Education & learning publications
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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…
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Using Handhelds To Link Private Cognition And Public Interaction
This article discusses the importance of private interactions, in which a student works alone with learning materials, and public interactions, in which a group of students engage in discourse around…
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Developing Fine-Grained Transfer Models In The ASSISTment System
In this article, we describe our attempt to create a fine-grained transfer model for 8th grade math based on the skills needed to take the Math MCAS exam and how…
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I Think It Makes Me Not Give Up On Dreams. What Students Say About Hero
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Ink, Improvisation, And Interactive Engagement: Learning With Tablets
Instructional models that reflective educators develop and share with their peers can primarily drive advances in the use of tablets in education. Communities that form around platforms such as Classroom…
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Intel Learn Program Evaluation Findings
Launched in 2000 as Intel® Teach to the Future, the program has trained more than 4 million teachers in over 40 countries. Its customizable set of course components ranges from…
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Analyzing Fine-Grained Skill Models Using Bayesian And Mixed Effect Methods
We compare the two results to identify benefits and drawbacks of either method and to find out if the two results agree. We report that both methods showed compelling similarity…
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Coordinating Networked Learning Activities With A General-Purpose Interface
Two approaches to making a Tuple Space-based computer architecture for connectivity into an inviting environment for the generation and creation of novel coordinated activities were attempted. The more satisfactory approach…
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Intel Teach Essentials Online: Interim Report For U.S. Formative Evaluation
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Report To The Ready To Learn Initiative: Review Of Research On Media And Young Children’S Literacy
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Scan Rate: A new metric for the analysis of reading behaviours in asynchronous computer conferencing environments
This article introduces a new computer conferencing metric called Scan Rate, which is a measure of students’ and instructors’ online reading speed.
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Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort
The study used an experimental design to assess the effects of technology products, with volunteering teachers randomly assigned to use or not use selected products.