged research (CER) methods; however, CER is not easily seen as compatible with experimental evaluation methods (or randomized controlled trial, RCT). For instance, in ... Full text Cite

Efficacy of a Nail Cadaver Lab as a Teaching Tool for Dermatology Residents

Journal Article Skin Appendage Disorders · January 1, 2025 Full text Cite

Effects of a first-year undergraduate engineering design course: survey study of implications for student self-efficacy and professional skills, with focus on gender/sex and race/ethnicity

Journal Article International Journal of Stem Education · December 1, 2024 Background: Students’ academic self-efficacy maximizes likelihood for success and retention, yet prior research suggests that historically underrepresented (minoritized) undergraduate students in higher education and in college-level engineering show lower ... Full text Cite

Diversity of undergraduates in STEM courses: individual and demographic differences in changes in self-efficacy, epistemic beliefs, and intrapersonal attribute profiles

Journal Article Studies in Higher Education · January 1, 2024 Across undergraduate STEM learning contexts in several countries, students’ intrapersonal attributes of epistemic beliefs, self-efficacy beliefs, intrinsic motivation, and sense of identity have been found to influence learning and to change in response to ... Full text Open Access Cite

A CAMPUS NARRATIVE OF A RESEARCH-INFORMED VISIONING PROCESS

Chapter · January 1, 2024 The vision, mission, and goals of the Duke Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (Duke TRHT Center) align with those of Duke University and are guided by the framework and principles of the national TRHT Movement. As an institution, Duke contin ... Full text Cite

The Use of Templates for Documenting Advance Care Planning Conversations: A Descriptive Analysis.

Journal Article J Pain Symptom Manage · August 2023 CONTEXT: While professional societies and expert panels have recommended quality indicators related to advance care planning (ACP) documentation, including using structured documentation templates, it is unclear how clinicians document these conversations. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Beyond Content, Understanding What Makes Test Questions Most Challenging

Journal Article Bioscience · March 1, 2023 When students answer test questions incorrectly, we often assume they don’t understand the content; instead, they may struggle with certain cognitive skills or with how questions are asked. Our goal was to look beyond content to understand what makes asses ... Full text Cite

Cost-Effectiveness of a Homeless Care Transition Program: Durham Homeless Care Transitions.

Journal Article North Carolina medical journal · November 2022 BACKGROUND Transitional care and medical respite programs provide assistance to people experiencing homelessness as they move from acute care into community settings. These programs can address issues that may fall outside the reach of traditional m ... Full text Cite

Patients' Reactions to Letters Communicating Collateral Findings of Pragmatic Clinical Trials: a National Web-Based Survey.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · May 2022 BACKGROUND: Collateral findings in pragmatic clinical trials are findings that may have implications for patients' health but were not generated to address a trial's primary research questions. It is uncertain how best to communicate these collateral findi ... Full text Link to item Cite

How faculty discipline and beliefs influence instructional uses of writing in STEM undergraduate courses at research-intensive universities

Journal Article Journal of Writing Research · February 1, 2021 Efforts to accelerate the pace of adoption of writing-to-learn (WTL) practices in undergraduate STEM courses have been limited by a lack of theoretical and conceptual frameworks to systematically guide research and empirical evidence about the extent to wh ... Full text Open Access Cite

An Investigation of a Classroom-Based Specialized Music Therapy Model for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Voices Together Using the VOICSS™ Method

Journal Article Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities · September 1, 2020 Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have marked deficits in social communication skills, which can challenge their ability to participate in academic and social activities. Music therapy is a popular intervention for children with ASD, and althoug ... Full text Cite

A Preliminary Investigation of a Specialized Music Therapy Model for Children with Disabilities Delivered in a Classroom Setting.

Journal Article Autism Res Treat · 2016 Music therapy is gaining popularity as an intervention strategy for children with developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study was a pilot investigation of a classroom-based music-based intervention, Voices Together®, fo ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Who is a Student: Completion in Coursera Courses at Duke University

Journal Article Current Issues in Emerging eLearning · 2016 Cite

Fulfilling the promise: do MOOCs reach the educationally underserved?

Journal Article Educational Media International · 2015 Cite

Injunctive and Descriptive Peer Group Norms and the Academic Adjustment of Rural Early Adolescents

Journal Article The Journal of Early Adolescence · February 2011 This study integrates diverse literatures on peer group influence by conceptualizing and examining the relationship of peer group injunctive norms to the academic adjustment of a large and ethnically diverse sample of rural early adolescents’ acad ... Full text Cite

An exploration of the relationship between ethnicity, attention problems, and academic achievement

Journal Article School Psychology Review · December 1, 2004 There has been longstanding concern about achievement differences across ethnic groups. Inattention is a significant factor associated with underachievement, and higher ratings of inattention have been found for some minority groups. The present study exam ... Cite

COMPLETION IN COURSERA COURSES AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Journal Article CURRENT ISSUES IN EMERGING ELEARNING Cite