Education & learning publications
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High School Reform in Chicago Public Schools: Autonomous Management and Performance Schools (Part Four of a Series of Five Reports)
The Autonomous Management and Performance Schools Program (AMPS) in the Chicago Public Schools is designed to grant high-performing and/or promising schools certain academic, programmatic, and operational freedoms. In theory, AMPS…
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High School Reform in Chicago Public Schools: Instructional Development Systems (Part Two of a Series of Five Reports)
This report sets forth preliminary evaluative work concerning the implementation and early outcomes of the IDS initiative. We describe the successes and challenges associated with implementing the IDS initiative.
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High School Reform in Chicago Public Schools: Renaissance 2010 (Part Three of a Series of Five Reports)
The Renaissance 2010 initiative was established to increase the number of high-quality education options across Chicago. This report presents findings about Renaissance 2010 high schools drawn from a larger study…
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Addressing The Assessment Challenge In An Online System That Tutors As It Assesses
Our hypothesis is that we can achieve more accurate assessment by not only using data on whether students get test items right or wrong, but by also using data on…
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Recommended Resources For The National Defense Education Program Pre-Engineering Partnerships
This SRI International (SRI) report presents the selection criteria applied in selecting five resources for recommendation to PEP. Accompanying narrative scenarios illustrate how the resources can support S&Es who work…
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InnovaTE3: Girls Innovating With Technology as Entrepreneurial Environmental Engineers
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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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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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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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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.