DRK-12 Research and Products

An Investigation of Explanation Multiple-Choice Items in Science Assessment
Combining Learning and Assessment to Improve Science Education
Publication | High-stakes tests take time away from valuable learning activities, narrow the focus of instruction, and imply that science involves memorizing details rather than understanding the natural world. Current tests lead precollege instructors to…
College Students’ Temporal-Magnitude Recognition Ability Associated With Durations of Scientific Changes
Teaching to design educational technologies
Bridging Multiple Expertise in Collaborative Design for Technology-Enhanced Learning
Researching design practices and design cognition: contexts, experiences and pedagogical knowledge-in-pieces.
Professional Development for Technology- Enhanced Inquiry Science
Taking Educational Games to the Afterschool: Teens and Researchers on a Quest in Collaborative Design-Based Research
Knowledge Integration and WISE Engineering
Randomized Control Trials on the Dynamic Geometry Approach
Connecting Class Talk with Individual Student Writing
The Role of Language in the Teaching of Energy: The Case of ‘Heat Energy’
Promoting Proximal Formative Assessment with Relational Discourse
Intuitive Ontologies for Energy in Physics
Criteria for Creating and Categorizing Forms of Energy
Elements of Proximal Formative Assessment in Learners’ Discourse about Energy
Differentiation of Energy Concepts Through Speech and Gesture in Interaction
Development of Proximal Formative Assessment Skills in Video-based Teacher Professional Development
Practicing versus inventing with contrasting cases: The effects of telling first on learning and transfer
Research on Technology in Mathematics Education: Theoretical Frameworks and Practical Examples
Publication | This was a Keynote Address to be presented at the Korea Society of Educational Studies in Mathematics Conference in Seoul, South Korea on November 12th, 2011.
A Geometric Path to the Concept of Function: Transformations using dynamic software can provide a unique perspective on a common topic.
Wrapping Around - Understanding Fractions and "Super" Units (Witkowski et al.)
What is Algebra? Cross-Curricular Textbook Analyses
Trying Very Hard to Make Games that Don't Stink: User Testing at the NMSU Learning Games Lab
Presentation | Barbara Chamberlin, with the NMSU Learning Games Lab, shares their user testing processes and strategies. The educational development studio involves content experts and game developers in their game design process, also employing a rigorous…
The Use of Pictorial Supports as an Accommodation for Increasing Access to Test Items for Students with Limited Proficiency in the Language of Testing