Publications
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Ethnic Identity Formation During Adolescence: The Critical Role of Families
Using structural equation modeling and, specifically, multiple group comparisons, findings indicated that familial ethnic socialization (FES) played a significant role in the process of ethnic identity formation for all adolescents,…
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Multi-Criteria Evaluation in User-Centric Distributed Scheduling Agents
This position paper discusses the problem of locally evaluating and comparing candidate schedules, in the context of a distributed scheduling task operating in unbounded environments in which each agent selfishly…
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Educational Technologies And Social Inequality In Brazilian Public Schools
This work examines how technology use in Brazilian basic education is influenced by cultural context. This research focused on the widespread educational initiatives that propose to improve equity in public…
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Eligibility characteristics of infants and toddlers entering early intervention services in the United States
To meet the need for information about EI services and its participants, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study.
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KIPP Schools, A Study of Early Implementation: First Year Report, 2004 – 2005
The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) aims to create schools for historically underserved students that significantly increase the amount of instructional time and the efficiency of learning during that time.…
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Cognitive Predictions: BioKIDS Implementation Of The Padi Assessment System (Padi Technical Report 10)
This report examines how, with PADI support structures, we developed an assessment system for the BioKIDS curricular program.
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Theorizing The Transformed Classroom: A Sociocultural Interpretation Of The Effects Of Audience Response Systems In Higher Education
This paper explores the theoretical framework needed to explain observed effects of classrooms in which instructors use audience response systems. We propose a sociocultural reinterpretation of the networked classroom in…
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One-To-One Technology-Enhanced Learning: An Opportunity For Global Research Collaboration
We see that ready-to-hand access creates the potential for a new phase in the evolution of technology-enhanced learning (TEL), characterized by “seamless learning spaces” and marked by continuity of the…
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Predicting State Test Scores Better With Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Developing Metrics To Measure Assistance Required
Our approach is to use data that the system collected through a year to tracking student learning and thus estimate their performance on a high-stake state test (MCAS) at the…
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Reducing Human Fatigue in Interactive Evolutionary Computation through Fuzzy Systems and Machine Learning Systems
We describe two approaches to reducing human fatigue in Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC). A predictor function is used to estimate the human user’s score, thus reducing the amount of effort…
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Event Recognition in Airborne Motion Imagery
A system is described that detects high-level events of interest in airborne motion imagery.
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Issues in Algorithm Characterization for Link Analysis
In this paper, we outline techniques for modeling algorithms that allow a system architecture to reason about their behavior and performance, individually and in combination.