Author: SRI International
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Familiesā First Experiences with Early Intervention
This report examines familiesā initial experiences with obtaining early intervention services. It is based on data from the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS).
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Using Technology To Assess Students’ Web Expertise
This study investigated the use of an online authentic assessment tool to evaluate studentsā fluency with the World Wide Web (WWW). Using our online Web Expertise Assessment and accompanying WWW background questionnaire, students were able to demonstrate their WWW knowledge and expertise.
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Automatic Dialog Act Labeling With Minimal Supervision
We investigate the problem of automatically tagging dialog acts when hand-labeled training data is scarce. The tagging paradigm employed is a hidden Markov model in which dialog acts are states and utterances are observations, with N-gram language models as observation models.
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Geoscience Projects and the Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL)
A Web-Based Tool to Support the Professional Development of Evaluators
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Painting A Landscape Onto TAPPED IN 2
Starting in mid-2001, with new NSF funding, we began working with our partners and community to design a new TAPPED IN system that we call Tapped In Version 2.
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A Decade of Public Charter Schools
Researchers at SRI International are conducting the first national evaluation of the PCSP for the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
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The Nature And Future Of Classroom Connectivity: The Dialectics Of Mathematics In The Social Space
This paper is about a specific instance of the interaction and coevolution of design, technological affordance, and cognitive theory. The idea is that next generation networking can better support or āresonateā with generative practices and also, in iterating back to theory, allow us to further develop our ideas of what generativity is.
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Alternative Certification: Design for a National Study
Some policymakers believe that alternative certificationāin some formācan help meet the demand for more teachers while still maintaining or improving quality.
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Report On A Conference On Models Of Implementation Research Within Science And Mathematics Instruction In Urban Schools
This report documents the proceedings and the deliberations of this conference that were led by these four NSF-sponsored projects (LeTUS, SYRCE, Schools for Thought, and Union City Online).
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A persistent web application for distribution of weather information in Scheme
A new tool is being used to generate lexical parsers in Scheme. It is based on a cascade of lexers, described by tagged regular expressions (TREs)Ā written as s-expressions. In Metcast, these lexical parsers are used to generate meteorological decoders.
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Using Chemsense to Gather Evidence of Student Learning
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Automatic Punctuation and Disfluency Detection in Multi-Party Meetings Using Prosodic and Lexical Cues
We investigate automatic approaches to finding “hidden” spontaneous speech events, such as sentence boundaries and disfluencies, in multi-party meetings.