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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
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
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
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: …
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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…
Beyond Academia: How CADRE Fellows Are Leading, Innovating, and Driving Change in K–12 STEM Education
Blog
Blog
As STEM education funding and academic research opportunities continue to shift, early career researchers are increasingly finding fulfilling careers outside traditional academic settings. Survey…
Project Spotlight
This Spotlight features DRK-12 partnership development projects. This project type seeks to build or strengthen connections among school partners and researchers for the purpose of co-designing future DRK-12 research…
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…
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”…
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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,…
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…
Poster
Elementary School
Science
Broadening Participation
Professional Development
Despite widespread agreement about the…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
This month we begin accepting applications for the CADRE Fellows Program. We’ve made some exciting changes to the program. We’re combining the Fellows and Postdoc programs this year and inviting…
STEM starts early: Grounding science, technology, engineering, and math education in early childhood
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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.…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
This month’s newsletter includes a Spotlight on projects researching artificial intelligence (AI) in STEM teaching, learning, and assessment. It sheds light on directions in AI education research and…
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…
Poster
Elementary School
Middle School
Mathematics
This project aims to examine how teachers' beliefs about the origins of mathematical…
The Computational Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) Capability Flow: An Approach to Articulating CAT Capabilities over Time in African-American Middle-school Girls
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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…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
This month’s Spotlight on Research and Practice Partnerships highlights current DRK-12 project work and the pivotal role of partnerships in advancing our understanding of effective teaching and learning…
Justice-Centered STEM Education with Multilingual Learners: Conceptual Framework and Initial Inquiry into Pre-service Teachers’ Sense-Making
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Our conceptual framework for justice-centered STEM education engages all students in multiple STEM subjects, including data science and computer science, to explain and design solutions to pressing societal challenges and…
A Model for Interactive, Web-based Curricula to Support Responsive Teaching and Student Inquiry in Elementary Science Classrooms
PI Meeting Session
Product Feedback Session
Curriculum
Science
Elementary School
Session participants will explore and discuss a beta…
PI Meeting Session
Other
This session provides an opportunity for participants to discuss findings from a systematic review of instrumentation that DR K–12 projects proposed for assessing teacher’s content knowledge,…
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues:
This is our first "formal" opportunity to welcome new DR K-12 PIs, and welcome back those of you who we haven't seen since the June PI Meeting. Thanks to all who participated in making this one of the most…
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Planning to submit an NSF proposal this year? This toolkit is a compilation of helpful resources.
Learn more about NSF’s funding opportunities in education and explore resources to help you in the…
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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…
NEW: Black and Latinx Parents Leading chANge and Advancing Racial (PLANAR) Justice in Elementary Mathematics (NSF #2046856)
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…
Resource
This paper argues that successful practice-based teacher education requires innovations in assessment that can better inform preservice teachers and those who prepare them. Such assessments must focus directly on specific…