SRI International
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Finding Competitive Advantage in a Technology Equal World
SRI is proud to welcome all the attendees of the annual Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Mad Scientist Conference to SRI headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley. The theme of this year’s conference, “Bio Convergence and the Soldier 2050,” will address emerging and future scientific advances and technology developments to improve capabilities and…
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Explanation to Avert Surprise
We present an explanation framework based on the notion of explanation drivers —i.e., the intent or purpose behind agent explanations. We focus on explanations meant to reconcile expectation violations and enumerate a set of triggers for proactive explanation.
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Impacts on Students of a Short-Cycle Implementation of the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program
SRI International found that a two-year implementation of the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program had a positive, statistically significant effect on a validated measure of students’ source-based argument writing.
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What parents talk about when they talk about learning: A national survey about young children and science
This study used a nationally representative parent survey, combined with in-depth interviews and home visits with a smaller sample of families, to learn how parents of young children, particularly low-income parents, encourage and take part in their children’s learning, especially their science learning.
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Strengthening SSIP evaluations with qualitative methods
Using quantitative and qualitative methods offers different perspectives for examining SSIP implementation and results and provides states with greater insight into how implementation is going and what needs to change to reach intended outcomes.
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Job searching, job duration, and job loss among young adults with autism spectrum disorder
We compared the job search experience, job duration, and j ob loss of young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their peers with four other types of disabilities.
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Deletion of Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 1 Attenuates Behavioral Responses to Caffeine
Here, we report that locomotor and EEG spectral responses to the psychostimulants modafinil and caffeine are attenuated in TAAR1 KO mice.
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Electrochemical Desalination of Seawater and Hypersaline Brines with Coupled Electricity Storage
We present a zinc|ferricyanide hybrid flow battery that achieves extensive first-pass desalination while simultaneously supplying electrical energy (10 Wh L-1).
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On Extensibility and Personalizability of Multi-Modal Trip Planning
In this paper, we consider the setting of the multi-modal trip planning, where users can exploit different transportation modes, such as walking, biking, public transit, and taxi.
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Can Innovative School Models Improve Outcomes for Youth Who Are Currently Off Track to Graduate?
Despite rising high school graduation rates, 4.9 million young adults between the ages of 16 and 24—or 12.3 percent of U.S. youth—were neither working nor in school in 2015. There is a clear and pressing need to support students before they drop out of high school, and to reengage those who are no longer enrolled.…
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Evaluation of education connections: Supporting teachers with standards-based instruction for English learners in mainstream classrooms
The Center for Applied Linguistics developed an online site, Education Connections, to train and support teachers in integrating English language proficiency standards with content standards.
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Data meeting protocol – IDEA data center
This protocol is based on the premise that a key part of the data analysis process involves talking about the results of evaluation activities and making meaning of the results together.