Dan Brown
Dan Brown is founder and principal at EightShapes, LLC, a user experience consulting firm based in Washington, DC that has engaged with clients in telecommunications, media, education, health, high-tech, and other sectors. Dan has been practicing information architecture and user experience design since 1995.
He speaks widely on design methodology, information architecture, and challenges facing designers. In 2006, he published Communicating Design (New Riders), a book about creating and using documentation during the web design process. Amazon reviews call it "authoritative", "practical, personal, comprehensive" and "a cool nerdbook".
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Chris Harrison's Visualization Projects
I am Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This site showcases some of my computer science, information visualization, engineering, history and HCI projects.
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School Size and Student Performance:
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Small Classes in the Early Grades, Academic Achievement, and Graduating From High
This investigation addressed 3 questions about the long-term effects of early school experiences: (a) Isparticipation in small classes in the early grades (K–3) related to high school graduation? (b) Is academicachievement in K–3 related to high school graduation? (c) If class size is related to graduation, is therelationship explained by the effect of participation in small classes on students’ academic achievement?The study included 4,948 participants in Tennessee’s class-size experiment, Project STAR. Analysesshowed that graduating was related to K–3 achievement and that attending small classes for 3 or moreyears increased the likelihood of graduating from high school, especially among students eligible for freelunch. Policy and research implications are discussed.
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Dan, your book on Communicating Design has more post-its and dog-ears than any other book on my desktop!
Hi Dan!
I'm coming to the summit because you made the last one sound like so much fun - no pressure : )