Education & learning publications
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Assessing Informal Learning in Data Literacy
The project’s research study examined the KSN apprenticeship network as a model for delivering challenging activities linked to STEM learning in youth informal learning settings.
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Global Skills For College Completion: Tools And Routines
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Adherence to Varenicline in the Compass Smoking Cessation Intervention Trial
It is important to understand the extent to which prescribed medications are actually taken by smokers, how this influences smoking cessation outcomes, and what factors may influence adherence.
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Self-Concept Development of Students With Disabilities: Disability Category, Gender, and Racial Differences From Early Elementary to High School
Developmental trajectories of two self-concept constructs in three domains were estimated in a nationally representative sample of approximately 3,500 students with disabilities ages 8 to 17 representing 11 federal disability…
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Behavior Problems in Learning Activities and Social Interactions in Head Start Classrooms and Early Reading, Mathematics, and Approaches to Learning
Early problem behavior in structured learning activities consistently predicted lower academic outcomes (early reading and mathematics ability) as well as lower motivation, attention, and persistence in academically focused tasks.
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Examining Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Over Three Enactments Of A Personally Consequential Elementary Science Unit
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Implementing Evidence-Centered Design To Develop Assessments For Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Guidelines For Creating Design Patterns And Development Specifications And Exemplar Task Templates For Mathematics (Alternate Assessment Design)
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Inquire for Ipad: a Biology Textbook That Answers Questions
We present Inquire: Biology, an electronic textbook that provides question-answering capability.
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Inquire for iPad: Bringing Question-Answering AI into the Classroom
Biology, is a novel electronic textbook that runs on an iPad and embeds in it a rich Biology knowledge base and reasoning system.
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Tailoring Support: An Analysis Of Coach-Teacher Relationships In A Media-Rich Early Literacy Intervention
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Design Patterns To Support Storyboards And Scenario-Based, Innovative Item Types
We report on current research in which we are examining the extension and application of inquiry-based design patterns to guide the development of complex science tasks for use in a…
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How to Serve Soup: Interleaving Demonstration and Assisted Editing to Support Nonprogrammers
The Adept Task Learning system is an end-user programming environment that combines programming by demonstration and direct manipulation to support customization by nonprogrammers.