Education & learning publications
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Developing Systems for High-Quality Feedback to Teacher Candidates: Lessons Learned from 11 California State University Teacher Preparation Programs
This paper describes how 11 California State University teacher preparation programs participating in the New Generation of Educators Initiative transformed the way they provide feedback to candidates.
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A System of Measures to Support Improvement in Teacher Preparation
This paper proposes a system of measures that campus-district partnerships can develop to guide and assess reforms in four key areas of their teacher preparation programs.
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Modular Antigen-Specific T-cell Biofactories for Calibrated In Vivo Synthesis of Engineered Proteins
An artificial cell-signaling pathway is developed that capitalizes on the T-cell’s innate extravasation ability and transforms it into a vector for synthesizing calibrated amounts of engineered proteins in vivo.
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Getting Ready to Learn: Creating Effective, Educational Children’s Media
Getting Ready to Learn describes how educational media have and are continuing to play a role in meeting the learning needs of children, parents, and teachers.
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A Principled Approach to Designing Assessments That Integrate Science and Computational Thinking
We describe a principled design process to develop assessment tasks and rubrics that integrate concepts and practices across science, CT, and computational modeling.
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Generalizability of a Technology-Based Intervention to Enhance Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics
To investigate generalizability to broader populations and settings, we triangulate among three methods.
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Next Generation Courseware Challenge Evaluation
How can college completion rates for low-income and minority students be improved? One solution may be digital courseware that offers individualized learning.
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Broadening participation in STEM college majors: Effects of attending a STEM-focused high school
This study addressed the question of whether these high schools improve the odds that their graduates will pursue a STEM major in college.
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Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century
This brief takes a close look at grit, tenacity, and perseverance, factors that underlie the tendency to strive for success at long-term and higher-order goals and to persist in the…
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Using Technology to Personalize Learning in K–12 Schools
Educators are looking to personalized learning approaches to move beyond one-size-fits-all schooling to new approaches that address both persistent and emerging educational challenges, such as achievement gaps and student disengagement.
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Postsecondary Education-Focused Transition Planning Experiences of English Learners With Disabilities
This study examined postschool expectations, transition planning experiences, and supports of a nationally representative sample of English learners with disabilities, based on secondary analysis of the National Longitudinal Transition Study…
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Support Receipt: Effect on Postsecondary Success of Students With Learning Disabilities
Using propensity methods, this study examined the effect of disability-specific and universally available support receipt on the college perseverance and completion of students with LD.