Publications
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High Time For High School Reform: Early Findings From The Evaluation Of The National School District And Network Grants Program
This report is one of a series that will be produced over the 5-year course of the National School District and Network Grants Program evaluation. The evaluation examines the extent…
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Instructional Sensitivity Design
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Mapping The Terrain: Year 1 Of The Evaluation Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District And Network Grants Program
The foundation’s grantees are taking a twopronged approach to reform: grantee organizations are supporting the design of new, small high schools and/or the conversion of large high schools into smaller…
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Media Inequality in Conversation: How People Behave Differently When Interacting With Computers and People
The present study presents a laboratory experiment grounded in the principles of Interpersonal Theory, a psychological approach to interpersonal dynamics. Discourse analyses revealed a key difference in participants ’ behavior…
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Using Cognitive Analyses To Describe Students’ Science Inquiry And Motivation To Learn
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Using Cognitive Analyses To Understand Motivational And Situational Influences In Science Achievement
This study explores the relationship between students’ test perceptions, motivation and engagement in multiple-choice and performance assessment testing contexts.
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An Integrative Approach to Relating Science Inquiry Assessment Items to Science Curricula and National Standards
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Program Director Survey
Directors of programs serving the children and families during their first six months in service complete a mail survey on the characteristics of their programs such as the number and…
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Service Record A
For the study, every six months an early intervention professional completed a questionnaire on received services, including information regarding the transition out of early intervention.
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The Modified Group Delay Function and Its Application to Phoneme Recognition
Exploring a new spectral representation of speech signals through group delay functions.
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National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS): Service Record B
An early intervention professional completed a questionnaire on the services provided to each NEILS family, including information regarding the transition out of early intervention. Version A of the service record…
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Prosodic Knowledge Sources for Automatic Speech Recognition
We investigate three models, each exploiting a different level of prosodic information, in rescoring N-best hypotheses according to how well recognized words correspond to prosodic features of the utterance.