Center for Technology in Learning
SRI's Center for Technology in Learning (CTL) improves student learning, enhances teaching effectiveness, develops meaningful assessments, and evaluates program impacts in preschool, K–12 schools, community colleges, and informal settings such as museums. Read our newsletter.
CTL has exceptional capabilities for developing and studying highly innovative teaching and learning approaches that use advanced technology in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); reading and writing; and 21st century skills. The Center's staff excels in:
- Innovating with emerging technologies
- Leading multi-institutional collaborations
- Relating research to policy and product development
- Applying rigorous scientific methods to evaluate large-scale educational programs
Clients include government agencies such as the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Education, foundations, major corporations, states, and other countries.
Featured Projects
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SRI is conducting a study to understand how math teachers are using the online resource in classrooms to improve instruction and student learning.
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SRI Education and partners conducted a six-year study of community college-employer collaboration to improve the design and delivery of workforce education programming.
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Connecting and exploring researchers’ perspectives in digital learning to make significant and lasting improvements to STEM education.
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SRI served as the external evaluator for a program that aims to increase the likelihood that K-12 students in the San Francisco Bay Area experience high-quality science instruction aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core.
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SRI and its partner are building on a groundbreaking scientific study of how public media materials can help low-income preschoolers develop key early literacy skills.
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SRI is researching the inferential validity, reliability, and effectiveness of formative assessments embedded within games.
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SRI worked with two state consortia to design items for alternate assessments. This work advanced how the learning of students with significant cognitive disabilities is assessed.
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SRI Education leads a first-of-its-kind longitudinal study on the schools’ effectiveness in Texas, North Carolina and Ohio.
