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National Evaluation of Writing Project School Partnerships - Final Report (without Appendices)
H. Alix Gallagher, Katrina Woodworth, Haiwen Wang, Jennifer Bland, Kristin Bosetti, Lauren Cassidy, Larry Gallagher, Amy Hafter, Teresa McCaffrey, Robert Murphy, & Patrick Shields

Final report on SRI's examination of the effects of partnerships on teacher practices and student writing. The cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) included a multimethod study to document how partnerships were developed and implemented in participating schools and sites.

Sep, 2012 Technical Report Download PDF Details
Topics: 21st Century Skills Educational Impact Evaluation Randomized Controlled Trials + Quasi-Experimental Designs Reading, Writing + Humanities Teacher Quality + Learning
Perceptual Strategies For Purposive Vision
Thomas D. Garvey

This report describes a computer program that approaches perception as a problem-solving task. The system uses information about the appearances of objects, about their interrelationships, and about available sensors to produce a plan for locating specified objects in images of room scenes.

Sep, 1976 Journal Download PDF Details
Poster: A System for Creating Assessment of Higher-Order Reasoning in Specific Undergraduate Domains
Louise Yarnall, Geneva Haertel, Larry Gallagher, Rob Johnstone, Robert Mislevy, & Ernest Pascarella

Poster presentation at the annual project manager’s meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, D.C.

Jun, 2009 Miscellaneous Download PDF Details
Topics: Assessment Design + Evaluation Community College: Transitions
Poster: Assessment Research to Inform Community College Instructional Goals
Louise Yarnall, Geneva Haertel, Larry Gallagher, Rob Johnstone, Robert Mislevy, & Ernest Pascarella

A poster presenting the team's research on how to make visible, by means of assessment, the important, foundational knowledge in domain areas.

Apr, 2010 Miscellaneous Download PDF Details
Topics: Assessment Design + Evaluation Community College: Transitions
Poster: Using a Principled Design System to Identify Community College Outcomes
Louise Yarnall, Geneva Haertel, Larry Gallagher, Rob Johnstone, Robert Mislevy, & Ernest Pascarella

Poster presentation at the annual project manager’s meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, D.C.

Jun, 2008 Miscellaneous Download PDF Details
Topics: Assessment Design + Evaluation Community College: Transitions
Procedural Knowledge
Amy L. Lansky, & Michael P. Georgeff

Much of commonsense knowledge about the real world is in the form of procedures or sequences of actions for achieving particular goals. In this paper, a formalism is presented for representing such knowledge using the notion of process.

Jan, 1987 Journal Download PDF Details
Procedures for Integrating Knowledge in a Speech Understanding System
Donald E. Walker, William H. Paxton, B. Grosz, Gary G. Hendrix, Ann E. Robinson, Jane J. Robinson, & J. Slocum

This paper describes the procedures for integrating knowledge from different sources in the SRI speech understanding system. A language definition system coordinates–at the phrase level–information from syntax, semantics, and discourse in the course of the interpretation of an utterance.

Mar, 1977 Journal Download PDF Details
Providing A Unified Account Of Definite Noun Phrases In Discourse
Barbara J. Grosz, Aravind K Joshi, & Scott Weinstein

Linguistic theories typically assign various linguistic phenomena to one of the categories, syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic, as if the phenomena in each category were relatively independent of those in the others.

Jun, 1983 Journal Download PDF Details
Ready Schools Miami: A Systems Change Effort to Improve Children's Outcomes (Year 3 Evaluation)
Shari Golan, Marjorie Wechsler, Dana Petersen, Nyema Mitchell, C.J. Park, & Mario Snow

Ready Schools is a radical systems change effort to improve the academic, health, and social outcomes of historically underserved children in one of this country’s largest and most diverse communities, Miami-Dade County. This report presents Year 3 findings of SRI's evaluation.

Feb, 2011 Technical Report Download PDF Details
Topics: Case Studies in Education Early Childhood Educational Impact Evaluation Implementation Evaluation School + Community Partnerships School Improvement: Student Success
Ready Schools Miami: Year 2 Evaluation Findings
Shari Golan, Marjorie Wechsler, Ashley Campbell, C.J. Park, Dana Petersen, & Tracy Huang

Since receiving support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in 2007, Ready Schools partners have made significant progress toward improving the systems in Miami-Dade that contribute to school readiness and success. This report presents findings of the second year of evaluation.

Jan, 2010 Technical Report Download PDF Details
Topics: Case Studies in Education Early Childhood Educational Impact Evaluation Implementation Evaluation School + Community Partnerships School Improvement: Student Success