Education & learning publications
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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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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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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study: Demographic Characteristics of Children and Families Entering Early Intervention. NEILS Data Report No. 3
The National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS) is being conducted to address some of the most important questions related to the implementation and outcomes of Part C of the Individuals…
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Unlocking the Learning Value of Wireless Mobile Devices
Many researchers see the potential of wireless mobile learning devices to achieve large-scale impact on learning because of portability, low cost, and communications features.
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Leverage Points For Improving Educational Assessment (Padi Technical Report 2)
This presentation first reviews an evidence-centered framework for designing and analyzing assessments. It then uses this framework to discuss and to illustrate how advances in technology, education, and psychology can…
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Unlocking The Learning Value Of Wireless Mobile Devices
At the moment ‘wireless mobile technologies for education’ are incredibly diverse and incompatible; to achieve scale, a strong vision will be needed to lead to standardisation, overcoming the tendency to…
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Instructional Sensitivity Design
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Service Record B
An early intervention professional completed a questionnaire on the services provided to each NEILS family, including information regarding the transition out of early intervention. Version A of the service record…
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Using Cognitive Analyses To Describe Students’ Science Inquiry And Motivation To Learn
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Using Cognitive Analyses To Understand Motivational And Situational Influences In Science Achievement
This study explores the relationship between students’ test perceptions, motivation and engagement in multiple-choice and performance assessment testing contexts.
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An Integrative Approach to Relating Science Inquiry Assessment Items to Science Curricula and National Standards
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Charting A Course: Evaluation Design Of The National School District And Network Grants Program
Likely to be one of “the most publicly scrutinized educational initiatives” in recent history, the foundation’s program is providing a catalyst to educators and policy makers to radically reshape secondary…