Education & learning publications
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Behavior Problems in Learning Activities and Social Interactions in Head Start Classrooms and Early Reading, Mathematics, and Approaches to Learning
Early problem behavior in structured learning activities consistently predicted lower academic outcomes (early reading and mathematics ability) as well as lower motivation, attention, and persistence in academically focused tasks.
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Examining Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Over Three Enactments Of A Personally Consequential Elementary Science Unit
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Implementing Evidence-Centered Design To Develop Assessments For Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Guidelines For Creating Design Patterns And Development Specifications And Exemplar Task Templates For Mathematics (Alternate Assessment Design)
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Inquire for Ipad: a Biology Textbook That Answers Questions
We present Inquire: Biology, an electronic textbook that provides question-answering capability.
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Inquire for iPad: Bringing Question-Answering AI into the Classroom
Biology, is a novel electronic textbook that runs on an iPad and embeds in it a rich Biology knowledge base and reasoning system.
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Tailoring Support: An Analysis Of Coach-Teacher Relationships In A Media-Rich Early Literacy Intervention
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Design Patterns To Support Storyboards And Scenario-Based, Innovative Item Types
We report on current research in which we are examining the extension and application of inquiry-based design patterns to guide the development of complex science tasks for use in a…
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How to Serve Soup: Interleaving Demonstration and Assisted Editing to Support Nonprogrammers
The Adept Task Learning system is an end-user programming environment that combines programming by demonstration and direct manipulation to support customization by nonprogrammers.
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Laying The Foundation For Improving U.S. Workforce Education: Workforce Researchers’ Expertise, Funding Sources, And Links To NSF’s Ate Targeted Research Program
This study sought to characterize the interests, funding sources, and awareness of researchers about Targeted Research grants offered by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program.
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Growth in Reading Achievement in a National Sample of Students with Disabilities Ages 7 to 17
Using data from the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study, this study estimated reading growth trajectories in a nationally representative sample of disabled students.
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Attention and Hyperactivity Symptoms at Kindergarten Entry Associated with Less Sleep in Preschool
To assess the association between sleep and attention and hyperactivity symptoms in preschool children.
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Are More Stringent NCLB State Accountability Systems Associated with Better Student Outcomes?
This study developed a comprehensive measure of the stringency level of NCLB states’ accountability systems, including the strength of their annual measurable objectives, confidence intervals, performance indexing, retesting, minimum subgroup…