SRI International
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Efficacy Study of Foundations, School-wide Positive Discipline for Middle Schools
SRI is evaluating the impact of the Foundations program, a schoolwide intervention for promoting positive discipline policies, on perceptions of school climate and students’ behavior and academic performance in middle schools.
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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.
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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 (OLI), relative to existing versions of the same courses.
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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.
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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.
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Can Adaptive Courseware Technology Positively Impact Student Learning Outcomes?
In higher education, if students fail to successfully complete the courses offered in the first few terms of school, they can jeopardize their dreams of a college degree. In two-year colleges, the courses representing the greatest hurdles are often developmental courses in English or math. In four-year colleges, they often are introductory courses in subjects…
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New Report Highlights Key Findings from Next Generation STEM Schools Forum
In the 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama called for Next Generation High Schools. Next Generation STEM schools seek to intensify Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) opportunities, especially for historically underrepresented students. Such schools aim to strengthen STEM learning for all students who have a strong interest in STEM, regardless of their…
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Spoken Interaction Modeling for Automatic Assessment of Collaborative Learning
This study investigates whether automatic audio- based monitoring of interactions can predict collaboration quality.