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Featured projects in the Spotlight on preK-12 Engineering Education:
Pre-K and/or Elementary Level
Developing Integrated Elementary Science, Engineering, and Language Arts Curricula Aligned with the Next Generation…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
This month, we are preparing to launch a new iteration of CADRE. Meet our team and learn more about our new initiatives. We are also revising some of our existing programs, such as our CADRE Fellows and…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
In this month’s newsletter, we are excited to announce the 2022 CADRE Fellows! Thank you to the reviewers who helped identify this year’s cohort from a record number of amazing applicants. We look forward…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
CADRE is excited to announce that we’re now accepting applications for the 2023 CADRE Fellows program! This program offers mentorship and community building for early career scholars and seeks to increase…
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This article introduces a new framework for articulating how educational assessments can be related to teacher uses in the classroom. It articulates three levels of assessment: macro (use of standardized tests), meso (…
Poster
Elementary School
Science
Improving the quality of teaching is essential to improving student outcomes. BSCS Science Learning and the University of…
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Our research explores possibilities for cultivating new spaces for preservice secondary science teachers to engage in science. In a content-focused education course, we designed for and studied preservice teachers'…
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Dear Colleagues,
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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Bridging the Gap Between High School and College Physics: An Exploratory Study
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S. B. McKagan, R. E. Scherr, E. W. Close, and H. G. Close, "Criteria for Creating and Categorizing Forms of Energy," C. Singh, M. Sabella, and Engelhardt (Eds.), AIP Conf. Proc. (2011 Physics Education Research Conference…
Announcement
Join the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) National STEM Learning Resource Center, National Science Foundation staff, and ITEST Principal Investigators for a Q&A session on developing…
PI Meeting Session
Plenary
Guest Speaker Session
Participants are invited to look into the future with our panelists and consider a research agenda for STEM education that responds to the…
Facilitating the Participation of Latino English language Learners: Learning from an Effective Teacher
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Throughout my career, I have collaborated with dedicated and hard-working teachers who have opened their classrooms so that others could learn from them. Yet, one teacher, Sara, stood out from all the others. From the…
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This article presents a framework for calculating statistical power for moderator effects at all levels for two- and three-level CRTs.
Recently, there has been an increase in the number of cluster…
Announcement
Georgia Tech Postdoctoral Fellow Position Available: Modeling and Research in Education
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow with interest and experience in education, modeling, andsimulation to join our diverse team…
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Find resources to help manage your NSF project.
Find resources to help manage your NSF project.
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Awardee Guide to Using CADREK12.org | CADRE
Managing Your NSF Grant: Webinar Slides and…
Fellows Alumni
Solís
Jorge Solís
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz)
University of Texas at San Antonio…
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We argue that progress in the area of research on mathematics teacher responses to student thinking could be enhanced were the field to attend more explicitly to important facets of those responses, as well as to related…
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This list of currently funded projects was last updated April 2020. Explore both current and past Earth Science and environmental education projects. View our Spotlight on DRK-12 Environmental/Earth Science Projects and…
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EarSketch helps you learn core topics in computer science, music, and music technology in a fun, engaging environment. You learn to code in Python or JavaScript, two of the most popular programming languages in the world,…
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The 2023 DRK-12 PI Meeting provided opportunities for learning, networking, and substantive conversations for approximately 300 DRK–12 project leaders, NSF program…
Poster
High School
Science
Most STEM education reforms aim to prepare learners to use science in their post-school daily lives. This goal is not about content…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
As we end 2023, we want to thank all of you who shared your research and what you’re learning about preK-12 STEM education (e.g., through project Spotlights, the DRK-12 PI Meeting, and the assessment…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
We have several announcements that we’re excited to share with you:
NSF has asked us to host a 2025 DRK-12 PI Meeting. Please mark June 9-11, 2025, on your calendars, and PIs of active awards should watch…
Poster
High School
Mathematics
This design research project is focused on studying secondary mathematics teachers' development of critical statistical…
Organization
https://www.ncsu.edu/
Nurturing Mathematics Dreamkeepers
Multimodal Science: Supporting Elementary Science Education through Graphic-enhanced Communication
The…
Announcement
The CADRE Fellowship is a competitive program providing a significant professional development experience for early career researchers and developers currently working on a DR K-12 project. Through program activities,…
Re-imagining a curriculum guide for teachers in digital format: A collaboration crossing geographical, disciplinary and culture boundaries
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The goal of the Electronic Teacher Guide project was to redesign the print teacher guide for the genetics unit of Foundation Science: Biology as an exemplar of a cybertool that would support the implementation of the…
Announcement
Excelencia in Education will release Finding Your Workforce: STEM, a new report revealing the Top 25 colleges graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math fields in 2009-10 and sharing selected evidence…
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The 2016 NSF CAREER Program Informational Webinar was held Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at 3:00 PM EST.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science…
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This article provides a cultural-historical (CHAT) analysis of the practices used by an effective teacher of Latino/a children previously classified as “underachieving” and “beginning/novice” English Language Learners.…
Challenges to Using the Regression Discontinuity Design in Educational Evaluations: Lessons from the Transition to Algebra Study
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This article describes the use of RD design to evaluate the impact of a supplemental algebra-readiness curriculum, Transition to Algebra, on students’ mathematics outcomes.
