Author: SRI International
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Measuring Middle School Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge Of Teaching Rate And Proportionality
We are investigating if teachers from across the state of Texas can use a specially designed replacement unit and SimCalc software to help their students learn mathematics important to the Texas state frameworks, as well as content that goes beyond the state framework—the beginning pieces of the “mathematics of change,” leading to Calculus.
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Findings from the Evaluation of The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District and Network Grants Program: The Challenge of Sustaining High-School Reform
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Mathematizing Middle School: Results From A Cross-Disciplinary Study Of Data Literacy
In this paper we discuss a pilot study in which we investigate bridging the disciplines of social studies and mathematics to help students learn important aspects of data literacy. We view this pilot as an important step in a larger research program that investigates the learning progression, and the concomitant learning mechanisms required to increase…
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Reverse Engineering the NAEP Floating Pencil Task Using the PADI Design System (PADI Technical Report 16)
This report will discuss the reverse engineering of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Floating Pencil task. The PADI design system was used as an analytical tool for understanding the characteristics and underlying assessment argument of this chosen task.
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Review Of Evaluation Findings For The Intel Learn Program
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Contextual valency shifters
We argue that the current work in this area that concentrates mainly on the negative or positive attitude communicated by individual terms is incomplete and often gives the wrong results when implemented directly.
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A Guide to the Padi Gradebook (Padi Technical Report 12)
The PADI Gradebook is an application created under the Principled Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI) project that combines assessment design information with student response data and employs a scoring engine to generate estimates of student proficiency.
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KIPP Schools, A Study of Early Implementation: First Year Report, 2004 – 2005
The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) aims to create schools for historically underserved students that significantly increase the amount of instructional time and the efficiency of learning during that time. This report marks the end of the first year of a three-year study of five KIPP schools in the San Francisco Bay Area that opened…
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Ethnic Identity Formation During Adolescence: The Critical Role of Families
Using structural equation modeling and, specifically, multiple group comparisons, findings indicated that familial ethnic socialization (FES) played a significant role in the process of ethnic identity formation for all adolescents, regardless of ethnic background.
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Eligibility characteristics of infants and toddlers entering early intervention services in the United States
To meet the need for information about EI services and its participants, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study.
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ICF and ICD Codes Provide a Standard Language of Disability in Young Children
The results demonstrate that ICD and ICF can be jointly used as a common language to document disability characteristics of children in early intervention.
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Educational Technologies And Social Inequality In Brazilian Public Schools
This work examines how technology use in Brazilian basic education is influenced by cultural context. This research focused on the widespread educational initiatives that propose to improve equity in public education through increased technology use.