Education & learning publications
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Scaling Up SimCalc Project Tech Report Series: Design and Development of the Student and Teacher Mathematical Assessments
This technical report documents the design and development of the student and teacher mathematical content assessment instruments for the Scaling Up SimCalc Project.
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Dynamics of North American Sector Ionospheric and Thermospheric Response During the November 2004 Superstorm
We present a study of ionospheric and thermospheric response during a November 9–10, 2004 major geomagnetic storm event (DsT ∼−300 nT).
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Using Knowledge about How People Learn to Define Learning Goals
How well are college general education classes preparing students to apply big ideas to real-world problems? What are the major steps of domain-specific assessment design? Presented at Innovations 2010.
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Building Relationships That Foster a STEM Continuum for Girls
Who We Are: Project Background and Partners • InnovaTE³: Mission, Goals, Curriculum, Participants • STEM Continuum Programming • Strategies for Building Relationships • Youth Development Approach • Evaluation • Successes…
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Girls InnovaTE3: Girls Innovating with Technology as Entrepreneurial Environmental Engineers
InnovaTE3 is part of our ongoing effort to create a six-year STEM continuum for middle and high school girls in an afterschool program.
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The Alignment of the Informal and Formal Organizational Supports for Reform: Implications for Improving Teaching in Schools
This article combines social network analysis with interview data to analyze how well the formal and informal aspects of a school’s social context are aligned.
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Managing inquiry-based science: Challenges in enacting complex science instruction in K-8 classrooms
In this article, we describe five interconnected management areas that need to be addressed when managing an inquiry-oriented K-8 science classroom. We introduce a pyramid model as a framework for…
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The Bio-Link Career Exploration Web Site Final Report
This report illustrates how web tools can support the particular information needs of these three types of prospective workers in biotechnology technician fields.
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Use of Education Data at the Local Level: From Accountability to Instructional Improvement
The use of student data systems to improve education and help students succeed is a national priority.
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How ITEST Projects Are Meeting NAEP’s Technological Literacy Framework
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Student Modeling In An Intelligent Tutoring System.
In this chapter we review and summarize some of the main studies we have done with the system. Our results are surprising- by providing tutoring to students while they are…
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Language Analytics for Assessing Brain Health: Cognitive Impairment, Depression and Pre-Symptomatic Alzheimers Disease
We present data demonstrating how brain health may be assessed by applying data-mining and text analytics to patient language.