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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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​Dear Colleagues, Last week, NSF announced significant changes to preK–12 funding with the launch of the NSF STEM K–12 program and solicitation. DRK–12 will no longer accept proposals. (Read our full article below.) New…
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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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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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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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Panel Assessment Science Technology This session presents recent implementation findings from four projects, each applying facet-based…
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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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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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Solís Jorge Solís Postdoctoral Researcher University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) University of Texas at San Antonio…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
CAREER Spotlight
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…
Early Career News
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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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…
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Explaining phenomena associated with a system involves describing a system’s structure and articulating the process through which the system’s structure changes over time. This paper defines geo-sequential reasoning in the…
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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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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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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…