Education & learning publications
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Innovative Teaching and Learning Research: 2011 Findings and Implications
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Examining Teachers’ Instructional Moves Aimed at Developing Students’ Ideas and Questions in Learner-Centered Science Classrooms
We examined teachers’ instructional moves to elicit and develop students’ ideas and questions as they orchestrated discourse with their fifth grade students during a learner-centered environmental biology unit.
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Organizing Research and Development at the Intersection of Learning, Implementation, and Design
This article describes elements of an approach to research and development called design-based implementation research.
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Role of α6 Nicotinic Receptors in CNS Dopaminergic Function: Relevance to Addiction and Neurological Disorders
We review the literature on the role of α6 containing nAChRs with a focus on the striatum and nucleus accumbens.
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Sharing Models and Research to Build Leadership in Program Improvement
SRI designed an online community architecture that permits faculty from small departments in different community colleges to share ideas about how to integrate PBL into their classrooms. This presentation presents…
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Peer Review: Getting Serious About Teacher Support and Evaluation
SRI International and J. Koppich & Associates have completed a study of two exemplary PAR programs in two California school districts.
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Targeting Nicotinic Receptors for Parkinson’s Disease Therapy
Experimental work in parkinsonian animal models suggests that nicotine in tobacco may contribute to this protection. These combined findings suggest that nicotine and nAChR drugs offer the possibility of improved…
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Partnership Research for Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
SRI researchers are conducting case studies of how such partnerships are established and sustained.
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Preparing Teachers to Design Sequences of Instruction in Earth Systems Science: a Comparison of Three Professional Development Programs
The efficacy of three professional development programs and a control condition was compared in a cluster randomized trial.
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The Dynamics of the Urge-To-Smoke Following Smoking Cessation Via Pharmacotherapy
The associations of trajectory parameters with relapse were relatively uninfluenced by demographics and smoking history.
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Supplementing Literacy Instruction with a Media-Rich Intervention: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
This study investigates whether a curriculum supplement organized as a sequence of teacher-led literacy activities using digital content from public educational television programs can improve early literacy outcomes of low-income…
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Contextualized Learning and Assessment
Presentation made at The Learning Summit, The League for Innovation in the Community College, Phoenix, Arizona.