Keith Millis

This team developed and evaluated a new system of assessments aligned with current theoretical constructs and empirical findings pertaining to both reading comprehension and performance moderators; sensitive to changes in development in reading comprehension; emphasize strategic reading processes empirically supported in the literature; provide greater information for guiding instruction (especially for students struggling to reach proficiency); and are comprised of texts and tasks that repr...

This study is a response to the many calls from across the nation for implementing "an effective, realistic, affordable, and politically acceptable long-term approach to the well-known problems and opportunities of U.S. pre-K-16 STEM education" (National Science Board, May 2006). As an initial step to developing an intelligent computerized tutor for teaching scientific inquiry skills, the researchers will build an intelligent computerized tutor and information delivery system (Acquiring Rese...