Publications
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Mathematizing Middle School: Results From A Cross-Disciplinary Study Of Data Literacy
In this paper we discuss a pilot study in which we investigate bridging the disciplines of social studies and mathematics to help students learn important aspects of data literacy. We…
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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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The Many Challenges Of Designing And Teaching Nanoscience
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Reverse Engineering the NAEP Floating Pencil Task Using the PADI Design System (PADI Technical Report 16)
This report will discuss the reverse engineering of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Floating Pencil task. The PADI design system was used as an analytical tool for understanding…
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Review Of Evaluation Findings For The Intel Learn Program
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Teaching Nanoscience To High School Students: A Tale Of The Nanosense Project
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Contextual valency shifters
We argue that the current work in this area that concentrates mainly on the negative or positive attitude communicated by individual terms is incomplete and often gives the wrong results…
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Multi-Criteria Evaluation in User-Centric Distributed Scheduling Agents
This position paper discusses the problem of locally evaluating and comparing candidate schedules, in the context of a distributed scheduling task operating in unbounded environments in which each agent selfishly…
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Ethnic Identity Formation During Adolescence: The Critical Role of Families
Using structural equation modeling and, specifically, multiple group comparisons, findings indicated that familial ethnic socialization (FES) played a significant role in the process of ethnic identity formation for all adolescents,…
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Educational Technologies And Social Inequality In Brazilian Public Schools
This work examines how technology use in Brazilian basic education is influenced by cultural context. This research focused on the widespread educational initiatives that propose to improve equity in public…
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Eligibility characteristics of infants and toddlers entering early intervention services in the United States
To meet the need for information about EI services and its participants, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study.
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KIPP Schools, A Study of Early Implementation: First Year Report, 2004 – 2005
The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) aims to create schools for historically underserved students that significantly increase the amount of instructional time and the efficiency of learning during that time.…