Publications
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Partnership Models: The Case Of The Deformed Frogs
This chapter describes how a partnership designed, tested, and refined the integration of an innovative learning environment and curricula into the life of an urban middle school.
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Technical Appendix: Exploring Assignments, Student Work, And Teacher Feedback In Reforming Schools: 2002-03 Data From Washington State
Eight assignments, four typical and four challenging, were collected from teachers over the course of the school year. Student work associated with the teacher assignments was also collected three times…
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Toward full automation of lexicon construction
We describe a technique of this nature called information theoretic co clustering and give results of a series of experiments built around it that demonstrate the main ingredients of lexical…
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Designing a System for Structured Assessment of Compliance Risk
A formal reasoning technique known as structured argumentation has been explored by the IRS LMSB Research to improve compliance risk assessment. The IRS together with SRI International evaluated the use…
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Leveraging Handhelds To Increase Student Learning: Engaging Middle School Students With The Mathematics Of Change
Handheld computers are poised to build upon the success of graphing calculators in mathematics classrooms, as they share important characteristics such as small size and low cost, while increasing representational…
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MetaCyc: a multiorganism database of metabolic pathways and enzymes
In the past 2 years the data content and the Pathway Tools software used to query, visualize and edit MetaCyc have been expanded significantly. These enhancements are described in this…
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Prioritizing Planning Decisions in Real-World Plan Authoring
This paper describes two methods for automatically prioritizing planning decisions. Both approaches have been implemented in PASSAT, a plan-authoring system in which users construct and modify plans interactively using a…
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ESCOT: Coordinating The Influence Of R&D And Classroom Practice To Produce Educational Software From Reusable Components
This testbed incorporated interactive learning tools from a variety of university, nonprofit, and commercial developers, and hosted decentralized authoring teams consisting of teachers, developers and educational technologists.
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Information Technology Research and Education, Teaching, and Learning Report on Two NSF-Funded Workshops
With support from the Experimental and Integrative Activities Division (EIA) of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), SRI International conducted two…
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Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation between English and Pashto
This paper describes a prototype system for near-real-time spontaneous, bidirectional translation between spoken English and Pashto.
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The Networked Classroom
On the basis of more than a decade of successful reports from the field and increasing evidence supporting wide-scale adoption, researchers have begun to connect teachers' insights about the technology…
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The Role Of Research On Contexts Of Teaching Practice In Informing The Design Of Handheld Learning Technologies
In this article, we describe the realities we found and the implications we drew from them for our project, which we argue have broad import for the design of handheld…