Publications
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Implications Of Evidence-Centered Design For Educational Testing (Technical Report 17)
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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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Enriching Speech Recognition with Automatic Detection of Sentence Boundaries and Disfluencies
This paper describes a metadata detection system that combines information from different types of textual knowledge sources with information from a prosodic classifier. We investigate maximum entropy and conditional random…
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Assessing Local Item Dependence In Building Explanation Tasks (Padi Technical Report 14)
A common practice in the assessment of science education is to have a shared stimulus followed by a number of questions. In these cases, one might doubt the usual assumption…
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QASR: Question Answering Using Semantic Roles for Speech Interface
In this paper, we evaluate a semantic role labeling approach to the extraction of answers in the open domain question answering task. We show that this technique especially improves the…
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A Heritage of Innovation: SRI’s First Half Century
From its beginnings at Stanford University, where it was intended to serve industry in the Western United States, SRI has grown to a worldwide research organization.
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Proving Authentication Properties in the Protocol Derivation Assistant
In the present paper, we introduce an axiomatic theory of authentication suitable for the automatic proof of authentication properties. We describe a proof of the authentication property of a simple…
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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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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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Privacy enhancing technologies; proceedings of the 6th International Workshop (PET 2006)
The 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2006, was held at Robinson College, Cambridge (UK) on June 28-20, 2006.
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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.