Education & learning publications
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Resequencing of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Genes and Association of Common and Rare Variants with the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence
We investigated the contribution of common SNPs and rare single-nucleotide variants in nAChR genes to Fagerström test for nicotine dependence scores in treatment-seeking smokers.
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Alpha 6 Beta 2*And Alpha 4 Beta 2*Nicotinic Receptors Both Regulate Dopamine Signaling with Increased Nigrostriatal Damage: Relevance to Parkinson’s Disease
We investigated the effect of varying nigrostriatal damage on α6β2* and α4β2* receptor-modulated dopamine signaling using cyclic voltammetry.
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Language Analytics for Assessing Brain Health: Cognitive Impairment, Depression and Pre-Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease
We present data demonstrating how brain health may be assessed by applying data-mining and text analytics to patient language.
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Scaffolding Group Explanation and Feedback with Handheld Technology: Impact on Students’ Mathematics Learning
We compared group and individual learning feedback, using two technologies: (1) Technology-mediated, Peer-Assisted Learning and (2) a popular desktop product, which provides feedback to individual students as they solve fractions…
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Scaffolding Group Explanation and Feedback with Handheld Technology: Impact on Students’ Mathematics Learning
We compared group and individual feedback, using two technologies: Technology-mediated, Peer-Assisted Learning (TechPALS), and a popular desktop product, which provides feedback to individual students as they solve fractions problems individually.
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Technology and Education Change: Focus on Student Learning
This study examined technology implementation practices associated with student learning gains.
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Investigating Links from Teacher Knowledge, to Classroom Practice, to Student Learning in the Instructional System of the Middle-School Mathematics Classroom
We examined relationships between teachers’ mathematics knowledge, teachers’ classroom decision making, and student achievement outcomes on topics of rate, proportionality, and linear function—three important and cognitively demanding pre-algebra topics.
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Migration, Remittances, and Children’s Schooling in Haiti
The authors examine the impact of remittances on the schooling of children in various Haitian communities with a high incidence of out-migration.
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The Early College High School Initiative: an Overview of Five Evaluation Years
This article will provide an overview of the key findings across 5 years of the ECHSI evaluation, in particular highlighting how participants have implemented the ECHSI's core principles.
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Using Design Personas To Inform Refinements To Software For Science Learning
In this paper, we describe the process of creating personas to inform refinements to the design of software designed to help elementary students create concept maps of science topics they…
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It’s About Time: Purpose, Methods and Challenges of Temporal Analyses of Multiple Data Streams
This workshop explores issues emerging from integrating data streams by identifying a set of analytic difficulties researchers commonly face, and illustrating the application of specific methods that address these challenges.
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Content analysis of collaboratively constructed knowledge artifacts: Issues and opportunities for research
New social media for collaborative knowledge construction, often associated with "Web 2.0," represent an emerging context for the research of learning and instruction.