Professor James Lee
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Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Akiba, M. (in press). Identifying program characteristics for preparing pre-service teachers for diversity. Teachers College Record, 113(3).

  • Scribner, J., & Akiba, M. (in press). Exploring the relationship between prior career experience and instructional quality among mathematics and science teachers in alternative teacher certification programs. Educational Policy.

  • Akiba, M. (2009). What predicts fear of school violence among U.S. adolescents? Teachers College Record, 111(12).

  • Zhao, H., & Akiba, M. (2009). School expectations for parental involvement and its impact on student achievement in mathematics: A comparative study of middle schools in the U.S. and South Korea. Compare, 39(3), 411-428.

  • Akiba, M. (2008). Predictors of student fear of school violence: A comparative study of eighth graders in 33 countries. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 19(1), 51-72.

  • Akiba, M., Chiu, Y-F., Zhuang, Y., & Eastman-Mueller, H. (2008). Standards-basedˇ@mathematics reforms and mathematics achievement of American Indian/Alaska Native eighth graders. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 16(20).

  • Akiba, M., LeTendre, G. K., & Scribner, J. P. (2007). Teacher quality, opportunity gap, and achievement gap in 47 countries. Educational Researcher, 36(7), 369-387.

  • Akiba, M. & Han, S. (2007). Academic differentiation, school achievement, and school violence in the U.S. and South Korea. Compare, 37(2), 201-219.

  • Lauer, P. A., Akiba, M., Wilkerson, S. B., Apthorp, H. S., Snow, D. & Martin-Glenn, M. L. (2006). Out-of-school-time programs: A meta-analysis of effects for at-risk students. Review of Educational Research, 76 (2), 275-313.
  • Akiba, M. (2005) Nature and Correlates of Ijime - Bullying in Japanese middle school. International Journal of Educational Research, 41(3) 217-236.
  • Han, S. & Akiba, M. (2005). School liability for student injury from school violence: Comparison between South Korea and the United States . Education and the Law , 17 (4), 161-172.
Books, Book Reviews and Chapters
  • Akiba, M. & LeTendre, G. (2009). Improving teacher quality: The U.S. teaching force in global context. New York: Teachers College Press.

  • LeTendre, G. K., & Akiba, M. (2008). Chapter 11: Japan. In J. Pattnaik (Ed.), The greenwood encyclopedia of childrenˇ¦s issues worldwide (pp. 237-253). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

  • Akiba, M. (2006). Review of School violence in context by Rami Benbenishty & Ron Avi Astor. American Journal of Education, 113 (1), 161-166.

  • LeTendre, G. K., & Akiba, M (2005). Schoolwork at home? Low-quality schooling and homework. In D. P. Baker & G. K. LeTendre (Eds.), National differences, global similarities: World culture and the future of schooling (pp. 117-133).Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.


  • LeTendre, G. K., & Akiba, M. (2005). Safe schools, dangerous nations: The paradox of school violence. In D. P. Baker & G. K. LeTendre (Eds), National differences, global similarities: World culture and the future of schooling (pp. 86-103). Standford, CA: Stanford University Press.

  • Akiba, M. (2004). Chapter 12: A Cross-National Analysis of Student Victimization: Educational Inequality and School Violence. In S. Paik. (ed.) Productivity Analyses of National Databases. Greenwich: Information Age Publishing.


  • Akiba, M., & LeTendre, G. (2000). Review of S. Yoneyamaˇ¦s Japanese High School in the Journal of Japanese Studies, 26, (2) 474-478.


  • LeTendre, G. & Akiba, M. (1999) Teacher Beliefs about Adolescent Develeopment. in S. Kobayashi (ed.) Human Development and Education Okayama City: Daigaku-Kyouiku Shuppan, pp. 94-114. (in Japanese)
Encyclopedia Entries
  • Akiba, M. (2002). Gakureki Syakai. (Diploma society in Japan) Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, New York: Scribners Reference.


  • Akiba, M. & G. LeTendre. (2001). Ijime (Bullying in Japan). Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, New York: Scribners Reference.
 
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