Education & learning publications
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Online mathematics homework increases student achievement
In a randomized field trial with seventh-grade mathematics students, we evaluated whether an educational technology intervention increased mathematics learning.
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The added impact of parenting education in early childhood education programs: A meta-analysis
We examine the benefits to children’s cognitive and pre-academic skills of adding parenting education to ECE programs for children and consider the impacts of: parenting education programs of any type,…
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Compared to what? Variation in the impacts of early childhood education by alternative care type
In this paper, we estimate differential impacts of an early childhood intervention by alternative care type, using data from the Head Start Impact Study, a large-scale randomized evaluation.
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Verizon Innovative Learning Minority Male Program: Summer Program Evaluation Executive Summary
SRI International’s Center for Technology in Learning, with support from the Verizon Education Foundation, developed this research brief as part of a two year evaluation of the 2016 Verizon Innovative…
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Approaches to Improving Clinical Practice: Describing How NGEI Sites are Reforming Clinical Placement Experiences and Candidate Feedback Systems
As part of the Bechtel-funded New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI), California State University (CSU) grantees are reforming the clinical experience in their teacher preparation programs. This report describes selected…
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Taking Stock of the California Linked Learning District Initiative: Seventh-Year Evaluation Report
This report from SRI International’s multiyear evaluation is the first to include postsecondary outcomes for students in Linked Learning pathways and confirms many of the promising findings from previous years.
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Taking Stock of the California Linked Learning District Initiative: Seventh-Year Evaluation Report, Executive Summary
This report from SRI International’s multiyear evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative is the first to include postsecondary outcomes for students in Linked Learning pathways ...
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What it takes to create linked learning: A report on lessons learned from evaluating the approach in practice
The evaluation has surfaced a set of strategies that promote successful implementation of Linked Learning by both school districts and individual pathways.
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Professional Development to Support Instructional Improvement: Lessons from Research
This paper acknowledges the issue of nonstrategic use of professional development resources and describes lessons from research on how professional development could be better designed to achieve desired impacts on…
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Privacy- preserving speech analytics for automatic assessment of student collaboration
This work investigates whether nonlexical information from speech can automatically predict the quality of small-group collaborations. Audio was collected from students as they collaborated in groups of three to solve…
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The SRI speech-based collaborative learning corpus
We introduce the SRI speech-based collaborative learning corpus, a novel collection designed for the investigation and measurement of how students collaborate together in small groups.
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Intelligent Coaching Systems in Higher-Order Applications: Lessons from Automated Content Creation Bottlenecks
This presentation describes two projects for interactive training that developed prototypes for automated content creation plus a third project that illustrates a suite of learning object libraries to support engineering…