Author: SRI International
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An Example-Based Exploration Of Design Patterns In Measurement (Padi Technical Report 8)
This paper extends the work conducted by the Principled Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI) project to investigate more deeply the application of assessment design patterns.
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Using Conditional Random Fields for Sentence Boundary Detection in Speech
In this paper, we evaluate the use of a conditional random field (CRF) for this task and relate results with this model to our prior work. We evaluate across two corpora (conversational telephone speech and broadcast news speech) on both human transcriptions and speech recognition output.
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Do Parents’ Academic Gender Stereotypes Influence Whether They Intrude On Their Children’S Homework?
In this study, we explored the possibility that when parents endorse particular academic gender stereotypes (e.g., boys are better at math, girls are better at English) they are more likely to engage in uninvited intrusions with homework, intrusions which then undermine children’s confidence in these domains.
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Globe Year 9 Evaluation: Implementation Supports and Student Outcomes
SRI International (SRI) prepared this evaluation research report for the GLOBE Program. This is the second report submitted under the new grant to SRI for the GLOBE evaluation and the ninth in a series of annual evaluation reports SRI has provided to the GLOBE Program since its inception.
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The Case For An Integrated Design Framework For Assessing Science Inquiry (Padi Technical Report 5).
In this report, we provide a rationale and approach for articulating a conceptual framework and corresponding development resources to guide the design of science inquiry assessments.
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ReadUp: a widget for reading
In this paper we describe the origins, design, and implementation of a new Java Swing toolkit widget called ReadUp, which provides support for reading page images in a digital library application, and discuss briefly how it is being used.
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Expert Panel Review of OERL’s Instructional Utility
The OERL team has adapted and integrated several evaluation methodologies to examine patterns of usage, customer satisfaction, and the instructional utility of the site. These methods include surveys of target audiences, usability testing, and an expert panel review. This chapter presents the results from the expert review.
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Evaluating Web-Based Professional Development
The National Staff Development Council and the National Institute for Community Innovations (2001) have published a resource guide for the implementation of its standards for the professional development of educators in e-learning contexts. The guide presents examples of applications of Web-based professional development and posits quality criteria for meeting the standards
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Oerl Survey Design, Methodology, Administration And Results
This paper documents the process employed to develop and administer a methodologically sound set of surveys to evaluate the Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL) Web site.
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Globe: Using Padi Templates As An Alternative Structure For Specifying Globe Investigation Strategies
This paper begins by providing background on the PADI approach and GLOBE assessments. We then discuss the process by which GLOBE assessment resources were reverse engineered into a PADI task template.
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Utilizing Usability Testing Methods To Improve Oerl
In this paper, we describe a method for leader detection in multiparty spoken discourse that relies on unsupervised topic modeling to segment the discourse automatically.
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Characterizing Adaptive Expertise In Science Teaching: Report On A Laboratory Study Of Teacher Reasoning
Our goal in this project is to apply the concept of adaptive expertise to science teaching in order to understand what benefits adaptiveness confers to teachers’ learning, development, and performance.