Education & learning publications
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Getting on the Same Page using Scenario-Based Learning: An Alignment of Education and Industry Goals for Technician Education
The current report examines the alignment of a set of scenario-based learning materials with two sets of relevant industry standards.
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Formative Assessment Practices to Promote Model-Based Reasoning in Earth Science
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Implementing Online Learning Labs in Schools and Districts
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An exploratory study to unpack the nature of teacher’s everyday innovation
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Scientific Literacy In The Context Of Civic Reasoning: An Educational Design Problem
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Supporting science teaching with scientists and engineers in middle school classrooms
Bienkowski, M. & Dieterle, E. (2011). Supporting science teaching with scientists and engineers in middle school classrooms. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (April), New Orleans, LA.
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The Role of Context in Preschool Learning: a Multilevel Examination of the Contribution of Context-Specific Problem Behaviors and Classroom Process Quality to Low-Income Children’s Approaches to Learning
Research suggests that promoting adaptive approaches to learning early in childhood may help close the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged children.
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Domain-specific Assessment: What Foundational Concepts and Reasoning Skills are Community College Students Learning?
The Domain-Specific Assessment project developed a set of tools and assessment items that measure students’ capacity to apply knowledge rather than simply memorize vast amounts of it.
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The Design Pattern: A Blueprint for a New Domain-specific Assessment
Assessment researchers at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, designed a prototype scenario-based assessment to measure how well college students learn the big ideas of biology and economics and how…
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Focus, Fiddle, and Friends: Experiences That Transform Knowledge for the Implementation of Innovations
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Focus on α4β2* and α6β2* nAChRs for Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics
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Quality measurement in early childhood settings
What constitutes quality in early childhood settings, and how can it best be measured with today’s widely used tools and promising new approaches?