Education & learning publications
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Globe Year 10 Evaluation: Into The Next Generation
This is the 10th in a series of annual evaluation reports that SRI has submitted to the GLOBE Program since the Program’s inception in 1995.
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Mystery Powders: An Application Of The Padi Design System Using The Four-Process Delivery System (Padi Technical Report 15)
This report illustrates how the general principles and structural components of the PADI framework were applied to a Mystery Powders assessment demonstration project that was computer-based. The body of this…
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Fighting the Wrong Battle in the Teacher Preparation Wars
SRI conducted a comprehensive study of alternative teacher certification programs to determine the characteristics of those that were effective.
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Build IT: Girls Developing Information Technology Fluency Through Design. Annual Report Year 1
The goals for the first year of the Build IT project were to develop and implement the three units of the curriculum at four school sites reaching a total of…
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Interpersonal And Non-Interpersonal Interactions, Interpersonal Motives, And The Effects Of Frustrated Motives
A new circumplex model of interpersonal interaction emphasizes the motives that drive interpersonal behaviors and the negative affect (such as anger) that occurs when a strongly activated motive is frustrated.
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Tides: Report On Technical Quality Of 7th Grade Student Assessment
This report describes activities undertaken to create, pilot, and analyze technical quality of student assessments in seventh grade for the Transforming Instruction by Design in Earth Science (TIDES) project.
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Report On Technical Quality Of 6th And 8th Grade Student Assessments For The Tides Project
This report describes activities undertaken to create, pilot, and analyze technical quality of student assessments in sixth and eighth grades for the Transforming Instruction by Design in Earth Science (TIDES)…
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Early College High School Initiative: 2003-2005 Evaluation Report
This report is the second annual synthesis report on the national evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI). The foundation established the…
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No Child Left Behind and Science Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks
This article examines the opportunities, challenges, and risks that No Child Left Behind (NCLB) poses for science education in elementary and middle schools.
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Measuring Middle School Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge Of Teaching Rate And Proportionality
We are investigating if teachers from across the state of Texas can use a specially designed replacement unit and SimCalc software to help their students learn mathematics important to the…
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Findings from the Evaluation of The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District and Network Grants Program: The Challenge of Sustaining High-School Reform
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Teaching Nanoscience To High School Students: A Tale Of The Nanosense Project