Reading List: Recent DRK-12 Project Publications
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Longitudinal Investigation of Primary Inservice Teachers’ Modelling the Hydrological PhenomenaThis manuscript focuses on longitudinal research with four primary inservice teachers’ learning and engagement in model-based teaching about water over three years, investigating teachers conceptualizations and practice modelling water related phenomena over time. Findings from the study indicate while each teacher had individual trajectories in conceptualising and enacting scientific modelling in the classroom, we observed unique approaches within teachers.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Science, Standards |
Making Mathematical Thinking VisibleThis article describes how diagrams can be a powerful tool to develop and communicate mathematical understanding for English language learners.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Broadening Participation, ELL, Mathematics |
Developing Student 21st Century Skills in Selected Exemplary Inclusive STEM High SchoolsThis conversion mixed method study analyzed student work samples and teacher lesson plans from seven exemplary inclusive STEM high schools to better understand at what level teachers at these schools are engaging and developing student 21st Century skills.
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Year: 2019
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Supporting the Scientific Practices through Epistemologically Responsive Science TeachingIn this article, authors explore a variety of types of responsive teaching and elaborate a specific type of responsive teaching—epistemologically responsive science teaching.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Science, Teacher Practice |
Eliminating Counterexamples: A Case Study Intervention for Improving Adolescents’ Ability to Critique Direct ArgumentsThis case study investigates U.S. eighth-grade (age 13) mathematics students’ conceptions about the validity of a direct argument after the students received instruction on the eliminating counterexamples (ECE) framework.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Algebra, Publication, Middle, Mathematics |
Empowering Students with Specific Learning Disabilities: Jim’s Concept of Unit FractionThis paper investigates how one elementary school child with specific visual motor integration differences constructed a unit fraction concept.
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Year: 2019
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In-Game Actions to Promote Game-Based Math Learning EngagementThis mixed-method study was designed to examine whether middle school students’ in-game actions are likely to promote certain types of learning engagement (i.e., content and cognitive engagement).
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Year: 2019
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Profiling Self-Regulation Behaviors in STEM Learning of Engineering Design This study analyzes the engineering design behaviors of 108 ninth-grade U.S. students using principal component analysis and cluster analysis.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, High, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Student Attitudes/Beliefs |
The Effect of Automated Feedback on Revision Behavior and Learning Gains in Formative Assessment of Scientific Argument WritingThis study investigates a formative feedback system integrated into an online science curriculum module teaching climate change.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Assessment, High, Climate Change, Educational Technology, Science |
The Impact of Engineering Curriculum Design Principles on Elementary Students’ Engineering and Science LearningThis article reports an efficacy study of an elementary engineering curriculum, Engineering is Elementary, that includes a set of hypothesized critical components designed to encourage student engagement in practices, connect engineering and science learning, and reach diverse students.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Curriculum, Engineering, Science |
Complementary Assessments of Prospective Teachers’ Skill with Eliciting Student ThinkingThis article reports on how three prospective teachers had differing opportunities to demonstrate their skills in the context of the field assessment, but similar opportunities in the context of the simulation assessment.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Assessment, Classroom Practice, Mathematics, Pedagogy, Teacher Practice |
How Place-based Science Education Strategies can Support Equity for Students, Teachers, and CommunitiesThis brief describes how to support equity for students, teachers, and communities through place-based science education strategies.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Pre-K, Elementary, Publication, Middle, Broadening Participation, High, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Equity |
Hurricane with a History: Hawaiian Newspapers Illuminate an 1871 StormIn this article, authors explain how 114 years of Hawaiian-language newspapers starting in 1834 extend our knowledge of natural disasters into the nineteenth century and to precontact times.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Other, Earth Science, Environmental Science |
The Role of Teacher Framing in Producing Coherent NGSS-Aligned TeachingIn this Journal of Science Teacher Education article, Jarod Kawasaki and William Sandoval report on one teachers’ efforts to re-design an entire instructional unit as a coherent storyline about forces and motion as a part of a multiyear professional development project around the NGSS.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Science, Professional Development, Standards |
“This is Really Frying My Brain!”: How Affect Supports Inquiry in an Online Learning EnvironmentThis article discusses supporting inquiry in an online learning environment.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, High, Classroom Practice, Physics, Science, Professional Development |
Toward a theoretical structure to characterize early probabilistic thinkingThe purpose of this report is to sketch a tentative theoretical structure with the potential to anchor curricular decisions and inform further research on early probability learning.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Middle, High, Mathematics, Professional Development |
Gina’s mathematics: Thinking, tricks, or “teaching”?This paper discusses the extent to which one case study elementary school child with identified learning disabilities (LDs) made sense of composite units and unit fractions.
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Year: 2019
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Epistemological framing and novice elementary teachers' approaches to learning and teaching engineering design In this article, authors present a comparative case study examining the epistemological framing dynamics of two novice urban teachers and argue that the stances that novice teachers adopt toward engineering learning and knowledge are consequential for the opportunities they create for students.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Engineering, Professional Development |
Qualitative graphing in an authentic inquiry context: How construction and critique help middle school students to reason about cancerThis study offers a critical exploration of how to design instruction that simultaneously supports students' science and graph understanding within complex inquiry contexts.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Biology, Educational Technology, Science |
Understanding Science and Language Connections: New Approaches to Assessment with Bilingual LearnersAuthors report on the use of bilingual constructed response science assessments in the context of a research and development partnership with secondary school science teachers.
