Education & learning publications
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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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Tailoring Support: An Analysis Of Coach-Teacher Relationships In A Media-Rich Early Literacy Intervention
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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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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.
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Growth in Reading Achievement in a National Sample of Students with Disabilities Ages 7 to 17
Using data from the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study, this study estimated reading growth trajectories in a nationally representative sample of disabled students.
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Attention and Hyperactivity Symptoms at Kindergarten Entry Associated with Less Sleep in Preschool
To assess the association between sleep and attention and hyperactivity symptoms in preschool children.
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Are More Stringent NCLB State Accountability Systems Associated with Better Student Outcomes?
This study developed a comprehensive measure of the stringency level of NCLB states’ accountability systems, including the strength of their annual measurable objectives, confidence intervals, performance indexing, retesting, minimum subgroup…
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Implementing SRI’s Pashto speech-to-speech translation system on a smartphone
We describe our recent effort implementing SRI's UMPC-based Pashto speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system on a smart phone running the Android operating system.
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Evaluation of the Texas High School Project: Second Comprehensive Annual Report
This report is the second comprehensive annual report of the Texas High School Project (THSP) evaluation.
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California’s Teaching Force 2010: Key Issues and Trends
This report covers four key themes: the contraction of the teacher workforce and other issues affecting the teacher supply pipeline, the weakening of the teacher development system in the context…