Project
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Students Exposed to Trauma: A Study of the CBITS Program
SRI researchers are conducting a study of the efficacy of the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program.
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Preschool Development Grants Birth-5 Technical Assistance (PDG B-5 TA) Center
The PDG B-5 TA Center delivers technical assistance to support states in building, enhancing, and expanding birth through age 5 mixed delivery systems and high-quality early childhood programs and services.
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New Generation of Educators Initiative
This study investigates a multiyear effort to ensure that the California State University teacher preparation programs are producing the teachers California K–12 school districts will need as they complete their transition to CCSS and NGSS standards.
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Ready to Learn Initiative
The Ready To Learn Initiative is producing and distributing children’s digital media content—videos, games, apps, and hands-on activities—to improve the literacy, math, and science skills of economically disadvantaged children.
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Inclusion in California Early Learning and Care
SRI conducted an efficacy study of more than 2,500 students on the benefits of online homework support for students’ mathematics learning.
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ASSISTments Efficacy & Replication Studies
Funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, SRI Education conducted an efficacy study on the benefits of online homework support for students’ mathematics learning.
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Effectiveness Study of Tools for Getting Along: Teaching Students to Problem Solve
SRI Education is examining the effectiveness of Tools for Getting Along , an evidence-based social problem-solving curriculum.
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Nevada Ready! B-3 Alignment
In 2020, SRI engaged Nevada stakeholders in an iterative process to promote alignment across standards areas, resulting in standards revisions, adoption of new standards, and next steps for further standards development.
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Evaluation of the CoolThink@JC Pilot: A computational thinking initiative in Hong Kong primary schools
SRI International is conducting a study on the impact of computational thinking education in Hong Kong primary schools. Around the world, teaching the problem-solving process known as computational thinking (CT) is increasingly recognized as a critical enabler for future success in a digital society. While CT initiatives often begin at secondary levels, some schools are…
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Evidence-based training for new teachers boosts student achievement in math and English language arts
Researchers found that when teachers participated in the NTC induction model, students improved their achievement in math and English language arts.
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Virginia Preschool Initiative-Plus (VPI+)
SRI Education designed and launched a 4-year comprehensive evaluation of the implementation and impact of Virginia’s state preschool program called the Virginia Preschool Initiative Plus.
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Evaluation of the Apple and ConnectED Initiative
The six-year independent research study conducted by SRI International across 101 schools aimed to combine rigorous measurement of ConnectED’s outcomes and accomplishments with an in-depth look at what it has meant for participating teachers, students, principals and parents.