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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…
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Product Feedback Session Curriculum Science Elementary School Session participants will explore and discuss a beta…
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Other This session provides an opportunity for participants to discuss findings from a systematic review of instrumentation that DR K–12 projects proposed for assessing teacher’s content knowledge,…
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Dear Colleagues: This is our first "formal" opportunity to welcome new DR K-12 PIs, and welcome back those of you who we haven't seen since the June PI Meeting. Thanks to all who participated in making this one of the most…
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Planning to submit an NSF proposal this year? This toolkit is a compilation of helpful resources. Learn more about NSF’s funding opportunities in education and explore resources to help you in the…
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Free, standards-aligned, and research-based inquiry curricula that address NGSS 3D proficiency. Includes Interactive scientific models plus hands-on activities, personalized guidance, and rich embedded…
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Elementary School Science Broadening Participation Professional Development Despite widespread agreement about the…
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Dear Colleagues, This month we begin accepting applications for the CADRE Fellows Program. We’ve made some exciting changes to the program. We’re combining the Fellows and Postdoc programs this year and inviting…
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Dear Colleagues, This month’s newsletter includes a Spotlight on projects researching artificial intelligence (AI) in STEM teaching, learning, and assessment. It sheds light on directions in AI education research and…
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Elementary School Middle School Mathematics This project aims to examine how teachers' beliefs about the origins of mathematical…
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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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Dear Colleagues, This month’s Spotlight on Research and Practice Partnerships highlights current DRK-12 project work and the pivotal role of partnerships in advancing our understanding of effective teaching and learning…
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Click image to see poster. Abstract Objectives: In many contexts, teacher education is being designed to focus more directly on the practice of teaching which entails focusing much more on doing key aspects of the work. In…
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Dear Colleagues, Here in New England, where CADRE is headquartered, spring is trying hard to break through winter’s hold. We hope that as many of you head out for spring conferences, you encounter great weather for travel…
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Find resources to help manage your NSF project. Find resources to help manage your NSF project. General Awardee Guide to Using CADREK12.org | CADRE Managing Your NSF Grant: Webinar Slides and…
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This 2-year qualitative case study focuses on one emergent mathematics teacher leader, Mr. Miller, and his conceptualization of Social Justice Mathematics (SJM). SJM is a justice-oriented pedagogical approach where…
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Solís Jorge Solís Postdoctoral Researcher University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) University of Texas at San Antonio…
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Happy 2025 DRK-12 PI Community! Letter from NSF Program Directors It is hard to believe we are already three weeks into 2025! In this new year, we want to take a moment to thank you for all the work you are doing to…
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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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1. General Information The CADRE website is available for public and Member use. Any information submitted to the Site, unless designated otherwise, can be viewed by the public and Members, downloaded by the public and…
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Panel Assessment Science Technology This session presents recent implementation findings from four projects, each applying facet-based…
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org), aNSF-funded project of the School of Teaching and Learning, College ofEducation and Human Ecology, has been awarded the AAAS Science Prize forOnline…
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PI-organized Discussion Educational Technology The session provides an overview of and stimulates discussion about current DR K-12 projects initiating STEM classroom…
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Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-…
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Written for CADRE by ABT AssociatesOctober 9, 2013 Download the PDF (Note that the PDF includes links to projects associated with each of the report's findings.) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Methodology…
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The purpose of this study is to develop a statistical framework and tools for the effective and efficient design of multisite randomized trials (MRTs) probing moderated treatment effects. Past research…
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This project aims to increase solidarity among parents, community organizers, and teachers to advance racial justice in PreK-5 mathematics education. Research objectives include understanding the lived experiences of…
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In this paper we argue for the need to design and develop transformative learning ecologies that explicitly position the diverse voices of youth from nondominant communities as central to re-defining and re-envisioning…
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Science involves changing the scale of objects—particularly scales of size, time, and intensity—from what is experienced in the world. Similar to investigations conducted in science laboratories, classroom investigations…
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Middle School High School Mathematics A three year, mixed-methods, critical participatory action research project to develop a culturally…
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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…
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Dear Colleagues, CADRE introduces our new report, Classroom-Based STEM Assessment: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives. This report highlights the latest insights from DRK-12 program-funded research and underscores 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…
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Cognitive interviews play an important role in articulating the intended construct of educational assessments. This paper describes the iterative development of protocols for cognitive interviews with kindergarten through…
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Dear Colleagues, In this newsletter, we focus on project development, specifically highlighting insights and expertise from your DRK-12 and NSF colleagues, in preparation for the coming weeks and months when many of you…
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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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Dear Colleagues, This month's Spotlight on Games in STEM Education showcases innovative research into the role of gaming as a powerful tool to boost engagement and learning in STEM classrooms. Two blog posts featured in…
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https://www.msu.edu/ Problem-Based Learning Designed for Science and Mathematics Professional Development Learning Science as Inquiry with the Urban Advantage: Formal-Informal…
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Special Interest Group (SIG) Curriculum (Open to all grantees) Participants share their experiences transitioning to digital curricula, explore what curricula should…
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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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The mission of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is to be a central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education. A distinguishing feature of the WWC is that it does not directly assess programs,…
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Division L Junior Faculty Mentoring Session The Long Road to Tenure:  Navigating the Academic Terrain We invite all early career scholars (defined as pre-tenure university faculty in current tenure track positions) to…
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As part of our Spotlight on Early Childhood Education, 14 DRK-12 projects describe their work in early learning and share their challenges, findings, instruments, and products. Featured Projects: Building a Grades K-2…
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Dear Colleagues, On the heels of Earth Day and the White House’s climate summit, we’re featuring a Spotlight on Earth and Environmental Science that discusses environmental literacy and shares innovative DRK-12 work…
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News CAREER Awardees Publication Shakhnoza Kayumova (CAREER Awardee) and Deborah J. Tippins published this article in Cultural Studies of Science…
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This paper introduces an approach for designing NGSS-aligned assessments that measure young learners’ science progress while also attending to the scientific language and literacy practices that are integral parts of the…
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Dear Colleagues, As we enter Year 2 of our current CADRE project, we are excited to build off of our previous work and offer support to a new cohort of early career scholars through the CADRE Fellows. (Watch for an…
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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…
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Despite years of research and practice inspired by chemistry education research, a recent report shows that US secondary instruction is not aligned with current national reform-based efforts. One means to mitigate this…