Author: SRI International
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Early College High School Initiative: 2003-2005 Evaluation Report
This report is the second annual synthesis report on the national evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI). The foundation established the vision for the ECHSI. At its most basic, this vision is summarized in a set of Core Principles, which includes the requirements that ECHSs provide…
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Compositionality for Tightly Coupled Systems: a New Application of the Propositions-As-Types Interpretation
Although compositional techniques are being successfully employed in practice, the use of such techniques is often rather informal and intuitive, and typically a justification for correct behaviour of the composed system exists but is not expressed explicitly. In this paper, we show what can be gained from treating such justifications as first-class citizens.
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Report On Technical Quality Of 6th And 8th Grade Student Assessments For The Tides Project
This report describes activities undertaken to create, pilot, and analyze technical quality of student assessments in sixth and eighth grades for the Transforming Instruction by Design in Earth Science (TIDES) project.
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Reverse Engineering the NAEP Floating Pencil Task Using the PADI Design System (PADI Technical Report 16)
This report will discuss the reverse engineering of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Floating Pencil task. The PADI design system was used as an analytical tool for understanding the characteristics and underlying assessment argument of this chosen task.
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Review Of Evaluation Findings For The Intel Learn Program
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Teaching Nanoscience To High School Students: A Tale Of The Nanosense Project
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The Many Challenges Of Designing And Teaching Nanoscience
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Build It: Girls Building Information Technology Fluency Through Design
The Computer Science education and practice community has made clear the need to increase the size and diversity of US-trained computer science professionals.
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Measuring Middle School Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge Of Teaching Rate And Proportionality
We are investigating if teachers from across the state of Texas can use a specially designed replacement unit and SimCalc software to help their students learn mathematics important to the Texas state frameworks, as well as content that goes beyond the state framework—the beginning pieces of the “mathematics of change,” leading to Calculus.
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Mathematizing Middle School: Results From A Cross-Disciplinary Study Of Data Literacy
In this paper we discuss a pilot study in which we investigate bridging the disciplines of social studies and mathematics to help students learn important aspects of data literacy. We view this pilot as an important step in a larger research program that investigates the learning progression, and the concomitant learning mechanisms required to increase…
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Findings from the Evaluation of The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District and Network Grants Program: The Challenge of Sustaining High-School Reform
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Contextual valency shifters
We argue that the current work in this area that concentrates mainly on the negative or positive attitude communicated by individual terms is incomplete and often gives the wrong results when implemented directly.