Publications
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What Tools Have States Developed or Adapted to Assess Schools’ Implementation of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports/Response to Intervention Framework?
This report describes the features of 31 tools that 21 states developed or adapted to assess key MTSS/RTI practices that are informed by the research literature.
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Digital media can help preschoolers learn real-world science skills
Many studies report that children can learn a range of skills from well-designed educational media. Yet we know relatively little about whether and how well children are able to apply…
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When students don’t feel safe in the neighborhood: How can schools help?
Locally and across the U.S., there is an urgent need to support students who experience ongoing violence in the community, which is one of 12 distinct types of potentially traumatic…
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Sensors Capabilities, Performance, and Use of Consumer Sleep Technology
This article reviews how CSTs can process information about sleep, physiology, and environment. The growing number of sensors in wearable devices and the meaning of the data collected are reviewed.
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Testing the effects of a pilot listening comprehension and vocabulary intervention for individuals with autism
Many school-age children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience difficulties with reading comprehension, yet few studies have examined intervention practices to support their early reading comprehension development.
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Shallow Metabolic Depression and Human Spaceflight: A Feasible First Step
Here, we discuss shallow MD as a feasible first step toward synthetic torpor during spaceflight and summarize perspectives following a recent NASA-hosted workshop.
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Sleep and Women’s Health: Sex- And Age-Specific Contributors to Alcohol Use Disorders
As part of the 2018 Research Conference on Sleep and the Health of Women at the National Institutes of Health, three presentations focused on the intersection between alcohol and sleep…
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Evaluation of the Oakland Health Pathways Project: Final Report
The initiative is designed to improve educational and long-term employment outcomes for youth of color in Oakland, California, while expanding and diversifying the local health care workforce.
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A principled approach to designing a computational thinking practices assessment for early grades
In this paper, we discuss the development of and results from a validated CT Practices assessment for 4th-6th grade students.
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OER at Scale: The Academic and Economic Outcomes of Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative
The research and evaluation of ATD’s OER Degree Initiative provided encouraging evidence regarding the academic outcomes of students who enrolled in multiple OER courses, the economic impacts for both students…
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Virginia Preschool Initiative Plus (VPI+) Final Evaluation Report
The Virginia Preschool Initiative Plus was designed to provide 4-year-old children from low-income families with access to high quality prekindergarten programs.
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Evaluation of the New Teacher Center (NTC) i3 scale-up grant: Cohort 1 preliminary teacher and student impact
SRI is conducting an independent five-year evaluation of the New Teacher Center’s federally funded Investing in Innovation Scale-up grant.