Education & learning publications
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Promoting Environmental Justice Through Community-Based Participatory Research: the Role of Community and Partnership Capacity
This article presents the results of a cross-site case study of four CBPR partnerships in the United States that researched environmental health problems and worked to educate legislators and promote…
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Scaling Build IT
This paper outlines the need for sustainable, scalable afterschool computer science programs targeting girls and describes the development of one such curriculum.
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Supporting the Art of Teaching in a Data-Rich, High Performance Learning Environment
Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) has become part of the school accountability and reform lexicon. The term commonly refers to policies and practices involving the use of student achievement and other data…
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Wiggling Into Traditional High School Curriculum
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Intel Teach Essentials Online: Global Pilot Evaluation Summary
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Adolescent Smoking Trajectories and Nicotine Dependence
The present study correlates empirically constructed prospective adolescent smoking trajectories with indicators of nicotine dependence assessed in adolescence and in adulthood.
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Gender Differences In Science
We present a review of research that looks at alternative explanations for these gender differences in science. Specifically, we consider the significance of girls’ science attitudes and the pervasive influence—both…
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Intel Teach Essentials Online: U.S. Formative Evaluation
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Representational Competence And Chemical Understanding In The High School Chemistry Classroom
This chapter reports on the use of representational resources within a computer-based environment, called ChemSense, to support high school chemistry students’ representational practices and their understanding of key chemical concepts.
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Can An Intelligent Tutoring System Predict Math Proficiency As Well As A Standardized Test?
We propose a new method of using students test scores from multiple years (referred to as cross-year data) for determining whether a student model is as good as the standardized…
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Designing For Growth: Enabling Communities Of Practice To Develop And Extend Their Work Online
This chapter provides examples of using a phased approach to help CoPs become virtual CoPs in Tapped In!, a Web-based virtual environment for professional development providers and educators, and CLTNet,…
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La Educacion En Ciencia Y Technologia Comp Derecho Social En La Economia Del Conocimiento