Author: SRI International
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Globe Year 8 Evaluation: Adapting Implementation to Diverse Contexts
We studied two aspects of adaptation of GLOBE this year (2002-03). We examined how partners have adapted training and follow-up support to meet teacher needs and analyzed GLOBE implementation in a subset of schools in which at least 80% of students come from communities of color that are underrepresented in science.
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Leveraging Handhelds To Increase Student Learning: Engaging Middle School Students With The Mathematics Of Change
Handheld computers are poised to build upon the success of graphing calculators in mathematics classrooms, as they share important characteristics such as small size and low cost, while increasing representational richness.
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Information Technology Research and Education, Teaching, and Learning Report on Two NSF-Funded Workshops
With support from the Experimental and Integrative Activities Division (EIA) of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), SRI International conducted two invitational meetings whose objective was an in-depth discussion of research issues at the interface of information technology and learning science research.
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Prioritizing Planning Decisions in Real-World Plan Authoring
This paper describes two methods for automatically prioritizing planning decisions. Both approaches have been implemented in PASSAT, a plan-authoring system in which users construct and modify plans interactively using a library of templates.
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Design Considerations For Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Technology-Related Teacher Professional Development
The Enhancing Education Through Technology program, authorized as part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, provides for formula grants to states to be used to improve student achievement through the use of educational technology but it does not set forth specific criteria for meeting these requirements.
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Prosody Modeling for Speech Recognition and Understanding
This paper summarizes statistical modeling approaches for the use of prosody (the rhythm and melody of speech) in automatic recognition and understanding of speech. We outline effective prosodic feature extraction, model architectures, and techniques to combine prosodic with lexical (word-based) information.
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Exploring Assignments, Student Work, And Teacher Feedback In Reforming Schools: 2002-03 Data From Washington State
We are working with foundation officials and reformers across the country to study high school change and what it takes to improve teaching and learning. We are examining the extent to which foundation-supported schools adopt elements of effective schooling and show better, more equitable outcomes for students.
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Towards a Quantitative Platform Independent Analysis of Knowledge Systems
The Halo Pilot collaboratively developed a taxonomy of failures with the goal of creating a common framework of metrics against which we could measure inter- and intra- system failure characteristics of each of the three Halo knowledge applications.
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Collaborative Modeling: Hiding UML And Promoting Data Examples In NEMo
We describe a Web-based tool for modeling that creates and manipulates a simple data model without representing it in UML, while promoting collaboration and the use of examples to compare and validate the model.
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Project Halo: Towards a Digital Aristotle
Project Halo is a multi-staged effort, sponsored by Vulcan Inc, aimed at creating the Digital Aristotle, an application that will encompass much of the world’s scientific knowledge and be capable of applying sophisticated problem solving to answer novel questions.
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Teacher Assignments And Student Work As Measures Of Opportunity To Learn
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The Networked Classroom
On the basis of more than a decade of successful reports from the field and increasing evidence supporting wide-scale adoption, researchers have begun to connect teachers’ insights about the technology to education theory and are documenting the technology’s effectiveness in enhancing student participation and achievement in mathematics.