Education & learning publications
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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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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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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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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.
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Data meeting protocol – IDEA data center
This protocol is based on the premise that a key part of the data analysis process involves talking about the results of evaluation activities and making meaning of the results…
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Enhancing Formative Assessment Practice and Encouraging Middle School Mathematics Engagement and Persistence
The authors developed and piloted a professional development program to build middle school math teachers’ understanding of the characteristics of high‐quality formative assessment processes and increases their ability to use…
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Differential response to contact-based stigma reduction programs: Perceived quality and personal experience matter
The aim of this study was to examine two under-studied factors integral to the theoretical underpinnings of contact-based mental illness stigma reduction programs: the quality of the contact and prior…