Education & learning publications
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Smoking Outcome By Psychiatric History After Behavioral and Varenicline Treatment
Treatment outcomes were compared across smokers enrolled in the COMPASS cessation trial with a diagnosis of PH based on medical record evidence of anxiety, depression, psychotic disorder, or bipolar disorder.
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Evaluation of the Texas High School Project: First Comprehensive Annual Report
Data included in this report specifically come from the 2007-08 school year, when many THSP schools were just embarking on their THSP-related reform work.
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Thinking With Data: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach To Teaching Data Literacy And Proportionality
In this article, we describe our theoretical approach to designing and implementing the modules, report on student learning gains in mathematics, and describe teacher reactions to the materials.
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Helping Students Make Controlled Experiments More Informative
We examine how encouraging students to compare rather than isolate variables affects their experimentation strategies and insights.
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Behavioral Counseling and Varenicline Treatment for Smoking Cessation
This study compared the effectiveness of three modalities of a behavioral smoking-cessation program in smokers using varenicline.
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Productive Dispositions For Math Teaching: An Exploratory Study Of Adaptive Expertise
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Can desirable difficulties overcome deceptive clarity in scientific visualizations?
In this chapter we explore ways that desirable difficulties can help learners overcome pitfalls associated with he deceptive clarity of visualizations.
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Synergistic Use of Evidence-Centered Design and Universal Design for Learning for Improved Assessment Design
The integration and application of evidence-centered design (ECD) and universal design for learning (UDL) in assessment design increases the likelihood that items and tasks will be well aligned with content…
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Poster: Assessment Research to Inform Community College Instructional Goals
A poster presenting the team’s research on how to make visible, by means of assessment, the important, foundational knowledge in domain areas.
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Designing the Logistics for Large-Scale Randomized Controlled Trials: Six Strategies for Implementation at Scale
The Scaling Up SimCalc Project demonstrates how careful attention to logistics can permit use of a distributed data strategy in a set of large-scale experiments without compromising rigorous control and…
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Leveraging Evidence-Centered Design In Large-Scale Test Development (Large-Scale Assessment Technical Report 4)
This brief on Early Warning Systems is the first in a series of briefs being released this fall with key findings about these high school improvement strategies.
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Scaffolding knowledge communities in the classroom: New opportunities in the Web 2.0 era
This chapter reports two studies that used a wiki to deliver a new curriculum model that blends scripted inquiry activities with collaborative knowledge construction in secondary school biology.