Education & learning publications
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Teachers’ perceptions of students’ executive functions: Disparities by gender, ethnicity, and ELL status
We assessed whether students’ gender, ethnicity, and English language learner (ELL) status predicted teachers’ reports of students’ EFs, beyond what would be expected based on direct assessment of EFs.
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Concepts before coding: non-programming interactives to advance learning of introductory programming concepts in middle school
We examine whether and how designed activities for conceptual exploration support preliminary engagement with and learning of foundational and often hard-to-grasp programming concepts for students in grades 6–8.
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PBS KIDS Play & Learn Science | ready to learn-funded evaluation
This study explored the impact of the PBS KIDS Play & Learn Science app, when used in a supportive context, on children’s understanding of science concepts and use of science…
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Measuring Quality Technology Integration in Science Classrooms
Here we present a new classroom observation protocol designed specifically to capture the quality of technology use to support science inquiry in high school science classrooms.
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Linking expectations to evaluations: Using your logic model to create your evaluation plan
This brief provides guidance and examples for creating strong alignment between project evaluation plans and logic models.
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Taking a critical look at your child find efforts
This blog post provides guidance on where to begin to examine child find data and practices and describes several resources that are available.
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Mapping Individual to Group Level Collaboration Indicators Using Speech Data
To address the challenge of mapping characteristics of individuals’ speech to information about the group, we coded behavioral and learning-related indicators of collaboration at the individual level.
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Leveraging Evidence-Centered design to develop assessments of Computational Thinking practices
This article describes how ECD was used to develop CT assessments for primary students in Hong Kong and secondary students in the United States.
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Who gets what? Describing the non‐supervisory training and supports received by home visiting staff members and its relationship with turnover
The early childhood home visiting field lacks a basic understanding of home visiting program staff members’ receipt of on-the-job training from experts outside of their programs who are not their…
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When Helping Students Hurts: Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)
Our researchers and clinicians have made a conscious effort to spread the word about secondary traumatic stress (STS)—the compassion fatigue many professionals experience when they work with individuals who have…
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Prediction from Latent Classes: A Demonstration of Different Approaches to Include Distal Outcomes in Mixture Models
Including auxiliary variables such as antecedent and consequent variables in mixture models provides valuable insight in understanding the population heterogeneity embodied by a latent class variable.
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Changing context: Do magnet schools provide student achievement benefits in a modern setting?
To examine magnet schools in a modern context, this study utilized data from one of the nation’s largest districts and examined student achievement by looking for improvements in math and…