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Year: 2019
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Validating a Model for Assessing Science Teacher’s Adaptive Expertise with Computer-Supported Complex Systems Curricula and Its Relationship to Student Learning OutcomesIn this study, the authors propose and validate a model of adaptive expertise needed for teachers to successfully deliver NGSS-informed computer-supported complex systems curricula in high school science classrooms.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Biology, High, Curriculum, Educational Technology, Science, Standards |
Mathematical content knowledge and knowledge for teaching: exploring their distinguishability and contribution to student learningIn this replication and extension study, we explore these issues, drawing on evidence from a multi-year study of over 200 fourth- and fifth-grade US teachers. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of these data suggested a single dimension for teacher knowledge.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Disciplinary Content Knowledge, Mathematics |
Growth in children’s understanding of generalizing and representing mathematical structure and relationshipsAuthors share results from a quasi-experimental study that examines growth in students’ algebraic thinking practices of generalizing and representing generalizations, particularly with variable notation, as a result of an early algebra instructional sequence implemented across grades 3–5.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Algebra, Elementary, Publication, Classroom Practice, Mathematics |
Children’s Integer Understanding and the Effects of Linear Board Games: A Look at Two MeasuresThe purpose of this study was to identify affordances and limitations of using order and value comparison tasks versus number placement tasks to infer students’ negative integer understanding and growth in understanding.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Mathematics, Number Sense |
Coordinating between Graphs and Science Concepts: Density and BuoyancyAuthors investigate ways to support students in integrating their understanding of density concepts through a graph that is linked to a simulation depicting the relationship between mass, volume, and density.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Science |
Non-visual Perception of Lines on a Multimodal Touchscreen TabletIn this article, authors demonstrate that line following via multimodal feedback is possible on touchscreens and present guidelines for the presentation of such non-visual graphical concepts.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Other, Educational Technology, Technology |
Simulations as a Tool for Practicing QuestioningAuthors discuss some of the affordances and constraints of using online teaching simulations to support reflection on specific pedagogical actions.
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Year: 2018
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Guiding collaborative revision of science explanationsThis paper illustrates how the combination of teacher and computer guidance can strengthen collaborative revision and identifies opportunities for teacher guidance in a computer-supported collaborative learning environment.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Assessment, Middle, Technology, Professional Development, Teacher Practice |
Scaling up innovative learning in mathematics: exploring the effect of different professional development approaches on teacher knowledge, beliefs, and instructional practiceThe purpose of the current study was to explore different ways for teachers to engage in Professional learning experiences (PLEs) and how these approaches might enable the field to scale up these efforts in a sustainable manner.
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Year: 2019
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Patterns Linking Interpreting and Deciding How to Respond During the Launch of a Lesson: Noticing from an Integrated PerspectiveAuthors describe a complementary way of studying the connections between different aspects of noticing, one that stresses the content of teachers noticing. They report on a study in which participants were shown depictions of students reacting to the launch of a complex task. Participants then chose among a variety of possible interpretations and teacher responses.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Mathematics, Teacher Practice |
Instruments to Measure Elementary Student Mindsets about Smartness and Failure in General and with respect to EngineeringThe aim of this study was to assess evidence for the validity of General Mindset (GM) and Engineering Mindset (EM) surveys that we developed for fifth-grade students (ages 10-11).
