Education & learning publications
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Assessing the Effectiveness of First Step to Success: Are Short-Term Results the First Step to Long-Term Behavioral Improvements?
This article reports on the effectiveness of First Step to Success, a secondary-level intervention appropriate for students in early elementary school who experience moderate to severe behavior problems and are…
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Does NCLB Improve the Achievement of Students With Disabilities? A Regression Discontinuity Design
Using a regression discontinuity design, this study compared the academic achievement of students-with-disabilities subgroups that were just above the minimum-subgroup-size threshold to those just below the threshold.
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Understanding the Implications of Online Learning for Educational Productivity
The purpose of this report is to support educational administrators and policymakers in becoming informed consumers of information about online learning and its potential impact on educational productivity.
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Evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative: Year-Two Report, Executive Summary
Two years into an initiative designed to embed and test this approach within nine California school districts, the evaluation findings reveal signs of progress...
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SRILM at sixteen: Update and outlook
We review developments in the SRI Language Modeling Toolkit (SRILM) since 2002, when a previous paper on SRILM was published.
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Evaluation of the Texas High School Project: Third Comprehensive Annual Report
This report is the third and culminating report of the four-year longitudinal evaluation of the Texas High School Project (THSP).
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Behavior Problems in Learning Activities and Social Interactions in Head Start Classrooms and Early Reading, Mathematics, and Approaches to Learning
A series of multilevel models examined the unique contribution of early problem behavior in structured learning activities, peer interactions, and teacher interactions.
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Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Evaluation: Final Evaluation Report–2008-2011
This is the fourth and final report about the evaluation of the pilot of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act’s early childhood programs: Powerful vision and pesky details
The authors examine what has been learned from Individuals With Disabilities Education Act’s two early childhood programs about the power and limitations of policy to improve the lives of young…
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Innovative Teaching and Learning Research: 2011 Findings and Implications
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Examining Teachers’ Instructional Moves Aimed at Developing Students’ Ideas and Questions in Learner-Centered Science Classrooms
We examined teachers’ instructional moves to elicit and develop students’ ideas and questions as they orchestrated discourse with their fifth grade students during a learner-centered environmental biology unit.
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Organizing Research and Development at the Intersection of Learning, Implementation, and Design
This article describes elements of an approach to research and development called design-based implementation research.