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Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy

Interesting approach by PARCC on through-course assessments for K-12 students with particular significance for HS students as they assess how college ready they are, how they are growing content and skills to analyze, understand the content and apply, and how through-course assessments drive interventions, classroom practice, and support needed for teachers to understand CCSS and help their students to achieve them. Really like logic model on p 17. How does this, should this, could this affect MCNC's epi modeling? I-Lab practicum?

By David T. Conley, prepared for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation by EPIC (Educational Policy Improvement Center), March 2007. Includes four in comprehensive definition of college readinessGoal is to provide a standard,operational definition of college readiness. (PDF)

Paper by Garrison and Anderson on online college student discussions that are part of formal education settings but could be adapted for bridged formal-informal learning situations such as Innovation Lab.

By Janet E. Lieberman, Ed. in New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 63, Fall 1988. A collection of essays that provide background to joint programs between colleges and schools and describes a sample of approaches. This link to to the record on Eric. Full text PDF available to download.

Fifth Annual Early College High School Initiative Evaluation Synthesis Report. (PDF) Prepared by American Institutes for Research and SRI International for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. August 2009.

By Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj, The InfoSavvy Group, Sept 2006. Jukes and Dosaj look at the challenges of digital immigrants (e.g. adults) effectively teaching digital natives (today's kids).

In the forum (Table 4: Thinkers) there is a PDF of an earlier version of this resouce (2004).

Microsoft education site for Digital Storytelling inthe Classroom PDF

Title: Reaching the Goal:  The Applicability and Importance of the Common Core State Standards to College and Career Readiness.Source: EPIC Educational Policy Improvement CenterAuthors: David Conley et al A new analysis from Educational Policy improvement Center (EPIC) indicates that mastering the Common Core Standards have the baseline knowledge and skills necessary for college work.

Authored by Clifford Adelman and published by the U.S. Department of Education (ED.gov), 2006. From the Executive Summary, the document "is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s." Both PDF and Word Doc available from this page.

Written by Mark S. Schneider for American Institutes for Research (AIR), October 2011. See this page for the Executive Summary, as well as a link to the full report, available as PDF. From the Summary, "This report focuses on the high costs of the low retention and completion rates that are far too typical of community colleges."

By Daniel T. Willingham, in American Educator, spring 2009, pp 4-13. Excerpted from his book, Why Don't Students Like School, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2009. This article was one of the assigned readings for MCNC's Principals and Directors meeting, Feb 2010.

This is wonderfully enlightening article by Michael H. Levine and James Paul Gee

Written by Elisabeth Barnett, Kristen Bucceri, Claudia Hindo and Jennifer Kim. Published by National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching (NCREST), October 2011.

In The What of Proof (data) of Early College Success, this paper was cited, with special mention of page 37 (Decision 10: How Will We Know if We're Succeeding).