Digital learning publications
-
Evaluating Digital Learning for Adult Basic Literacy and Numeracy
Through this research, we set out to understand how ABE programs might use these technologies to improve the instruction they offer, whether such technologies are effective with low-skilled adults and…
-
How big is that? Reporting the Effect Size and Cost of ASSISTments in the Maine Homework Efficacy Study
In this technical report, we present alternatives for explaining the effect size, building on the guidance of Lipsey et al., a leading researcher who developed broad recommendations for effect size…
-
Influences on the Scaling of Digital Learning Resources
SRI’s analysis of data from more than 20 digital learning products suggest that for technologies designed for use within schools, achieving effectiveness and achieving scale can be hard to do…
-
Lessons Learned From Early Implementations of Adaptive Courseware
To address the urgent need to improve student outcomes in developmental and general education courses, higher education institutions are turning to new learning technologies.
-
Innovating Pedagogy 2015
This fourth report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency and are having an increasing effect on education. We proposed a long list of new educational terms, theories, and…
-
Supporting Parent-Child Experiences with PEG+CAT Early Math Concepts: Report to the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative (Executive Summary)
The study focused on PEG+CAT, a first-generation transmedia program designed to promote children’s mathematics and approaches to learning (ATL) skills.
-
Early Experiences with EdReady— A Tool for Improving Math College Readiness
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success initiative is concerned with understanding how online technology applications can assess and improve students’ math readiness to better prepare them for postsecondary…
-
Supporting Parent-Child Experiences with PEG+CAT Early Math Concepts: Report to the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative (Report Highlights)
The study presented here addresses the question of how time spent viewing and playing with PBS KIDS educational, non-commercial media at home, in family settings, can foster positive outcomes for…
-
Principals Discuss Early Implementation of the ASSISTments Online Homework Tutor for Mathematics
This report presents the findings from interviews with principals about their schools’ participation in the ASSISTments efficacy study on seventh-grade mathematics.
-
Strength of Research for Reasoning Mind
We found strong evidence supporting the quality of product design relative to design characteristics that have been shown to be empirically important in prior research with other blended learning products.
-
Automated, Adaptive Guidance for K-12 Education
This paper distinguishes features of automated adaptive guidance used in K-12 instructional settings and recommends directions for design.
-
Early Math with Gracie & Friends (Tm) Demo: App-Infused Curriculum and Teacher Support for Preschool
Our team developed and published eight iPad apps, 38 hands-on activities, a digital Teacher’s Guide, and professional development modules to help preschool children learn foundational math concepts.