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In this chapter, the authors present the design rationale for and empirical results from a predominantly synchronous three-part online model for the professional development of mathematics teachers in rural contexts…
Pathways for Analyzing and Responding to Student Work for Formative Assessment: The Role of Teachers’ Goals for Student Learning
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This study explored how teachers interpreted and responded to their own student work during the process of formative assessment.
This study explored how teachers interpreted and responded to their own…
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In this report, authors describe the results of a rigorous two-year study of the impacts of a mathematics initiative called Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) on teacher and student learning in grades 3-5 in two…
Revisiting Purpose and Conceptualisation in the Design of Assessments of Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge
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In this paper, authors focus on the design of assessments of mathematics teachers’ knowledge by emphasising the importance of identifying the purpose for the assessment, defining the specific construct to be measured, and…
Investigating Classroom-related Factors that Influence Student Perceptions of LEGO Robots as Educational Tools in Middle Schools
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This paper investigates classroom-related factors such as pedagogical strategies and management of robotics-based educational content that contribute to the formation of student perceptions in robotics-enhanced classes…
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This paper will describe the process and result of developing a LEGO robotics, NGSS, and 5E aligned middle school curriculum during a three-week summer PD program for teachers who teach urban students-of-color…
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This paper describes a program to engage teachers to learn about mechatronics, robotics, and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) through hands-on activities and collaborative research.
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Analyzing Successful Teaching Practices in Middle School Science and Math Classrooms when using Robotics
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This paper analyzes teaching practices that successfully integrate robotics in middle school science and math classrooms.
A robotics-based curriculum offers numerous opportunities to enrich science,…
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This paper describes how the design canvas of Kline et al. was adopted and implemented in our workshop and investigates its benefits.
Advances in science and technology are shaping every aspect of our…
Designing Robotics-based Science Lessons Aligned with the Three Dimensions of NGSS-plus-5E Model: A Content Analysis
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In this study, analyzing lesson plans using the rubrics provided opportunities for suggestions and feedback for improvement to developers and it informs the development of new lessons by the project team…
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A poster to be presented at the Association of Science Teacher Educators International Conference.
Hapgood, S., Heuring, J. & Wilson, G., Czerniak, C. (Accepted for January 2020). Early Childhood…
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Paper presented at the European Science Education Research Association.
Czerniak, C. M., Kaderavek, J., Paprzycki, P., Hapgood, S., Mentzer, G., Molitor, S., & Mendenhall, R. (2019). Longitudinal…
Longitudinal Impact of Early Childhood Science Instruction on Middle Grades Literacy and Mathematics
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Paper presented at the Global Conference on Education and Research.
Czerniak, C. M., Paprzycki, P., Hapgood, S., & Kaderavek, J. (2019). Longitudinal Impact of Early Childhood Science Instruction on…
Scientific Inquiry for Young Children: Linking Teacher Professional Development and Family Engagement to Improve Student Achievement
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Paper presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Conference.
Hapgood, S., Paprzycki, P., Czerniak, C.M. (2019). Scientific Inquiry for Young Children: Linking Teacher Professional…
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22 Common Core State Standards-aligned middle school lessons for teaching STEM with robotics.
22 Common Core State Standards-aligned middle school lessons for teaching STEM with robotics…
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10 NGSS-Plus-5E middle school lessons for teaching STEM with robotics.
10 NGSS-Plus-5E middle school lessons for teaching STEM with robotics.
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This website provides a growing repository of 360 videos of classroom instruction (currently focusing on elementary mathematics). We also have created and are disseminating tutorial videos for using or creating similar…
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The Flipped Mathematics Study offers advice on how to use video to teach math remotely.
The Flipped Mathematics Study offers advice on how to use video to teach math remotely…
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This study is a case of using second-order models of students’ mathematical thinking to differentiate instruction, and it reveals that inquiring into research-based knowledge and inquiring responsively into students’…
Initiation-Entry-Focus-Exit and Participation: A Framework for Understanding Teacher Groupwork Monitoring Routines
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In this paper, authors offer a framework for teacher monitoring routines—a consequential yet understudied aspect of instruction when teachers oversee students’ working together.
In this paper, we offer…
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Collection of 158 free interactive math and science simulations from University of Colorado Boulder. Engage students in math and science practices, and virtual labs, during remote learning. Find over 2,000 sim-based…
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Data Nuggets are free classroom activities, co-designed by scientists and teachers, designed to bring contemporary research and authentic data into the classroom. Students are guided through the entire process of science,…
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Play nine math learning apps and dozens of hands-on activities at home or in the classroom. A digital Teacher's Guide supports use in the classroom, and a digital Family Fun Guide provides activities to do at home…
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eRebuild is a math learning game for students in grades 6th-8th. The game focuses on teaching the concepts of geometery and ratios and proportions through gameplay.
eRebuild is a math learning game for…
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Proportions Playground is designed to build understandings of proportional reasoning.
