Author: SRI International
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Partnership Models: The Case Of The Deformed Frogs
This chapter describes how a partnership designed, tested, and refined the integration of an innovative learning environment and curricula into the life of an urban middle school.
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The Role Of Research On Contexts Of Teaching Practice In Informing The Design Of Handheld Learning Technologies
In this article, we describe the realities we found and the implications we drew from them for our project, which we argue have broad import for the design of handheld technologies for schools.
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Workshop Report: Advancing Research On The Transformative Potential Of Interactive Pedagogies And Classroom Networks
We have termed both older and newer pedagogical applications of this technology CATAALYST, “Classroom Aggregation Technology for Activating and Assessing Learning and Your Students’ Thinking” because of the promise shown for improving teaching and learning. We use CATAALYST to refer simultaneously to the technology and the pedagogy it enables, as all prior reports agree that…
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Integrated Performance Assessments With Technology (IPAT): Design Model And Prototypes
This paper summarizes the design principles we have forged and some of the assessments we have developed that are particularly relevant to geoscience.
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Preschoolers Demonstrate Emotional Growth in a Picture Pointing Task
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ESCOT: Coordinating The Influence Of R&D And Classroom Practice To Produce Educational Software From Reusable Components
This testbed incorporated interactive learning tools from a variety of university, nonprofit, and commercial developers, and hosted decentralized authoring teams consisting of teachers, developers and educational technologists.
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Globe Year 8 Evaluation: Adapting Implementation to Diverse Contexts
We studied two aspects of adaptation of GLOBE this year (2002-03). We examined how partners have adapted training and follow-up support to meet teacher needs and analyzed GLOBE implementation in a subset of schools in which at least 80% of students come from communities of color that are underrepresented in science.
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Leveraging Handhelds To Increase Student Learning: Engaging Middle School Students With The Mathematics Of Change
Handheld computers are poised to build upon the success of graphing calculators in mathematics classrooms, as they share important characteristics such as small size and low cost, while increasing representational richness.
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Information Technology Research and Education, Teaching, and Learning Report on Two NSF-Funded Workshops
With support from the Experimental and Integrative Activities Division (EIA) of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), SRI International conducted two invitational meetings whose objective was an in-depth discussion of research issues at the interface of information technology and learning science research.
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Using Technology Evaluation To Enhance Student Learning
This volume interprets the research perspectives published in Evaluating Educational Technology: Effective Research Designs for Improving Learning to provide valuable insights for the successful use of technology in different classroom and curricular settings.
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study: Demographic Characteristics of Children and Families Entering Early Intervention. NEILS Data Report No. 3
The National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS) is being conducted to address some of the most important questions related to the implementation and outcomes of Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
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Speaker Recognition using Prosodic and Lexical Features
We investigate the contribution of modeling prosodic and lexical patterns, on performance in the NIST 2003 Speaker Recognition Evaluation extended data task.