Engineering

Highlights from Dissemination in STEM Education R&D: Perspectives on Knowledge Use

Highlights from

Author/Presenter

Brenda J. Turnbull

Year
2009
Short Description

DRK–12 projects at all stages, from early design work through completion, can benefit from an awareness and understanding of the challenges of knowledge use, so that what is designed can be suitably adapted and scaled.

Fostering Knowledge Use in STEM Education: A Brief on R&D Partnerships with Districts and Schools

Produced by a CADRE work group of NSF-supported researchers and developers, this practice brief makes a case for substantive partnerships between STEM education R&D projects and districts and schools.  Despite leading a wide variety o

Author/Presenter

Barnes, David

Benenson, Gary

Heuer, Loretta

Hobbs, Mary

King, Karen

Kinzer, Cathy

Recker, Mimi

Riley, Derek

Schifter, Catherine

Turnbull, Brenda

Wiburg, Karin

Year
2010
Short Description

This practice brief makes a case for substantive partnerships between STEM education R&D projects and districts and schools.

Discovery Research K-12 (DR-K12):Descriptive Summary of Portfolio Analysis

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) maintains a portfolio of complementary programs aimed at improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning at all stages.

Author/Presenter

Alina Martinez

Eddie Breaux

Year
2010

Analysis of Children’s Mechanistic Reasoning about Linkages and Levers in the Context of Engineering Design (Benenson, Bolger, Kobiela)

 

Author/Presenter

Molly Bolger

Marta Kobiela

Year
2009
Short Description

Following a hands-on experience in mechanism design, participants discuss the knowledge of content, pedagogy, and student thinking needed to support similar experiences for children.

Partnering with Users to Develop STEM Education Materials: Insights from Discovery Research K-12 Projects

This brief suggests practical ways of engaging teachers and other “end-users” in projects that develop materials for education in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Projects described in this brief have benefited from school, district, and state users serving as Co-PIs, advisory board members, co-developers, implementation managers, data collectors, professional developers, and project emissaries to the broader field.

Author/Presenter

Derek Riley

Year
2012
Short Description

This brief suggests practical ways of engaging teachers and other “end-users” in projects that develop materials for education in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Projects described in this brief have benefited from school, district, and state users serving as Co-PIs, advisory board members, co-developers, implementation managers, data collectors, professional developers, and project emissaries to the broader field. The brief describes how K-12 end-users and decision-makers are instrumental for developing materials that will be adopted, implemented with essential fidelity, sustained at classroom and organizational levels, and scaled within and to new organizations.

Compendium of Research Instruments for STEM Education, PART I: Teacher Practices, PCK, and Content Knowledge

Addendum added 2013

Author/Presenter

Daphne Minner

Alina Martinez

Brian Freeman

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2012
Short Description

The purpose of this compendium is to provide an overview on the current status of STEM instrumentation commonly used in the U.S and to provide resources for research and evaluation professionals. Part 1 of a two-part series, the goal to provide insight into the measurement tools available to generate efficacy and effectiveness evidence, as well as understand processes relevant to teaching and learning. It is focused on instruments designed to assess teacher practices, pedagogical content knowledge, and content knowledge.