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Poster | Using Integrated, Place-based Watershed Curriculum to Increase Teacher Self-Efficacy with Culturally Relevant STEM
Project CuRRENT addresses the need for incorporating multiple ways of knowing and learning into STEM pedagogy and curriculum through the design and delivery of a two-year professional development (PD) model that engaged elementary teachers in integrated, place-based, and regionally relevant learning focused on the theme of local watersheds. We explore how PD that embeds epistemological pluralism…
Project CuRRENT addresses the need for incorporating multiple ways of knowing and learning into STEM pedagogy and curriculum through the design and delivery of a two-year professional development (PD) model that engaged elementary teachers in integrated, place-based, and regionally relevant learning focused on the theme of local watersheds. We explore how PD that embeds epistemological pluralism…
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Poster | Supporting the Implementation of Scientific Modeling Instruction in High School Chemistry and Biology in Rural Schools
SIMIRS is a Level 2 Early Stage Design and Development project led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners at NC State University, in partnership with 26 rural school systems across North Carolina. The project has two primary aims: (1) to support rural high school biology and chemistry teachers in implementing an innovative reform-oriented, model-based science teaching…
SIMIRS is a Level 2 Early Stage Design and Development project led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners at NC State University, in partnership with 26 rural school systems across North Carolina. The project has two primary aims: (1) to support rural high school biology and chemistry teachers in implementing an innovative reform-oriented, model-based science teaching…
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Poster | Supporting Teachers Appropriation of Ambitious Teaching Practice Within the Context of Implementing Complex Multidimensional Science Assessments
Expectations and opportunities for student learning in science are expanding to involve students in making sense of and addressing real questions and problems in the world around them. At the same time, school districts are seeking innovative ways to support teachers in providing instruction that takes into account students’ perspectives and uses those perspectives to teach science. This project…
Expectations and opportunities for student learning in science are expanding to involve students in making sense of and addressing real questions and problems in the world around them. At the same time, school districts are seeking innovative ways to support teachers in providing instruction that takes into account students’ perspectives and uses those perspectives to teach science. This project…
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Poster | Supporting Rural STEM Middle School Teachers and Career Counselors in the Development of Effective STEM Content and Career Development Experiences
This project provides rural middle school teachers and career counselors professional development, and the support needed to collaborate with each other and local community assets in designing, integrating, and implementing effective STEM content and career development activities. School teams co-develop project-based learning units that incorporate a place-based education perspective involving…
This project provides rural middle school teachers and career counselors professional development, and the support needed to collaborate with each other and local community assets in designing, integrating, and implementing effective STEM content and career development activities. School teams co-develop project-based learning units that incorporate a place-based education perspective involving…
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Poster | Supporting Instructional Decision Making: The Potential of an Automatically Scored Three-Dimensional Assessment System (Collaborative Research)
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
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Poster | Supporting Instructional Decision Making: The Potential of an Automatically Scored Three-Dimensional Assessment System (Collaborative Research)
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
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Poster | Supporting Instructional Decision Making: The Potential of an Automatically Scored Three-Dimensional Assessment System (Collaborative Research)
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
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Poster | Supporting Instructional Decision Making: The Potential of an Automatically Scored Three-Dimensional Assessment System (Collaborative Research)
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
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Poster | Supporting Elementary Teacher Learning for Effective School-based Citizen Science (TL4CS)
The goal of TL4CS is to generate knowledge about teacher learning that enables elementary school-based citizen science (SBCs) to support students’ engagement with authentic science content and practices. The study addresses three research questions: (1) What kinds of supports foster teacher learning for enacting SBCS? (2) How do supports for teacher learning shape the way teachers enact SBCS? and…
The goal of TL4CS is to generate knowledge about teacher learning that enables elementary school-based citizen science (SBCs) to support students’ engagement with authentic science content and practices. The study addresses three research questions: (1) What kinds of supports foster teacher learning for enacting SBCS? (2) How do supports for teacher learning shape the way teachers enact SBCS? and…
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Poster | Science Communities of Practice Partnership
The Science Communities of Practice Partnership (SCOPP), a four-year $3.4 million National Science Foundation grant. The project is developing and studying a comprehensive teacher professional development model to transform science teaching and learning in elementary schools serving predominantly minoritized students. The project will provide evidence about specific components of the…