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Engineering, Student Attitudes/Beliefs |
How to support secondary school students’ consideration of uncertainty in scientific argument writing: A case study of a High-Adventure Science curriculum moduleIn this article, authors discuss an online Earth science curriculum module called, “Will there be enough fresh water?” designed to engage students in thinking about uncertainty as part of writing scientific arguments.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, High, Curriculum, Earth Science, Science |
Framing, Adapting, and Applying: Learning to Contextualize Science Activity in Multilingual Science ClassroomsThis article looks at context-based approaches to science instruction. Authors studied the effects of changes to a set of secondary science teacher education programs, all of which were redesigned with attention to the Secondary Science Teaching with English Language and Literacy Acquisition (SSTELLA) instructional framework, a framework for responsive and contextualized instruction in multilingual science classrooms.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Broadening Participation, High, ELL, Equity, Science, Teacher Attitudes/Beliefs, Teacher Practice |
Clarifiable Ambiguity in Classroom Mathematics DiscourseIn this article, authors argue for deliberate attention to clarifiable ambiguity as a critical aspect of attending to meaning and as a necessary precursor to productive use of student mathematical thinking.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, High, Mathematics |
Aligning Test Scoring Procedures with Test Uses: A Balancing ActTest scoring procedures should align with the intended uses and interpretations of test results. In this paper, we examine three test scoring procedures for an operational assessment of early numeracy, the Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA). Current test specifications call for subscores to be reported for each of the eight subtests on the EGMA. This test scoring procedures has been criticized as being difficult for stakeholders to use and interpret, thereby impacting the overall usefulness of the EGMA for informing decisions. We examine the psychometric properties including the reliability and distinctiveness of the results and usefulness of reporting test scores as (1) total scores, (2) subscores, and (3) composite scores. These test scoring procedures are compared using data from an actual administration of the EGMA. Conclusions and recommendations for test scoring procedures are made. Generalizations to other testing programs are proposed.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Assessment, Mathematics |
Curriculum and Instruction at Exemplar Inclusive STEM High SchoolsIn recent years, prominent organizations have released large-scale policy reports on the state of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States, with particular emphasis on curricula and instructional practices. The purpose of this paper was to examine the curriculum and instruction occurring at high performing STEM-focused high schools that have no academic conditions for student admission. This study conducted a cross-case analysis across eight case studies of contextually different but well-regarded inclusive STEM high school. Common themes that emerged included different hierarchical levels of design and implementation (classroom-level, cross-cutting school level, school-wide) as well as responsive design of curriculum and instruction. Unique contextual differences are discussed as well as implications for replication of inclusive STEM school design.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Curriculum, Engineering, Mathematics, Science, Technology |
The Impact of Multimedia Educative Curriculum Materials (MECMs) on Teachers' Beliefs about Scientific ArgumentationAuthors discuss how teachers used MECMs and whether that use impacted their beliefs about the practice of scientific argumentation.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Curriculum, Science, Professional Development, Video |
Integrating a Space for Teacher Interaction into an Educative Curriculum: Design Principles and Teachers' Use of the iPlan ToolAuthors describe the design principles of iPlan, a web-based tool provides access to educative curriculum materials in an online interactive learning platform, and discuss implications for designing educative and online systems for teacher learning.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Biology, High, Curriculum, Educational Technology, Science, Professional Development |
How Viewers Orient Toward Student Dialogue in Online Math VideosAuthors describe an alternative model of online math videos that feature unscripted dialogue of secondary school students, who convey sources of confusion and resolve the dilemmas that arise during problem solving.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, High, Mathematics, Video |
Characterizing the Interplay of Cognitive and Metacognitive Knowledge in Computational Modeling and Simulation PracticesAuthors discuss student dimensions of expertise when engaged in modeling and simulation practices and describe how students used their cognitive and metacognitive knowledge to approach a computational challenge.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, High, Cognitive Science, Educational Technology, Engineering, Science |
Exploring Students’ Experimentation Strategies in Engineering Design Using an Educational CAD ToolThe purpose of this study is to investigate students’ experimentation strategies while they work on a design challenge.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, High, Educational Technology, Engineering, Science |
The Role of Simulation-Enabled Design Learning Experiences on Middle School Students’ Self-generated Inherence HeuristicsThis article describes the effect of simulation-enabled Learning by Design learning experiences on student-generated heuristics that can lead to solutions to problems.
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Year: 2019
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The Impacts of a Research-Based Model for Mentoring Elementary Preservice Teachers in ScienceThis article focuses on the impacts of a program designed to prepare elementary classroom teachers to mentor preservice teachers for effective science instruction.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Science, Professional Development |
Mentoring the Mentors: Hybridizing Professional Development to Support Cooperating Teachers’ Mentoring Practice in ScienceThis article describes key features of a hybrid professional development (PD) program that was designed to prepare elementary classroom teachers to mentor preservice teachers for effective science instruction.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Science, Professional Development |
What Can We Learn from Correct Answers?This article describes how research-based learning progressions can be used to enhance the analysis and response to student work.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Assessment, Classroom Practice, Equity, Mathematics, Learning Progression |
Theorizing reciprocal noticing with non-dominant students in mathematicsIn this paper, the author theorizes reciprocal noticing as a relational practice through which teachers and students exchange roles as knowers by reciprocating each other’s noticing as they study mathematics concepts.
