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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

Teach mathematics and science using materials for the weather-focused Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, & Snow Network project.

This article portrays how citizen science (CS) projects can be integrated into elementary classrooms to enhance students’ sensemaking skills and connect to real-world science problems.

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong potential in performing automatic scoring for constructed response assessments. While constructed responses graded by humans are usually based on…