The Science Communities of Practice Partnership (SCOPP), a four-year $3.4 million National Science Foundation grant. The project is developing and studying a comprehensive teacher professional development model to transform science teaching and learning in elementary schools serving predominantly minoritized students. The project will provide evidence about specific components of the…
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Poster | Professional Learning Hub for Early Science (HubES): Leveraging Technology to Develop Supports for Educators to Promote Meaningful Science Learning in Preschool
Although science is increasingly recognized as a key dimension of early learning, findings to date indicate that young children, especially those enrolled in public preschool programs serving historically excluded communities, have limited opportunities to engage in high quality science investigations. This four-year design and development project brings together public preschool teachers,…
Although science is increasingly recognized as a key dimension of early learning, findings to date indicate that young children, especially those enrolled in public preschool programs serving historically excluded communities, have limited opportunities to engage in high quality science investigations. This four-year design and development project brings together public preschool teachers,…
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Poster | Math Partners: Collaborations to Support Early Math Learning
The Math Partners intervention is informed by the concepts of Funds of Knowledge and Community Cultural Wealth that inform our growing understanding of how to help teachers partner with families to support early math learning. Teachers receive Practice-Based Coaching in small groups with other teachers and will form design teams in each Math Partners classroom. The design teams of teachers and…
The Math Partners intervention is informed by the concepts of Funds of Knowledge and Community Cultural Wealth that inform our growing understanding of how to help teachers partner with families to support early math learning. Teachers receive Practice-Based Coaching in small groups with other teachers and will form design teams in each Math Partners classroom. The design teams of teachers and…
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Poster | Leveraging Exit Tickets to Enhance Students' Self-Regulated Learning and Mathematics Knowledge
We explored the impacts of enhanced Integrated Math I exit tickets that support students in determining how well they know material compared to typical exit tickets. We hypothesized that these enhancements would improve students' confidence calibration, mathematics self-efficacy, mastery-approach goals, and mathematics performance more than typical exit tickets. We used a pretest-intervention-…
We explored the impacts of enhanced Integrated Math I exit tickets that support students in determining how well they know material compared to typical exit tickets. We hypothesized that these enhancements would improve students' confidence calibration, mathematics self-efficacy, mastery-approach goals, and mathematics performance more than typical exit tickets. We used a pretest-intervention-…
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Poster | iPlan: A Platform for Developing Localized Simulations to Support Interactive Learning About Climate Change
The goal of the actLocal project is to develop and test iPlan 2.0, an online platform for K–12 teachers, students, and the public to easily create localized climate change adaptation simulations for any location in the contiguous United States. These simulations will enable high school students and others to implement and evaluate strategies to address the impacts of climate change in their own…
The goal of the actLocal project is to develop and test iPlan 2.0, an online platform for K–12 teachers, students, and the public to easily create localized climate change adaptation simulations for any location in the contiguous United States. These simulations will enable high school students and others to implement and evaluate strategies to address the impacts of climate change in their own…
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Poster | Investigating How Combining Intensive Professional Development and Modest Support Affects Rural, Elementary Teachers’ Science and Engineering Practice
We are investigating factors that influence elementary teachers’ professional learning (PL) in science and engineering. The intervention and ongoing supports are offered at a distance to participants teaching grades 3-5 in rural school districts. Overarching research objectives include examining: (1) the impacts of online science and engineering PL; (2) the effectiveness of modest supports on the…
We are investigating factors that influence elementary teachers’ professional learning (PL) in science and engineering. The intervention and ongoing supports are offered at a distance to participants teaching grades 3-5 in rural school districts. Overarching research objectives include examining: (1) the impacts of online science and engineering PL; (2) the effectiveness of modest supports on the…
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Poster | Investigating Early Elementary Students' Computational Thinking Development in Integrated Mathematics-Coding Instruction
The purpose of our project is to develop, test, and refine children’s computational thinking (CT) learning progressions. This research will provide early elementary educators and curriculum designers with a framework for understanding children’s development of CT and will inform future CT instruction efforts for standards, curricula, teaching practices, and assessment. This project will also…
The purpose of our project is to develop, test, and refine children’s computational thinking (CT) learning progressions. This research will provide early elementary educators and curriculum designers with a framework for understanding children’s development of CT and will inform future CT instruction efforts for standards, curricula, teaching practices, and assessment. This project will also…
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Poster | Fostering Virtual Learning of Data Science Foundations with Mathematical Logic for Rural High School Students (Collaborative Research)
Data science is transforming science and industry, with a strong demand for skilled professionals. The LogicDataScience (LogicDS) curriculum at Florida Virtual Schools (FLVS) introduces high school students to this field and related careers, aiming to overcome educational barriers, particularly for rural students lacking access to STEM courses and qualified teachers. Emphasizing the integration…
