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This Spotlight features expertise, tools, and examples from DRK-12 projects related to assessing aspects of teaching practice in STEM education.
This Spotlight features expertise, tools, and examples…
Event
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…
Project Spotlight
The SciJourn project investigates the teaching of science journalism as a vehicle for improving high school students' scientific literacy and engagement. The project brings St. Louis area youth into a real newsroom…
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Learn about DRK-12 projects that are advancing the field of algebra education through innovative technologies, teacher professional development, curriculum impact studies, meta-research, and strategic partnership…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight features new briefs on AI in STEM teaching and learning, seven projects using AI in their DRK-12 work, and additional projects, publications, and blogs.
In this month’s Spotlight, we are…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight highlights a few of the many ways artificial intelligence can be applied to STEM classrooms and education research, from AI-based assessment to intelligent virtual companions.
This…
Event
Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303779&org=EHR
NAME AND COMMITTEE CODE: Advisory Committee for Education and Human Resources (#1119) (Virtual Meeting)
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For more information visit http://www.nctm.org/conferences/
DR K-12 Presenters:
Kathryn Chval, A.Thomas and D. Taylan, University of Missouri (Project: CAREER: A Study of Strategies and Social Processes that Facilitate…
Event
To learn more, visit https://2022.isls.org/.
DRK-12 Presentations
"We Need to Step it Up—We Are Basically the Future”: Latinx Young Women Doing Chemistry (Presenters: Nation, J. & Kang, H.)
Applying Deweyan…
Blog
Blog
On Being Inducted into the DRK-12 ProgramAs a CADRE Fellow, one of my tasks at the DRK-12 PI Meeting--in addition to making new connections and learning about the projects that are being funded…
Event
The Cyberlearning 2016: Designing for Deeper, Broader, and More Equitable Learning will take place January 25-26, 2016 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA. Approximately 150 leading researchers along with…
Project Spotlight
Read how DRK-12 projects are addressing issues of equity and supporting teachers in understanding and using learning progressions and trajectories.
This Spotlight features research on science and math…
Beyond Academia: How CADRE Fellows Are Leading, Innovating, and Driving Change in K–12 STEM Education
Blog
Blog
As STEM education funding and academic research opportunities continue to shift, early career researchers are increasingly finding fulfilling careers outside traditional academic settings. Survey…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight features DRK-12 partnership development projects. This project type seeks to build or strengthen connections among school partners and researchers for the purpose of co-designing future DRK-12 research…
Project Spotlight
The demand for data skills is growing across industries and disciplines. Understanding how to analyze and interpret data will not only be critical for students as they enter the workforce, but also as they grapple with…
Event
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
Fall 2011 Conference
Call for Papers
The Fall 2011 SREE research conference “Building an Education Science: Improving Mathematics and Science Education for All Students”…
Blog
Blog
CADRE invited the PIs of the TRUmath and Lesson Study: Supporting Fundamental and Sustainable Improvement in High School Mathematics Teaching project (Grant Nos. 1503342,…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight features DRK-12 collaborative projects, provides insight into the affordances and challenges of partnering with multiple organizations, and offers advice for those considering a collaborative proposal…
Project Spotlight
The demand for data skills is growing across industries and disciplines. Understanding how to analyze and interpret data will not only be critical for students as they enter the workforce, but also as they grapple with…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight features perspectives, research, and resources related to building evidence in STEM education, particularly by means of replication.
This Spotlight features perspectives, research, and…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight highlights the work of DRK-12 projects focused on organizing conferences or workshops to advance their work and the STEM education field.
This Spotlight highlights the work of DRK-12…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight explores work with K-12 students and teachers to promote computer science and computational thinking across academic disciplines.
As the field of computer science grows and computing…
Project Spotlight
Citizen Science and crowdsourcing projects enable the public—young and old, students and teachers, amateur and expert—to participate in scientific data collection and research. In this Spotlight, you'll read about five…
Project Spotlight
Read about innovative DRK-12 work focused on spatial reasoning.
Spatial reasoning—the ability to visualize, manipulate, and understand relationships between objects in space—is a critical cognitive…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight highlights resources and research to support modeling in science and mathematics classrooms.
The National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices,…
Project Spotlight
Learn about DRK-12 work to enhance teacher education using video.
In this Spotlight, learn how seven DRK-12 projects are leveraging video to enhance teacher learning. Blog writer, Karl Kosko, describes…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight examines connections between formal STEM education and learning supported by museums, science centers, families, communities, and other informal settings that are part of the STEM education ecosystem…
Event
To learn more, visit https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting.
DRK-12 Presentations
"Juntos" to Support Multilingual Students' Mathematics Learning: Bringing Families' Funds of Knowledge Into the Classroom (…
Project Spotlight
Learn about projects developing and studying models and resources to improve and assess teachers' knowledge for teaching science, mathematics, and computer science.
In this Spotlight, Julie Luft…
Event
Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE)
Program Solicitation NSF 10-586
Replaces Document(s):NSF 09-601
National Science Foundation
Directorate for…
Changes to Mathematical Understanding as Influenced by Learning in a Collaborative Dynamic Geometry Setting
Poster
Web 2.0 environments provide infrastructure for synchronous access to communication and shared dynamic mathematical tools. These tools enable mathematicians (Alagie & Alagie, 2013) and mathematics learners (Alqahtani…
The Computational Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) Capability Flow: An Approach to Articulating CAT Capabilities over Time in African-American Middle-school Girls
Resource
This paper explores the CAT Capability Flow, which begins to describe the processes and sub-skills and capabilities involve in computational algorithmic thinking (CAT). To do this, authors engage in an approach which…
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
Resource
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…
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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
Resource
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…
Resource
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…
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…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
Registration for the 2021 DRK-12 PI Meeting has opened! If you are the PI of a project that will be active in June, check your inbox for the invitation. This year, up to three project members and…
CAREER: Black and Latinx Parents Leading Reform and Advancing Racial Justice in Elementary Mathematics
Poster
Elementary School
Mathematics
Broadening Participation
Professional Development
CAREER: Black and Latinx Parents Leading…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
Happy summer, and welcome to the most recent new awardees! For those preparing to submit proposals for the next DRK-12 deadline (October 5, 2022), we invite you to listen to our recent informational…
Transforming Science Learning Framework: Translating an Equity Commitment into Action through Co-Design
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In this study, we present a conceptual tool for guiding teachers’ principled pedagogical actions toward equitable instruction, referred to as the Transforming Science Learning (TSL) framework. The TSL framework was…
STEM starts early: Grounding science, technology, engineering, and math education in early childhood
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This report summarizes the latest research findings on the importance and impact of early STEM across the child's ecological systems, as well as the critical importance of framing communications about early STEM in an…
CAREER: Black and Latinx Parents Leading Reform and Advancing Racial Justice in Elementary Mathematics
Poster
Elementary School
Mathematics
Through critical community-engaged scholarship with ten Black and Latinx families and two community organizations, the PI…
Resource
The Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) is comprised of documents relating to the National Science Foundation's proposal and award process for the assistance programs of NSF.…