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There is a troubling decline in the number of US citizens training to become scientists and engineers. There are insufficient numbers of qualified science teachers in the middle schools, where interest in science must be kindled. Technology enhanced learning environments (TELEs), which could improve science education, are not being widely deployed. This Phase I project will customize a TELE to a) ...

There is a troubling decline in the number of US citizens training to become scientists and engineers. There are insufficient numbers of qualified science teachers in the middle schools, where interest in science must be kindled. Technology enhanced learning environments (TELEs), which could improve science education, are not being widely deployed. This Phase I project will customize a TELE to a) ...

Advance Technologies is proposing a formal software development effort to translate the State Transition Logic algorthims developed under NCHRP Project 3-66. We are proposing the use of free software such as GNAT, Linux and Umbrello to assist us in the software development. Advanced Technologies has been developing real time, safety critical, Ada83/Ada95 software for twenty years. We plan to use U ...

This Phase I R&D project will determine the feasability and commercial potential of a Data Services System designed to support district and school efforts to meet NCLB standards related to equity, continuous improvement, and accountability. The design incorporates: 1) a Data Use Framework representing a cohesive, innovative, and research-based approach for effectively structuring multiple uses of ...

The Math Messenger is a tool for communicating mathematics in an Internet dialog. It combines typesetting, graphing, computer algebra and instant messaging technologies to enable collaborative authoring and online tutoring interactively. In its simplest form, the Math Messenger is a tool with rich user interface for teaching high school mathematics over the Internet. In a more complex form, it c ...

The goal of the proposed Phase I project is to develop a suite of web-interactive tools and curriculum materials for gathering and analyzing “survey” data in mathematics classrooms. The project addresses the urgent need to provide pre-college students with a background in data gathering, exploration, and analysis. The tools are based on Fathom Surveys, a product (to be released in Spring, 2006 ...

VentureMap is a project-based learning environment that challenges students to apply Algebra I concepts to the problem of managing a music company. To do so, they must track sales, cost, profit data for 3 different genres of music to determine their own production plan to increase profits, they must analyze the speed, quality and cost of different network configurations and compression algorithms ...

We propose research and development to optimize a multimedia approach we have taken to helping children build reading fluency. In this e-book application we highlight text phrase by phrase in synchrony with a fluent voiceover. Children reading in this environment have shown substantial increases in reading fluency. New research coordinating the study of eye movement with detailed study of oral r ...

Rockman et al, an independent research, evaluation and consulting firm in San Francisco, is collaborating with WestEd, a nonprofit research, development, and service agency, to conduct a feasibility study of professional development around a comprehensive set of tools and activities for data-driven decision making. Specifically, the study will examine the optimum level of professional development ...

Rockman et al, an independent research, evaluation and consulting firm in San Francisco, proposes to collaborate with EdVenture Group, a for-profit training and professional service agency, to conduct a feasibility study of a combined training and online tool designed to support the creation, monitoring and implementation of a school wide improvement plans. The EIP system was developed for use in ...