Education & learning publications
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A Review of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Postsecondary Success Portfolio: Lessons from Five Years of Funding Digital Courseware (Executive Summary)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success initiative seeks to understand what is required for technology applications to produce positive student impacts at scale.
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A Multiparameter Aerosol Classification Method and Its Application to Retrievals from Spaceborne Polarimetry
Classifying observed aerosols into types helps to understand aerosol sources, transformations, effects, and feedback mechanisms; to improve accuracy of satellite retrievals; and to quantify aerosol radiative impacts on climate.
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PreK– 3 Family Engagement and Literacy
The McKnight Foundation’s Education and Learning (E&L) Program is promoting family engagement as part of a literacy initiative that spans from prekindergarten through third grade (PreK–3).
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PreK– 3 Teacher Instructional Practices
A key component of the McKnight Foundation’s Education and Learning (E&L) Program is supporting PreK–3 teachers to improve their literacy instruction in order to develop proficient readers.
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Research Brief: Implementation of the New Educator Evaluation System in Massachusetts
During the 2013-14 school year, the second year of the study, the research team conducted educator interviews and focus groups in 12 Massachusetts case study districts.
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Recruiting Participants for Large-Scale Random Assignment Experiments in School Settings
We report here on our experiences in recruiting participants for random assignment experiments in public primary and secondary schools. Our perspective is based on over twenty current and completed randomized…
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BaySci: A Partnership for Bay Area Science Education—August 2014 Evaluation Report
We examined how and to what degree science instruction changed in the classrooms of districts, schools, and individuals participating in BaySci programming. We sought evidence of changes in classroom practice,…
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Applying the Brakes: How Practical Classroom Decisions Affect the Adoption of Inquiry Instruction
If college science instructors are to use inquiry practices more in the classroom, they need both professional support to foster comfort with the pedagogy and practical ways to engage students…
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Methodology Considerations in School Mental Health Research
This paper reviews key steps needed to effectively study SMH research questions. Considerations around research designs, methods for describing effects and outcomes, issues in measurement of process and outcomes, and…
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Using Analytics for Improving Implementation Fidelity in a Large Scale Efficacy Trial
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A Design Inquiry: Bridging Assessment and Curriculum Frameworks to Engage Students in Science Practices
This reflective inquiry delves into the collaborative design process of a technology based middle school genetics unit. With a lens on science practices, we describe how bridging assessment and curriculum…
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Implementation of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Online Homework Support at Large Scale
In this paper, we describe an ongoing randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the efficacy of a web-based tutoring system—the ASSISTments—as support for homework.