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Examining Elementary School Science Achievement Gaps Using an Organizational and Leadership Perspective
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There is the tendency to explain away successful urban schools as indicative of the heroic efforts by a tireless individual, effectively blaming schools that underperform for a lack of grit and dedication. This study…
Professional development aligned with AP Chemistry curriculum: Promoting science practices and facilitating enduring conceptual understanding
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The recent revisions to the advanced placement (AP) chemistry curriculum promote deep conceptual understanding of chemistry content over more rote memorization of facts and algorithmic problem solving.…
Science for All: A new breed of schools is closing achievement gaps among students and may hold the key to a revitalized 21st-century workforce
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Lynch, S.J. (2015, Aug. 1). Science for All: A new breed of schools is closing achievement gaps among students and may hold the key to a revitalized 21st-century workforce. Scientific American.…
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The Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry (ITSI) project is a learning portal with hundreds of free, customizable science, math, and engineering activities funded by the National Science Foundation…
To customize or not to customize? Exploring science teacher customization in an online lesson portal
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New technologies are increasingly giving science teachers the ability to access and customize science lessons. However, there is substantial debate in the literature about whether and under what…
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To examine the value of the electronic teacher guide (eTG) as a curriculum planning and teaching tool,
it was important to study it in the contexts of teachers’ actual planning, teaching, and reflecting.
This paper…
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An effective curriculum helps you support students' science learning, understanding, and achievement. But what does "effective" mean? This video gives you the inside scoop on what makes a curriculum effective and flags…
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"Content coherence"--ideas presented in a connected, sequential way--plays a big role in effective science instruction. Watch this video to find out how it works and how students benefit!…
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No one curriculum can meet the needs of all students and teachers. This video describes why a teacher might want to modify a curriculum and how he or she would go about it.
No one curriculum can meet…
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This brief gives an overview—and by no means a comprehensive one—of several NGSS-aligned projects in the areas of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development.
This brief gives an…
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An electronic teacher guide (eTG) was developed to determine whether a digital guide could better support teachers in implementing an inquiry-based curriculum and in enhancing their practice. Developed as a proof-of-…
I Want to be the Inquiry Guy! How Research Experiences for Teachers Change Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values About Teaching Science as Inquiry
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This qualitative study examined how and why research experiences for teachers (RETs) influenced middle and high school science teachers’ beliefs, attitudes, and values about teaching science as inquiry. Changes teachers…
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Though addressing sources of uncertainty is an important part of doing science, it has largely been neglected in assessing students' scientific argumentation. In this study, we initially defined a scientific argumentation…
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Pallant, A., & Pryputniewicz, S. J. (2015). Great Questions Make For Great Science Education. @Concord 19(1) 4-6.
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Invaluable values: an expectancy-value theory analysis of youths’ academic motivations and intentions
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While Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields have increased in importance over the past decade, minorities have remained traditionally underrepresented in these fields. In this study we seek to better…
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The importance of valuing student ideas in science education stands on firm empirical, theoretical, and moral grounds. However, the reasons for which one might value student ideas are often not explicitly distinguished,…
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The logic underlying inclusive STEM high schools (ISHSs) posits that requiring all students to take advanced college preparatory STEM courses while providing student-centered, reform-oriented instruction, ample student…
Threatened by Stereotype: An investigation of the effect of stereotype threat on female and minority students’ STEM learning in the context of a computer intervention
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To contribute to the growing field of STEM education, we examined the presence of stereotype threat for
female and African American students during a large-scale computing intervention. Namely, this paper
examines whether…
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This brief explores factors that contribute to opportunity gaps in STEM education based on race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and socioeconomic status. It showcases the work of several DR K-12 projects and describes…
Partnership Building as a Broadening-Participation Strategy: Helping Researchers and Developers Bridge the Gaps in STEM Education
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This brief examines the continued underrepresentation of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in STEM fields; explains the benefits of collaboration around broadening…
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Elementary School
Science
Deborah Hanuscin
2016 PI Supports for NGSS
Supporting Large Scale Change in Science Education: Understanding Professional Development and Adoption Variation Related to the Revised Advanced Placement Curriculum (PD-RAP)
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High School
Science
Arthur Eisenkraft
Chris Dede
Barry Fishman…
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Middle School
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Cory Buxton
Martha Allexsaht-Snider…
EcoMobile: Blended Real and Virtual Immersive Experiences for Learning Complex Causality and Ecosystems Science
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Middle School
Science
Technology
Chris Dede
Tina Grotzer…
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Elementary School
Science
Cory Forbes
Christina Schwarz
2016 PI Supports…
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High School
Engineering
Science
Technology
Gillian Puttick
Brian Drayton…
An Innovative Approach to Earth Science Teacher Preparation: Uniting Science, Informal Science Education, and Schools to Raise Student Achievement
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Post-secondary
Science
Maritza Macdonald
Broadening Participation Spotlight
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Science in the Learning Gardens: Factors that Support Racial and Ethnic Minority Students' Success in Low-Income Middle Schools
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Middle School
Science
Dilafruz Williams
Broadening Participation Spotlight
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Middle School
Science
Rachelle DiStefano
Christine Lee
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Middle School
High School
Post-secondary
Science
Technology
William Finzer…
Developing Critical Evaluation as a Scientific Habit of Mind: Instructional Scaffolds for Secondary Earth and Space Sciences
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High School
Science
Doug Lombardi
Broadening Participation Spotlight
Cluster Randomized Trial of the Efficacy of Early Childhood Science Education for Low-Income Children
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Pre-Kindergarten
Science
Laurie Van Egeren
Christina Schwarz
Mara Stein…
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Middle School
High School
Science
John Clement
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Middle School
Science
Christopher Harris
Joseph Krajcik
James Pellegrino
Louis…
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Elementary School
Science
Sara Lacy
Stamatis Vokos
2016 PI Supports for NGSS
PD…
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Middle School
High School
Science
Amy Pallant
2016 PI Arcade
Enviro Spotlight…
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Elementary School
Science
Sean Smith
2016 PI Supports for NGSS
Broadening Participation…
Stopping an Epidemic of Misinformation: Leveraging the K-12 Science Education System to Respond to Ebola
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Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Science
Sean Smith
Poster
Middle School
High School
Science
Technology
Douglas Clark
2016 PI Arcade…
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Elementary School
Science
Technology
James Minogue
Playing with the Data: Developing Digital Supports for Middle School Science Teachers using Game-based Formative Assessment
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Middle School
Science
Technology
James Diamond
2016 PI Arcade
Poster
Elementary School
Mathematics
Science
Temple Walkowiak
Ellen McIntyre
Instructional Leadership for Scientific Practices: Resources for Principals in Evaluating and Supporting Teachers' Science Instruction
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Elementary School
Middle School
Science
Katherine McNeill
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Middle School
High School
Science
Jessica Thompson
Mark Windschitl…
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Elementary School
Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Ji Shen…
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Middle School
Science
Samantha Daley
2016 PI Arcade
Broadening Participation Spotlight…
Learning Labs: Using Videos, Exemplary STEM Instruction and Online Teacher Collaboration to Enhance K-2 Mathematics and Science Practice and Classroom Discourse
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Elementary School
Mathematics
Science
Erika Nielsen Andrew
Elham Kazemi
Jessica…
CAREER: Community-Based Engineering as a Learning and Teaching Strategy for Pre-service Urban Elementary Teachers
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Elementary School
Post-secondary
Engineering
Science
Kristen Wendell…