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Project Spotlight
This Spotlight features expertise, tools, and examples from DRK-12 projects related to assessing aspects of teaching practice in STEM education.
This Spotlight features expertise, tools, and examples…
Event
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…
Project Spotlight
The SciJourn project investigates the teaching of science journalism as a vehicle for improving high school students' scientific literacy and engagement. The project brings St. Louis area youth into a real newsroom…
Project Spotlight
Learn about DRK-12 projects that are advancing the field of algebra education through innovative technologies, teacher professional development, curriculum impact studies, meta-research, and strategic partnership…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight features new briefs on AI in STEM teaching and learning, seven projects using AI in their DRK-12 work, and additional projects, publications, and blogs.
In this month’s Spotlight, we are…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight highlights a few of the many ways artificial intelligence can be applied to STEM classrooms and education research, from AI-based assessment to intelligent virtual companions.
This…
Event
To learn more, visit https://2022.isls.org/.
DRK-12 Presentations
"We Need to Step it Up—We Are Basically the Future”: Latinx Young Women Doing Chemistry (Presenters: Nation, J. & Kang, H.)
Applying Deweyan…
Event
For more information visit http://www.nctm.org/conferences/
DR K-12 Presenters:
Kathryn Chval, A.Thomas and D. Taylan, University of Missouri (Project: CAREER: A Study of Strategies and Social Processes that Facilitate…
Event
Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303779&org=EHR
NAME AND COMMITTEE CODE: Advisory Committee for Education and Human Resources (#1119) (Virtual Meeting)
DATE AND TIME: …
Blog
Blog
On Being Inducted into the DRK-12 ProgramAs a CADRE Fellow, one of my tasks at the DRK-12 PI Meeting--in addition to making new connections and learning about the projects that are being funded…
Event
The Cyberlearning 2016: Designing for Deeper, Broader, and More Equitable Learning will take place January 25-26, 2016 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA. Approximately 150 leading researchers along with…
Project Spotlight
Read how DRK-12 projects are addressing issues of equity and supporting teachers in understanding and using learning progressions and trajectories.
This Spotlight features research on science and math…
Project Spotlight
The demand for data skills is growing across industries and disciplines. Understanding how to analyze and interpret data will not only be critical for students as they enter the workforce, but also as they grapple with…
Blog
Blog
CADRE invited the PIs of the TRUmath and Lesson Study: Supporting Fundamental and Sustainable Improvement in High School Mathematics Teaching project (Grant Nos. 1503342,…
Event
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
Fall 2011 Conference
Call for Papers
The Fall 2011 SREE research conference “Building an Education Science: Improving Mathematics and Science Education for All Students”…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight features DRK-12 collaborative projects, provides insight into the affordances and challenges of partnering with multiple organizations, and offers advice for those considering a collaborative proposal…
Project Spotlight
The demand for data skills is growing across industries and disciplines. Understanding how to analyze and interpret data will not only be critical for students as they enter the workforce, but also as they grapple with…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight features perspectives, research, and resources related to building evidence in STEM education, particularly by means of replication.
This Spotlight features perspectives, research, and…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight highlights the work of DRK-12 projects focused on organizing conferences or workshops to advance their work and the STEM education field.
This Spotlight highlights the work of DRK-12…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight explores work with K-12 students and teachers to promote computer science and computational thinking across academic disciplines.
As the field of computer science grows and computing…
Project Spotlight
Citizen Science and crowdsourcing projects enable the public—young and old, students and teachers, amateur and expert—to participate in scientific data collection and research. In this Spotlight, you'll read about five…
Project Spotlight
Read about innovative DRK-12 work focused on spatial reasoning.
Spatial reasoning—the ability to visualize, manipulate, and understand relationships between objects in space—is a critical cognitive…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight highlights resources and research to support modeling in science and mathematics classrooms.
The National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices,…
Project Spotlight
Learn about DRK-12 work to enhance teacher education using video.
