DRK-12 Research and Products
Publication | While peer-to-peer conversations can be beneficial for children’s linguistic and mathematical development, the specific conditions needed to support optimal conversations remain elusive. As part of a larger project to infuse peer-to-peer…
Publication | The purpose of this study is to explore if and how different types of video annotations support pre-service teachers (PSTs) in learning how to notice student multimodal, or verbal and non-verbal, mathematical thinking.
Publication | Science instruction in elementary school provides a base for student understanding of the natural world, yet policies prioritizing mathematics and reading have marginalized science. In response, some teachers have enhanced their science…
Publication | Culturally responsive mathematical modeling empowers teachers to build on the out-of-class resources that students bring to the classroom and empowers students to draw on their identities and experiences to inform mathematical work and take…
Tool | This list includes STEM education-related conferences that may be of interest to DRK-12 grantees.
Publication | This study examines how secondary teachers incorporated the six-phase Data Investigation Process (Lee et al., 2022) into classroom lessons following a professional learning experience.
Publication | This blog post discusses why and how data investigation processes are a critical aspect of learning data science in K-12.
Presentation | This paper describes the design of an innovative online platform that has over 50 hours of learning experiences to support educators in further advancing their understandings and pedagogical skills in teaching statistics and data science to…
Publication | In this Perspective, I consider how our field can take principled actions to align our ways of designing and refining courses with our oft-stated goal for chemistry learning to be useful in daily life.
Publication | This study centers the idea that it is not just what science teacher educators (STEs) teach, but how they teach it, that matters. To prepare future teachers who can enact more equitable and transformative reform-oriented science instruction with…
Publication | Science instruction should involve learners in generating and warranting ideas, what we call epistemic generation. In modeling instruction, epistemic generation should be achieved by coordinating a model structure with the experienced world in…
Publication | Engaging students in scientific modeling practice is critical for developing their competence in using scientific knowledge to explain phenomena and design solutions. Student-drawn models are frequently used to investigate students’ proficiency…
Publication | We examine the meanings students give to points when they are graphing relationships between quantities in dynamic, experiential contexts. Using data from teaching experiments with middle-grades students, we illustrate two main categories of…
Publication | This study explores how Learning by Evaluating (LbE) can be integrated into the 5E instructional model to support technology and engineering education. LbE, influenced by comparative judgment, engages students in analyzing peer work to foster…
Publication | Society produces storylines about Latiné communities, including their placement in racial and linguistic hierarchies, that permeate the mathematics classroom and research in mathematics education. We conducted a discourse analysis of the…
How Educational Leaders Think About Intersections of Identities and Disciplinary Learning in Science
Publication | American science education leaders play critical roles in promoting equity in education, but little is known about how they understand everyday classroom interactions where inequities related to intersectionality are evident. This study examines…
Publication | An essential aspect of mathematics teacher education is the development of professional noticing. A 360 video is a new technology that can aid in developing mathematical teacher noticing. This study examines the relationship between preservice…
Publication | This article examines the opportunities for reasoning and proving (ORP) embedded in mathematical tasks designed by secondary prospective mathematics teachers (PSTs) in a capstone course, Mathematical Reasoning and Proving for Secondary…
Publication | This meta-analysis assessed the effectiveness of problem-posing interventions on learners’ cognitive learning outcomes.
Publication | This study was designed to examine how three undergraduate students enrolled in a developmental mathematics course interpreted and engaged with problem-posing tasks, the problems they posed and the knowledge the posed problems could invoke.…
Publication | This resource presents and describes a model for teaching and learning mathematics responsively in the elementary and middle grades. Developed through the Responsive Math Teaching (RMT) project—a seven-year collaboration between teachers,…
Publication | Preservice elementary science teachers' beliefs and practices influence the kinds of adaptations they make to curriculum materials and the extent to which they are able to enact justice-oriented science lessons. Through this qualitative study,…
Publication | The Concord Consortium is proud to announce a new grant from the National Science Foundation for our Intelligent Simulation-based Learning About Natural Disasters (ISLAND) project. ISLAND will harness the power of artificial…
Publication | Curriculum design experts from the Center for Technology and School Change propose a process for teachers to design STEM curriculum that prioritizes inquiry rooted in the community that empowers students to be active participants in a democratic…
Publication | Curriculum materials can play an essential role to help teachers shift their instruction. However, curricular enactment does not look identical in every classroom, because teachers need to be responsive to their students. In this study, we…