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Best Practices for Metrics Collection and Analysis

 

This report provides recommendations and best practices suggestions for the use of metricsin digital library project evaluation, formulated by the National Science Digital Library(NSDL) Metrics Working Group.

In this document, we provide an overview of which metrics are useful for assessing digitallibrary activities, make recommendations on how to collect those metrics, and provide examples of how to use collected metrics in larger evaluation efforts.

Author/Presenter

Lightle, K.

Almasy, E.

Barbato, L.

Clark, S.

George, Y.

Hsi, S.

Lowe, C.

MacKinney, P.

McIlvain, E.

Year
2010

Assembling Our Knowledge of Teacher Learning: The State of Our Understanding and Practices (Wilson)

Author/Presenter

Suzanne Wilson

Year
2009
Short Description

In this interactive talk, Wilson will ask each project to make explicit its assumptions about how teachers learn, the forces that matter the most, and how the logic and components of programs reflect those underlying assumptions. Wilson will then consider that array of assumptions in light of relevant scholarship on teaching quality and teacher learning.

Acquisition of mathematical language: Suggestions and activities for English language learners

Author/Presenter

Cirillo, M.

Richardson Bruna, K.

Herbel-Eisenmann, B.

Year
2010
Short Description

In this article, we describe aspects of mathematical language that could be problematic to English-language learners, provide recommendations for teaching English-language learners, and suggest activities intended to foster language development in mathematics.

2011 DR K-12 Program Webinar

NSF and CADRE hosted a series of webinars providing an overview of the DR K-12 funding program and reviewing this year's DR K-12 solicitation. Here is a sample of some of the questions that came up during the webinars:

  1. Can you explain cost sharing?
  2. For a collaborative proposal, do we submit one or two Letters of Intent?
  3. What is the difference between STEM focus and STEM discipline?  Both are listed in the RFP.

View a recording of each session's presentation, here:

Author/Presenter

Julio Lopez-Ferrao

Ed Geary

Edith Gummer

Elizabeth VanderPutten

Year
2011