Education & learning publications
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Alternate Assessment Design – Mathematics. Technical Report 4: Design Patterns. The Background and Role of Design Patterns in the Evidence-centered Design Process
This technical report lays out the basic ideas of ECD and then focuses intensively on the second stage of ECD, referred to as domain modeling and the theory and use…
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Aprendiendo con las cuatro pantallas. En La Sociedad de las Cuatro Pantallas, Una mirada latinoamericana
El propósito de este ensayo es discutir cómo hacer valer las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) en la enseñanza a la luz de los avances en la…
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Identity in the Federal Learning Registry
The Learning Registry helps alleviate the problem of disparate standards for describing resources by changing the business model for suppliers from hand-curation of descriptive data to tapping data streams from…
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Investigations of a Complex, Realistic Task: Intentional, Unsystematic, and Exhaustive Experimenters
This study examines how students' experimentation with a virtual environment contributes to their understanding of a complex, realistic inquiry problem.
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Getting on the Same Page using Scenario-Based Learning: An Alignment of Education and Industry Goals for Technician Education
The current report examines the alignment of a set of scenario-based learning materials with two sets of relevant industry standards.
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An exploratory study to unpack the nature of teacher’s everyday innovation
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Scientific Literacy In The Context Of Civic Reasoning: An Educational Design Problem
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Supporting science teaching with scientists and engineers in middle school classrooms
Bienkowski, M. & Dieterle, E. (2011). Supporting science teaching with scientists and engineers in middle school classrooms. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (April), New Orleans, LA.
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The Role of Context in Preschool Learning: a Multilevel Examination of the Contribution of Context-Specific Problem Behaviors and Classroom Process Quality to Low-Income Children’s Approaches to Learning
Research suggests that promoting adaptive approaches to learning early in childhood may help close the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged children.
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The Design Pattern: A Blueprint for a New Domain-specific Assessment
Assessment researchers at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, designed a prototype scenario-based assessment to measure how well college students learn the big ideas of biology and economics and how…
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Domain-specific Assessment: What Foundational Concepts and Reasoning Skills are Community College Students Learning?
The Domain-Specific Assessment project developed a set of tools and assessment items that measure students’ capacity to apply knowledge rather than simply memorize vast amounts of it.
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Focus, Fiddle, and Friends: Experiences That Transform Knowledge for the Implementation of Innovations