Despite their unique contributions to heart failure (HF) care, home healthcare workers (HHWs) have unmet educational needs. To address this, we used a community-partnered approach to develop and pilot a HF training course for HHWs. We evaluated the course on feasibility, acceptability, and …

As researchers working in different subareas, we explore alternative approaches to designing with communities. In particular, we are enthusiastic about moving away from focusing on a community's needs toward building on its strengths. However, our varied experiences with assets-based design …

In Cameroon, no exam is more important than the baccalauréat, which serves as the gateway to professional and higher-education aspirations. We build on existing literature on practice tests to evaluate how SMS-based quizzes could help students prepare for the baccalauréat. We find that students …

We created a system to send regularly-spaced, multiple-choice questions to students' own mobile devices to help secondary school students in Cameroon with exam practice via either SMS or WhatsApp. Students' participation rates were heavily impacted by trust in the intervening organization and …

Their results were surprising. With all the hype around Internet messaging services like WhatsApp, the researchers were expecting WhatsApp to well outdo old-school SMS text messages. Yet, SMS beat WhatsApp for mobile phone test prep!

Anthony Poon, a Cornell Ph.D. student studying information science, is working on test preparation technology initiatives to improve high school graduation rates in Cameroon.

In recent decades, new sociological theories have risen to try to explain the barriers to reaching middle-class experienced by recent immigrants to America. A key issue is the relationship between cultural and socioeconomic assimilation. In this work, I use data from the Beyond High School …