DRK-12 Research and Products

Astrobiology in the Secondary Classroom Project: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Developed by a Collaboration of Scientists and Educators from Three Different Minority Communities
Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Writing Scientific Explanations
Best Practices for Metrics Collection and Analysis
Cyber-enabled Learning: Digital Natives in Integrated Scientific Inquiry Classrooms
Collaboration as Scaffolding to Learn from Dynamic, Interactive Scientific Visualizations
Development of Proximal Formative Assessment Skills in Video-based Teacher Professional Development
Towards an Empirically Grounded Theory of Action for Improving the Quality of Mathematics Teaching at Scale
A Technology-Enhanced Unit of Modeling Static Electricity: Integrating scientific explanations and everyday observations
Practice-Engaged Research and Development in Education
Differentiation of Energy Concepts Through Speech and Gesture in Interaction
Synthesis and Characterization of Self-Assembled Liquid Crystals: p-Alokxybenzoic Acids
A Design-based Approach to Fostering Understanding of Global Climate Change
Preparation and Characterization of a Monolithic Column for use in HPLC: An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment
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…
Elements of Proximal Formative Assessment in Learners’ Discourse about Energy
Math and Science Education with English Language Learners: Contributions of the DR K-12 Program
Enhancing the Authenticity of a Web-Based Module for Teaching Simple Inheritance
Criteria for Creating and Categorizing Forms of Energy
Evaluation of a Learning Trajectory for Length in the Early Years
Presentation | Measurement is a critical component of mathematics education, but research on the learning and teaching of measurement is limited, especially compared to topics such as number and operations. To contribute to the establishment of a research…
Knowledge Integration and WISE Engineering
Using Interactive Technology to Support Students’ Understanding of the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
Intuitive Ontologies for Energy in Physics
Illustrations with Graphic Devices in Large-Scale Science Assessments: An Exploratory Cross-Cultural Study of Students’ Interpretations
Taking Educational Games to the Afterschool: Teens and Researchers on a Quest in Collaborative Design-Based Research
MoDeLS: Would you drink the liquid that came from this dirty water? A 5th grade unit on evaporation and condensation investigating the phenomenon of a solar still
Publication | A curriculum unit developed through a collaboration between Michigan State University, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, Wright State University and 5th grade teachers from Kinawa 5th-6th public school that enables students to…