Education & learning publications
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Characterizing Adaptive Expertise In Science Teaching: Report On A Laboratory Study Of Teacher Reasoning
Our goal in this project is to apply the concept of adaptive expertise to science teaching in order to understand what benefits adaptiveness confers to teachers’ learning, development, and performance.
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Globe: Using Padi Templates As An Alternative Structure For Specifying Globe Investigation Strategies
This paper begins by providing background on the PADI approach and GLOBE assessments. We then discuss the process by which GLOBE assessment resources were reverse engineered into a PADI task…
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Measuring Student Learning Gains In Conceptual Mathematics When Scaling A Technological Intervention For Middle School Mathematics
In this paper, we present our assessment development process, its rationale, and the data we have collected (and continue to collect) to support our argument for the instrument’s validity.
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Expert Panel Review of OERL’s Instructional Utility
The OERL team has adapted and integrated several evaluation methodologies to examine patterns of usage, customer satisfaction, and the instructional utility of the site. These methods include surveys of target…
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Oerl Survey Design, Methodology, Administration And Results
This paper documents the process employed to develop and administer a methodologically sound set of surveys to evaluate the Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL) Web site.
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Evaluating Web-Based Professional Development
The National Staff Development Council and the National Institute for Community Innovations (2001) have published a resource guide for the implementation of its standards for the professional development of educators…
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Utilizing Usability Testing Methods To Improve Oerl
In this paper, we describe a method for leader detection in multiparty spoken discourse that relies on unsupervised topic modeling to segment the discourse automatically.
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Think Globally, Act Locally: An Analysis Of Community Participation Discourse In Education For All National Action Plans
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The Independent Evaluation of the Science Teachers Initiative (CASCITI): Year 1 Report
This evaluation describes the CSP’s work since from 2001-02 to 2003-04 and assesses whether it met its goals under CASCITI. This chapter first outlines the CSP’s background to enable the…
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Teaching To The Test? A Comparison Of Two High Schools’ Responses To Mandated Testing
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Participatory, Example-Based Data Modeling In Padi (Padi Technical Report 4)
We describe a Web-based tool for modeling that creates and manipulates a simple data model without representing it in UML, while promoting collaboration and the use of examples to compare…
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An Introduction to Padi Task Templates (Padi Technical Report 3)
Principled Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI) is a project supported by the National Science Foundation to improve the assessment of inquiry in science learning.