Education & learning publications
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Role Of Technology In Student-Scientist Partnerships: Perspective From The National Science Foundation
Abstract A variety of student-scientist partnerships (SSPs) have evolved over the years in the K-12 classroom, providing students, teachers, and scientists with activities and experiences not available from any other…
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Beyond Representativeness: Productive Intuitions About Probability
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Active And Supportive Computer-Mediated Resources For Student-To-Student Conversation
We provide quantitative data that suggests that seventh grade students who used PIE learned some of the basic principles of probability. Two cases studies are that illustrate how communication supported…
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The Gateway Engineering Education Coalition: Evaluation Report
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Netlearning: Why Teachers Use The Internet
This book addresses the educational benefits of connecting to the Internet and shows how various educators use Internet features to support their curriculum goals.
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VILTS: The Voice-Interactive Language Training System
ECHOS is a voice interactive language training system being developed to foster improvement in French comprehension and speaking skills, incorporating speech recognition and pronunciation evaluation.
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Scatter/Gather Browsing Communicates The Topic Structure Of A Very Large Text Collection
Users are presented with automatically computed summaries of the contents of clusters of similar documents and provided with a method for navigating through these summaries at different levels of granularity.…
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Mentors In The Classroom: Bringing The World Outside In
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Designing For Cognitive Communication: Epistemic Fidelity Or Mediating Collaborating Inquiry
aps between worldviews prevent students from interpreting displays literally, and thus limit the extent to which communication can be achieved by representing knowledge accurately. Hence, rather than merely representing mental…
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Globe Year 1 Evaluation: Findings
Global learning and observations to benefit the environment (GLOBE) is an international environmental science and education program involving elementary and secondary school students in the collection of data concerning their…
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Using Information Technology For Delivering Education In The United States: A Status Report
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Educational Software Architecture And Systemic Impact: The Promise Of Component Software
This report describes results from a national telephone survey that asked parents about their attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to early learning, science learning, and digital media use...