Publications
-
Pathway Schools Initiative Developmental Evaluation-Learning Brief 2 (July 2016)
To support its Pathway Schools Initiative, The McKnight Foundation has engaged initiative leaders in a developmental evaluation (DE) led by SRI International and Child Trends.
-
Interactive online learning on campus: Comparing students’ outcomes in hybrid and traditional courses in the university system of Maryland
We studied the impacts on learning outcomes of hybrid courses redesigned using online materials from MOOCs created on the Coursera platform and digital materials created by the Open Learning Initiative…
-
Promising approaches to broadening youth participation in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) views broadening participation in the nation’s STEM enterprise as vitally linked to the United States’ capacity for innovation.
-
Improving the Robustness of Team Collaboration through Analysis of Qualitative Interactions
We introduce coordination rules that facilitate collaboration between autonomous agents when communication is lost.
-
Exploring the role of phonetic bottleneck features for speaker and language recognition
Using bottleneck features extracted from a deep neural network (DNN) trained to predict senone posteriors has resulted in new, state-of-the-art technology for language and speaker identification.
-
Noise and reverberation effects on depression detection from speech
This study compares the effect of noise and reverberation on depression prediction using standard mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, and features designed for noise robustness, damped oscillator cepstral coefficients.
-
Analyzing the effect of channel mismatch on the SRI language recognition evaluation 2015 system
We present the work done by our group for the 2015 language recognition evaluation (LRE) organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
-
Extending Semantically Enabled Virtual Environments for Training Assessment
This paper reports the lessons learned from several recent research and development projects, and offers some directions for new studies that build on this work.
-
Spoken Interaction Modeling for Automatic Assessment of Collaborative Learning
This study investigates whether automatic audio- based monitoring of interactions can predict collaboration quality.
-
A Phonetically Aware System for Speech Activity Detection
In this paper, we focus on a dataset of highly degraded signals, developed under the DARPA Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (RATS) program.
-
Additive Manufacturing: Re-thinking Battery Design
In this article we focus on recent advances in additive manufacturing for batteries and highlight current and future research directions for battery design, manufacturing, and integration for small, portable and…
-
Engaging teachers in supporting next generation STEM learning
To accelerate dissemination of educator learning models in ITEST projects, the ITEST program has called for reflection on best practices and lessons learned. In this paper, we take a closer…