Education & learning publications
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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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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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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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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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Role of α6 Nicotinic Receptors in CNS Dopaminergic Function: Relevance to Addiction and Neurological Disorders
We review the literature on the role of α6 containing nAChRs with a focus on the striatum and nucleus accumbens.
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Sharing Models and Research to Build Leadership in Program Improvement
SRI designed an online community architecture that permits faculty from small departments in different community colleges to share ideas about how to integrate PBL into their classrooms. This presentation presents…
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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.
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Targeting Nicotinic Receptors for Parkinson’s Disease Therapy
Experimental work in parkinsonian animal models suggests that nicotine in tobacco may contribute to this protection. These combined findings suggest that nicotine and nAChR drugs offer the possibility of improved…