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D-Index
64
Citations
18986
World Ranking
1089
National Ranking
508

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Karl L. Alexander is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Psychology, with a specific emphasis on Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology.

Their work covers key topics that include:

  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

One recent publication by Alexander is titled How community and individual strengths "fill our cup": A preliminary strengths-based psychological mediation framework for LGBTQIA+ communities, published in 2025 in the Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Joshua G. Parmenter
  • Sonja D. Winter
  • Zakary A. Clements
  • H. Gerry Taylor

Karl L. Alexander's work has appeared in the following publication venue:

  • Journal of Counseling Psychology

Alexander received the award of Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Achievement in the First 2 Years of School: Patterns and Processes

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle

  • From First Grade Forward: Early Foundations of High School Dropout.

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle;Carrie S. Horsey

  • The Dropout Process in Life Course Perspective: Early Risk Factors at Home and School

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle;Nader S. Kabbani

  • Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle;Linda Steffel Olson

  • First Grade and Educational Attainment by Age 22: A New Story.

    Doris R. Entwisle;Karl L. Alexander;Linda Steffel Olson

  • Schools, Achievement, and Inequality: A Seasonal Perspective:

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle;Linda S. Olson

  • Summer Setback: Race, Poverty, School Composition, and Mathematics Achievement in the First Two Years of School.

    Doris R. Entwisle;Karl L. Alexander

  • First-grade classroom behavior: its short- and long-term consequences for school performance.

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle;Susan L. Dauber

  • Entry Into School: The Beginning School Transition and Educational Stratification in the United States

    Doris R. Entwisle;Karl L. Alexander

  • On the Success of Failure

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle;Susan L. Dauber

  • School Performance, Status Relations, and the Structure of Sentiment: Bringing the Teacher Back In.

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle;Maxine S. Thompson

  • Sex Differences in Quantitative SAT Performance: New Evidence on the Differential Coursework Hypothesis

    Aaron M Pallas;Karl L Alexander

  • When expectations work: race and socioeconomic differences in school performance

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle;Samuel D. Bedinger

  • The gender gap in math : its possible origins in neighborhood effects

    Doris R. Entwisle;Karl L. Alexander;Linda Steffel Olson

  • Ability Group Effects: Instructional, Social, or Institutional?.

    Aaron M. Pallas;Doris R. Entwisle;Karl L. Alexander;M. Francis Stluka

  • Early Schooling: The Handicap of Being Poor and Male

    Doris R. Entwisle;Karl L. Alexander;Linda S. Olson

  • Selection and Allocation Within Schools: Some Causes and Consequences of Curriculum Placement.

    Karl L. Alexander;Edward L. McDill

  • Children in Motion: School Transfers and Elementary School Performance

    Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle;Susan L. Dauber

  • Facilitating the Transition to First Grade: The Nature of Transition and Research on Factors Affecting It.

    Doris R. Entwisle;Karl L. Alexander

  • Sex Differences in the Educational Attainment Process

    Karl L. Alexander;Bruce K. Eckland

  • Framing the Future: Revisiting the Place of Educational Expectations in Status Attainment

    Robert Bozick;Karl Alexander;Doris Entwisle;Susan Dauber

  • Tracking and Transitions through the Middle Grades: Channeling Educational Trajectories.

    Susan L. Dauber;Karl L. Alexander;Doris R. Entwisle

  • The Wisconsin Model of Socioeconomic Achievement: A Replication

    Karl L. Alexander;Bruce K. Eckland;Larry J. Griffin

Frequent Co-Authors

Doris R. Entwisle
Doris R. Entwisle Johns Hopkins University
Arne L. Kalleberg
Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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