Education & learning publications
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Intel Teach Essentials Online: Global Pilot Evaluation Summary
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Gender Differences In Science
We present a review of research that looks at alternative explanations for these gender differences in science. Specifically, we consider the significance of girls’ science attitudes and the pervasive influence—both…
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Intel Teach Essentials Online: U.S. Formative Evaluation
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Representational Competence And Chemical Understanding In The High School Chemistry Classroom
This chapter reports on the use of representational resources within a computer-based environment, called ChemSense, to support high school chemistry students’ representational practices and their understanding of key chemical concepts.
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Can An Intelligent Tutoring System Predict Math Proficiency As Well As A Standardized Test?
We propose a new method of using students test scores from multiple years (referred to as cross-year data) for determining whether a student model is as good as the standardized…
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Designing For Growth: Enabling Communities Of Practice To Develop And Extend Their Work Online
This chapter provides examples of using a phased approach to help CoPs become virtual CoPs in Tapped In!, a Web-based virtual environment for professional development providers and educators, and CLTNet,…
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La Educacion En Ciencia Y Technologia Comp Derecho Social En La Economia Del Conocimiento
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Mathematics Worth Knowing, Resources Worth Growing, And Research Worth Nothing: A Response To The National Mathematics Advisory Panel Report
The authors praise Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2008) for focusing on the mathematics within mathematics education.
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Extending the Simcalc Approach to Grade 8 Mathematics
In a second randomized experiment SRI International (SRI) and its partners replicated the approach of their seventh-grade experiment, extending the SimCalc approach to eighthgrade mathematics.
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Callosal Compromise Differentially Affects Conflict Processing and Attentional Allocation in Alcoholism, HIV, and Their Comorbidity
Diffusion tensor imaging was used to study the combined effects of HIV-infection and alcoholism (ALC) on corpus callosum (CC) integrity in relation to processes of attentional allocation and conflict resolution…
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Introduction to Build It Workshop
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Modeling the Impact of Formal and Informal Supports for Young Children with Disabilities and Their Families
Findings reinforce the role of high-quality services in maximizing perceived impact. They also highlight the important role of informal support in promoting optimism and confidence in parenting. Poverty status, minority…