The REDEEM authoring tool allows teachers to create adapted learning environments for their students from existing material. Previous evaluations have shown that under experimental conditions REDEEM can significantly improve learning. The goals of this study were twofold: to explore if REDEEM could improve students’ learning in real world situations and to examine if learners can share in the a...

Standards based grading is a formal assessment mechanism that tests for student achievement of specified learning objectives, or standards. Standards-Based-Grading has been gaining in popularity in K-12 education, and also has been seeing increased use in higher education, though it has only recently been used in engineering education. This paper describes how StandardsBased Grading was impleme...

Administrative procedures are often hailed as the solution to managing an unruly bureaucracy, but they are not self-executing. Rather, they must be implemented by the very agencies whose behavior they are designed to constrain. Further, the expert bureaucrats that oversee these processes have superior insight on how these different procedures tend to play out and can use this information to ste...