Education & learning publications
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Study of the Austin Independent School District’s Redesign and High School Reform Initiative: Interim Report
This report describes the Austin Independent School District’s recent effort to improve its high schools through a variety of initiatives led by the Office of District Redesign.
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It’s About Time: Purpose, Methods and Challenges of Temporal Analyses of Multiple Data Streams
This workshop explores issues emerging from integrating data streams by identifying a set of analytic difficulties researchers commonly face, and illustrating the application of specific methods that address these challenges.
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Content analysis of collaboratively constructed knowledge artifacts: Issues and opportunities for research
New social media for collaborative knowledge construction, often associated with "Web 2.0," represent an emerging context for the research of learning and instruction.
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Service Provider Combinations and the Delivery of Early Intervention Services to Children and Families
This study provides a framework for characterizing the delivery of early intervention services based on the combinations of service providers who work with infants and toddlers with disabilities and their…
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Behavioral Counseling and Varenicline Treatment for Smoking Cessation
This study compared the effectiveness of three modalities of a behavioral smoking-cessation program in smokers using varenicline.
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Productive Dispositions For Math Teaching: An Exploratory Study Of Adaptive Expertise
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Can desirable difficulties overcome deceptive clarity in scientific visualizations?
In this chapter we explore ways that desirable difficulties can help learners overcome pitfalls associated with he deceptive clarity of visualizations.
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Evaluation of the Texas High School Project: First Comprehensive Annual Report
Data included in this report specifically come from the 2007-08 school year, when many THSP schools were just embarking on their THSP-related reform work.
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Thinking With Data: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach To Teaching Data Literacy And Proportionality
In this article, we describe our theoretical approach to designing and implementing the modules, report on student learning gains in mathematics, and describe teacher reactions to the materials.
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Helping Students Make Controlled Experiments More Informative
We examine how encouraging students to compare rather than isolate variables affects their experimentation strategies and insights.
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Synergistic Use of Evidence-Centered Design and Universal Design for Learning for Improved Assessment Design
The integration and application of evidence-centered design (ECD) and universal design for learning (UDL) in assessment design increases the likelihood that items and tasks will be well aligned with content…
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Designing the Logistics for Large-Scale Randomized Controlled Trials: Six Strategies for Implementation at Scale
The Scaling Up SimCalc Project demonstrates how careful attention to logistics can permit use of a distributed data strategy in a set of large-scale experiments without compromising rigorous control and…