Publications
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High Time For High School Reform: Early Findings From The Evaluation Of The National School District And Network Grants Program
This report is one of a series that will be produced over the 5-year course of the National School District and Network Grants Program evaluation. The evaluation examines the extent…
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Instructional Sensitivity Design
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Mapping The Terrain: Year 1 Of The Evaluation Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District And Network Grants Program
The foundation’s grantees are taking a twopronged approach to reform: grantee organizations are supporting the design of new, small high schools and/or the conversion of large high schools into smaller…
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Media Inequality in Conversation: How People Behave Differently When Interacting With Computers and People
The present study presents a laboratory experiment grounded in the principles of Interpersonal Theory, a psychological approach to interpersonal dynamics. Discourse analyses revealed a key difference in participants ’ behavior…
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Using Cognitive Analyses To Describe Students’ Science Inquiry And Motivation To Learn
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Fast Symbolic Evaluation of C/C++ Preprocessing Using Conditional Values
We present a new approach for symbolic evaluation that can efficiently compute these conditions by binding variables to conditional values and avoiding the path feasibility analysis of traditional symbolic evaluation.
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Interactive Execution Monitoring of Agent Teams
We describe a monitoring framework for integrating many domain-specific and task-specific monitoring techniques and then using the concept of value of an alert to avoid operator overload.
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Research To Support Scaling-Up Technology-Based Educational Interventions
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What Will People Say? Speech System Design and Language/Cultural Differences
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of three speech system design strategies in Pashto, a little-studied language of Afghanistan and Pakistan, drawing comparisons with English where possible.
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Mixed-initiative Planning in PASSAT
We present the novel application of a general-purpose knowledge-based system, SHAKEN, to the specific task of acquiring knowledge for military Course of Action (COA) analysis.
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The Pathway Tools software and its Role in Anti-Microbial Drug Discovery
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Knowledge acquisition, consistency checking and concurrency control for Gene Ontology (GO)
In this paper, we assess the applicability of a Knowledge Base Management System (KBMS), Protégé-2000, to the maintenance and development of GO.