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Through long-term partnerships with schools, districts, and community organizations, The Learning Partnership partners to inspire a joy of learning in all students. We collaboratively engage in rigorous research that both informs solutions and contributes to educational theory. This section provides an archive of The Learning Partnership's publications. The publications can be filtered by partnership, research area, author, keyword, and type.

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Type
Date

Policy window in a pandemic: How a computer science RPP fostered equity in credit recovery

We applied theories of the policy making process to explain how the COVID-19 pandemic opened a policy window that allowed the use of synchronous online instruction during the implementation of equity-centered, online computer science credit recovery.
Conference
Apr 2021

Using Rasch Analysis for Determining the Cut Score of a Computer Science Placement Exam

In this paper, we present the development and validation of a placement exam for computer science in the Chicago Public Schools.
Conference
Apr 2021

Designing educative supports for scientific argumentation: a case study of DBR before and during the pandemic

In this paper, we share our ongoing design-based research focused on developing an educative support to scaffold student task modeling and scientific argumentation, in the context of NGSS-aligned middle school science curricula.
Conference
Mar 2021

How Does Students’ Perception Of The Main Point Of A Unit Relate To The Quality Of The Final Argument?

This paper presents an exploratory investigation of students’ task model and how it predicts the elements that they include in their unit-culminating argument essay.
Conference
Mar 2021

Spreading GIS-Infused Instruction: A Cross-Case Comparison of Two Instructional Approaches

This paper examines how GIS-infused instruction is adapted in different contexts, and illustrates the relationships among organizational context, individual and collective context, and instructional practice in spreading GIS-infused instruction.
Conference
Mar 2021

Broadening participation and success in AP CSA: Predictive modeling from three years of data

This paper examines the student- and teacher-level factors that affect student outcomes on the AP CS-A exam. In particular, it highlights the benefit of taking ECS as a foundation for success in AP CS-A.
Conference
Mar 2021
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Supporting Teachers for Computer Science Reform

This brief summarizes research indicating that full completion of the ECS professional development program by teachers from any discipline leads to much higher student outcomes, independent of whether a teacher is certified in computer science.
Brief
Feb 2021

Discussion & Analysis: Spatial Reasoning Assessment

This is a complete Rasch multi-faceted analysis performed on the Spatial Reasoning Assessment. Overall, the instrument works together as a functional assessment, capturing the general construct of Spatial Reasoning.
Report
Jan 2021

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