Cornerstones is a publication of the Tracking, Referral and Assessment Center for Excellence (TRACE) funded by the U. S. Department of Education, Offi ce of Special Education Programs (H324G020002). TRACE is an organizational unit of the Center for Improving Community Linkages at the Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute (www.puckett.org). All opinions are the responsibility of TRACE and do not neces...

Autism can be a debilitating condition that affects a person's personal and social affairs throughout their lifetime. With 1 in 110 people diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) [49], it is important that we develop assistive and learning technologies to help them achieve their potential. In this work I describe the development of a new technologymediated therapeutic game, Frame It, a...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the tracking of selected aspects of physical fitness (peak handgrip force, sit-ups, aerobic fitness, and blood pressure) from childhood to adulthood. The investigation studied a randomly selected subgroup from the original participants in the Trois-Rivières growth and development study, 95 women (57 experimental and 38 control) and 96 men (56 ...

Large scale tracking policies, allowing academically apt pupils to enter a select group of secondary schools, can be found in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, evidence on the impact of these policies on school outcomes, especially school participation, is limited. This paper fills this gap by providing regression discontinuity evidence on the impact of Malawi’s tracking program. The analysi...