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Year: 2019
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What They Learn When They Learn Coding: Investigating Cognitive Domains and Computer Programming Knowledge in Young ChildrenThis study investigated N = 57 Kindergarten through second grade children’s performance on a programming assessment after engaging in a 6-week curricular intervention called ScratchJr.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Pre-K, Elementary, Publication, Cognitive Science, Computer Science |
Impact of Model‐based Science Curriculum and Instruction on Elementary Students' Explanations for the HydrosphereScientific modeling affords opportunities for students to develop representations, make their ideas visible, and generate model‐based explanations for complex natural systems like the water cycle. This study describes a comprehensive evaluation of a 5‐year, design‐based research project focused on the development, implementation, revision, and testing of an enhanced, model‐centered version of the Full Option Science System (FOSS) Water (2005) unit in third grade classrooms.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Science, Standards |
Linear Algebra and GeometryLinear Algebra and Geometry is aimed at preservice and practicing high school mathematics teachers and advanced high school students looking for an addition to or replacement for calculus. The materials are organized around carefully sequenced problems that help students build both the tools and the habits that provide a solid basis for further study in mathematics. Requiring only high school algebra, it uses elementary geometry to build the beautiful edifice of results and methods that make linear algebra such an important field.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Algebra, Publication, High, Undergraduate, Curriculum, Geometry, Mathematics |
The Soda Can Crusher ChallengeIn this article, authors describe how we engaged grade 3–5 students in an engineering design activity supported with relevant reading, writing, and talking tasks embedded within the engineering design activity.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Engineering |
The Differential Impact of Two Engineering Professional Development Programs on Elementary Teachers’ Engineering Teaching Efficacy BeliefsThe purpose of this study is to explore to what extent supporting elementary teachers’ PCK about teaching engineering would improve their beliefs that students’ engineering learning can be influenced by effective engineering instruction.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Engineering |
Engineering for sustainable communities: Epistemic tools in support of equitable and consequential middle school engineeringThis study is focused on engineering for sustainable communities (EfSC) in three middle school classrooms.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Broadening Participation, Engineering, Equity |
Designing for Rightful Presence in STEM: The Role of Making Present PracticesIn this article, it is argued that the construct of rightful presence, and the coconstructed “making present” practices that give rise to moments of rightful presence, is 1 way to consider how to make sense of the historicized and relational nature of consequential learning.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, High, Engineering |
Automated text scoring and real‐time adjustable feedback: Supporting revision of scientific arguments involving uncertaintyThis paper describes HASbot, an automated text scoring and real‐time feedback system designed to support student revision of scientific arguments.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Assessment, Middle, High, Earth Science, Educational Technology, Science |
Addressing Misconceptions in Secondary Geometry ProofUse these ideas to diagnose and address common conceptual obstacles that inhibit students’ success.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Assessment, High, Geometry, Mathematics |
What Matters for Urban Adolescents’ Engagement and Disengagement in School: A Mixed-Methods StudyThis study uses a mixed-method sequential exploratory design to examine influences on urban adolescents’ engagement and disengagement in school.
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Year: 2019
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Student learning emotions in middle school mathematics classrooms: investigating associations with dialogic instructional practicesAuthors examine how dialogic instruction, a socially dynamic form of instruction, was associated with four learning emotions in mathematics: enjoyment, pride, anger, and boredom.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Broadening Participation, Classroom Practice, Mathematics |
Does student-centered instruction engage students differently? The moderation effect of student ethnicityThis study examined the relationship between student-centered mathematics instruction and adolescents’ behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and social engagement in mathematics and whether the relationship differed by ethnicity.
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Year: 2018
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Beyond Classroom Academics: A School-Wide and Multi-Contextual Perspective on Student Engagement in SchoolA school-wide and multi-contextual perspective on student engagement in school.
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Year: 2019
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Ramp It Up!Preschoolers investigate force and motion with a digital journal.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Pre-K, Publication, Science |
Examining physics identity development through two high school interventionsUsing structural equation modeling, the researchers test a path model of various physics identity constructs, extending an earlier, established model. In this paper, they also compare a preliminary structural analysis of students' physics identities before and after the career lesson, with an eye towards understanding how students' identities develop over time and due to these experiences.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Broadening Participation, High, Physics, Student Attitudes/Beliefs |
What does it mean to notice my students’ ideas in science today?: An investigation of elementary teachers’ practice of noticing their students’ thinking in scienceAn investigation of elementary teachers’ noticing of students’ ideas and their thinking surrounding their noticing practice.
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Year: 2018
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The Computational Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) Capability Flow: An Approach to Articulating CAT Capabilities over Time in African-American Middle-school GirlsThis paper explores the CAT Capability Flow, which begins to describe the processes and sub-skills and capabilities involve in computational algorithmic thinking (CAT). To do this, authors engage in an approach which results in an initial flowchart that depicts the processes students are engaging in as an iteratively-refined articulation of the steps involved in computational algorithmic thinking.
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Year: 2018
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#BlackGirlMagic: The identity conceptualizationof Black women in undergraduate STEM educationIn this study, authors use Phenomenological Variant Ecological Systems Theory as a strengths‐based approach to investigate 10 undergraduate Black women’s perceptions of race and gender on their STEM identity development and engagement.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Broadening Participation, Undergraduate, Engineering, Mathematics, Science, Technology |
Race to the Top and Lesson Study Implementation in Florida: District Policy and Leadership for Teacher Professional DevelopmentBased on a mixed methods study of a statewide survey and interviews of district professional development directors, we found that district requirement of lesson study, funding provision, and future sustainability plan were significantly and positively associated with a broader implementation of lesson study within the district. Implications for educational leaders at local educational agencies are discussed.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Other, Mathematics, Professional Development, Scale-Up, Systems Reform |
Lesson Study Design Features for Supporting Collaborative Teacher LearningBased on a teacher survey of lesson study, this study found that facilitators’ focus on student thinking, the quality of materials, and duration of lesson study were significantly associated with teacher participation in an effective inquiry process, which in turn is associated with perceived positive changes in teacher knowledge, self-efficacy, and expectation.
