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Measuring Student Learning about Computing
President Obama’s recent initiative, Computer Science for All (CS4All), emphasizes the need to teach computer science (CS) as part of the regular K-12 curriculum. An important part of teaching is measuring learning. For example, teachers need to measure learning so that they can better help students learn. Likewise, students and parents want schools to document what students…
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Progress Toward Quality K-12 STEM Education: Resources for Policymakers, Researchers and Educators
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education quality has a major impact on economic prosperity. In the 20th century, more than half of the growth in income per capita in the United States was due to advances in science and technology. Yet today, 15-year-olds in the U.S. score below their counterparts in 21 countries on the Program for International…
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New Ed Tech Developer’s Guide Outlines Path for Developing Digital Tools and Apps that Address Critical Educational Needs
Significant strides have been made in leveraging technology for learning in today’s K-12 schools, from increased access to the Internet through President Obama’s ConnectED initiative, to the availability of more affordable tools and devices, to rich digital content for more engaging learning experiences. Yet there are still a number of unmet needs in education that technology could…
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Future Ready Schools Learning Guide Offers Lessons for Connected Schools
President Obama, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Office of Educational Technology (OET) Director Richard Culatta recently convened “ConnectED to the Future,” a gathering of more than 100 school district superintendents and other education leaders at the White House. On the agenda: increasing broadband connectivity access to and throughout schools as well as planning for the…
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Medical Innovation Expands with State-of-the-Art Phase 1 Clinical Trial Facility at Michigan Life Science and Innovation Center
This blog post originally appeared on the Michigan Economic Development Corporation blog. Last month, SRI International launched a new, state-of-the-art, Phase 1 clinical trial facility in the Michigan Life Science and Innovation Center (MLSIC) in Plymouth. We’re thrilled for this new facility to bring even more medical innovation to Michigan; the fully-equipped, 13-bed facility will help emerging…
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Automated Data Integration
HiperFuse automates procedures for extracting, cleaning, restructuring and provisioning data, enabling investigators analyzing the data to spend more of their time focusing on what hypotheses to test, correlations to study, and data to mine activities that make the best use of their domain expertise.
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Recruiting Participants for Large-Scale Random Assignment Experiments in School Settings
We report here on our experiences in recruiting participants for random assignment experiments in public primary and secondary schools. Our perspective is based on over twenty current and completed randomized controlled trials (RCT) in K–12 school settings conducted by SRI International.
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8 Strategies That Can Help Greentech Hardware Startups Win
Note: Guest blogger Rob Day is a partner with Black Coral Capital. He is conference chair for Greentech Media NextWave Investing 2014, to be hosted by SRI International in Menlo Park, CA on August 5. This blog post originally appeared on greentechmedia.com. Someone reached out to me the other day to ask about greentech startups, and during the discussion…
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Expanding Access to STEM-Focused Education: What Are the Effects?
Calls for broadening the population of students motivated and prepared to pursue STEM studies, with an aim ultimately to impact the country’s competitiveness, have been frequent and widespread…
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Reframing the Debate about the Future of Our Energy Supply
Today is Election Day—and no matter who wins, our energy problems will continue to be a prominent but unfortunately neglected issue. To date, the political debate has been oversimplified and presented as a battle between the moral imperatives of protecting the environment and the critical need to preserve our economic interests. Too often, our difficult…
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Experimental Investigation of Hydrogen Release and Ignition from Fuel Cell Powered Forklifts in Enclosed Spaces
Conducted experiments were devised to assess the utility of modeling approaches used to analyze potential consequences from ignited hydrogen leaks in facilities certified according to existing code language.
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The Range of Science Instructional Materials Used in a Statewide Afterschool Program
We report on our study that examined the science offerings of a publicly funded statewide afterschool program.