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Achievements and Challenges of Modeling-based Instruction (ACMI) in Science Education: from 1980 to 2009
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This project will synthesize existing literature on modeling-based instruction (MBI) in K-12 science education over the last three decades. It will rigorously code and examine the literature to conceptualize the…
Using PISA to Develop Activities for Teacher Education (UPDATE)
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This project uses items and data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) to develop two kinds of resources for preparation and professional development of secondary mathematics teachers: one…
Changing Curriculum, Changing Practice
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This project is studying the impact of implementing a NSF-funded, high school mathematics curriculum that emphasizes mathematical habits of mind. This curriculum focuses on ways of thinking and doing mathematics…
Supporting Scientific Practices in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms
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This project will develop a learning progression that characterizes how learners integrate and interrelate scientific argumentation, explanation and scientific modeling, building ever more sophisticated versions…
Modeling Engineered Levers for the 21st Century Teaching of STEM (Collaborative Research: Schunn)
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This project will develop three replacement units for biology and refine them through classroom testing. The units will be models of STEM integration by using the important concepts of proportional reasoning and…
Confronting the Challenges of Climate Literacy (Collaborative Research: Ledley)
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This project is developing inquiry-based, lab-focused, online Climate Change EarthLabs modules as a context for ongoing research into how high school students grasp change over time in the Earth System on…