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Year: 2019
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Integrating STEM into Preschool Education: Designing a Professional Development Model in Diverse SettingsIn this article, the authors outline the main components and the iterative design process we undertook to ensure that the professional supports are relevant and effective for teachers and children.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Pre-K, Publication, Engineering, Mathematics, Science, Technology, Professional Development |
Opportunities to Participate (OtP) in Science: Examining Differences Longitudinally and Across Socioeconomically Diverse SchoolsThe purpose of this study was to develop and validate a survey of opportunities to participate (OtP) in science that will allow educators and researchers to closely approximate the types of learning opportunities students have in science classrooms.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Assessment, Middle, Broadening Participation, Equity, Science |
Personal and Canonical PCK: A Synergistic Relationship?Features approaches for leveraging PCK research in STEM learning across formal and informal settings.
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Year: 2018
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Climate literacy: Insights from research on K-16 climate educationAuthors discuss insights from research on K-16 climate education.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Curriculum, Science, Standards |
Thinking scientifically in a changing worldShifting people’s judgments toward the scientific involves teaching them to purposefully evaluate connections between evidence and alternative explanations.
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Year: 2019
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Scaffolding scientific thinking: Students’ evaluations and judgments during Earth science knowledge constructionThe present paper documents a quasi-experimental study where high school Earth science students completed these instructional scaffolds, including an explanation task scored for evaluative levels (erroneous, descriptive, relational, and critical), along with measures of plausibility reappraisal and knowledge.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Astronomy, High, Geometry, Science |
Validation: A Burgeoning Methodology for Mathematics Education ScholarshipThe goal for this proceeding is to foster the conversation about validation using examples and to communicate information about validation in ways that are broadly accessible.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Assessment, Mathematics |
Content validity evidence for new problem-solving measures (PSM3, PSM4, and PSM5)The study’s purpose is to describe content validity evidence related to new problem-solving measures currently under development.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Assessment, Mathematics |
Teaching of the associative property: A natural classroom investigationIn this study we investigate the teaching of the associative property in a natural classroom setting through observation of classroom video of several elementary math classes in a large urban school district.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Mathematics |
Transitioning from textbook to classroom instruction in mathematics: The case of an expert Chinese teacherThis study reports how an expert Chinese teacher implements mathematics textbook lessons in enacted instruction.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Mathematics, Professional Development |
Modeling with tape diagramsThis article describes a tool to build, ensure, and solidify students’ understanding of quantitative relationships.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Mathematics |
Transferring specialized content knowledge to elementary classrooms: Preservice teachers’ learning to teach the associative propertyThis study explores how preservice teachers (PSTs) transfer the intended specialized content knowledge (SCK) to elementary classrooms.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Mathematics, Professional Development |
Most and Least: Differences in Integer Comparisons Based on Temperature Comparison LanguageThis article explores how students’ integer value comparisons differed based on question phrasing (which temperature is hottest, most hot, least hot, coldest, most cold, least cold) and on numbers presented (positive, negative, mixed) within the context of temperature.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Mathematics |
Teachers' framing of argumentation goals: Working together to develop individual versus communal understandingThis study explores how teachers describe, or frame, expectations for classroom discussions pertaining to the science practice of argumentation. Authors use the theoretical lens of a participation framework to examine how teachers emphasize particular actions and goals for their students' argumentation.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Science |
Dynamics of Scientific Engagement in a Blended Online Learning EnvironmentAuthors investigate in-service teachers’ scientific engagement in a blended online science inquiry course. A key implication of this study is the importance of instructional attention to epistemology and affect to create online learning environments that promote productive framings of scientific inquiry.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, High, Physics, Professional Development |
Developing a Three-Dimensional View of Science Teaching: A Tool to Support Preservice Teacher DiscourseThis study utilized the methodology of Improvement Science “Plan, Do Study, Act” cycles in order to design a Three-Dimensional Mapping Tool (3D Map) as a visual scaffold for use in science teaching methods courses to support preservice teachers in unpacking the components of NGSS and to promote discourse related to the three-dimensionality of planning instruction.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Science, Professional Development, Standards |
Teachers’ orientations toward using student mathematical thinking as a resource during whole-class discussionThe purpose of this study is to characterize teachers’ orientations toward using student mathematical thinking as a resource during whole-class instruction.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Mathematics, Teacher Attitudes/Beliefs |
A framework for characterizing students’ cognitive processes related to informal best fit linesUsing existing literature, authors create a hypothetical framework of cognitive processes associated with studying informal best fit lines and refine the framework using data from a cycle of design-based research about building students’ understanding of covariation.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Middle, High, Mathematics |
Teaching About EnergyIn this article, we draw upon the Conceptual Profile Theory to discuss the negotiation of meanings related to the energy concept in an 11th grade physics classroom.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Physics |
Measuring Pedagogy and the Integration of Engineering Design in STEM ClassroomsThe present study examined changes in high school biology and technology education pedagogy during the first year of a three-year professional development (PD) program using the INSPIRES educative curriculum.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Biology, High, Professional Development |
Project Accelerate: Bringing AP® Physics 1 to Underserved StudentsProject Accelerate is a partnership program between Boston University (BU) and the nation’s high schools combining the supportive infrastructures from the students’ traditional school with a highly interactive private edX online instructional tool to bring a College Board accredited AP Physics 1 course to schools not offering this opportunity. During the 2015-16 academic year, Boston University piloted this model with four Boston Public School (BPS) high schools and three small suburban high schools. During the first year of the pilot, students enrolled in Project Accelerate outperformed their peer groups enrolled in traditional AP Physics 1 classrooms.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Broadening Participation, High, Physics |
Probing the Relevance of Chemical Identity Thinking in Biochemical ContextsIn this study, we examined the relevance of CI in biochemical contexts and first explored the ways in which practicing biochemists consider CI relevant in their work.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, High, Undergraduate, Chemistry |
Touchscreen-Based Haptic Information Access for Assisting Blind and Visually-Impaired Users: Perceptual Parameters and Design GuidelinesThis paper studies key usability parameters governing accurate rendering of haptically-perceivable graphical materials
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Year: 2018
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Comparing Haptic Pattern Matching on Tablets and Phones: Large Screens Are Not Necessarily BetterThe current study investigates two questions: (1) Do screen size and grid density impact a user's accuracy on pattern-matching tasks? (2) Do screen size and grid density impact a user's time on task?
