Cumulative Learning using Embedded Assessment Results (CLEAR)

This project focuses on the challenge of using assessment of relevant STEM content to improve K-12 teaching and learning. CLEAR takes advantage of new technologies and research findings to investigate ways that science assessments can both capture and contribute to cumulative, integrated learning of standards-based concepts in middle school courses. The project will research new forms of assessment that document students' accumulation of knowledge and also serve as learning events.

Project Evaluator
Paul Holland
Full Description

The CLEAR project takes advantage of new technologies and research findings to investigate ways that science assessments can both capture and contribute to cumulative, integrated learning of standards-based concepts in middle school courses.

Our research investigates how instructional activities can help middle school students develop a cumulative, integrated understanding of energy. Energy is a unifying scientific concept that has been shown to be difficult to learn due to its complexity and abstract nature.

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Project Materials

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A Design-based Approach to Fostering Understanding of Global Climate Change Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:24pm
A Design-based Approach to Fostering Understanding of Global Climate Change Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:24pm
A Design-based Approach to Fostering Understanding of Global Climate Change Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:24pm
A Technology-Enhanced Unit of Modeling Static Electricity: Integrating scientific explanations and everyday observations Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:19pm
A Technology-Enhanced Unit of Modeling Static Electricity: Integrating scientific explanations and everyday observations Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:19pm
A Technology-Enhanced Unit of Modeling Static Electricity: Integrating scientific explanations and everyday observations Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:19pm
A Technology-Enhanced Unit of Modeling Static Electricity: Integrating scientific explanations and everyday observations Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:19pm
Collaboration as Scaffolding to Learn from Dynamic, Interactive Scientific Visualizations Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:13pm
Collaboration as Scaffolding to Learn from Dynamic, Interactive Scientific Visualizations Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:13pm
Collaboration as Scaffolding to Learn from Dynamic, Interactive Scientific Visualizations Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:13pm
Collaboration as Scaffolding to Learn from Dynamic, Interactive Scientific Visualizations Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:13pm
School Principals’ Influence on Science Teachers’ Technology Implementation: A Retrospective Analysis Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:04pm
School Principals’ Influence on Science Teachers’ Technology Implementation: A Retrospective Analysis Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:04pm
School Principals’ Influence on Science Teachers’ Technology Implementation: A Retrospective Analysis Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:04pm
School Principals’ Influence on Science Teachers’ Technology Implementation: A Retrospective Analysis Resource 02/14/2012 - 06:04pm
Investigations of a Complex, Realistic Task: Intentional, Unsystematic, and Exhaustive Experimenters Resource 02/14/2012 - 05:58pm
Investigations of a Complex, Realistic Task: Intentional, Unsystematic, and Exhaustive Experimenters Resource 02/14/2012 - 05:58pm
Investigations of a Complex, Realistic Task: Intentional, Unsystematic, and Exhaustive Experimenters Resource 02/14/2012 - 05:58pm
Investigations of a Complex, Realistic Task: Intentional, Unsystematic, and Exhaustive Experimenters Resource 02/14/2012 - 05:58pm
Measuring Knowledge Integration: Validation of Four-Year Assessments Resource 02/14/2012 - 05:51pm