Education & learning publications
-
Assessing Students. Performance Longitudinally: Item Difficulty Parameter Vs. Skill Learning Tracking
We are engaged in an effort to investigate if we can do a better job of predicting a large scale test (MCAS) by modeling individual skills in different grain-sized skill…
-
Designing For Design Learning
This paper highlights the need for a science of design to address the needs of technology design learners.
-
Towards Live Informing and Automatic Analyzing of Student Learning: Reporting in the Assistment System
In this article we describe the types of reports that we have designed and implemented that provide real time reporting to teachers in their classrooms. Experiment analysis tools are available…
-
Scientifically-Based Research Studies Examining The Use Of Technology In Mathematics Education
-
Choosing Outreach Strategies to Increase Interest in IT Careers: An SRI International White Paper from the TRAILS Project
This white paper analyzes model outreach programs and offers a framework for helping a company identify the most appropriate strategies for helping reinvigorate interest in IT.
-
Can Technology-Based Representations Deepen Math Learning And Close The Gap? Research Findings From A Large Scientific Study
In this paper, Byron Henderson looks behind the scenes at the component drivers creating the wave pattern: demographic, economic, and structural. He examines the rules of production, the kinds of…
-
Insights into Alternative Certification: Initial Findings From a National Study
We test proponents’ and opponents’ assumptions about alternative certification against national data and data from the seven programs.
-
What’s The Difference? Assessing The Impact Of Your Efforts
-
Sharing Best Practices In Youth Development
-
Girls In Build It
-
A Web Based Authoring Tool for Intelligent Tutors: Blending Assessment And Instructional Assistance
To help teachers make better use of their time, we are integrating assistance and assessment by utilizing a web-based system ("Assistment") that will offer instruction to students while providing a…
-
Teachers’ Use of Student Data Systems to Improve Instruction
The current brief is the second in a two-part series examining teachers’ access to and use of data from student data systems. The first brief indicated that about half of…