Education & learning publications
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Implementation of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Online Homework Support in an Efficacy Trial
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.
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Implementation Science in School Mental Health: Key Constructs in a Developing Research Agenda
In this paper, we propose an implementation science research agenda as it applies to school mental health (SMH).
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Problematizing the STEM Pipeline Metaphor: Is the STEM Pipeline Metaphor Serving Our Students and the STEM Workforce
This study interrogates the appropriateness of the STEM pipeline as the dominant frame for understanding and making policies related to STEM career trajectories.
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Blended Learning Report
With funding from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, SRI’s Center for Technology in Learning studied the adoption of blended learning models in selected schools in California and Louisiana associated…
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Automatic Characterization of Speaking Styles in Educational Videos
We use crowd-sourcing to explore speaking style dimensions in online educational videos, and then propose techniques based solely on acoustic features for automatically identifying a subset of the dimensions.
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Postsecondary Pathways and Persistence for Stem Versus Non-Stem Majors: Among College Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
This study analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, 2001–2009, a nationally representative sample of students in special education with an ASD who progressed from high school to postsecondary…
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Using the Idea Manager to Promote Coherent Understanding of Inquiry Investigations
This study examines the ideas students generated during an online inquiry investigation and how students used these ideas to construct scientific explanations about everyday phenomena.
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The Influence of Family Socioeconomic Status on the Post–High School Outcomes of Youth With Disabilities
Results show that SES had a statistically significant but relatively small effect on outcomes, to a sizable extent the effect of SES was mediated by other factors...
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Computational thinking practices: Analyzing and modeling a critical domain in computer science education
This paper discusses the design process used to develop an assessment of computational thinking to support the adoption of a high school computer science curriculum.
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Advice for Mathematical Argumentation
“Telling” can be an effective tool in helping students engage in intellectually demanding argumentation and productive behavior.
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Computer-Guided Inquiry to Improve Science Learning
Engaging students in inquiry practices is known to motivate them to persist in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and to create lifelong learners. In inquiry, students initiate investigations,…
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Generalized Effective-Medium Theory for Metamaterials
We present an effective-medium model for calculating the frequency-dependent effective permittivity ε(ω) and permeability μ(ω) of metamaterial composites containing spherical particles with arbitrary permittivity and permeability.