Author: SRI International
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Mapping The Terrain: Year 1 Of The Evaluation Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District And Network Grants Program
The foundation’s grantees are taking a twopronged approach to reform: grantee organizations are supporting the design of new, small high schools and/or the conversion of large high schools into smaller learning communities.
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Early Intervention Service Provider Survey
Survey of early intervention service providers used in the SRI-led National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS).
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Training a Prosody-Based Dialog Act Tagger from Unlabeled Data
Here we investigate the use of unlabeled data for training HMM-based dialog act taggers. Three techniques are shown to be effective for bootstrapping a tagger from very small amounts of labeled data.
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An Integrative Approach to Relating Science Inquiry Assessment Items to Science Curricula and National Standards
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High Time For High School Reform: Early Findings From The Evaluation Of The National School District And Network Grants Program
This report is one of a series that will be produced over the 5-year course of the National School District and Network Grants Program evaluation. The evaluation examines the extent to which foundation-supported schools adopt elements of effective schooling and show better, more equitable outcomes for students.
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Using Cognitive Analyses To Describe Students’ Science Inquiry And Motivation To Learn
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The Robustness of an Almost-Parsing Language Model Given Errorful Training Data
An almost-parsing language model has been developed that provides a framework for tightly integrating multiple knowledge sources. Lexical features and syntactic constraints are integrated into a uniform linguistic structure (called a SuperARV) that is associated with words in the lexicon.
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Using Cognitive Analyses To Understand Motivational And Situational Influences In Science Achievement
This study explores the relationship between students’ test perceptions, motivation and engagement in multiple-choice and performance assessment testing contexts.
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Media Inequality in Conversation: How People Behave Differently When Interacting With Computers and People
The present study presents a laboratory experiment grounded in the principles of Interpersonal Theory, a psychological approach to interpersonal dynamics. Discourse analyses revealed a key difference in participants ’ behavior – when participants believed they were talking to a person, they showed many more of the kinds of behaviors associated with establishing the interpersonal nature…
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Program Director Survey
Directors of programs serving the children and families during their first six months in service complete a mail survey on the characteristics of their programs such as the number and types of clients served, the service providers employed, and where services are provided.
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Service Record A
For the study, every six months an early intervention professional completed a questionnaire on received services, including information regarding the transition out of early intervention.
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Research To Support Scaling-Up Technology-Based Educational Interventions