Education & learning publications
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Getting Ready to Learn: Creating Effective, Educational Children’s Media
Getting Ready to Learn describes how educational media have and are continuing to play a role in meeting the learning needs of children, parents, and teachers.
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A Principled Approach to Designing Assessments That Integrate Science and Computational Thinking
We describe a principled design process to develop assessment tasks and rubrics that integrate concepts and practices across science, CT, and computational modeling.
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Generalizability of a Technology-Based Intervention to Enhance Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics
To investigate generalizability to broader populations and settings, we triangulate among three methods.
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Next Generation Courseware Challenge Evaluation
How can college completion rates for low-income and minority students be improved? One solution may be digital courseware that offers individualized learning.
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Broadening participation in STEM college majors: Effects of attending a STEM-focused high school
This study addressed the question of whether these high schools improve the odds that their graduates will pursue a STEM major in college.
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Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century
This brief takes a close look at grit, tenacity, and perseverance, factors that underlie the tendency to strive for success at long-term and higher-order goals and to persist in the…
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Using Technology to Personalize Learning in K–12 Schools
Educators are looking to personalized learning approaches to move beyond one-size-fits-all schooling to new approaches that address both persistent and emerging educational challenges, such as achievement gaps and student disengagement.
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Postsecondary Education-Focused Transition Planning Experiences of English Learners With Disabilities
This study examined postschool expectations, transition planning experiences, and supports of a nationally representative sample of English learners with disabilities, based on secondary analysis of the National Longitudinal Transition Study…
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Support Receipt: Effect on Postsecondary Success of Students With Learning Disabilities
Using propensity methods, this study examined the effect of disability-specific and universally available support receipt on the college perseverance and completion of students with LD.
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Study of the Engage New England initiative cross-site learning brief 1
This brief is designed to benefit all three cohorts of ENE grantees as they plan and build their schools and to highlight key elements of planning for innovative school models.
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Integrating urban schools: Roadblocks and challenges with the use of magnet schools
This study utilized data from a large urban district with more than 100 magnet schools to assess integration from magnet schools in a modern context.
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Seeing Is Believing: Peer Video Coaching as Professional Development Done With Me and for Me
After the conclusion of the course, participants were contacted and presented with a summary of four benefits of the peer video review process, as identified in a recent professional article.