Proportions Playground is designed to build understandings of proportional reasoning.…
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Each short video provides ideas for family science activities for preschool-grade 3 students that reinforce NGSS 3D learning.
Each short video provides ideas for family science activities for preschool-…
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The Analyzing Instruction in Math using the Teaching for Robust Understanding Framework (AIM-TRU) learning cycle is the result of a research-practice partnership centered on using the analysis of videocases grounded in…
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This poster shares data from a Grades K–2 cross sectional study that examined how students' thinking about equations and the meaning of the equal sign were shaped by their experiences exploring equations with pan balances…
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This poster provides an overview of the Strengthening Data Literacy across the Curriculum (SDLC) project, which is developing and studying curriculum modules for non-AP high school statistics classes to promote interest…
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A digital tool that offers compelling student middle grades math problems and provides students with assessment tools and a dynamic learning map.
A digital tool that offers compelling student middle…
Teacher Voices from an Online Elementary Mathematics Community: Examining Perceptions of Professional Learning
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This study compares web usage data with interviews from 41 participants, who are members of an online professional development site called the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), to explore how…
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The LEAP program is the first early algebra curriculum for students in grades 3-5. The program includes 18-20 one-hour lessons at each grade level and teacher support and assessment. Professional development …
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic school closures, the VAM project compiled example strategies, tasks, and apps for supporting students who are English learners (ELs) in mathematics, with information about how to adapt…
Mathematics Teaching Has Its Own Imperatives: Mathematical Practice and the Work of Mathematics Instruction
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In the article, the authors locate how mathematics instruction may actively respond to the influence of the discipline of mathematics and exemplify how obligations to other stakeholders may participate in the practical…
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Presentation slides and handout from the 2019 NCTM Regional Conference in Nashville, TN.
Presentation slides and handout from the 2019 NCTM Regional Conference in Nashville, TN…
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Presentation slides from the 41st annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
Presentation slides from the 41st annual meeting of…
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Presentation slides from the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
Presentation slides from the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the…
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This article describes an identity-based curriculum, Mathematics for Justice, Identity, and meta-Cognition (or MaJIC), that provides a form of mathematics therapy through a restorative justice framework…
Exploring Prospective Teachers’ Ability to Generate and Analyze Evidence-based Explanatory Arguments
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In this paper, using written responses of 37 PSTs preparing to teach grades 1-8 mathematics, authors examined explanations they constructed to support their problem solutions and explanations they provided in support of…
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In this article, we describe an example of differentiating instruction (DI) involving middle school students from a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation.
Differentiating…
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Three 18-session design experiments were conducted, each with 6–9 7th and 8th grade students, to investigate relationships between students’ rational number knowledge and algebraic reasoning. Implications for teaching are…
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This resource contains advice from CAREER awardees in the DRK-12 portfolio about how to develop a competitive proposal and successfully manage a CAREER project based on their experience.
This resource…
Webinar Resources: Strengthening Educators’ Practices for Engaging and Empowering Students with Disabilities and Difficulties as Mathematics Learners
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Amy Brodesky, Jessica Hunt, Karen Mutch-Jones and Judy Storeygard shared key components, successes, and challenges of asset-based PD in mathematics. The webinar focused on the pressing question: What…
Webinar Resources: Analyzing Teacher Learning in a Community of Practice Centered on Video Cases of Mathematics Teaching
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In this webinar, presenters Joseph DiNapoli, Eileen Murray, Doug O'Roark, and John Russell, shared the evolution of an analytic method that aims to reveal how secondary mathematics teachers…
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This study explores the pathways to K–12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics instruction among Black/African American males in the Discovery Research Education for African American Men in STEM to Teach (DREAMS…
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This NCTM 100 Days of Professional Learning webinar explores the cycle of inquiry and justification, conceptual obstacles, and strategies for overcoming these obstacles.
The Cycle of Inquiry and…
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In this paper, authors present a design narrative of our experience developing dashboards to support middle school mathematics teachers’ pedagogical practices, in a multi-university, multi-school district, improvement…
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A cluster randomized trial design was used to examine the effectiveness of a Grades 3 to 5 early algebra intervention with a diverse student population.
A cluster randomized trial design was used to…
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The purpose of this presentation is to convey validity evidence for a new measure titled Problem-Solving Measure for grade four (PSM4), an assessment within the previously published PSM series designed for elementary and…
“You are Never too Little to Understand Your Culture”: Strengthening Early Childhood Teachers through the Diné Institute for Navajo Nation Educators
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This article describes one effort to strengthen early childhood teaching in schools on the Navajo Nation that centers the work of two teachers within a program attempting to support teachers in the development of…