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This article focused on engineering practices for elementary classrooms.
Cunningham, C. M., & Kelly, G. J. (2017). Framing Engineering Practices in Elementary School Classrooms. International…
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This article features EarSketch -a STEAM learning intervention that combines a programming environment and API for Python and JavaScript, a digital audio workstation, an audio loop library, and a standards-aligned…
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This article examine geometry teachers' perspectives regarding realistic contexts during a lesson study cycle. I ask the following. (a) What are the participants' perspectives regarding realistic contexts that elicit…
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In this article, students use data and models to make a difference in their own school yard.
Marcum-Dietrich, N., Kerlin, S., Staudt, C., & Daniels, M. (2018). Our watershed. The Science Teacher, 85…
Uncovering the Skills That Preservice Teachers Bring to Teacher Education: The Practice of Eliciting a Student’s Thinking
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This article reports a study of the specific knowledge of and skills with teaching practice that novices bring to teacher education with respect to one teaching practice, eliciting student thinking in elementary…
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Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in…
Examining the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching of Proving in Scenarios Written by Pre-service Teachers
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This chapter examines what aspects of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching of Proving (MKT-P) can be observed in written scenarios of classroom interactions, produced by pre-service teachers of mathematics…
Evaluation of three interventions teaching area measurement as spatial structuring to young children
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In this article, authors evaluated the effects of three instructional interventions designed to support young children’s understanding of area measurement as a structuring process.
We evaluated the…
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This study examines how students’ engineering notebooks across four units of the curriculum Engineering is Elementary (EiE) support student work during design challenges.
Engineering design challenges…
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching.
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses using the 5E learning…
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This conference paper explains how EarSketch affects student persistence.
McKlin, T., Magerko, B., Lee, T., Wanzer, D., Edwards, D., & Freeman, J. (2018). Authenticity and personal creativity: How…
Designing Simulations to Learn About Pre-service Teachers’ Capabilities with Eliciting and Interpreting Student Thinking
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This chapter focuses on the design of simulation assessments to learn about pre-service teachers’ capabilities with eliciting and interpreting student thinking.
This chapter focuses on the design of…
Children’s Measurement: A Longitudinal Study of Children’s Knowledge and Learning of Length, Area, and Volume
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This monograph is a report on a four-year-long multisite longitudinal study that studied children’s thinking and learning about geometric measurement (i.e., length, area, and volume).
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Directing focus and enabling inquiry with representations of practice: Written cases, storyboards, and teacher education
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In this conference paper, authors discuss affordances and liabilities of using a storyboard to depict a written case of a teacher’s dilemma that involves race, opportunity to learn, and student community…
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In this paper, authors explore collaborative music live coding (CMLC) using the live coding environment and pedagogical tool EarSketch. In particular, we examine the use of turn-taking and a customized chat window inspired…
Moving toward approximations of practice in teacher professional development: Learning to summarize a problem-based lesson
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This article focuses on problem-based lessons in teacher professional development.
González, G. (2018). Moving toward approximations of practice in teacher professional development: Learning to…
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This article focused on equitable mathematics instruction for U.S. and Korean preservice teachers.
Lee, J., Kim, J-H., Kim, S-M., & Lim, W. (2018). How to envision equitable mathematics instruction…
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In this paper, authors present the causal loop diagrams developed to explain the relationships between the actors and attributes involved in implementing EarSketch in a particular school setting. The diagram allows us to…
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This chapter focused on learning and teaching measurement.
Smith, J. P., & Barrett, J. E. (2017). The learning and teaching of measurement: Coordinating quantity and number. In J. Cai (Ed.),…
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The study examines geometry teachers' video club discussions in a two-year professional development intervention that combined lesson study, video clubs, and animation discussions to promote teacher noticing of students'…
Teachers’ Noticing of Students’ Thinking in Science Through Classroom Artifacts: In What Ways Are Science and Engineering Practices Evident?
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Building on the work of teacher noticing, this study investigated teachers’ noticing of students’ thinking evident in artifacts from their science teaching context.
Building on the work of teacher…
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In this article, authors introduce the design of a science teaching video club and present a study of its implementation.
Science education stakeholders worldwide are engaged in efforts to support…
Science as Experience, Exploration, and Experiments: Elementary Teachers’ Notions of ‘Doing Science’
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This study begins to reframe the deficit approach to research in science teaching by privileging the experiences elementary teachers have had with science – both in and out of schools – throughout their lives. This work…
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This blog post includes the link to 4 videos of teachers using the project's middle school ecosystems unit.
