Education & learning publications
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21st Century Skills in STEM Workforce Training Assessments
What skills do tech employers seek? A scenario-based learning approach for teaching STEM tech education is posited.
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Applying Evidence-Centered Design To Alternate Assessments In Mathematics For Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities (Alternate Assessment Design
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Leveraging Evidence-Centered Design In Large-Scale And Formative Assessment Practices
This paper depicts ECD as a series of integrated layers describing an assessment design process that includes analyzing and modeling domains, specifying arguments in terms of student, task and evidence…
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Ready Schools Miami: Year 2 Evaluation Findings
Since receiving support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in 2007, Ready Schools partners have made significant progress toward improving the systems in Miami-Dade. This report presents findings of the second…
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Using Padi Design Patterns To Support The Storyboard Writing Process
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A Generalizability Investigation Of Cognitive Demand And Rigor Ratings Of Items And Standards In An Alignment Study
This paper reports the results of a generalizability theory study of cognitive demand and rigor ratings of assessment items and college-readiness standards in the context of an alignment study of…
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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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Evaluation of Programs and Continuum of Service, 2009-10
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Expanding 21st Century Science Learning to Encompass Civic Reasoning on Science Issues
We overview and illustrate the characteristics of civic reasoning. Then, we propose lines of research for identifying models of how distributed communities leverage cyber infrastructures in the pursuit of discourse…
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ITL Research Design
This paper describes the design of Innovative Teaching and Learning (ITL) Research, a multiyear global research program sponsored initially by Microsoft’s Partners in Learning, with increasing partnership from governments and…
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Can We Get Better Assessment from a Tutoring System Compared to Traditional Paper Testing? Can We Have Our Cake (Better Assessment) and Eat It Too (Student Learning During the Test)?
We report a study analyzing 40-minutes data of totally students from two school years. The result suggests that for the purpose of assessing student performance, it is more efficient for…
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Designing Large-Scale Science Assessment Tasks For Students With High-Incidence Disabilities: The Use Of Evidence-Centered Design, Design Patterns, And Universal Design For Learning