Education & learning publications
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The challenge of assessing “knowledge in use”: Examples from three-dimensional science learning and instruction
This symposium includes four papers focused on meeting challenges in the design and use of assessments of science proficiency.
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Pathway Schools Initiative: Fundamental evaluation summary
This report summarizes the progress made by the schools that participated in the Pathway Schools Initiative through the 2017–18 school year.
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The Evidence Based Curriculum Design Framework: Leveraging Diverse Perspectives in the Design Process
This paper describes our approach to integrating the learning sciences with best practices in app design: a design framework that involves researchers and developers in a co-development process to create…
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The impact of career and technical education on students with disabilities
We use multiple years of administrative data from Massachusetts to estimate the effect of participating in CTE on the academic outcomes of students with disabilities.
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Chicago’s Pay for Success Program Evaluation: Year 3
For each year of the program, SRI International, the program’s independent evaluator, releases a report of student performance across kindergarten readiness, special education utilization, and third-grade literacy.
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Crowdsourcing Emotional Speech
We describe the methodology for the collection and annotation of a large corpus of emotional speech data through crowdsourcing.
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Issue brief: Academic support classes
This brief on academic support classes is the twelfth in a series of briefs with key findings about these high school improvement strategies.
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What parents talk about when they talk about learning: A national survey about young children and science
This study used a nationally representative parent survey, combined with in-depth interviews and home visits with a smaller sample of families, to learn how parents of young children, particularly low-income…
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Impacts on Students of a Short-Cycle Implementation of the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program
SRI International found that a two-year implementation of the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program had a positive, statistically significant effect on a validated measure of students’…
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Strengthening SSIP evaluations with qualitative methods
Using quantitative and qualitative methods offers different perspectives for examining SSIP implementation and results and provides states with greater insight into how implementation is going and what needs to change…
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Job searching, job duration, and job loss among young adults with autism spectrum disorder
We compared the job search experience, job duration, and j ob loss of young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their peers with four other types of disabilities.
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Evaluation of education connections: Supporting teachers with standards-based instruction for English learners in mainstream classrooms
The Center for Applied Linguistics developed an online site, Education Connections, to train and support teachers in integrating English language proficiency standards with content standards.