Data science is transforming science and industry, with a strong demand for skilled professionals. The LogicDataScience (LogicDS) curriculum at Florida Virtual Schools (FLVS) introduces high school students to this field and related careers, aiming to overcome educational barriers, particularly for rural students lacking access to STEM courses and qualified teachers. Emphasizing the integration…
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Poster | Fostering Virtual Learning of Data Science Foundations with Mathematical Logic for Rural High School Students (Collaborative Research)
Data science is transforming science and industry, with a strong demand for skilled professionals. The LogicDataScience (LogicDS) curriculum at Florida Virtual Schools (FLVS) introduces high school students to this field and related careers, aiming to overcome educational barriers, particularly for rural students lacking access to STEM courses and qualified teachers. Emphasizing the integration…
Data science is transforming science and industry, with a strong demand for skilled professionals. The LogicDataScience (LogicDS) curriculum at Florida Virtual Schools (FLVS) introduces high school students to this field and related careers, aiming to overcome educational barriers, particularly for rural students lacking access to STEM courses and qualified teachers. Emphasizing the integration…
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Poster | Facilitating Formative Feedback: Using Simulations to Impact the Capability of Novice Mathematics Teachers
Our project explores simulations focused on eliciting and interpreting elementary students’ mathematics thinking provide preservice teachers with formative assessment opportunities. They have been used with preservice teacher educators and their students three partner programs, and administered for data collection in fourteen other programs. Our studies (1) examine how feedback from the…
Our project explores simulations focused on eliciting and interpreting elementary students’ mathematics thinking provide preservice teachers with formative assessment opportunities. They have been used with preservice teacher educators and their students three partner programs, and administered for data collection in fourteen other programs. Our studies (1) examine how feedback from the…
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Poster | Exploring Data Science Through the Lens of Civics Education
The Civic Data Project explores the potential for engaging students in investigations of civic data while learning social studies content and deepening inquiry practices. In the context of this project, civic data is defined as local, regional, or world data gathered by society/community serving organizations to monitor, examine, or address social issues. Using a collaborative co-design process,…
The Civic Data Project explores the potential for engaging students in investigations of civic data while learning social studies content and deepening inquiry practices. In the context of this project, civic data is defined as local, regional, or world data gathered by society/community serving organizations to monitor, examine, or address social issues. Using a collaborative co-design process,…
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Poster | Exploratory Study of Children's Multi-digit Multiplication and Division
Despite its importance, there is little research on children's use of and reasoning with different approaches to multiply or divide multi-digit numbers. This three-year exploratory project will: (1) examine and document the range of strategies children use to solve multi-digit multiplication and division tasks; (2) examine students’ exposure to and teachers' use of different approaches to multi-…
Despite its importance, there is little research on children's use of and reasoning with different approaches to multiply or divide multi-digit numbers. This three-year exploratory project will: (1) examine and document the range of strategies children use to solve multi-digit multiplication and division tasks; (2) examine students’ exposure to and teachers' use of different approaches to multi-…
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Poster | Evaluating Effects of Automatic Feedback Aligned to a Learning Progression to Promote Knowledge-In-Use
We examine the effect of an AI-based assessment system that provides individualized feedback to students’ open-ended assessment responses, like explanation and scientific models in high school physical sciences. The curriculum, assessments and feedback are consistent with a previously developed three-dimensional learning progression that describes successively more complex understandings students…
We examine the effect of an AI-based assessment system that provides individualized feedback to students’ open-ended assessment responses, like explanation and scientific models in high school physical sciences. The curriculum, assessments and feedback are consistent with a previously developed three-dimensional learning progression that describes successively more complex understandings students…
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Poster | Engineering for Students with Extensive Support Needs
Project BEEs is a three-year project with the goal of focusing on teachers' development of engineering practices, including how teachers support their students' development of engineering-focused behaviors and mindsets with instruction. Through the use of research-based engineering curriculum, Youth Engineering Solutions, and the use of Universal Design and EBPs for Students with Extensive…
Project BEEs is a three-year project with the goal of focusing on teachers' development of engineering practices, including how teachers support their students' development of engineering-focused behaviors and mindsets with instruction. Through the use of research-based engineering curriculum, Youth Engineering Solutions, and the use of Universal Design and EBPs for Students with Extensive…
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Poster | Engaging Teachers in Integrating Human-Centered Design for Geometry Problem-based Instruction
The project engages math teachers in lesson study to design and implement design-based lessons to teach geometry concepts.
