Education & learning publications
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Using Cognitive Interviews And Student Response Processes To Validate An Interpretive Argument For The Ets Iskills Assessment
Evaluating the trustworthiness of Internet-based or other digital information has become an essential 21st century skill. The iSkills™ assessment, from Educational Testing Service (ETS), purports to measure such digital evaluation…
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Expanding The Scope Of Implementation Research In Education To Inform Design
In this paper, we present a vision for implementation research in education that can inform all stages of program development. We present examples of implementation research that have performed three…
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The Impact of Smoking Cessation and Pharmacotherapy on Sleep Assessed Across the First 10 Days After Quitting
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Back To The Future: A Non-Automated Method Of Constructing Transfer Models
In this paper, instead of applying automated and computationally intensive approaches, we simply start with existing hand-constructed transfer models at various levels of granularity and use them as a lens…
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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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Chemistry Facets: Diagnostic Assessment of High School Students’ Chemistry Conceptions
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The Science Behind Nanosunscreens: Learning About Nanoparticulate Ingredients Used To Block The Sun’S Ultraviolet Rays.
In this article, we provide a brief overview of the emerging field of nanoscience and why it is an important area for education.
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Development of a Multidimensional Measure of Academic Engagement
This article describes development of a measure of academic engagement using items from an existing survey of undergraduates enrolled at the University of California.
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Using Learning Decomposition And Bootstrapping With Randomization To Compare The Impact Of Different Educational Interventions On Learning
This paper presents a study to determine the relative efficacy of different instructional strategies by applying an educational data mining technique, learning decomposition.
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The Links Between Parent Behaviors and Boys’ and Girls’ Science Achievement Beliefs
This study examined whether parental involvement in children's science schoolwork varies for boys and girls, and how these behaviors relate to children's science achievement beliefs at the end of a…
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Using Learning Decomposition To Analyze Instructional Effectiveness In The ASSISTment System
This paper presents a study determining the relative efficacy of different instructional content by applying an educational data mining technique, learning decomposition.
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Analyzing Online Social Networking in Professional Learning Communities: Cyber Networks Require Cyber-Research Tools
The authors argue that conceptual and methodological limitations in existing research approaches severely hamper theory building and empirical exploration of teacher learning and collaboration through cyber-enabled networks.