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Please take this 5 minute survey to indicate your availability June 1-3 for the 2016 DR K-12 PI Meeting. The meeting will officially begin on the evening of June 1 and end around noon on June 3. Exact times are still being…
Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Professionalism, and Supporting Policies in Korea and the United States: Summary of a Workshop
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On July 15-17, 2012 the United States National Commission on Mathematics Instruction and Seoul National University held a joint Korea-U.S. workshop on Mathematics Teaching and Curriculum. The workshop was organized to…
Adopting an International Innovation for Teacher Professional Development: State and District Approaches to Lesson Study in Florida
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The state of Florida has taken an unprecedented approach to teacher professional development in its Race to the Top
(RTTT) Program application by proposing to promote an international innovation that originates in Japan, “…
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This report summarizes the 2013, 2014, and 2015 findings from a longitudinal survey of district professional development coordinators across the state of Florida. The results are presented with six sections: 1) District…
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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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We are currently experiencing issues with the recording of the Mar 15th NSF CAREER Program Webinar. We are working with Adobe on resolving the issues and will post the recording as soon as we are able.
In the…
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The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), debuted Connected Science Learning, an online journal for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…
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Invitation Only Session
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 09:00
- Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 12:00
Truman
PI Meeting Session
Invitation Only Session
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 13:00
- Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 15:00
Taft
Working Dinner, Welcome, & Plenary Presentation: The Critical Role of K-12 STEM Learning for the Future of Science
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Educational Technology
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Poster Hall
Wednesday night poster hall.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 18:45
- Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 20:00
Lincoln 2, 3, & 4…
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N/A
(An opportunity to meet with DRL program officers and DR K-12 colleagues.)
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 08:30
- Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 09:30…
Working Lunch and Plenary Presentation: STEM, Language, Experience, Learning, and Life in the Modern World
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Plenary
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Educational Technology
James Paul Gee presents a theory of STEM learning based on embodied cognition with a…
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Educational Technology
(invitation only) Network with projects developing or researching educational technologies, and…
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Poster Hall
Thursday night poster hall.
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 16:30
- Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 17:45
Lincoln 2, 3, & 4…
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N/A
(An opportunity to meet with DRL program officers and DR K-12 colleagues)
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 08:15
- Friday, June 3, 2016 - 09:15…
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Plenary
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Participants are invited to look into the future with our panelists and consider a research agenda for STEM education that responds to the…
I Want to be the Inquiry Guy! How Research Experiences for Teachers Change Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values About Teaching Science as Inquiry
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This qualitative study examined how and why research experiences for teachers (RETs) influenced middle and high school science teachers’ beliefs, attitudes, and values about teaching science as inquiry. Changes teachers…
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Students travel through a series of lessons as they analyze data and unpack the meaning of measures of center.
Groth, R.E., Kent, K., & Hitch, E. (2016). Journey to centers in the core. Mathematics…
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Groth, R.E., Bergner, J.A., Burgess, C.R., Austin, J.W., & Holdai, V. (2016). Re-imagining mathematics teacher education through undergraduate research. Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Quarterly, 36(3), 41-46…
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DR K-12 Presenters:
Randall Groth, Salisbury University (Project: PATHWAYS - Preparing Aspiring Teachers to Hypothesize Ways to Assist Young Students…
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Though addressing sources of uncertainty is an important part of doing science, it has largely been neglected in assessing students' scientific argumentation. In this study, we initially defined a scientific argumentation…
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Pallant, A., & Pryputniewicz, S. J. (2015). Great Questions Make For Great Science Education. @Concord 19(1) 4-6.