Interest in the regression…
Sticky Ions: A Student-Centered Activity Using Magnetic Models to Explore the Dissolving of Ionic Compounds
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Understanding what happens at the particulate level when ionic compounds dissolve in water is difficult for many students, yet this understanding is critical in explaining many macroscopic observations. This article…
Newsletter
This special edition newsletter shares resources from the 2018 DRK-12 Meeting, held June 6-8, 2018.
The Keynotes
NSF Welcome (Robert Ochsendorf, National Science Foundation) and Nexus of Change: Exploring the…
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We draw on our experiences researching teachers’ use of student thinking to theoretically unpack the work of attending to student contributions in order to articulate the student mathematics (SM) of those contribution…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues:
CADRE has had a busy summer and fall, and you will read about some of our activities in this newsletter. DR K-12 PIs, please watch your email for the annual survey conducted by UMass Donahue Institute, our…
What's In a Wave? Using Modeling and Computational Thinking to Enhance Students' Understanding of Waves
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Teaching about wave structure and function is a critical element of any physical science curriculum and supported by Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for…
Latiné, Latinx, Latina, Latino, or Hispanic: Problematizing Terms Often Used in Engineering Education
Early Career News
News
CADRE Fellows
Publication
Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Joel Alejandro Mejia (2013-14 CADRE Fellow), Janice Mejia, and Renata Revelo published this…
CAREER: Expanding Latinxs' Opportunities to Develop Complex Thinking in Secondary Science Classrooms Through a Research-Practice Partnership
Poster
Middle School
High School
Science
One goal of this project is to improve Latinx and multilingual students’ opportunities to engage in…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
This month’s Spotlight on Algebra Education in DRK-12 features projects focused on the connections between teaching practices, student reasoning, and the effectiveness of interventions. The projects…
Unpacking the Nuances: An Exploratory Multilevel Analysis on the Operationalization of Integrated STEM Education and Student Attitudinal Change
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Integrated STEM education (iSTEM) is recognized for its potential to improve students’ scientific and mathematical knowledge, as well as to nurture positive attitudes toward STEM, which are essential for motivating…
PI Meeting Session
Panel
Multilingual Learners
Three ELL-focused projects will describe their work in light of cross-project challenges.
The purpose of this session is…
Organization
http://www.unc.edu/
Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos (CEMELA)
CAREER: Making Science Visible: Using Visualization Technology to Support Linguistically Diverse Middle…
Considering the Future of K-12 STEM Curricula and Instructional Materials: Stimulating and Supporting New Developments
Poster
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Mathematics
Barbara Reys
Announcement
Want to learn more about NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)? Join us March 15, 2016 at 3pm ET for an informational webinar led by NSF Program Officer Karen King. The presenters–Michelle Cirillo,…
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The goal of this project was to create an inquiry activity to teach symmetry elements and symmetry operations in an inorganic chemistry course. Many students experience difficulty when building and mentally manipulating…
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In this exploratory study, we present typologies that represent two primary challenges teachers faced in developing coherent conceptual storylines in their lesson design, and examine the extent to which professional…
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CADRE has compiled sortable Excel lists of DR K-12 projects that work in a particular topic area (e.g., algebra, earth science) or with a particular target audience. These lists can be useful tools in writing proposals for…
Announcement
The latest NSF Dear Colleague Letter encourages investigators to submit proposals to study the integration of computing and/or computational thinking within disciplinary STEM learning and teaching in formal STEM…
Expanding Latinxs' Opportunities to Develop Complex Thinking in Secondary Science Classrooms through a Research-Practice Partnership (NSF #1846227)
CAREER Spotlight
This project aims to reduce youths’ opportunity gaps in secondary science classrooms by building a sustainable research–practice partnership. We explore how deliberately coordinated activities that facilitate the…