Education & learning publications
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When students don’t feel safe in the neighborhood: How can schools help?
Locally and across the U.S., there is an urgent need to support students who experience ongoing violence in the community, which is one of 12 distinct types of potentially traumatic…
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Testing the effects of a pilot listening comprehension and vocabulary intervention for individuals with autism
Many school-age children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience difficulties with reading comprehension, yet few studies have examined intervention practices to support their early reading comprehension development.
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Evaluation of the Oakland Health Pathways Project: Final Report
The initiative is designed to improve educational and long-term employment outcomes for youth of color in Oakland, California, while expanding and diversifying the local health care workforce.
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A principled approach to designing a computational thinking practices assessment for early grades
In this paper, we discuss the development of and results from a validated CT Practices assessment for 4th-6th grade students.
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OER at Scale: The Academic and Economic Outcomes of Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative
The research and evaluation of ATD’s OER Degree Initiative provided encouraging evidence regarding the academic outcomes of students who enrolled in multiple OER courses, the economic impacts for both students…
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Virginia Preschool Initiative Plus (VPI+) Final Evaluation Report
The Virginia Preschool Initiative Plus was designed to provide 4-year-old children from low-income families with access to high quality prekindergarten programs.
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Evaluation of the New Teacher Center (NTC) i3 scale-up grant: Cohort 1 preliminary teacher and student impact
SRI is conducting an independent five-year evaluation of the New Teacher Center’s federally funded Investing in Innovation Scale-up grant.
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ST Math: Nonregulatory ESSA Standards Evidence Review & What Works Clearinghouse Standards Review
The study authors conducted multiple analyses to investigate the extent to which use of Spatial-Temporal (ST) Math in grades 3–5 was associated with increased school mathematics achievement.
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Comparing the Achievement of Students in Virtual Virginia and Face-to-Face Courses
The department partnered with REL Appalachia to examine the relationship between students’ participation in online courses and their performance on end-of-course exams.
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Relationships between reading profiles and narrative writing abilities in school-age children with autism spectrum disorder
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are noted to exhibit challenges in both skill areas, though relatively few studies have examined relationships between reading and writing skills.
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Relationships between reading profiles and narrative writing abilities in school-age children with autism spectrum disorder
This study adopted a reading-to-writing framework to examine if school-age children differ in their narrative writing performance based on their categorically heterogeneous, empirically derived latent reading profiles.
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Student Outcomes in Health Pathways
The initiative is designed to improve educational and long-term employment outcomes for youth of color in Oakland (Alameda County), California, while expanding and diversifying the local health care workforce.