Education & learning publications
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Issue Brief: Early Warning Systems
The brief describes early warning systems as a dropout prevention strategy based on a nationally representative sample of more than 2,000 U.S. public high schools.
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Supporting young children with disabilities
The authors review effective ways to support development and learning among young children with disabilities, including language and social skills interventions, preschool curricula, instructional and other practices, and multi-tiered systems…
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Course-Taking Effect on Postsecondary Enrollment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 were used to examine the effect of academic and career or technical education course-taking in high school on deaf or hard of hearing…
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Can low-Cost online summer math programs improve student preparation for college-level math? Evidence from randomized experiments at three universities
We conducted randomized experiments of low-cost online summer math programs to test whether this type of intervention can increase access to math preparation, improve placement and enrollment in fall math…
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Evaluation of Rocketship Studentsā Middle School Outcomes
Rocketship Education is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation whose mission is to eliminate the achievement gap by building a scalable and sustainable school model that propels student achievement in underserved communities…
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Case studies of the early implementation of Kindergarten Entry Assessments
This report presents findings from a descriptive study that examined the development and early implementation of Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEAs) in 12 districts across four Race To the Top-Early Learning…
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Evaluation of World Bicycle Reliefās Bicycles for Educational Empowerment Program: South Africa Opportunity Study
The purpose of this āopportunity studyā was to identify the opportunity that bicycles could offer to rural South African schoolchildren; the critical factors that support and hinder implementation; and suggestions…
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Improving early literacy in PreKā3: Lessons learned (August 2016)
The Pathway Schools Initiative aims to dramatically increase the number of students who reach the critical milestone of grade 3 reading proficiency, an indicator predictive of later academic outcomes and…
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Pathway Schools Initiative Developmental Evaluation-Learning Brief 2 (July 2016)
To support its Pathway Schools Initiative, The McKnight Foundation has engaged initiative leaders in a developmental evaluation (DE) led by SRI International and Child Trends.
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Interactive online learning on campus: Comparing studentsā outcomes in hybrid and traditional courses in the university system of Maryland
We studied the impacts on learning outcomes of hybrid courses redesigned using online materials from MOOCs created on the Coursera platform and digital materials created by the Open Learning Initiative…
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Promising approaches to broadening youth participation in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) views broadening participation in the nationās STEM enterprise as vitally linked to the United Statesā capacity for innovation.
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Spoken Interaction Modeling for Automatic Assessment of Collaborative Learning
This study investigates whether automatic audio- based monitoring of interactions can predict collaboration quality.