Education & learning publications
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Thirty-Six-Month Outcomes for Families of Children Who Have Disabilities and Participated in Early Intervention
Results suggest that Part C early intervention provides important supports for families of young children with disabilities. The findings reinforce the need for experimental research to identify factors that are…
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The Status of the Teaching Profession 2005
This annual report provides an update on California’s teacher development and teacher quality policies; discusses trends in the supply of and demand for teachers; examines data on novice, underprepared, out…
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Constructing Padi Measurement Models for the BEAR Scoring Engine (Padi Technical Report 7)
Connections among the task design, student work products, evaluation, and inferential reasoning are highlighted, and the BEAR Scoring Engine is presented as one example of how multidimensional item response modeling…
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Singapore Tablet PC Program Study: Executive Summary and Final Report, Volume 1, Technical Findings
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Singapore Tablet PC Program Study: Executive Summary and Final Report, Volume 2, Technical Appendicies
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Mapping The Distribution Of Expertise And Resources In A School: Investigating The Potential Of Using Social Network Analysis In Evaluation
This paper describes results of a study investigating the potential of using social network analysis to evaluate the capacity of a school to undertake a schoolwide educational reform.
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Evidence-Centered Assessment Design: Layers, Structures, and Terminology (Padi Technical Report 9)
This presentation provides an overview of ECD, highlighting the ideas of layers in the process, structures and representations within layers, and terms and concepts that can be used to guide…
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Task Templates Based on Misconception Research (Padi Technical Report 6)
This paper reports one such effort, motivated by assessments that elicit students’ qualitative explanations of situations that have been designed to provoke misconceptions and partial understandings. We describe four task-specific…
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An Example-Based Exploration Of Design Patterns In Measurement (Padi Technical Report 8)
This paper extends the work conducted by the Principled Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI) project to investigate more deeply the application of assessment design patterns.
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Globe Year 9 Evaluation: Implementation Supports and Student Outcomes
SRI International (SRI) prepared this evaluation research report for the GLOBE Program. This is the second report submitted under the new grant to SRI for the GLOBE evaluation and the…
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Do Parents’ Academic Gender Stereotypes Influence Whether They Intrude On Their Children’S Homework?
In this study, we explored the possibility that when parents endorse particular academic gender stereotypes (e.g., boys are better at math, girls are better at English) they are more likely…
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The Case For An Integrated Design Framework For Assessing Science Inquiry (Padi Technical Report 5).
In this report, we provide a rationale and approach for articulating a conceptual framework and corresponding development resources to guide the design of science inquiry assessments.