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Year: 2018
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Productive Struggle for All: Differentiated InstructionThis article looks at strategies that create access while maintaining the cognitive demand of a mathematics task.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Broadening Participation, Mathematics |
Rehumanizing the Mathematics Education of Students with Disabilities: Critical Perspectives on Research and PracticeThis editorial is part of a special issue of Investigations in Mathematics Learning Critical Approaches that was inspired by a Disability in Mathematics Education working group.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Broadening Participation, Other, Mathematics, Special Education |
Think-Pair-Show-Share to Increase Classroom DiscourseThe authors fuse Universal Design for Learning (UDL), differentiation, and talk moves into three key planning and pedagogy considerations.
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Year: 2018
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Pre-service K-8 Teachers’ Professional Noticing and Strategy Evaluation Skills: An Exploratory StudyThis study sheds light on three teaching competencies: Pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) professional noticing of student mathematical reasoning and strategies, their ability to assess the validity of student reasoning and strategies, and to select student strategy for class discussion.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Other, Mathematics |
Cross-Case Analysis of Engineering Education Experiences in Inclusive STEM-Focused High Schools in the United StatesThe purpose of this paper is to report results of a systematic cross-case analysis exploring the extent of engineering learning opportunities in five exemplar Inclusive STEM High Schools (ISHSs).
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High |
The Impact of Teacher Gender on Girls’ Performance on Programming Tasks in Early Elementary SchoolThe goal of this paper is to examine whether having female robotics teachers positively impacts girls’ performance on programming and robotics tasks.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Engineering, Technology |
Fostering high school students’ conceptual understanding and argumentation performance in science through Quality Talk discussionsThe purpose of our quasi‐experimental study was to examine the effectiveness of Quality Talk Science, a professional development model and intervention, in fostering changes in teachers’ and students’ discourse practices as well as their conceptual understanding and scientific argumentation. Findings revealed treatment teachers’ and students’ discourse practices better reflected critical‐analytic thinking and argumentation at posttest relative to comparison classrooms.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Chemistry, Physics, Professional Development |
Promoting Linguistically Diverse Students’ Short-Term and Long-Term Understanding of Chemical Phenomena Using VisualizationsIn this study, we examine the short-term and long-term effects of interactive visualizations in improving linguistically diverse eighth-grade students’ understanding of properties of matter and chemical reactions during inquiry instruction.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Science |
Using a three‐dimensional thinking graph to support inquiry learningThis study proposes and investigates the effects of a three‐dimensional thinking graph (3DTG) that allows learners to combine in a single image, problem information, subject knowledge (key concepts and their relationships), and the hypothesizing and reasoning process involved in exploring a problem, to support inquiry learning.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Science |
Reframing Inclusive Science Instruction to Support Teachers in Promoting Equitable Three-Dimensional Science ClassroomsIn this conceptual article, we reframe inclusive science instruction by examining the literature in science and multicultural education and describe five elements to support teachers in realizing inclusive science instruction as a pedagogical shift.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Science |
Elementary Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Structure and Properties of MatterIn this study we examined 5th-grade teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for 1 particular core idea: the small particle model (SPM) of matter. We assessed teachers’ initial PCK through a lesson plan task, the Content Representation tool, and interviews and then adapted and tested a scoring rubric to facilitate comparison of teachers’ PCK.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Science, Pedagogical Content Knowledge |
Middle school teachers’ differing perceptions and use of curriculum materials and the common coreEight middle school mathematics teachers’ perceptions and uses of curriculum materials and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) were investigated.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Curriculum, Mathematics, Standards |
Teaching of the associative property: A natural classroom investigationIn this study we investigate the teaching of the associative property in a natural classroom setting through observation of classroom video of several elementary math classes in a large urban school district.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Presentation, Elementary, Mathematics |
Examining the career paths of doctorates in mathematics education working in institutions of higher educationThis article focuses on the career paths in higher education taken by 351 doctoral graduates in mathematics education and provides insight into their career path and their resulting workload.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Graduate, Mathematics |
The complex interplay between examples and proving: Where are we and where should we head?Our work suggests re-conceptualization of research concerning students’ over reliance on example-based reasoning, moving from a view of such reasoning as a stumbling block to quickly overcome toward a view of such reasoning as a necessary and critical foundation in learning to prove.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, High, Undergraduate, Mathematics |
Creating Inclusive PreK–12 STEM Learning EnvironmentsThis brief offers insights from National Science Foundation-supported research for education leaders and policymakers who are broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM). Many of these insights confirm knowledge that has been reported in research literature; however, some offer a different perspective on familiar challenges.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Middle, Broadening Participation, High, Undergraduate, Graduate, Other |
Improving the preparation of novice secondary science teachers for English learners: A proof of concept studyThis proof of concept study investigated a secondary science teacher preparation intervention in six university programs across Arizona, California, and Texas. Researchers and science method instructors (SMIs) collaboratively restructured respective science method courses to hold fidelity to an interrelated set of instructional practices that attend to science learning as envisioned in a Framework for K–12 Science Education, while also creating contextualized spaces for language and literacy development targeted to English learners (ELs), but also supportive of “mainstream” students.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Science |
Towards Meaningful Physics Recognition: What does this recognition actually look like?This article examines recognition by presenting the case of a physics teacher, Dr. D, and his student, Kristina, to address the question: What are the ways in which a young woman perceives recognition from her teacher?