Kastel, D. (2017, August 25). Classroom videos from disruptions in ecosystems unit [Blog post…
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Disruptions in Ecosystems is a middle school curriculum unit with supporting teacher materials. The unit includes five chapters, each focused on a specific phenomenon related to ecosystem disruption, including questions…
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This resource provides access to a classroom video of a lesson from the project's middle school ecosystems unit, and the related student scaffold and scoring rubric.
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Funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is contingent on legislative support. Because of this, it is important for NSF awardees to communicate with legislators about the value and importance of their projects…
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CLP contains seven tools for use in creating visual representations, as shown in examples. More details about using each tool follow these examples.
Classroom Learning Partner (CLP) tools allow students…
National Survey on Supporting Struggling Mathematics Learners in the Middle Grades: Executive Summary
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This executive summary captures the results of the National Survey on Supporting Struggling Mathematics Learners in the Middle Grades, a study designed and conducted by EDC. T
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This 2018 AERA structured poster session shed light on the DR K-12 portfolio of transformative research in online and blended teacher professional development.
The STEM education landscape continuously…
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In this study, we challenge the deficit perspective on mathematical knowing and learning for children labeled as LD, focusing on their struggles not as a within student attribute, but rather as within teacher-learner…
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Cognitive differences intrinsic to children with learning disabilities (LDs) have historically led to deficit assumptions concerning the mathematical experiences these children “need” or can access. We argue that the…
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Exploring how children’s conceptions might advance through their implicit knowledge provides a fundamental view into children’s mathematics and elucidates possible alternative definitions of “learning difference (LD)”. I…
Science in the LearningGardens: A study of motivation, achievement, and science identity in low-income middle schools
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This study reports results from 113 students and three science teachers from two low-income urban middle schools participating in SciLG. It highlights the role of students’ views of themselves as competent, related, and…
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In this May 2nd webinar, panelists discussed how to prepare for effective informational meetings with congressional staff and craft appropriate messages about preK-12 STEM education research for conversations with local,…
The Evidence Based Curriculum Design Framework: Leveraging Diverse Perspectives in the Design Process
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The ubiquity of touchscreen, mobile tablet technology has resulted in a plethora of “apps for learning” yet few leverage the learning sciences as a design driver. This paper describes our approach to integrating the…
“Just put it together to make no commotion:” Re-imagining Urban Elementary Students’ Participation in Engineering Design Practices
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In the growing field of K-12 engineering education, there is limited research that highlights the experiences of youth from historically marginalized communities within engineering learning environments. This study offers…
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This report presents key findings from a keyword survey administered in 2017 to the principle investigators of the CADRE Discovery Research PreK–12 (DRK–12) program during the fall of 2017. The survey asked respondents to…
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This brief offers insights from National Science Foundation-supported research for education leaders and policymakers who are broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM). Many of…
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This brief draws on research supported by the National Science Foundation to highlight important considerations for educators and others who design and provide STEM educational experiences for young children…
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NSF program directors provides information on the DRK-12 program and solicitation in this webinar series.
Watch a recording of the 2018 DRK-12 Solication Webinar (use the bookmarks on left side of…
The Use of Theory in Research on Broadening Participation in PreK–12 STEM Education: Information and guidance for prospective DRK–12 grantees
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This paper seeks to provide a resource for prospective DRK-12 awardees by identifying some of the theories that current and recent DRK-12 awardees are using in their research on broadening participation…
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The imperative that all students, including English learners (ELs), achieve high academic standards and have opportunities to participate in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning has become even…
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This study explores how technology can support idea exchanges in ways that value individuals’ prior ideas, and allow students to use these ideas to benefit their own and their peers’ learning.
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This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering.
This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering. Noting the importance of infiltration in the water cycle and in…
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This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher.
This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. A resource for integrating…
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This article examines recognition by presenting the case of a physics teacher, Dr. D, and his student, Kristina, to address the question: What are the ways in which a young woman perceives recognition from her teacher…
Improving the preparation of novice secondary science teachers for English learners: A proof of concept study
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This proof of concept study investigated a secondary science teacher preparation intervention in six university programs across Arizona, California, and Texas. Researchers and science method instructors (SMIs)…
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Our work suggests re-conceptualization of research concerning students’ over reliance on example-based reasoning, moving from a view of such reasoning as a stumbling block to quickly overcome toward a view of such…
Examining the career paths of doctorates in mathematics education working in institutions of higher education
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This article focuses on the career paths in higher education taken by 351 doctoral graduates in mathematics education and provides insight into their career path and their resulting workload.
This…