Education & learning publications
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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…
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Partnership Research for Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
SRI researchers are conducting case studies of how such partnerships are established and sustained.
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Peer Review: Getting Serious About Teacher Support and Evaluation
SRI International and J. Koppich & Associates have completed a study of two exemplary PAR programs in two California school districts.
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The Dynamics of the Urge-To-Smoke Following Smoking Cessation Via Pharmacotherapy
The associations of trajectory parameters with relapse were relatively uninfluenced by demographics and smoking history.
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Preparing Teachers to Design Sequences of Instruction in Earth Systems Science: a Comparison of Three Professional Development Programs
The efficacy of three professional development programs and a control condition was compared in a cluster randomized trial.
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Supplementing Literacy Instruction with a Media-Rich Intervention: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
This study investigates whether a curriculum supplement organized as a sequence of teacher-led literacy activities using digital content from public educational television programs can improve early literacy outcomes of low-income…
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Exploring Differences in Online Professional Development Seminars with the Community of Inquiry Framework
After the seminars, an analysis using the community of inquiry framework was conducted to better understand what occurred in the dialogue of the seminars to understand whether patterns of facilitator…
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Contextualized Learning and Assessment
Presentation made at The Learning Summit, The League for Innovation in the Community College, Phoenix, Arizona.
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National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development: Year 4 Report
Year 4 report on SRI’s examination of changes in students’ writing proficiency, students’ writing practices, teachers’ instructional practices, and teachers’ professional communities in middle schools that have formed partnerships with…
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Alternate Assessment Design – Mathematics. Technical Report 4: Design Patterns. The Background and Role of Design Patterns in the Evidence-centered Design Process
This technical report lays out the basic ideas of ECD and then focuses intensively on the second stage of ECD, referred to as domain modeling and the theory and use…