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Physics |
Teacher’s Toolkit: The Argumentation ToolkitThis column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Science |
Engineering Encounters: Engineering a Model of the Earth as a Water FilterThis column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Earth Science, Engineering, Science |
Why and how do middle school students exchange ideas during science inquiry?This study explores how technology can support idea exchanges in ways that value individuals’ prior ideas, and allow students to use these ideas to benefit their own and their peers’ learning.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Science |
Supporting English Learners in STEM SubjectsThe imperative that all students, including English learners (ELs), achieve high academic standards and have opportunities to participate in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning has become even more urgent and complex given shifts in science and mathematics standards. As a group, these students are underrepresented in STEM fields in college and in the workforce at a time when the demand for workers and professionals in STEM fields is unmet and increasing. However, English learners bring a wealth of resources to STEM learning, including knowledge and interest in STEM-related content that is born out of their experiences in their homes and communities, home languages, variation in discourse practices, and, in some cases, experiences with schooling in other countries.
English Learners in STEM Subjects: Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and Lives examines the research on ELs’ learning, teaching, and assessment in STEM subjects and provides guidance on how to improve learning outcomes in STEM for these students. This report considers the complex social and academic use of language delineated in the new mathematics and science standards, the diversity of the population of ELs, and the integration of English as a second language instruction with core instructional programs in STEM.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Middle, High, Other |
The Use of Theory in Research on Broadening Participation in PreK–12 STEM Education: Information and guidance for prospective DRK–12 granteesThis paper seeks to provide a resource for prospective DRK-12 awardees by identifying some of the theories that current and recent DRK-12 awardees are using in their research on broadening participation.
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Year: 2018
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Considerations for STEM Education from PreK through Grade 3This brief draws on research supported by the National Science Foundation to highlight important considerations for educators and others who design and provide STEM educational experiences for young children.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Pre-K, Elementary, Publication, Engineering, Mathematics, Science, Technology |
Scaffolding Scientific Thinking: Students’ Evaluations and Judgments during Earth Science Knowledge ConstructionCritical evaluation underpins the practices of science. In a three-year classroom-based research project, we developed and tested instructional scaffolds for Earth science content in which students evaluate lines of evidence with respect to alternative explanations of scientific phenomena. This paper documents a quasi-experimental study where high school Earth science students completed these instructional scaffolds, including an explanation task scored for evaluative levels, along with measures of plausibility reappraisal and knowledge.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Earth Science, Science, Standards |
“Just put it together to make no commotion:” Re-imagining Urban Elementary Students’ Participation in Engineering Design PracticesIn the growing field of K-12 engineering education, there is limited research that highlights the experiences of youth from historically marginalized communities within engineering learning environments. This study offers insights into the ways in which two groups of elementary school students constructed approaches for participating in the engineering design practice of collaborative reflective decision-making. Findings suggest that students conceptualized urban, engineering learning environments as spaces for risk management. This notion of managing risks informed their participation in collaborative decision-making, and the ways in which they viewed themselves as doers of engineering. Implications for this study include the continued need for the development of methodologies and frameworks that provide opportunities to uncover these potential risks, and design supports for student participation in engineering design practices.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Engineering |
The Evidence Based Curriculum Design Framework: Leveraging Diverse Perspectives in the Design ProcessThe ubiquity of touchscreen, mobile tablet technology has resulted in a plethora of “apps for learning” yet few leverage the learning sciences as a design driver. This paper describes our approach to integrating the learning sciences with best practices in app design: a design framework that involves researchers and developers in a co-development process to create apps based on research and evidence. Our framework centers around a learning blueprint which is intended to serve as a “boundary object.” This boundary object facilitates a design process that allows the design team to focus on both children’s engagement and learning. Here we describe the challenges that our project team encountered and our approaches to overcome those challenges on the Next Generation Preschool Math (NGPM) project, a development and research effort devoted to creating a supplemental preschool math curriculum supplement with integrated digital apps.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Pre-K, Publication, Mathematics |
Science in the LearningGardens: A study of motivation, achievement, and science identity in low-income middle schoolsThis study reports results from 113 students and three science teachers from two low-income urban middle schools participating in SciLG. It highlights the role of students’ views of themselves as competent, related, and autonomous in the garden, as well as their engagement and re-engagement in the garden, as potential pathways by which garden-based science activities can shape science motivation, learning, and academic identity in science.
