This report takes stock of what we currently know as well as what we need to know to make classroom assessment maximally beneficial for…
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Spotlights on STEM Education Research
Learn about projects researching and developing student assessment to support STEM teaching and learning and the DRK-12 program's contributions to the knowledge base on student assessment.
Learn about projects that are building teacher capacity and engaging students with authentic data, showcasing integration across and beyond STEM.
Learn about projects innovating life sciences education through online games, analyzing and interpreting data, modeling, and cross-cutting concept development.
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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
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…
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…
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…