Education & learning publications
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A machine learning model to automatically identify fast-paced online videos for children
New AI model flags fast-paced kids’ videos with 85% precision—advancing scalable research on media’s effects and supporting healthier digital play.
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Students’ and Instructors’ Experiences With Open and Culturally Responsive Instruction: Findings From a State OER Program
The study examines how 2- and 4-year college instructors integrated OER-enabled open and culturally responsive practices and how students experienced these practices.
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Promoting AI Literacy in K-12: Components, Challenges, and Opportunities
Drawing from expert interviews, this report explores the current state of K–12 AI literacy, key challenges, and opportunities to advance the field.
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Measuring Data Use for Instructional Improvement: Development and Initial Testing of a Teacher Survey and Instructional Team Meeting Log
This report describes the development and initial validation of instruments to measure collaborative data inquiry practices within school-based teams.
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Using the Reimagining Instructional Coaching Framework in the Development of Pre-K Classroom Observation Tools
SRI Education conducted a formative evaluation to examine a new observational tool’s alignment with the Reimagining Instructional Coaching framework.
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Balancing Priorities: Foster Parents’ Child Care Search and Selection Process
This brief presents findings from a foster parent survey about how foster parents navigate the process of finding ECE and the factors they prioritize when selecting an ECE program.
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Early Care and Education Is an Essential Component of the Foster Care System: A View From Arkansas
This brief presents findings from a foster parent survey about the impact of ECE on their ability to accept new foster placements and the challenges they face in searching for…
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Observing Classrooms Through a Digital Lens: Examining the Reliability and Feasibility of Video Observations in Pre-kindergarten Classrooms
The Early Childhood Classroom Observation (ECCO) study was designed to better understand how video recordings can support high-quality measurement of pre-kindergarten classrooms, using two common measures of early learning programs,…
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Success in Action: Four Stories of Early Childhood Instructional Coaching
Effective instructional coaching has long demonstrated positive impacts on teacher practices and early learning outcomes. This case study report highlights stories of four systems (Alabama, AppleTree, Maine, and Washington) that…
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Technology-Based Instructional Strategies Show Promise in Improving Self-Regulated Learning Skills at Broad-Access Postsecondary Institutions
Clickstream data from learning management systems reveal promise of strategies to support college students’ self-directed learning in online STEM courses
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Scaling Up CoolThink@JC: Implementation Study Midline Report
A midline report of CoolThink implementation, its emerging CoolThink ecosystem, and the factors for successful adoption at scale.
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Where Are CoolThink Students Making the Greatest Learning Gains? Linking CoolThink@JC Implementation With Student Outcomes
An analysis of the correlation between CoolThink implementation and student learning in Hong Kong primary schools in their first or second year of adopting CoolThink@JC, a 3-year course sequence designed…