Education & learning publications
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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…
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Improving early literacy in PreK–3: Lessons learned (August 2016)
The Pathway Schools Initiative aims to dramatically increase the number of students who reach the critical milestone of grade 3 reading proficiency, an indicator predictive of later academic outcomes and…
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Pathway Schools Initiative Developmental Evaluation-Learning Brief 2 (July 2016)
To support its Pathway Schools Initiative, The McKnight Foundation has engaged initiative leaders in a developmental evaluation (DE) led by SRI International and Child Trends.
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Interactive online learning on campus: Comparing students’ outcomes in hybrid and traditional courses in the university system of Maryland
We studied the impacts on learning outcomes of hybrid courses redesigned using online materials from MOOCs created on the Coursera platform and digital materials created by the Open Learning Initiative…
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Promising approaches to broadening youth participation in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) views broadening participation in the nation’s STEM enterprise as vitally linked to the United States’ capacity for innovation.
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Spoken Interaction Modeling for Automatic Assessment of Collaborative Learning
This study investigates whether automatic audio- based monitoring of interactions can predict collaboration quality.