Education & learning publications
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Poster: Assessment Research to Inform Community College Instructional Goals
A poster presenting the teamās research on how to make visible, by means of assessment, the important, foundational knowledge in domain areas.
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Design Pattern On Model Use In Interdependence Among Living Systems (Large-Scale Assessment Technical Report 13)
The report outlines the key elements of the design pattern, describes the design pattern development process, and illustrates with examples how the design pattern supports storyboard and item design for…
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An Analysis of Student Practices in Asynchronous Computer Conferencing Courses
The current study examined the online habits and āsurvival strategiesā of 57 students enrolled in graduate-level distance education courses.
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Preparing Students for Future Learning with Teachable Agents
One valuable goal of instructional technologies in K-12 education is to prepare students for future learning. Two classroom studies examined whether Teachable Agents (TA) achieves this goal.
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Leveraging Evidence-Centered Design In Large-Scale Test Development (Large-Scale Assessment Technical Report 4)
This brief on Early Warning Systems is the first in a series of briefs being released this fall with key findings about these high school improvement strategies.
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Scaffolding knowledge communities in the classroom: New opportunities in the Web 2.0 era
This chapter reports two studies that used a wiki to deliver a new curriculum model that blends scripted inquiry activities with collaborative knowledge construction in secondary school biology.
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Climate Literacy in an Informal Setting
Who We Are: Project Background and Partners ā¢ InnovaTEĀ³: Mission, Goals, Curriculum, Participants ā¢ STEM Continuum Programming ā¢ Strategies for Building Relationships ā¢ Youth Development Approach ā¢ Evaluation ā¢ Successes…
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Meeting Student Challenges to Innovative Instruction with Improved Assessment Techniques
Presentation of an R&D project focused on the assessment of project-based learning involving community college instructors, and engagement in some of the reflection activities that helped instructors identify and measure…
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Dynamics of North American Sector Ionospheric and Thermospheric Response During the November 2004 Superstorm
We present a study of ionospheric and thermospheric response during a November 9ā10, 2004 major geomagnetic storm event (DsT ā¼ā300Ā nT).
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Assessing Systems Thinking and Complexity in Science
This technical report provides support for designing tasks that assess systems thinking, in the form of a design pattern.
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Datasets for Inquiry in Geoscience: A Design Model
This article describes the results of a proof of concept project, Data Sets for Inquiry in Geoscience (DIGS), funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Scaling Up SimCalc Project Tech Report Series: Design and Development of the Student and Teacher Mathematical Assessments
This technical report documents the design and development of the student and teacher mathematical content assessment instruments for the Scaling Up SimCalc Project.