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Year: 2018
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National Survey on Supporting Struggling Mathematics Learners in the Middle Grades: Executive SummaryThis executive summary captures the results of the National Survey on Supporting Struggling Mathematics Learners in the Middle Grades, a study designed and conducted by EDC. T
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Year: 2018
Keywords: 21st Century Skills, Publication, Middle, Mathematics, Professional Development |
Writing a Scientific ExplanationThis resource provides access to a classroom video of a lesson from the project's middle school ecosystems unit, and the related student scaffold and scoring rubric.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Earth Science, Science, Professional Development, Standards |
Disruptions in EcosystemsThis resource provides access to the entire middle school ecosystems unit, along with the EQuIP review.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Earth Science, Science, Professional Development, Standards |
Teachers’ Noticing of Students’ Thinking in Science Through Classroom Artifacts: In What Ways Are Science and Engineering Practices Evident?Building on the work of teacher noticing, this study investigated teachers’ noticing of students’ thinking evident in artifacts from their science teaching context.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Science |
Teacher learning in a combined professional development interventionThe study examines geometry teachers' video club discussions in a two-year professional development intervention that combined lesson study, video clubs, and animation discussions to promote teacher noticing of students' prior knowledge.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Mathematics, Professional Development |
How to envision equitable mathematics instruction: Views of U.S. and Korean preservice teachersThis article focused on equitable mathematics instruction for U.S. and Korean preservice teachers.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Other, Equity, Mathematics, Professional Development |
Moving toward approximations of practice in teacher professional development: Learning to summarize a problem-based lessonThis article focuses on problem-based lessons in teacher professional development.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Mathematics, Professional Development |
Designing Simulations to Learn About Pre-service Teachers’ Capabilities with Eliciting and Interpreting Student ThinkingThis chapter focuses on the design of simulation assessments to learn about pre-service teachers’ capabilities with eliciting and interpreting student thinking.
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Year: 2018
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Authenticity and Personal Creativity: How EarSketch Affects Student PersistenceThis conference paper explains how EarSketch affects student persistence.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Computer Science, Technology |
Evaluation of three interventions teaching area measurement as spatial structuring to young childrenIn this article, authors evaluated the effects of three instructional interventions designed to support young children’s understanding of area measurement as a structuring process.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Pre-K, Elementary, Publication, Mathematics, Measurement, Learning Progression |
Examining the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching of Proving in Scenarios Written by Pre-service TeachersThis chapter examines what aspects of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching of Proving (MKT-P) can be observed in written scenarios of classroom interactions, produced by pre-service teachers of mathematics.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Middle, Mathematics, Professional Development |
Ambitious Science TeachingAmbitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Middle, High, Science, Teacher Practice |
Uncovering the Skills That Preservice Teachers Bring to Teacher Education: The Practice of Eliciting a Student’s ThinkingThis article reports a study of the specific knowledge of and skills with teaching practice that novices bring to teacher education with respect to one teaching practice, eliciting student thinking in elementary mathematics, and describes the use of a standardized teaching simulation to learn about novices’ skills.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Other, Mathematics, Professional Development, Teacher Practice |
Our WatershedIn this article, students use data and models to make a difference in their own school yard.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, High, Science |
Supporting Science Teachers In Creating Lessons With Explicit Conceptual StorylinesThis article describes a four-step strategy used in our professional development program to help elementary science teachers recognize and create lesson plans with coherent conceptual storylines.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Elementary, Publication, Science, Professional Development |
An Examination of Credit Recovery Students’ Use of Computer-Based Scaffolding in a Problem-Based, Scientific Inquiry UnitIn this study, we investigated how high school credit recovery students worked in small groups and used computer-based scaffolds to conduct scientific inquiry in a problem-based learning unit centered on water quality.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Publication, Middle, Discourse, Science |
CADRE Early Career Guide: Tips for Early Career STEM Education ResearchersThe CADRE Early Career Guide offers advice from experienced DR K-12 awardees on becoming a successful researcher in the field of STEM education. The guide also profiles a support program, the CADRE Fellows, for doctoral students in STEM education research.
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Year: 2019
Keywords: Early Career, Publication, Graduate, Other |
NSF Prospective New Awardee Guide (January 2018)Effective as of January 2018, NSF's Prospective New Awardee Guide includes information on federal requirements, NSF points of contact and frequently asked questions, grantee standards, and indirect costs.
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Year: 2018
Keywords: Publication, Other |