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Teacher-facilitated whole-class conversations can help elementary students apply the full power of the NGSS science and engineering practices to an engineering design process. In this article we describe and provide…
The Role of Whole-Class Conversations in Supporting Early Elementary Students’ Engineering Design Sense-Making
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We consider how intentionally planned and facilitated whole-class conversations can “make space” for students’ sense-making about engineering problems and solutions and position them with epistemic authority to contribute…
Justice-Centered STEM Education with Multilingual Learners: Conceptual Framework and Initial Inquiry into Pre-service Teachers’ Sense-Making
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Our conceptual framework for justice-centered STEM education engages all students in multiple STEM subjects, including data science and computer science, to explain and design solutions to pressing societal challenges and…
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This section presents an overview of critical developments in technology-driven, classroom-based innovative assessment practices. It uses a framework organized around cognitive constructs, assessment functionality, and…
The Crisis You Can’t Plan For: K-12 Leader Responses and Organisational Preparedness During COVID-19
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Unlike many types of educational crises, the COVID-19 pandemic was a crisis leaders could not have prepared for. But research is only starting to examine how leaders’ responses and organisational context have played a role…
Navigating Policy and Local Context in Times of Crisis: District and School Leader Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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This article examines how federal/state-level policy guidance and local context have influenced district and school leader responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how these external/internal factors might provide a…
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Teachers are increasingly participating in RPPs with the goal of improving their schools and districts. However, we know little about what teachers learn from their involvement in RPPs. This study explores teacher learning…
Designing Standards-aligned Formative Assessments to Explore Middle School Students’ Understanding of Algorithms
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'Algorithms’ is a core CS concept included in the K-12 CS learning standards, yet student challenges with understanding and using algorithms are still not well documented. This paper describes an approach to decompose the…
Exploring Middle School Students’ Understanding of Algorithms Using Standards-aligned Formative Assessments: Teacher and Researcher Perspectives
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‘Algorithms’ is a core CS concept included in the K-12 CS standards, yet student challenges with understanding different aspects of algorithms are still not well documented, especially for younger students. This paper…
Uncovering Middle School CS Students’ Understanding of Variables and Control Structures: A Cognitive Think-Aloud Approach
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This poster presents findings on middle school students’ understanding of core computer science (CS) concepts, such as variables and control structures, using cognitive think-aloud interviews with eight students…
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Explore how DRK-12 projects are leveraging collaborative teacher learning approaches to improve science, engineering, and mathematics instruction.
This month’s Spotlight highlights five projects that…
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In order to inform a consensus study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Education Development Center is compiling a compendium of successfully scaled-up preK-12 STEM education…
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NSF is seeking rotator Program Directors that have "specialized knowledge in one or more of the following areas: 1) advanced technologies in education including, but not limited to, Artificial Intelligence (AI), quantum,…
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Explore how DRK-12 projects are leveraging collaborative teacher learning approaches to improve science, engineering, and mathematics instruction.
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NSF is offering a virtual workshop for prospective CAREER applicants to the NSF Directorate for STEM Education on May 15. Pre-registration is required.
Learn more and register: https://new.nsf.gov/events/edu-faculty-early-…
NSF Policy Office Webinar Series: Implementing the Common Forms for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a webinar on Implementing the Common Forms for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support on April 25. Learn more and register! https://…
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The Division of Research and Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) at NSF is seeking a Permanent Program Director with expertise in Quantitative Research Methodology. Learn more: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/…
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a webinar on Implementing the Common Forms for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support on April 25 at 2 PM ET. If you are planning to submit an NSF…
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Framework to organize foothold practices for centering justice in science education.
Framework to organize foothold practices for centering justice in science education.…
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This Spotlight highlights the ways in which DRK-12 projects are engaging families and caregivers to support STEM learning, including building parent leadership capacity and co-creating and testing home-based activities,…
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In this blog post, we briefly reflect on how family engagement in STEM learning has evolved as a research topic from the start of the NGSS era to the present day.
Ask nearly any teacher or school…
Language Systematizes Attention: How Relational Language Enhances Relational Representation by Guiding Attention
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Language can affect cognition, but through what mechanism? Substantial past research has focused on how labeling can elicit categorical representation during online processing. We focus here on a particularly powerful type…
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A curriculum developer on the DataPBL project details his journey searching for data about the Japanese American internment for 8th grade students to explore with CODAP.
