Education & learning publications
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Shaping Professional Development to Promote the Diffusion of Instructional Expertise among Teachers
This study examines how high-quality professional development can promote the diffusion of effective teaching strategies among teachers through collaboration.
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DynaLogue: Teacher Candidates Collaborating to Learn and Teach Proportional Reasoning
This demonstration focuses on one aspect of this hands-on curriculum, DynaLogue.
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Next Generation Preschool Math Demo: Tablet Games for Preschool Classrooms
This paper describes the Next Generation Preschool Math project, a $3 million, four-year research and development initiative funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Designing Early Childhood Math Games: A Research-Driven Approach
This paper describes the iterative research and development process used by the Next Generation Preschool Math project, which integrates content analysis, logic model processes, and iterative design and research approaches.
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Parent Support Services for Families of Children with Emotional Disturbances Served in Elementary School Special Education Settings: Examination of Data from the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study
Using data from the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study, we describe parent involvement and support activities in schools educating a nationally representative sample of students with emotional disturbances (EDs).
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Dynalabs for Teachers to Collaborate on Pedagogical Strategies
We report on new tools for teachers to construct, share, and iteratively refine idealized dialogues with imagined students.
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Hyperfine Interaction and Its Effects on Spin Dynamics in Organic Solids
Here we present a systematic study of the HFI and its role in organic spintronic applications.
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California’s Beginning Teachers: the Bumpy Path to a Profession
This study addresses education policies that affect beginning teachers in California—induction, clear credentialing, evaluation, and tenure.
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Math Growth Trajectories of Students with Disabilities: Disability Category, Gender, Racial, and Socioeconomic Status Differences from Ages 7 to 17
This study examined math growth trajectories by disability category, gender, race, and socioeconomic status using a nationally representative sample of students ages 7 to 17.
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Towards an Evidence Framework for Design-Based Implementation Research
In this chapter, we compare the approach to evidence implicit in the defining features of DBIR to the prevailing evidence standards for educational research promoted by national policy.
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Expanding Access to STEM-Focused Education: What Are the Effects?
Calls for broadening the population of students motivated and prepared to pursue STEM studies, with an aim ultimately to impact the country’s competitiveness, have been frequent and widespread...
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Inclusive STEM High School Design: 10 Critical Components
This paper introduces a pair of relatively new research projects that focus on an innovative type of school that is quietly emerging across the U.S., Inclusive STEM-focused High Schools (ISHSs).