Digital learning publications
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Supporting Parent-Child Experiences with PEG+CAT Early Math Concepts: Report to the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative (Executive Summary)
The study focused on PEG+CAT, a first-generation transmedia program designed to promote children’s mathematics and approaches to learning (ATL) skills.
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Early Experiences with EdReady— A Tool for Improving Math College Readiness
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success initiative is concerned with understanding how online technology applications can assess and improve students’ math readiness to better prepare them for postsecondary…
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Supporting Parent-Child Experiences with PEG+CAT Early Math Concepts: Report to the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative (Report Highlights)
The study presented here addresses the question of how time spent viewing and playing with PBS KIDS educational, non-commercial media at home, in family settings, can foster positive outcomes for…
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Principals Discuss Early Implementation of the ASSISTments Online Homework Tutor for Mathematics
This report presents the findings from interviews with principals about their schools’ participation in the ASSISTments efficacy study on seventh-grade mathematics.
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Strength of Research for Reasoning Mind
We found strong evidence supporting the quality of product design relative to design characteristics that have been shown to be empirically important in prior research with other blended learning products.
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Automated, Adaptive Guidance for K-12 Education
This paper distinguishes features of automated adaptive guidance used in K-12 instructional settings and recommends directions for design.
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Early Math with Gracie & Friends (Tm) Demo: App-Infused Curriculum and Teacher Support for Preschool
Our team developed and published eight iPad apps, 38 hands-on activities, a digital Teacher’s Guide, and professional development modules to help preschool children learn foundational math concepts.
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Balanced Designs for Deeper Learning in an Online Introductory CS Course for Middle School Students
This paper describes our efforts to use the design-based research methodology to design a 6-week middle school course on the OpenEdX platform for blended in-class learning.
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Design-Based Research for Deeper Learning in an Online Introductory CS Course for Middle School Students
This paper describes our efforts to use the design-based research methodology to design a 6-week middle school course on the OpenEdX platform for blended in-class learning.
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Scaling a Technology-Based Innovation: Windows on the Evolution of Mathematics Teachers’ Practices
This paper reports research on effects on teachers’ classroom practices resulting from their engagement in sustained professional development and classroom teaching of a resource that embeds carefully designed dynamic technology…
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Hugging and Bridging: What It Is and Why You Should Be Doing It
Pedagogies such as ‘bridging’, ‘hugging’, and ‘preparation for future learning’ (PFL) have shown promise in the context of education research in STEM domains at the secondary level.
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Reading and Math Achievement Profiles and Longitudinal Growth Trajectories of Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
This study examined the reading and math achievement profiles and longitudinal growth trajectories of a nationally representative sample of children with an autism spectrum disorder.