Climate Change
Earth Science
Science…
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Modeling and argumentation are two important scientific practices students need to develop throughout school years. In this paper, we investigated how middle and high school students (N=512) construct a scientific argument…
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We report on a case study that seeks to understand how teachers’ pedagogical interventions influence students’ instrumentation and mathematical reasoning in a collaborative, dynamic geometry environment. A high school…
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Rich tasks can be vehicles for productive mathematical discussions. How to support such discourse in collaborative digital environments is the focus of our theorization and empirical examination of task design that emerges…
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To contribute to understanding how teachers can develop geometrical understanding, we report on the discursive development of teachers’ geometrical reasoning through instrument appropriation while collaborating in an…
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Tasks can be vehicles for productive mathematical discussions. How to support such discourse in collaborative digital environments is the focus of our theorization and empirical examination of task design that emerges from…
Integrating Computing Across the Curriculum: The Impact of Internal Barriers and Training Intensity on Computer Integration in the Elementary School Classroom
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This study examines the relationship between internal barriers, professional development, and computer integration outcomes among a sample of fourth- and fifth-grade teachers in an urban, low-income school district in the…
Invaluable values: an expectancy-value theory analysis of youths’ academic motivations and intentions
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While Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields have increased in importance over the past decade, minorities have remained traditionally underrepresented in these fields. In this study we seek to better…
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DR K-12 Presenters:
Shelia Cotten, Christopher Ball, and Kuo-Ting Huang, Michigan State University (Project: Integrating Computing Across the Curriculum (ICAC…
Productivity of “collisions generate heat” for reconciling an energy model with mechanistic reasoning: A case study
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We observe teachers in professional development courses about energy constructing mechanistic accounts of energy transformations. We analyze a case in which teachers investigating adiabatic compression develop a model of…
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The importance of valuing student ideas in science education stands on firm empirical, theoretical, and moral grounds. However, the reasons for which one might value student ideas are often not explicitly distinguished,…
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The logic underlying inclusive STEM high schools (ISHSs) posits that requiring all students to take advanced college preparatory STEM courses while providing student-centered, reform-oriented instruction, ample student…
The Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage on Psychological Well-Being among Urban Youth
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Information and communication technology (ICT) usage is pervasive among present day youth, with about 95% of youth ages 12-17 years reporting use of the Internet. Due to the proliferation of ICT use among this generation,…
Threatened by Stereotype: An investigation of the effect of stereotype threat on female and minority students’ STEM learning in the context of a computer intervention
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To contribute to the growing field of STEM education, we examined the presence of stereotype threat for
female and African American students during a large-scale computing intervention. Namely, this paper
examines whether…
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This paper makes a significant contribution to the growing field of digital inequality research by developing an operational definition of emotional costs. To examine this understudied aspect of digital inequalities, we…
An Innovative Approach to Earth Science Teacher Preparation: Uniting Science, Informal Science Education, and Schools to Raise Student Achievement
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The American Museum of Natural History is offering a master's degree in teaching, part of a broad national campaign to add 100,000 science, technology and math teachers by 2021
Teaching Science Teachers…
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This brief explores factors that contribute to opportunity gaps in STEM education based on race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and socioeconomic status. It showcases the work of several DR K-12 projects and describes…
Partnership Building as a Broadening-Participation Strategy: Helping Researchers and Developers Bridge the Gaps in STEM Education
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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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California State University East Bay’s Next Generation Alliance for Science Educators Toolkit (Next Gen ASET), DRK12 Award # 1418440 was selected this past year by the Carnegie Foundation for…
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Featured in our Broadening Participation Spotlight, CADRE's neweset brief focuses on Partnership Building as a Broadening-Participation Strategy: Helping Researchers and Developers Bridge the Gaps in STEM Education. The…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues:
If you haven't heard, we lost a very well respected NSF colleague, Dr. Janice Earle, who was program director for many of us over several decades. We and others had wonderful professional relationships…
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The latest issue of the CADRE Newsletter includes several new resources, opportunities and news, including:
2016 STEM for All Video Showcase
2016 DR K-12 PI Meeting
STEM Smart: Lessons Learned from Successful Schools
2016…
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Do you know an individual or an organization working hard to nurture future science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent?
If so, nominations are currently open for the 2017 Presidential Awards for…
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