Education & learning publications
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Technical Appendix: Exploring Assignments, Student Work, And Teacher Feedback In Reforming Schools: 2002-03 Data From Washington State
Eight assignments, four typical and four challenging, were collected from teachers over the course of the school year. Student work associated with the teacher assignments was also collected three times…
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Project Halo: Towards a Digital Aristotle
Project Halo is a multi-staged effort, sponsored by Vulcan Inc, aimed at creating the Digital Aristotle, an application that will encompass much of the world’s scientific knowledge and be capable…
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Designing Handheld Software To Support Classroom Assessment
Since 2002, Project WHIRL (Wireless Handhelds In Reflection on Learning) has investigated potential uses of handheld computers in K-12 science classrooms using a teacher involved process of software development and…
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ESCOT: Coordinating The Influence Of R&D And Classroom Practice To Produce Educational Software From Reusable Components
This testbed incorporated interactive learning tools from a variety of university, nonprofit, and commercial developers, and hosted decentralized authoring teams consisting of teachers, developers and educational technologists.
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Technology’s Contribution To Teaching And Policy: Efficiency, Standardization, Or Transformation?
We begin this chapter with a brief sketch of alternative perspectives on the ways in which technology can support education policy and practice. We will suggest that the connection between…
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Information Technology Research and Education, Teaching, and Learning Report on Two NSF-Funded Workshops
With support from the Experimental and Integrative Activities Division (EIA) of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), SRI International conducted two…
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Integrated Performance Assessments With Technology (IPAT): Design Model And Prototypes
This paper summarizes the design principles we have forged and some of the assessments we have developed that are particularly relevant to geoscience.
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Leveraging Handhelds To Increase Student Learning: Engaging Middle School Students With The Mathematics Of Change
Handheld computers are poised to build upon the success of graphing calculators in mathematics classrooms, as they share important characteristics such as small size and low cost, while increasing representational…
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Closing The Digital Divide: Evaluation Of The World Links Program
The World Bank and, subsequently, the World Links organization provided schools in developing countries with networked computers and training that supports integration of ICT into teaching. The study examines the…
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Using Technology Evaluation To Enhance Student Learning
This volume interprets the research perspectives published in Evaluating Educational Technology: Effective Research Designs for Improving Learning to provide valuable insights for the successful use of technology in different classroom and curricular…
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The Role Of Research On Contexts Of Teaching Practice In Informing The Design Of Handheld Learning Technologies
In this article, we describe the realities we found and the implications we drew from them for our project, which we argue have broad import for the design of handheld…
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Collaborative Modeling: Hiding UML And Promoting Data Examples In NEMo
We describe a Web-based tool for modeling that creates and manipulates a simple data model without representing it in UML, while promoting collaboration and the use of examples to compare…