Education & learning publications
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What it takes to create linked learning: A report on lessons learned from evaluating the approach in practice
The evaluation has surfaced a set of strategies that promote successful implementation of Linked Learning by both school districts and individual pathways.
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Professional Development to Support Instructional Improvement: Lessons from Research
This paper acknowledges the issue of nonstrategic use of professional development resources and describes lessons from research on how professional development could be better designed to achieve desired impacts on…
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Supporting young children with disabilities
The authors review effective ways to support development and learning among young children with disabilities, including language and social skills interventions, preschool curricula, instructional and other practices, and multi-tiered systems…
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Privacy- preserving speech analytics for automatic assessment of student collaboration
This work investigates whether nonlexical information from speech can automatically predict the quality of small-group collaborations. Audio was collected from students as they collaborated in groups of three to solve…
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The SRI speech-based collaborative learning corpus
We introduce the SRI speech-based collaborative learning corpus, a novel collection designed for the investigation and measurement of how students collaborate together in small groups.
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Intelligent Coaching Systems in Higher-Order Applications: Lessons from Automated Content Creation Bottlenecks
This presentation describes two projects for interactive training that developed prototypes for automated content creation plus a third project that illustrates a suite of learning object libraries to support engineering…
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Issue Brief: Early Warning Systems
The brief describes early warning systems as a dropout prevention strategy based on a nationally representative sample of more than 2,000 U.S. public high schools.
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Course-Taking Effect on Postsecondary Enrollment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 were used to examine the effect of academic and career or technical education course-taking in high school on deaf or hard of hearing…
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Can low-Cost online summer math programs improve student preparation for college-level math? Evidence from randomized experiments at three universities
We conducted randomized experiments of low-cost online summer math programs to test whether this type of intervention can increase access to math preparation, improve placement and enrollment in fall math…
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Evaluation of Rocketship Students’ Middle School Outcomes
Rocketship Education is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation whose mission is to eliminate the achievement gap by building a scalable and sustainable school model that propels student achievement in underserved communities…
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Case studies of the early implementation of Kindergarten Entry Assessments
This report presents findings from a descriptive study that examined the development and early implementation of Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEAs) in 12 districts across four Race To the Top-Early Learning…
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Evaluation of World Bicycle Relief’s Bicycles for Educational Empowerment Program: South Africa Opportunity Study
The purpose of this “opportunity study” was to identify the opportunity that bicycles could offer to rural South African schoolchildren; the critical factors that support and hinder implementation; and suggestions…