Education & learning publications
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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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Teaching and California’s Future: California’s Teaching Force 2006: Key Issues and Trends
This annual report discusses trends in the supply, demand, and distribution of California teachers; details the impact of state policy changes on the teacher development system; and highlights themes that…
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Infusing IT/STEM Skill Standards in Informal ITEST Learning
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Mystery Powders: An Application Of The Padi Design System Using The Four-Process Delivery System (Padi Technical Report 15)
This report illustrates how the general principles and structural components of the PADI framework were applied to a Mystery Powders assessment demonstration project that was computer-based. The body of this…
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Implications Of Evidence-Centered Design For Educational Testing (Technical Report 17)
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Assessing Local Item Dependence In Building Explanation Tasks (Padi Technical Report 14)
A common practice in the assessment of science education is to have a shared stimulus followed by a number of questions. In these cases, one might doubt the usual assumption…
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Globe Year 10 Evaluation: Into The Next Generation
This is the 10th in a series of annual evaluation reports that SRI has submitted to the GLOBE Program since the Program’s inception in 1995.
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Interpersonal And Non-Interpersonal Interactions, Interpersonal Motives, And The Effects Of Frustrated Motives
A new circumplex model of interpersonal interaction emphasizes the motives that drive interpersonal behaviors and the negative affect (such as anger) that occurs when a strongly activated motive is frustrated.
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Fighting the Wrong Battle in the Teacher Preparation Wars
SRI conducted a comprehensive study of alternative teacher certification programs to determine the characteristics of those that were effective.
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Build IT: Girls Developing Information Technology Fluency Through Design. Annual Report Year 1
The goals for the first year of the Build IT project were to develop and implement the three units of the curriculum at four school sites reaching a total of…
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Tides: Report On Technical Quality Of 7th Grade Student Assessment
This report describes activities undertaken to create, pilot, and analyze technical quality of student assessments in seventh grade for the Transforming Instruction by Design in Earth Science (TIDES) project.