Publications
-
MetaCyc and AraCyc. Metabolic Pathway Databases for Plant Research
In conjunction with the Pathway Tools software, MetaCyc can be used to computationally predict the metabolic pathway complement of an annotated genome.
-
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…
-
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.
-
ReadUp: a widget for reading
In this paper we describe the origins, design, and implementation of a new Java Swing toolkit widget called ReadUp, which provides support for reading page images in a digital library…
-
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.
-
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…
-
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.
-
Ontology-based multi-party meeting understanding
This paper describes current and planned research efforts towards developing multimodal discourse understanding for an automated personal office assistant.
-
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…
-
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.
-
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.
-
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…