Education & learning publications
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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.
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Sustaining A Community Computing Infrastructure For Online Teacher Professional Development: A Case Study Of Designing Tapped In
Based on more than nine years of design experience with Tapped In—an online community of practice for education professionals—we present a case study that discusses four design interventions that have…
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Designing Formative Assessment Software With Teachers: An Analysis Of The Co-Design Process
In this paper, we define co-design as a highly-facilitated, team-based process in which teachers, researchers, and developers work together in defined roles to design an educational innovation, realize the design…
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS) Final Report
This National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS) report presents the key findings from a national longitudinal study. This report summarizes some of the key findings from this 10-year study and…
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Can Nanoscience Be A Catalyst For Education Reform?
This essay explores the implications of national initiatives to prepare students with the science and engineering knowledge necessary to function in a highly technological society and to maintain the momentum…
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Dimensions of Behavior of Toddlers Entering Early Intervention: Child and Family Correlates
This study examined the nature and correlates of the behavioral characteristics of a nationally representative sample of 1612 toddlers 18–31 months of age entering Part C early intervention services in…
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Local Strategies And Practice For Using Technology In K-12 Education
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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…
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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 Handheld Technology To Move Between Private And Public Interactions In The Classroom
We present three examples of handheld use that exploit these unique affordances, and discuss how the use of handheld computers can be used to bridge research across different metaphors of…
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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