The project engages math teachers in lesson study to design and implement design-based lessons to teach geometry concepts.
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Poster | Disseminating a Toolkit: Aligning the Science Teacher Education Pathway - A Networked Improvement Community
Aligning the Science Teacher Education Pathway (ASTEP) functions as a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) to bridge gaps across steps along the science teacher training and development pathways. This NIC has co-created a shared vision and co-defined research agenda between university researchers, science educators and school district practitioners working together to reform teacher education…
Aligning the Science Teacher Education Pathway (ASTEP) functions as a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) to bridge gaps across steps along the science teacher training and development pathways. This NIC has co-created a shared vision and co-defined research agenda between university researchers, science educators and school district practitioners working together to reform teacher education…
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Poster | Developing a Multi-Disciplinary STEM Education Model for Multilingual Learners that Meets Societal Challenges
This project contributes to advancing knowledge on STEM education focusing on societal challenges by harnessing the convergence of STEM subjects, including data science and computer science, to empower all students, especially multilingual learners (MLs). The research seeks to make two significant contributions. First, the project will develop a conceptual framework for multi-disciplinary STEM…
This project contributes to advancing knowledge on STEM education focusing on societal challenges by harnessing the convergence of STEM subjects, including data science and computer science, to empower all students, especially multilingual learners (MLs). The research seeks to make two significant contributions. First, the project will develop a conceptual framework for multi-disciplinary STEM…
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Poster | Developing a Modeling Orientation to Science: Teaching and Learning Variability and Change in Ecosystems (Collaborative Research)
This project investigated the development of middle-school students’ understandings and practices of modeling in the context of investigations of variability and change in ecosystems. The project studied how and to what extent students’ participation in distinct forms of modeling informs their classroom-based citizen science investigations. A parallel research effort investigated how and to what…
This project investigated the development of middle-school students’ understandings and practices of modeling in the context of investigations of variability and change in ecosystems. The project studied how and to what extent students’ participation in distinct forms of modeling informs their classroom-based citizen science investigations. A parallel research effort investigated how and to what…
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Poster | Developing a Modeling Orientation to Science: Teaching and Learning Variability and Change in Ecosystems (Collaborative Research)
This project investigated the development of middle-school students’ understandings and practices of modeling in the context of investigations of variability and change in ecosystems. The project studied how and to what extent students’ participation in distinct forms of modeling informs their classroom-based citizen science investigations. A parallel research effort investigated how and to what…
This project investigated the development of middle-school students’ understandings and practices of modeling in the context of investigations of variability and change in ecosystems. The project studied how and to what extent students’ participation in distinct forms of modeling informs their classroom-based citizen science investigations. A parallel research effort investigated how and to what…
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Poster | Developing a Modeling Orientation to Science: Teaching and Learning Variability and Change in Ecosystems (Collaborative Research)
This project investigated the development of middle-school students’ understandings and practices of modeling in the context of investigations of variability and change in ecosystems. The project studied how and to what extent students’ participation in distinct forms of modeling informs their classroom-based citizen science investigations. A parallel research effort investigated how and to what…
This project investigated the development of middle-school students’ understandings and practices of modeling in the context of investigations of variability and change in ecosystems. The project studied how and to what extent students’ participation in distinct forms of modeling informs their classroom-based citizen science investigations. A parallel research effort investigated how and to what…
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Poster | Designing a Teacher Learning Sequence for Building on Mathematical Opportunities in Student Thinking (Collaborative Research)
The Learning to Build on MOSTs project is focused on developing secondary mathematics teachers’ ability to enact the teaching practice of building on MOSTs. Previously, we conceptualized high-leverage instances of student mathematical thinking that emerge during whole-class interactions—instances we call Mathematical Opportunities in Student Thinking (MOSTs). We subsequently studied the practice…
The Learning to Build on MOSTs project is focused on developing secondary mathematics teachers’ ability to enact the teaching practice of building on MOSTs. Previously, we conceptualized high-leverage instances of student mathematical thinking that emerge during whole-class interactions—instances we call Mathematical Opportunities in Student Thinking (MOSTs). We subsequently studied the practice…
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