Education & learning publications
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High School Reform in Chicago Public Schools: An Overview (Part One of a Series of Five Reports)
For most of the past decade, the Chicago Public Schools have received significant support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the performance of city high schools.
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Poster: A System for Creating Assessment of Higher-Order Reasoning in Specific Undergraduate Domains
Poster presentation at the annual project manager’s meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, D.C.
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Bridging School and Home: Students’ Engagement with Technology-Rich Activities
This poster describes ongoing work that examines students use of a computer-based learning environment designed to bridge school and out-of-school learning contexts by incorporating affordances of both formal and informal…
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Expenditures for Early Intervention Services
Data collected as part of the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study were used to determine expenditures for infants, toddlers, and their families receiving services through Part C programs.
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Design patterns for assessing model-based reasoning
This report provides a set of design patterns to help assessment designers, researchers, and teachers create tasks for assessing aspects of model-based reasoning: Model Formation, Model Use, Model Elaboration, Model…
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Mood, Side-Effects and Smoking Outcomes Among Persons with and Without Probable Lifetime Depression Taking Varenicline
Compare mood, prevalence and intensity of treatment side-effects, and abstinence among people with a probable history of major depression (DH+) or not (DH−) who took varenicline and received behavioral smoking…
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Initial Results from Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR)
Advances in high latitude upper atmospheric science with the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR).
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Volumetric Imaging of the Auroral Ionosphere: Initial Results from PFISR
This paper demonstrates the capabilities of PFISR for producing three-dimensional volumetric images of E-region ionization patterns produced by the aurora.
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Evaluation of the Enhancing Education through Technology Program: Final Report
The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive information about educational technology practices related to the core objectives of the DOE’s Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program.
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Challenges To Cross-Disciplinary Curricula: Data Literacy And Divergent Disciplinary Perspectives
In our increasingly data-driven society, data literacy is arguably an important civic skill and one that we should be developing in our students.
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Using Mixed-Effects Modeling To Analyze Different Grain-Sized Skill Models In An Intelligent Tutoring System
Student modeling and cognitive diagnostic assessment are important issues that need to be addressed for the development and successful application of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS). ITS needs the construction of…
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Association of Tobacco Dependence and Quit Attempt Duration with Rasch-Modeled Withdrawal Sensitivity Using Retrospective Measures