Education & learning publications
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Ready Schools Miami: A Systems Change Effort to Improve Children’s Outcomes (Year 3 Evaluation)
Ready Schools is a radical systems change effort to improve the academic, health, and social outcomes of historically underserved children in one of this country’s largest and most diverse communities,…
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: California Mathematics Project Case Study
In 2001, the North Bay Mathematics Project (NBMP) and Bellevue Union Elementary District (Bellevue) began working to improve mathematics instruction through “lesson study.”
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Post-High School Service Use Among Young Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Rates of service disengagement are high after exiting high school. Disparities by race and socioeconomic status indicate a need for targeted outreach and services.
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Teachers’ Ability to Use Data to Inform Instruction: Challenges and Supports
Understanding the nature of teachers’ proficiencies and difficulties in data use is important for providing appropriate training and support to teachers, because they are expected to use student data as…
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Self-Concept Development of Students With Disabilities: Disability Category, Gender, and Racial Differences From Early Elementary to High School
Developmental trajectories of two self-concept constructs in three domains were estimated in a nationally representative sample of approximately 3,500 students with disabilities ages 8 to 17 representing 11 federal disability…
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Using Survival Analysis to Describe Developmental Achievements of Early Intervention Recipients at Kindergarten
Survival analysis was used to document the developmental achievements of 2298 kindergarten children who participated in the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study, a study that followed children from entry to…
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Eight Issues for Learning Scientists About Education and the Economy
This article seeks both to problematize conventional wisdom about links between learning sciences research and economic growth and to suggest possible directions for future research aimed at discovering stronger links.
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Investigating Collaborative Innovation in a Virtual World Task
In this paper we introduce a framework of innovation based on behaviours identified as being conducive to collaborative innovation. We also report on a study of a task designed to…
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Designing Scenario-Based Assessment Items Using An Evidence-Centered Design Framework
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Expanding The Model Of Item Writing Expertise: Cognitive Processes And Requisite Knowledge Structures
An understanding of test takers’ response processes and knowledge structures is used to predict the psychometric properties of the items. This same knowledge of test takers’ responses and knowledge structures…
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Developing The Area Of Design-Based Implementation Research
This paper provides an overview of the background and purposes of our workshop on design-based implementation research.
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Utilization of Services in a Randomized Trial Testing Phone- and Web-Based Interventions for Smoking Cessation
No prior research, to our knowledge, has systematically compared the effectiveness of these three treatment modalities in a randomized trial.