Author: SRI International
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World Links For Development Student Assessment: Uganda Field Test 2000
This report summarizes the results of a field test conducted in Uganda in 2000 of one set of student assessment forms. The report opens with a description of the student assessment field test in the context of the WorLD Program implementation and the Monitoring and Evaluation activity.
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Globe Year 6 Evaluation: Explaining Variation in Implementation
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program engages students around the world in observing and measuring aspects of their local environments.
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Issues for Equity in Research and Evaluation of Educational Technology
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Capacity-Building Partnerships: Improving The Evaluation Of Educational Technology: A Final Report Of The Partnerships Subtask Of The Evaluation Of Educational Technology Policy And Practice For The 21st Century
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Information Literacy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Topics include education policy; funding for technology; standards, particularly state standards; separate standards for library media programs; assessment; and using the Big6 program.
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Mobile Wireless Devices In Mathematics Education
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The Multimedia Challenge
The Belmont Then and Now project, completed in 2000 by three 3rd grade classes from Central Elementary, helps put Belmont’s changes over the past 150 years in perspective.
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Finding Consensus in Speech Recognition: Word Error Minimization and Other Applications of Confusion Networks
We describe a new framework for distilling information from word lattices to improve the accuracy of speech recognition and obtain a more perspicuous representation of a set of alternative hypotheses.
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The .geo-web: A Scalable Index for the Digital Earth
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Machine Learning Techniques for the Identification of Cues for Stop Place
This paper is situated in a long line of phonetic studies that seek to determine and qualify the acoustic cues humans use to identify stop place. The present study draws from a database of 1500 CV tokens of American English and their values for the acoustic features thought to be cues for stop place identification.
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Do Technology Investments Pay Off? The Evidence Is In!
In a 5-year evaluation of the $6.6 million Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project, technology-using students surpassed nonparticipating peers in developing critical 21st-century job skills.
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Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech
We describe a statistical approach for modeling dialogue acts in conversational speech, i.e., speech-act-like units such as Statement, Question, Backchannel, Agreement, Disagreement, and Apology. Our model detects and predicts dialogue acts based on lexical, collocational, and prosodic cues, as well as on the discourse coherence of the dialogue act sequence.