SRI International
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70 Years of SRI Innovation
It is gratifying to look back on 70 years of innovation at SRI and to reflect on the high-impact solutions that our independent, nonprofit research institute has brought to the world. Although the world has changed dramatically since our founding in 1946, there is a thread that weaves through SRI’s history that connects the SRI…
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The added impact of parenting education in early childhood education programs: A meta-analysis
We examine the benefits to children’s cognitive and pre-academic skills of adding parenting education to ECE programs for children and consider the impacts of: parenting education programs of any type, programs that provided parents with modeling of practice stimulating behaviors and programs that were delivered through intensive home visiting.
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Compared to what? Variation in the impacts of early childhood education by alternative care type
In this paper, we estimate differential impacts of an early childhood intervention by alternative care type, using data from the Head Start Impact Study, a large-scale randomized evaluation.
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Verizon Innovative Learning Minority Male Program: Summer Program Evaluation Executive Summary
SRI International’s Center for Technology in Learning, with support from the Verizon Education Foundation, developed this research brief as part of a two year evaluation of the 2016 Verizon Innovative Learning (VIL) Program.
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Taking Stock of the California Linked Learning District Initiative: Seventh-Year Evaluation Report
This report from SRI International’s multiyear evaluation is the first to include postsecondary outcomes for students in Linked Learning pathways and confirms many of the promising findings from previous years.
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Taking Stock of the California Linked Learning District Initiative: Seventh-Year Evaluation Report, Executive Summary
This report from SRI International’s multiyear evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative is the first to include postsecondary outcomes for students in Linked Learning pathways …
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Assessment and Content Authoring in Semantic Virtual Environments
This paper presents an approach to training in VEs that directly addresses these challenges and summarizes its application to a weapons maintenance task.
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Approaches to Improving Clinical Practice: Describing How NGEI Sites are Reforming Clinical Placement Experiences and Candidate Feedback Systems
As part of the Bechtel-funded New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI), California State University (CSU) grantees are reforming the clinical experience in their teacher preparation programs. This report describes selected grantees’ approaches to improving clinical practice.
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Conversational In-Vehicle Dialog Systems: The past, present, and future
We review research and development activities for in-vehicle dialog systems, examine findings, discuss key challenges, and share our visions for voice-enabled interaction and intelligent assistance for smart vehicles over the next decade.
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Sharing Promising Practices in STEM Teacher Leadership
Recently, researchers from SRI Education and Policy Studies Associates (PSA) collaborated with expert practitioners on the development of an exciting resource for the U.S. Department of Education: stemteacherleadership.org, a website that addresses promising practices and challenges for preparing teachers to become Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) teacher leaders. STEM teacher leaders can play a crucial…
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Sub-Meter Vehicle Navigation Using Efficient Pre-Mapped Visual Landmarks
This paper presents a vehicle navigation system that is capable of achieving sub-meter GPS-denied navigation accuracy in large-scale urban environments, using pre-mapped visual landmarks.
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Dominance of radiative recombination from electron-beam-pumped deep-UV AlGaN multi-quantum-well heterostructures
AlGaN-based multiple-quantum-well (MQW) heterostructures were irradiated with a pulsed electron beam.