Value-Added Models: Next Steps
October 11, 2010
One of the Value-Added Research Center’s research priorities is to develop and refine a new value-added model that combines the best features of models with random and fixed individual effects.
Sara Goldrick-Rab on InTheseTimes.com and The New Republic
October 7, 2010
Sara Goldrick-Rab discusses reform in the world of community colleges (InTheseTimes.com and The New Republic).
Sara Goldrick-Rab Mentioned in the Washington Post’s Answer Sheet
October 5, 2010
The Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog mentions Sara Goldrick-Rab's analysis of completion rates for community college students (Washington Post's Answer Sheet, 5 Oct).
Measuring Student Gains in Metagenomics
October 4, 2010
Undergraduates are learning how new antibiotics can be developed in cultured and uncultured bacteria.
Douglas Harris on WisconsinEye Network
September 30, 2010
Douglas Harris discusses evaluating teachers on WisconsinEye Network
The Learning Sciences: Brand or Big Tent?
September 27, 2010
The aims of the Learning Sciences (LS) are to understand the nature of learning from a broad range of perspectives, and to shape the ways that learning environments and resources are designed and used.
David Williamson Shaffer in the New York Times
September 21, 2010
David Williamson Shaffer's book 'How Computer Games Help Children Learn' is praised by James Paul Gee (New York Times, 21 Sept).
Virtual Mentoring and Assessment for STEM Learning
September 20, 2010
How can all students be assured the opportunity to learn significant math and science content?
VARC in the Isthmus
September 16, 2010
The Value Added Research Center helps school districts measure teacher effectiveness (Isthmus 16 Sept.).
ELL Students Benefit from Formative Assessments
September 15, 2010
Classrooms across the country are welcoming an ever-growing number of students whose native language is not English.
Building Education Partnerships
September 13, 2010
Education partnerships are central to most education reform initiatives.
The Effects of Time on Student Success
September 7, 2010
Catherine Compton-Lilly offers a new case study that explores time as a context in which a low-income, African American boy defines himself as a particular type of student and literate person and was ultimately relegated to a particular school trajectory.
Allan Odden in the Powell Tribune
August 31, 2010
Allan Odden is working with the Wyoming Legislature’s Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration to improve statewide school testing (Powell Tribune, 31 Aug.).
Douglas Harris in the New York Times
August 31, 2010
Douglas Harris discusses the merits and limits of Value Added measurements (New York Times, 31 Aug.)
Enhancing Middle School Students’ Representational Fluency
August 30, 2010
A newly published study examines middle algebra school students’ representational fluency, or their ability to reason with and between multiple representations, using tabular, graphical, verbal, and symbolic representations of linear and nonlinear relations.
