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.