Education & learning publications
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Choosing Outreach Strategies to Increase Interest in IT Careers: An SRI International White Paper from the TRAILS Project
This white paper analyzes model outreach programs and offers a framework for helping a company identify the most appropriate strategies for helping reinvigorate interest in IT.
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Can Technology-Based Representations Deepen Math Learning And Close The Gap? Research Findings From A Large Scientific Study
In this paper, Byron Henderson looks behind the scenes at the component drivers creating the wave pattern: demographic, economic, and structural. He examines the rules of production, the kinds of…
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Insights into Alternative Certification: Initial Findings From a National Study
We test proponents’ and opponents’ assumptions about alternative certification against national data and data from the seven programs.
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What’s The Difference? Assessing The Impact Of Your Efforts
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Sharing Best Practices In Youth Development
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Girls In Build It
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A Web Based Authoring Tool for Intelligent Tutors: Blending Assessment And Instructional Assistance
To help teachers make better use of their time, we are integrating assistance and assessment by utilizing a web-based system ("Assistment") that will offer instruction to students while providing a…
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Teachers’ Use of Student Data Systems to Improve Instruction
The current brief is the second in a two-part series examining teachers’ access to and use of data from student data systems. The first brief indicated that about half of…
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Using Handheld Technology To Move Between Private And Public Interactions In The Classroom
We present three examples of handheld use that exploit these unique affordances, and discuss how the use of handheld computers can be used to bridge research across different metaphors of…
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Using Handhelds To Link Private Cognition And Public Interaction
This article discusses the importance of private interactions, in which a student works alone with learning materials, and public interactions, in which a group of students engage in discourse around…
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Developing Fine-Grained Transfer Models In The ASSISTment System
In this article, we describe our attempt to create a fine-grained transfer model for 8th grade math based on the skills needed to take the Math MCAS exam and how…
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I Think It Makes Me Not Give Up On Dreams. What Students Say About Hero