DRK-12 Research and Products

Collaboration as Scaffolding to Learn from Dynamic, Interactive Scientific Visualizations
Learning to map and mapping to learn
Publication | Maps at four levels of scale—global, national, regional, and local—provide a context for mathematical investigations that help teachers learn about their students.
Differentiation of Energy Concepts Through Speech and Gesture in Interaction
A Technology-Enhanced Unit of Modeling Static Electricity: Integrating scientific explanations and everyday observations
The Use of Illustrations in Large-Scale Science Assessment: A Comparative Study
Elements of Proximal Formative Assessment in Learners’ Discourse about Energy
Re-Mediating Second Language Acquisition: A Sociocultural Perspective for Language Development
Publication | This article provides a cultural-historical (CHAT) analysis of the practices used by an effective teacher of Latino/a children previously classified as “underachieving” and “beginning/novice” English Language Learners. Although the teacher would…
A Design-based Approach to Fostering Understanding of Global Climate Change
Criteria for Creating and Categorizing Forms of Energy
Knowledge Integration and WISE Engineering
Enhancing the Authenticity of a Web-Based Module for Teaching Simple Inheritance
Intuitive Ontologies for Energy in Physics
Taking Educational Games to the Afterschool: Teens and Researchers on a Quest in Collaborative Design-Based Research
Using Interactive Technology to Support Students’ Understanding of the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
Can Generating Representations Enhance Learning With Dynamic Visualizations?
Towards an Empirically Grounded Theory of Action for Improving the Quality of Mathematics Teaching at Scale
Practice-Engaged Research and Development in Education
Promoting Proximal Formative Assessment with Relational Discourse
Synthesis and Characterization of Self-Assembled Liquid Crystals: p-Alokxybenzoic Acids
Agreeing to Disagree: Challenges with Ambiguity in Visual Evidence
Preparation and Characterization of a Monolithic Column for use in HPLC: An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment
The Role of Language in the Teaching of Energy: The Case of ‘Heat Energy’
Preparation and Characterization of a Polymeric Monolithic Column for Use in High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Publication | The high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) experiment, most often done in the undergraduate analytical instrumentation laboratory course, generally illustrates reversed-phase chromatography using a commercial C18 silica column. To avoid…
Professional Development for Technology- Enhanced Inquiry Science
Developing symbol sense for the minus sign
Publication | Research on how students make sense of and use the minus sign indicates that students struggle to understand the multiple meanings of the minus sign. Teachers can support students in developing robust understanding of each interpretation of the…