Education & learning publications
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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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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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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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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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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.