Education & learning publications
-
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.
-
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.”
-
Post-High School Service Use Among Young Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Rates of service disengagement are high after exiting high school. Disparities by race and socioeconomic status indicate a need for targeted outreach and services.
-
Teachers’ Ability to Use Data to Inform Instruction: Challenges and Supports
Understanding the nature of teachers’ proficiencies and difficulties in data use is important for providing appropriate training and support to teachers, because they are expected to use student data as…
-
Global Skills for College Completion: Tools and Routines
Less than 30 percent of students complete an associates degree, and 60-80 percent need developmental education. How do we change this?
-
Assessing Informal Learning in Data Literacy
The project’s research study examined the KSN apprenticeship network as a model for delivering challenging activities linked to STEM learning in youth informal learning settings.
-
Global Skills For College Completion: Tools And Routines
-
Adherence to Varenicline in the Compass Smoking Cessation Intervention Trial
It is important to understand the extent to which prescribed medications are actually taken by smokers, how this influences smoking cessation outcomes, and what factors may influence adherence.
-
Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: Bay Area Writing Project Case Study
In 2002, a group of teachers and administrators saw an opportunity to bring a new focus to writing in the Oakland Unified School District.
-
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,…
-
Self-Concept Development of Students With Disabilities: Disability Category, Gender, and Racial Differences From Early Elementary to High School
Developmental trajectories of two self-concept constructs in three domains were estimated in a nationally representative sample of approximately 3,500 students with disabilities ages 8 to 17 representing 11 federal disability…
-
Inquire for iPad: Bringing Question-Answering AI into the Classroom
Biology, is a novel electronic textbook that runs on an iPad and embeds in it a rich Biology knowledge base and reasoning system.