With the rising prevalence of digital data, infrastructures and platforms in education, the challenge of conceptualizing and investigating 'intermediaries' has substantially increased. This not only refers to various new types of actors that have been materializing around practices of data infrastructuring (e.g., data management), but equally to…

Essay attempts to summarize a portion of the impact of the new technology upon the total structure of higher education in America, as mankind's third great revolution has come full circle and tools of its emergence are now, if grudgingly, being felt upon the university campus. (Author/CB)

This article outlines a learning intervention which the authors call Learning by Design. The goal of this intervention is classroom and curriculum transformation, and the professional learning of teachers. The experiment involves the practical application of the learning theory to everyday classroom practice. Its ideas are grounded in pedagogical…

This report provides statistical and narrative data on innovative projects and methods developed in Fairfax County's Center for Effecting Educational Change. These study activities focused on effecting changes in the kindergarten, child study, fine and performing arts, and educational technology programs. A broad outline provides an overview of…

The impact of instructional television and educational reform in El Salvador was apparent in the 1969 school year. Large gains in learning were recorded for each of the three televised seventh-grade courses--science, mathematics and social studies. Baseline tests administered in four grades of school revealed that urban students developed…

The conference, dedicated to E.F. Lindquist, focused on three areas in which E.F. Lindquist pioneered: the development of tests of educational achievement, design and analysis techniques in educational research, and an application of electronic data processing to educational problems. Two of the papers are about the contributions to measurement…