In this Spotlight, learn how seven DRK-12 projects are leveraging video to enhance teacher learning. Blog writer, Karl Kosko, describes…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight examines connections between formal STEM education and learning supported by museums, science centers, families, communities, and other informal settings that are part of the STEM education ecosystem…
Event
To learn more, visit https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting.
DRK-12 Presentations
"Juntos" to Support Multilingual Students' Mathematics Learning: Bringing Families' Funds of Knowledge Into the Classroom (…
Project Spotlight
Learn about projects developing and studying models and resources to improve and assess teachers' knowledge for teaching science, mathematics, and computer science.
In this Spotlight, Julie Luft…
Event
Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE)
Program Solicitation NSF 10-586
Replaces Document(s):NSF 09-601
National Science Foundation
Directorate for…
Latiné, Latinx, Latina, Latino, or Hispanic: Problematizing Terms Often Used in Engineering Education
Early Career News
News
CADRE Fellows
Publication
Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Joel Alejandro Mejia (2013-14 CADRE Fellow), Janice Mejia, and Renata Revelo published this…
CAREER: Expanding Latinxs' Opportunities to Develop Complex Thinking in Secondary Science Classrooms Through a Research-Practice Partnership
Poster
Middle School
High School
Science
One goal of this project is to improve Latinx and multilingual students’ opportunities to engage in…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
As we end 2023, we want to thank all of you who shared your research and what you’re learning about preK-12 STEM education (e.g., through project Spotlights, the DRK-12 PI Meeting, and the assessment…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
We have several announcements that we’re excited to share with you:
NSF has asked us to host a 2025 DRK-12 PI Meeting. Please mark June 9-11, 2025, on your calendars, and PIs of active awards should watch…
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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…
PI Meeting Session
Panel
Assessment
Science
Technology
This session presents recent implementation findings from four projects, each applying facet-based…
Announcement
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…
Using Scientific Data Sets to Teach STEM Topics, Support Student Learning, and Develop an Understanding about the Nature of Science
PI Meeting Session
PI-organized Discussion
Educational Technology
The session provides an overview of and stimulates discussion about current DR K-12 projects initiating STEM classroom…
Resource
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…
Resource
We draw on our experiences researching teachers’ use of student thinking to theoretically unpack the work of attending to student contributions in order to articulate the student mathematics (SM) of those contribution…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues:
CADRE has had a busy summer and fall, and you will read about some of our activities in this newsletter. DR K-12 PIs, please watch your email for the annual survey conducted by UMass Donahue Institute, our…
What's In a Wave? Using Modeling and Computational Thinking to Enhance Students' Understanding of Waves
Resource
Teaching about wave structure and function is a critical element of any physical science curriculum and supported by Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for…
The Computational Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) Capability Flow: An Approach to Articulating CAT Capabilities over Time in African-American Middle-school Girls
Resource
This paper explores the CAT Capability Flow, which begins to describe the processes and sub-skills and capabilities involve in computational algorithmic thinking (CAT). To do this, authors engage in an approach which…
STEM starts early: Grounding science, technology, engineering, and math education in early childhood
Resource
This report summarizes the latest research findings on the importance and impact of early STEM across the child's ecological systems, as well as the critical importance of framing communications about early STEM in an…
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The Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) is comprised of documents relating to the National Science Foundation's proposal and award process for the assistance programs of NSF.…
Changes to Mathematical Understanding as Influenced by Learning in a Collaborative Dynamic Geometry Setting
Poster
Web 2.0 environments provide infrastructure for synchronous access to communication and shared dynamic mathematical tools. These tools enable mathematicians (Alagie & Alagie, 2013) and mathematics learners (Alqahtani…
Transforming Science Learning Framework: Translating an Equity Commitment into Action through Co-Design
Resource
In this study, we present a conceptual tool for guiding teachers’ principled pedagogical actions toward equitable instruction, referred to as the Transforming Science Learning (TSL) framework. The TSL framework was…
CAREER: Black and Latinx Parents Leading Reform and Advancing Racial Justice in Elementary Mathematics
Poster
Elementary School
Mathematics
Through critical community-engaged scholarship with ten Black and Latinx families and two community organizations, the PI…