Education & learning publications
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Developing The Area Of Design-Based Implementation Research
This paper provides an overview of the background and purposes of our workshop on design-based implementation research.
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Utilization of Services in a Randomized Trial Testing Phone- and Web-Based Interventions for Smoking Cessation
No prior research, to our knowledge, has systematically compared the effectiveness of these three treatment modalities in a randomized trial.
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Behavior Problems in Learning Activities and Social Interactions in Head Start Classrooms and Early Reading, Mathematics, and Approaches to Learning
Early problem behavior in structured learning activities consistently predicted lower academic outcomes (early reading and mathematics ability) as well as lower motivation, attention, and persistence in academically focused tasks.
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Examining Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Over Three Enactments Of A Personally Consequential Elementary Science Unit
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Implementing Evidence-Centered Design To Develop Assessments For Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Guidelines For Creating Design Patterns And Development Specifications And Exemplar Task Templates For Mathematics (Alternate Assessment Design)
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Inquire for Ipad: a Biology Textbook That Answers Questions
We present Inquire: Biology, an electronic textbook that provides question-answering capability.
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Growth in Reading Achievement in a National Sample of Students with Disabilities Ages 7 to 17
Using data from the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study, this study estimated reading growth trajectories in a nationally representative sample of disabled students.
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Attention and Hyperactivity Symptoms at Kindergarten Entry Associated with Less Sleep in Preschool
To assess the association between sleep and attention and hyperactivity symptoms in preschool children.
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Are More Stringent NCLB State Accountability Systems Associated with Better Student Outcomes?
This study developed a comprehensive measure of the stringency level of NCLB states’ accountability systems, including the strength of their annual measurable objectives, confidence intervals, performance indexing, retesting, minimum subgroup…
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Implementing SRI’s Pashto speech-to-speech translation system on a smartphone
We describe our recent effort implementing SRI's UMPC-based Pashto speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system on a smart phone running the Android operating system.
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Evaluation of the Texas High School Project: Second Comprehensive Annual Report
This report is the second comprehensive annual report of the Texas High School Project (THSP) evaluation.
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California’s Teaching Force 2010: Key Issues and Trends
This report covers four key themes: the contraction of the teacher workforce and other issues affecting the teacher supply pipeline, the weakening of the teacher development system in the context…