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Youth Learning Science and Engineering While Developing Community-based Agency Through Resourceful Engagement in STEM (Collaborative Research: Hunter)
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This project will examine middle school students’ learning of earth and physical sciences and their functional understanding of engineering design as they engage in newly developed environmental justice-oriented…
Youth Learning Science and Engineering While Developing Community-based Agency Through Resourceful Engagement in STEM (Collaborative Research: Bryan)
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This project will examine middle school students’ learning of earth and physical sciences and their functional understanding of engineering design as they engage in newly developed environmental justice-oriented…
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To position students as mathematically competent, middle grades mathematics teachers need easily accessible professional learning (PL), including opportunities to participate in discussions about both…
Learning How to Help Middle Grades Science Teachers Integrate Data Exploration and Sensemaking in the Classroom (Collaborative Research: Griffith)
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Data literacy is the ability to ask questions, analyze, interpret, and draw conclusions from data. As the world and the workplace become more data-driven, students need to have stronger data literacy across…
Learning How to Help Middle Grades Science Teachers Integrate Data Exploration and Sensemaking in the Classroom (Collaborative Research: Rosenberg)
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Data literacy is the ability to ask questions, analyze, interpret, and draw conclusions from data. As the world and the workplace become more data-driven, students need to have stronger data literacy across…
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This project addresses the critical need for improved mathematics education of elementary teachers and their students by preparing and supporting Elementary Mathematics Specialists (EMSs) who are highly…
Designing a Professional Learning Model to Develop Teachers Professional Vision for Integrating Computational Thinking in K-12 Science Courses (Collaborative Research: Witherspoon)
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The goal of this project is to build teacher capacity for integrating computational thinking (CT) into grades 6–8 science classrooms. The project will support teacher professional vision and adaptive expertise…
Designing a Professional Learning Model to Develop Teachers Professional Vision for Integrating Computational Thinking in K-12 Science Courses (Collaborative Research: Greenwald)
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The goal of this project is to build teacher capacity for integrating computational thinking (CT) into grades 6–8 science classrooms. The project will support teacher professional vision and adaptive expertise…
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This project is developing and evaluating effectiveness of 15 - 20 short computer mediated animations and games that are designed to: (1) increase students' conceptual understanding in especially…
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This project is using data from interviews with 160 K-12 students and 20 adults to describe common understandings and progressions of development for negative number concepts and operations. The project is…
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This project will conduct a professional development series to improve the content knowledge of science teachers. "Across the Sciences," a ten-unit series requiring approximately 145 hours to complete, will…
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The aim of this project is to explore the hypothesis that a curricular focus on quantitative reasoning in middle grades mathematics can enhance development of student skill and understanding about mathematical…
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This project will design, develop, and test a virtual learning community (VLC) to enhance the ability of first- and fourth-grade teachers to provide mathematics education. The goal is to produce a prototype of a…
Differentiated Professional Development: Building Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching Struggling Learners
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This project is creating and studying a blended professional development model (face-to-face and online) for mathematics teachers and special educators (grades 4-7) with an emphasis on teaching struggling math…
Evaluating the Developing Mathematical Ideas Professional Development Program: Researching its Impact on Teaching and Student Learning
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This is a 3.5-year efficacy study of the Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI) elementary math teacher professional development (PD) program. DMI is a well-known, commercially available PD program with substantial…
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Colorado’s PhET project and Stanford’s AAALab will develop and study learning from interactive simulations designed for middle school science classrooms. Products will include 35 interactive sims with related…
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This project is developing and testing curriculum materials and a professional development model designed to explore the potential for introducing engineering concepts in grades 3 - 5 through design challenges…
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This project is creating and studying a professional development model to support preK teachers in developing culturally and developmentally appropriate practices in counting and early number. The proposed model…
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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…
Teachers Empowered to Advance Change in Mathematics (TEACH MATH): Preparing Pre K-8 Teachers to Connect Children's Mathematical Thinking and Community-Based Funds of Knowledge
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This project will modify the teacher preparation program for preK-8 teachers. The program is designed to help pre-service teachers learn mathematics well, learn to access students' cultural funds of knowledge,…
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This project will (1) identify the characteristics and needs of college-level target learners and their instructors with respect to evolution, (2) articulate the components for expanding the Understanding…
Investigating and Supporting the Development of Ambitious and Equitable Mathematics Instruction at Scale
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This project is supporting and investigating the implementation of reformed mathematics instruction at the middle school level in two large school districts. The primary goal of the project is to develop an…
Implementing the Mathematical Practice Standards: Enhancing Teachers' Ability to Support the Common Core State Standards
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This is a four-year project that is producing materials designed to help teachers see how the mathematical practices described in the Common Core State Standards for mathematics can be implemented in mathematics…
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This five-year project investigates how to provide continuous assessment and feedback to guide students' understanding during science inquiry-learning experiences, as well as detailed guidance to teachers and…
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LOCUS (Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics) is an NSF Funded DRK12 project (NSF#118618) focused on developing assessments of statistical understanding. These assessments will measure students’…