Education & learning publications
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ITL Research Design Document
This paper describes the design of Innovative Teaching and Learning (ITL) Research, a multiyear global research program sponsored by Microsoft’s Partners in Learning.
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Measuring How A College Education Lays The Foundation For “Thinking Like An Expert”
Introduction A college education has long been viewed as a way to improve students’ capacity to think critically and argue rationally. Yet cognitive psychologists and philosophers studying the development of…
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Meeting the Needs of Diverse Student Populations: Findings from the Scaling Up SimCalc Project
In this paper we discuss how we leveraged the representational and communicative infrastructure of SimCalc to meet the needs of a diverse student population, while we also met the needs…
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The National Behavior Research and Coordination Center: Overview and Final Findings
The authors describe how the Department of Education’s structuring of the initiative helped avoid many of the shortcomings of earlier federal cross-site demonstration programs and highlight the contributions of a…
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The Road to Supplemental Services: Challenges to Implementation
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Capturing and Presenting Proc TTEST Results Using ODS and PROC REPORT
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Using Cognitive Interviews And Student Response Processes To Validate An Interpretive Argument For The Ets Iskills Assessment
Evaluating the trustworthiness of Internet-based or other digital information has become an essential 21st century skill. The iSkills™ assessment, from Educational Testing Service (ETS), purports to measure such digital evaluation…
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Expanding The Scope Of Implementation Research In Education To Inform Design
In this paper, we present a vision for implementation research in education that can inform all stages of program development. We present examples of implementation research that have performed three…
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The Impact of Smoking Cessation and Pharmacotherapy on Sleep Assessed Across the First 10 Days After Quitting
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Back To The Future: A Non-Automated Method Of Constructing Transfer Models
In this paper, instead of applying automated and computationally intensive approaches, we simply start with existing hand-constructed transfer models at various levels of granularity and use them as a lens…
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Bridging School and Home: Students’ Engagement with Technology-Rich Activities
This poster describes ongoing work that examines students use of a computer-based learning environment designed to bridge school and out-of-school learning contexts by incorporating affordances of both formal and informal…
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Chemistry Facets: Diagnostic Assessment of High School Students’ Chemistry Conceptions