Education & learning publications
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Early College High School Initiative: 2003-2005 Evaluation Report
This report is the second annual synthesis report on the national evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI). The foundation established the…
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No Child Left Behind and Science Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks
This article examines the opportunities, challenges, and risks that No Child Left Behind (NCLB) poses for science education in elementary and middle schools.
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Report On Technical Quality Of 6th And 8th Grade Student Assessments For The Tides Project
This report describes activities undertaken to create, pilot, and analyze technical quality of student assessments in sixth and eighth grades for the Transforming Instruction by Design in Earth Science (TIDES)…
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Measuring Middle School Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge Of Teaching Rate And Proportionality
We are investigating if teachers from across the state of Texas can use a specially designed replacement unit and SimCalc software to help their students learn mathematics important to the…
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Findings from the Evaluation of The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District and Network Grants Program: The Challenge of Sustaining High-School Reform
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Teaching Nanoscience To High School Students: A Tale Of The Nanosense Project
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Build It: Girls Building Information Technology Fluency Through Design
The Computer Science education and practice community has made clear the need to increase the size and diversity of US-trained computer science professionals.
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The Many Challenges Of Designing And Teaching Nanoscience
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Mathematizing Middle School: Results From A Cross-Disciplinary Study Of Data Literacy
In this paper we discuss a pilot study in which we investigate bridging the disciplines of social studies and mathematics to help students learn important aspects of data literacy. We…
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Reverse Engineering the NAEP Floating Pencil Task Using the PADI Design System (PADI Technical Report 16)
This report will discuss the reverse engineering of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Floating Pencil task. The PADI design system was used as an analytical tool for understanding…
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Review Of Evaluation Findings For The Intel Learn Program
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A Guide to the Padi Gradebook (Padi Technical Report 12)
The PADI Gradebook is an application created under the Principled Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI) project that combines assessment design information with student response data and employs a scoring engine…