Education & learning publications
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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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A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Impact of the Fusion Reading Intervention on Reading Achievement and Motivation for Adolescent Struggling Readers
This study estimates the effect of one year of Fusion Reading implementation builds on the work of the Strategic Instruction Model’s Learning Strategies Curriculum and Xtreme Reading by integrating some…
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Updating and Curating Metabolic Pathways of TB
The overall goal of the TBCAP 2012 exercise was to gather and compile various data types and use this information with oversight from the scientific community to provide additional information…
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Lessons from an Online Stop-Smoking Intervention: Adaptations for Mobile Implementation
A web-based tailored intervention yields valuable lessons for transitioning content from personal computers to the smaller form factor of a mobile device.
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The Organization as a Filter of Institutional Diffusion
This study focused on the normative influence of reading policy on teaching practice in the early 2000s.
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The Tissint Martian Meteorite as Evidence for the Largest Impact Excavation
Here we show that the Tissint meteorite, a 2011 meteorite fall, contains virtually all the high-pressure phases (seven minerals and two mineral glasses) that have been reported in isolated occurrences…
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Discovery of Community Structures in a Heterogeneous Professional Online Network
We report a study of an international online network of educators involved in many forms of professional development and peer support, including sponsored and volunteer-driven activities taking place in both…
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Measuring learning progressions using bayesian modeling in complex assessments
This research examines issues regarding model estimation and robustness in the use of Bayesian Inference Networks (BINs) for measuring Learning Progressions (LPs).
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Mathematics Teaching Practices with Technology That Support Conceptual Understanding for Latino/a Students
We analyze how three seventh grade mathematics teachers from a majority Latino/a, linguistically diverse region of Texas taught the same lesson.
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Latent Profiles of Problem Behavior within Learning, Peer, and Teacher Contexts: Identifying Subgroups of Children at Academic Risk across the Preschool Year
Employing a developmental and ecological model, the study identified initial levels and rates of change in academic skills for subgroups of preschool children exhibiting problem behavior within routine classroom situations.
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Towards Networked Knowledge: The Learning Registry, an Infrastructure for Sharing Online Learning Resources. Educational Technology
Authors describe an open-source, open-data digital infrastructure for sharing information about open educational resources (OERs) across disparate systems and platforms.