Education & learning publications
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Beyond Accessibility: Evidence Centered Design For Learning (Ecdl) For Improving The Efficiency Of Instruction.
This paper illustrates how Evidence Centered Design (ECD) can be used to address the accessibility of learning-centered assessments, and how such efforts lay a critical foundation for improvements in other…
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Infant Sleep Characteristics in a Nationally Representative Sample: Concurrent and Prospective Relationships with Child Outcomes
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Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online-Learning Studies
This finding suggests that the positive effects associated with blended learning should not be attributed to the media, per se.
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Testing Aerosol Properties in MODIS Collection 4 and 5 Using Airborne Sunphotometer Observations in INTEX-B/MILAGRO
We compare AATS retrievals of spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) and related aerosol properties with corresponding spatially coincident and temporally near-coincident measurements acquired by the MODIS-Aqua and MODIS-Terra satellite sensors.
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Authentic Science Learning in Primary and Secondary Classrooms
Authentic science learning has gained increasing attention among educators and researchers as a promising means for promoting student achievement, interest, and motivation in science.
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The Microsoft Innovative Schools Program Year 1 Evaluation Report
The Year 1 Evaluation Report is the second in a series of annual reports. It describes the schools’ progress and challenges in their first full year of participation in the…
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Using Proc Report to Cross-Tabulate Multiple Response Items
A production system of SAS macro programs is described that modularize the generation of syntax to produce client quality reports of descriptive and inferential results in a PDF document.
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Multiple Roles for Nicotine in Parkinson’s Disease
Extensive studies in parkinsonian animals show that nicotine protects against nigrostriatal damage, findings that may explain the well-established decline in Parkinson's disease incidence with tobacco use.
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Accountability for Services for Young Children with Disabilities and the Assessment of Meaningful Outcomes: the Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist
This article describes the federal accountability requirements related to young children with disabilities and the contribution of the speech-language pathologist (SLP) to provide these data through the use of authentic,…
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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…