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Spotlights on STEM Education Research

This Spotlight features DRK-12 partnership development projects. This project type seeks to build or strengthen connections among school partners and researchers for the purpose of co-designing future DRK-12 research and development. In the Spotlight, PIs describe their processes for building partnerships, share challenges and strategies, and outline next steps for their partnerships.

Read about innovative DRK-12 work focused on spatial reasoning.

This Spotlight features projects developing innovative approaches to engineering education for all students and its integration into a variety of disciplines.

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This report takes stock of what we currently know as well as what we need to know to make classroom assessment maximally beneficial for…

Quality early STEM experiences provide a critical foundation for learning about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in ways that facilitate later learning. Early childhood…

Broadening participation in PreK–12 STEM provides ALL students with STEM learning experiences that can prepare them for civic life and the workforce. In this way, broadening participation has the…

DRK-12 Research and Products

The recent surge of artificial intelligence (AI) in science education has heightened interest among the NARST community—a curiosity about how technology can transform education that has lasted for…

This conceptual paper presents a framework for supporting multilingual students’ mathematical discourse through teacher professional development grounded in design-based research (DBR). Drawing on…

The disproportionate impacts of societal challenges (e.g., climate change, air and water pollution) on minoritized groups expose systemic injustices and compels STEM educators to reframe the role of…