Education & learning publications
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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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Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies for Learning
Mobile learning is the study of how to harness personal and portable technologies for effective education. The term also covers research into technology-enabled learning across contexts and learning in an…
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Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary Of A Workshop
Pellegrino reflects on the need for substantial change in what we expect students to know and be able to do in science, how science should be taught, and how science…
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ITL Research: Executive summary of pilot year findings
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Adapting Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to the Positive Youth Development Setting: A Pilot Study
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Technology-Enabled and Universally Designed Assessment: Considering Access in Measuring the Achievement of Students with Disabilities-A Foundation for Research
This paper represents one outcome from the Invitational Research Symposium on Technology-Enabled and Universally Designed Assessments, which examined technology-enabled assessments (TEA) and universal design (UD) as they relate to students…
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Finding the Expert Knowledge that Everyone Can Use: Year 2 And 3 DSA Progress Report
Researchers at SRI International are studying how to enhance outcomes measurement with a greater understanding of expert knowledge and reasoning in a field.
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National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development: Year 3 Report
The current evaluation focuses on a subset of the professional development offered by Local Writing Project sites partnerships with schools serving middle grades students.
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Teaching For Understanding In Earth Science: Comparing Three Professional Development Designs For Middle School Science Teachers
This paper compares and contrasts the impacts of three professional development designs aimed at middle school Earth science teachers on how teachers plan and enact instruction.
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Nicotine Withdrawal Sensitivity, Linkage to Chr6Q26, and Association of OPRM1 SNPS in the SMOking in FAMilies (SMOFAM) Sample
A Rasch model has been used to develop a unidimensional sensitivity score representing multiple correlated measures of nicotine withdrawal.
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The National Behavior Research Coordination Center: Coordinating Research and Implementation of Evidence-Based School Interventions for Children with Serious Behavior Problems
The U.S. Department of Education funded four Behavior Research Centers, each to test the efficacy of a separate intervention to improve the behavior of elementary school students with or at…
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Bringing Out The Playful Side Of Mathematics: Using Methods From Improvisational Theater In Professional Development For Urban Middle School Math Teachers
Many urban districts are underfunded, are low performing by current measures, and serve a high number of students who have special challenges of language, poverty, and cultural differences.