Education & learning publications
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National Evaluation of Writing Project School Partnerships – Final Report (with Appendices)
Final report on SRI’s examination of the effects of Writing Project partnerships on teacher practices and student writing. The cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) included a multimethod study to document…
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Varenicline for Smoking Cessation: Nausea Severity and Variation in Nicotinic Receptor Genes
This study evaluated association between common and rare sequence variants in 10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes and the severity of nausea 21 days after initiating the standard, Food and…
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: California Physical Education-Health Project Case Study
This case study of the California Physical Education-Health Project (CPE-HP) provides a portrait of what physical education can and should be and describes CPE-HP’s role in achieving the vision.
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: California Science Project Case Study
We begin by describing the history of SEP and the programs SEP offers elementary teachers and the scientists who work with them.
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: Cross Case Summary
SRI staff collaborated with CSMP leadership to identify sites within their projects that had programs or partnerships that could be used to illustrate the work of the CSMP.
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: The California Arts Project Case Study
As this case study highlights, RIMS CAP supported TVUSD in building its arts program in two main ways: (1) developing capacity in a teacher leader who persisted in moving arts…
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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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Unpacking the Black Box of Engagement: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective Engagement in Learning Mathematics
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Alternate Assessment Design-English Language Arts/Reading: Assessment Task Library
This technical report contains a description of the library of assessment tasks created by the Alternate Assessment Design—English Language Arts/Reading (AAD-ELA) project.
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Preschool Classroom Behavioral Context and School Readiness Outcomes for Low-Income Children: A Multilevel Examination of Child- and Classroom-Level Influences
Guided by an ecological theoretical model, the authors used a series of multilevel models to examine associations among children’s individual problem behavior, the classroom behavioral context, and school readiness outcomes…
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Characterizing disability in Head Start programs: Not so clearcut
This study used the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey data to identify subgroups of children meeting three different criteria for having a disability or developmental delay.
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The Learning Registry: Building a Foundation for Learning Resource Analytics
We describe our experimentation with the current implementation of a distribution system used to share descriptive and social metadata about learning resources.