Education & learning publications
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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?
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The Effect of Ignoring Classroom-Level Variance in Estimating the Generalizability of School Mean Scores
This paper reports balanced and unbalanced generalizability analyses investigating the consequences of ignoring variation at the level of classrooms within schools when analyzing the reliability of such school-level accountability measures.
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Ready Schools Miami: A Systems Change Effort to Improve Children’s Outcomes (Year 3 Evaluation)
Ready Schools is a radical systems change effort to improve the academic, health, and social outcomes of historically underserved children in one of this country’s largest and most diverse communities,…
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: California Mathematics Project Case Study
In 2001, the North Bay Mathematics Project (NBMP) and Bellevue Union Elementary District (Bellevue) began working to improve mathematics instruction through “lesson study.”