Education & learning publications
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Expanding Access to STEM-Focused Education: What Are the Effects?
Calls for broadening the population of students motivated and prepared to pursue STEM studies, with an aim ultimately to impact the country’s competitiveness, have been frequent and widespread...
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Inclusive STEM High School Design: 10 Critical Components
This paper introduces a pair of relatively new research projects that focus on an innovative type of school that is quietly emerging across the U.S., Inclusive STEM-focused High Schools (ISHSs).
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Towards an Evidence Framework for Design-Based Implementation Research
In this chapter, we compare the approach to evidence implicit in the defining features of DBIR to the prevailing evidence standards for educational research promoted by national policy.
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A “Conditional” Sense of Fairness in Assessment
This article builds on recent research in universal design for learning (UDL), assessment design, and psychometrics to lay out the rationale for inference that is conditional on matching examinees with…
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California Tinkering Afterschool Network Pilot Year Evaluation Report
SRI International conducted an evaluation of the pilot year of the California Afterschool Tinkering Network.
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Compound Ranking Based on a New Mathematical Measure of Effectiveness Using Time Course Data from Cell-Based Assays
This article proposes a new approach to measure drug effectiveness, which allows ranking compounds according to their toxic effects on live cells.
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Cautionary Note: The Thermal Decomposition of Amino Acids in the Solid State
The Arrhenius parameters governing the pyrolysis rates for 19 amino acids in the solid state presented in the paper listed as reference 1 were developed in a dynamic TGA–DSC procedure…
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The Effectiveness of Online and Blended Learning: A Meta-Analysis of the Empirical Literature
Now that web-based learning has emerged as a major trend in both K–12 and higher education, the relative efficacy of online and face-to-face instruction needs to be revisited.
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The Characteristics of the O-2 Herzberg Ii and Chamberlain Bands Observed with Virtis/Venus Express
Recent observations with the VIRTIS instrument on board Venus Express allowed us to re-examine the Herzberg II system of O2 and to further study its vertical distribution, in particular the…
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Empowering Design Based Implementation Research: The Need for Infrastructure
This chapter discusses frameworks and conceptual lenses that help orient DBIR work to the types of infrastructure required for success, while contributing to theories about the processes of educational improvement.
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Conversation About SimCalc, Its Evolution and Lessons Along the Way
We use SimCalc’s history and achievements to discuss the need for vision and long time frames in funding, and point to multiple levels of research entailed in the process of…
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Design-Based Implementation Research: An Emerging Model for Transforming the Relationship of Research and Practice
We describe the need for DBIR as a research approach that challenges educational researchers and practitioners to transcend traditional research/practice barriers to facilitate the design of educational interventions that are…