Publications
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Collaborative Partnership to Teach Mathematical Reasoning Through Computer Programming (CPR2) Summer 2022 Findings Memo
This memo includes initial efficacy study results of final year of the Collaborative Partnership to Teach Mathematical Reasoning Through Computer Programming (CPR2) study. It additionally includes implementation findings for this…
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Creativity Challenge: Arts Education in California’s Court and Community Schools
This study examines arts education access for students served by California’s district community day schools, county community schools, and juvenile court schools; which we collectively refer to as court and…
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Creativity Challenge: The State of Arts Education in California – Full Report
Our goal was to assess schools’ arts programs relative to state goals, examine the systems of support for these programs, and identify ways in which state and local policymakers might…
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Creativity Challenge: The State of Arts Education in California – Summary Report
We found that, while much remained the same in 2020 as in 2006, some aspects of arts education in California’s K–12 schools had improved.
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Sensor Trajectory Estimation by Triangulating Lidar Returns
The paper describes how to recover the sensor trajectory for an aerial lidar collect using the data for multiple-return lidar pulses.
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Does Assignment to Special Education Exacerbate Negative Social, Emotional, and Academic Attitudes Among Students with Disabilities?
Prior work largely finds that students with disabilities (SWD) display more negative social, emotional, and academic attitudes than students without disabilities.
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Predict Young Learner Online Learning Engagement
This study examines an artificial intelligence (AI)- powered automated system that uses voice and facial recognition to track both teacher and learner speech, facial expressions, and interactions in real-time in…
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Parent expectations, deaf youth expectations, and transition goals as predictors of postsecondary education enrollment
This study used the NLTS2 data set to determine the effects of expectations and transition planning goals on the postsecondary education enrollment of deaf youth.
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Encouraging Impacts of an Open Education Resource Degree Initiative on College Students’ Progress to Degree
Open Education Resources (OER) are an alternative to commercial textbooks that have the potential to increase college affordability, access, and instructional quality.
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Earlier Bedtime and Effective Coping Skills Predict a Return to Low-Risk of Depression in Young Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
To determine the persistent effects of the pandemic on mental health in young adults, we categorized depressive symptom trajectories and sought factors that promoted a reduction in depressive symptoms in…
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Learning with Local Gradients at the Edge
To enable learning on edge devices with fast convergence and low memory, we present a novel backpropagation-free optimization algorithm dubbed Target Projection Stochastic Gradient Descent (tpSGD).
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A Framework for understanding and Visualizing Strategies of RL Agents
We present a framework for learning comprehensible models of sequential decision tasks in which agent strategies are characterized using temporal logic formulas.