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The process of modeling a complex phenomenon often requires working across representational systems of differing scales, modalities, and purposes. When put into contact, entities across multiple representational systems…
Beyond Assessing Knowledge about Models and Modeling: Moving toward Expansive, Meaningful, and Equitable Modeling Practice
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This article focused on expansive, meaningful, and equitable modeling practice.
Schwarz, C., Ki, L., Salgado, M., & Manz, E. (2022). Beyond assessing knowledge about models and modeling: Moving…
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The purpose of this study was to investigate fourth-grade students’ sensemaking of a word problem. Sensemaking occurs when students connect their understanding of situations with existing knowledge. We investigated…
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The construct of active learning permeates undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but despite its prevalence, the construct means different things to different people, groups,…
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The origin of the Universe is something that people have pondered for thousands of years. As evidence has mounted, the Big Bang theory has become the consensus scientific model. Much of this same evidence refutes opposing…
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High-quality science education is essential for students to become scientifically literate. Model-Evidence Link (MEL) diagrams and build-a-MEL (baMEL) diagrams are instructional scaffolds that create an opportunity for…
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On July 12th from 4pm- 5pm (Eastern) join NSF Program Officers to Learn more about the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Education and Human Resources’ (EHR) Core Research Program (ECR).
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On July 25th from 3pm- 4pm (Eastern) join NSF Program Officers to learn more about the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Education and Human Resources’ (EHR) Core Research Program (ECR).
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On August 23rd from 4pm- 5pm (Eastern) join NSF Program Officers to learn more about the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Education and Human Resources’ (EHR) Core Research Program (ECR).
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On September 12 from 3pm- 4pm (Eastern) join NSF Program Officers to learn more about the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Education and Human Resources’ (EHR) Core Research Program (ECR). Topic TBD.
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This report describes initial findings from a study of middle school science curriculum materials that were designed to promote learning as called for by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).…
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The rapid and unexpected nature of the move to online instruction has meant that the content presented to students has been primarily static and linear. Thus, there is a need for creative pedagogical approaches that re-…
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Through a composite counter-story from the perspective of fifth-grade Raza learners, the authors show how race and language play a role in the mathematics classroom.
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The ReLaTe-SA project investigates the research question: what language do teachers use to describe and explain routines in algebra classes? The goal of this article is to inform readers about some ways we have learned to…
Conceptualizing a Shared Definition and Future Directions for Extended Reality (XR) in Teacher Education
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Scholarship on extended reality (XR) in teacher education is emerging at an increasing rate. As additional forms of XR become more common in the profession, there is a need for teacher educators to consider how the various…
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Professional noticing is an essential skill for teachers that is enacted by teachers via their embodied senses (sight, sound, etc.). To better understand the nature of teacher noticing, 44 preservice teachers (PSTs) viewed…
Situating Presence within Extended Reality for Teacher Training: Validation of the Extended Reality Presence Scale (XRPS) in Preservice Teacher Use of Immersive 360 Video
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The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate an instrument for assessing immersive 360 video use in an undergraduate preservice teacher university training program.
The use of video is…
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This preliminary study explored how many representations of standard videos, animations/comics, and 360 videos are being used in mathematics methods courses to teach future teachers. Drawing on knowledge from prior studies…
360 Video as an Immersive Representation of Practice: Interactions between Reported Benefits and Teacher Noticing
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This study examined and compared teachers’ perceived affordances of 360 video as a representation of practice and their professional noticing of students’ mathematics in 360 videos. Results from this study suggest that…
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There is strong empirical evidence in support of learning from comparisons in mathematics education research. The Animated Contrasting Cases in Geometry project seeks to extend this research and transform the learning of…
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Productive use of student mathematical thinking is a critical yet incompletely understood dimension of effective teaching practice. We have previously conceptualized the teaching practice of building on student…
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As the discipline of statistics education broadens to data science education, there is a need to examine how practices in data science can inform work in K-12. We synthesize literature about statistics investigation…
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In this article, authors described the six-phase data investigation process for analyzing large-scale quantitative and categorical data.
Lee, H.S., Mojica, G. M., & Thrasher, E. (2022). Digging into…
Analyzing Teacher Learning in a Community of Practice Centered on Video Cases of Mathematics Teaching
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Incorporating video case study of mathematics teaching into professional development (PD) can provide opportunities for teachers to develop new ways of seeing teaching and learning and inform efforts to enact new…