This report provides a set of design patterns to help assessment designers, researchers, and teachers create tasks for assessing aspects of model-based reasoning: Model Formation, Model Use, Model Elaboration, Model Articulation, Model Evaluation, Model revision, and Model-Based Inquiry.
Education & learning publications
Initial Results from Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR)
Advances in high latitude upper atmospheric science with the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR)
Volumetric Imaging of the Auroral Ionosphere: Initial Results from PFISR
This paper demonstrates the capabilities of PFISR for producing three-dimensional volumetric images of E-region ionization patterns produced by the aurora.
Evaluation of the Enhancing Education through Technology Program: Final Report
The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive information about educational technology practices related to the core objectives of the U.S. Department of Education’s Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program.
Mood, Side-Effects and Smoking Outcomes Among Persons with and Without Probable Lifetime Depression Taking Varenicline
Compare mood, prevalence and intensity of treatment side-effects, and abstinence among people with a probable history of major depression (DH+) or not (DH−) who took varenicline and received behavioral smoking cessation treatment.
National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development: Year 2 Report
Year 2 report on SRI’s examination of changes in students’ writing proficiency, students’ writing practices, teachers’ instructional practices, and teachers’ professional communities in middle schools that have formed partnerships with Local Writing Project sites.
Challenges To Cross-Disciplinary Curricula: Data Literacy And Divergent Disciplinary Perspectives
Introduction Data literacy is the ability to ask and answer meaningful questions by collecting, analyzing and making sense of data encountered in our everyday lives. In our increasingly data-driven society, data literacy is arguably an important civic skill and one that we should be developing in our students. In addition, using data to connect school […]
Using Evidence Centered Design For Learning (Ecdl) To Examine Assistment.
What Happens When The Research Ends? Factors Related To The Sustainability Of A Research-Based Innovation
The Scaling Up SimCalc project is a multiyear longitudinal randomized experiment to test the efficacy of an intervention that integrates technology (our software, SimCalc MathWorlds) and curriculum to create opportunities for students to learn CCDM.