A curriculum developer on the…
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The DataPBL project enlisted a team of teachers, data science educators, and researchers to co-design data experiences for the eighth grade Japanese American Internment curriculum module developed by EL Education…
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Rachel Folger laughs when she recounts the time one of the students in her eighth grade social studies class exclaimed, “Whoa, Ms. Folger! Did you know that this is just what we’re doing in math?” Rachel is thrilled that…
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This chapter describes an ongoing research-practice partnership with in-service teachers in communities across Oregon focused on broadening participation in STEM fields. We explore how our design-based work with teachers…
Shaping Ambitious Science Teaching to Be Culturally Sustaining and Productive in a Rural Context: Toward a Justice-Centered Ambitious Science Teaching Framework
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Significant science education resources, namely the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) framework, need an intentional aim of centering social justice for minoritized…
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Abstract concepts, such as gravity, may provide the perfect opportunity to bring phenomena into the classroom. Using phenomena and summary writing together might help student learning since it requires making connections…
Characterizing Adaptive Expertise: Teacher Profiles Based on Epistemic Orientation and Knowledge of Epistemic Tools
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With an ultimate goal of characterizing teachers' movement toward understanding the epistemic complexity of generative learning environments, this study refers to adaptive teaching expertise (AdTex) as a…
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Adopting a complexity perspective, we attempt to understand how teachers shift over time by examining their epistemic orientation to knowledge generation and their understanding of the nature of the epistemic tools of…
How Do On-Site Teacher Educators Approach Professional Development? A Study of Insider/Outsider Hybridity
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In-service professional development is important for improving teaching. However, little research has examined how the roles, beliefs, and backgrounds of the individuals providing professional development can best be…
The Dimensionality of the Epistemic Orientation Survey and Longitudinal Measurement Invariance for the Short Form of EOS (EOS-SF)
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The dimensionality of the epistemic orientation survey (EOS) was examined across four occasions with item factor analysis (IFA). Because of an emphasis on the knowledge generation of epistemic orientation (EO), four…
Unpacking Teachers’ Orientations Toward a Knowledge Generation Approach: Do We Need to Go Beyond Epistemology?
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This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a professional development program rooted in knowledge generation theory. Specifically, it sought to examine the changes in teachers' three orientations following…
Centering Educators’ Voices in the Development of Professional Learning for Data-Rich, Place-Based Science Instruction
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This self-reflective case study describes our project team’s efforts to promote equity in science professional learning (PL) by centering the voices of educators in the PL design process and within the course itself. In…
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In today’s technologically complex and connected world, students’ needs to develop competencies and confidence with data have never been greater. The authors describe effective practices for engaging all students with data…
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Given the importance of early mathematics to academic success in all subjects, children need and deserve to build a robust knowledge of early math concepts in their earliest years. In this chapter, we consider the approach…
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EDC's Young Mathematicians kits provide teachers and parents with games that are fun, spark conversations about math and provide rich learning opportunities.
EDC's Young Mathematicians kits provide…
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Build a classroom community by building representations and visualizations of data related to students’ names.
Build a classroom community by building representations and visualizations of data related…
Thinking Critically, Coding Creatively: Elevating Social Studies Through Inquiry-based Learning and Computer Science Integration
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Weaving computer science into the fabric of social studies, rather than teaching it as an isolated skill, makes both subjects more relevant, engaging, and beneficial to students.
Weaving computer…
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May 15, 2024 | 2-3:30 PM ET
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have changed the role of AI in education research. How do we navigate these changes…
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Join NSF on Thursday May 2nd at 2pm ET for a webinar on the newly revised Computer Science for All (CSforAll:RPP) solicitation. Program officers from the directorates for STEM Education (EDU) and Computer and Information…
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Family and community engagement in education can contribute to positive student outcomes. Read how projects featured in this month’s Spotlight are including families and caregivers across preK-12 grades in…
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The first webinar in our series discussed strategies to ethically navigate AI in education research.
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Read how DRK-12 projects are engaging families and caregivers to support STEM learning and education research.
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In this paper we describe a technical infrastructure, entitled Open Game Data, for conducting educational game research using open science, educational data mining and learning engineering approaches.…
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The real-time detection of when a player is struggling presents an opportunity for game designers to design timely and meaningful interventions, as well as to provide targeted support that improves student learning and…
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In this study, we examine the results of high school teacher implementation of the VisChem Approach in four classrooms following an intensive professional development program.
Most chemistry instruction…
Beyond Convenience: A Case and Method for Purposive Sampling in Chemistry Teacher Professional Development Research
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In this report, we present a novel solution to the problem of multiple-criterion-focused selection of research and PD participants when the number of applicants to participate outnumbers the availability of resources…
Generating an Evidence-based Guide to Scaffolding Sodium Chloride Dissolution Using the VisChem Approach
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Aqueous solutions have proved to be a challenging topic for chemistry students at all levels. An understanding of what is happening at the molecular level in aqueous processes such as dissolution is key to understanding…
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Daily Do Playlists are suggested instructional sequences of two or more Daily Do lessons in which students coherently build science ideas over time.
In the first playlist lesson, students experience…