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The research team developed the Student Argument and Reasoning Assessment (SARA) to measure students’ abilities to construct viable arguments and critique others’ arguments. The SARA was originally developed and validated…
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Research suggests that if students use viable argumentation in their middle school classes, then they will increase their complex mathematical reasoning and mathematics achievement. This is a 2-page infographic…
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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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A PPT presentation on Articulating the Components of Inclusive STEM High Schools. Presented at STEMx Conference. A PPT presentation on Articulating the Components of Inclusive STEM High Schools.…
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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…
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The ASET Toolkit is a Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) planning toolkit designed to help science educators plan lessons and units that integrate the 3 dimensions outlined in the Framework (NRC, 2012…
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What kinds of questions should guide investigations of matter? The Questions to Investigate task is intended to elicit preservice teachers’ content knowledge for teaching (CKT) related to asking questions to frame…
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A 2-page summary of the ASPECT project, including project goals, approach, year one accomplishments, early findings, current efforts, and early impacts. Science Technology…
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In this interactive talk, Wilson will ask each project to make explicit its assumptions about how teachers learn, the forces that matter the most, and how the logic and components of programs reflect those underlying…
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González, G., DeJarnette, A. F., & Deal, J. T. (2014). Assessing and Using Students’ Prior Knowledge in Problem-Based Instruction. New England Mathematics Journal, XLVI, 38-49. Mathematics…
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Middle School High School Computer Science Wright maps can provide psychometricians with information about validity based on internal…
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High School Post-secondary Computer Science Technology Assessment Educational Technology This…
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This paper presents WriteEval, a hybrid text analytics method for analyzing student-constructed responses. Real-time formative assessment of student learning has become the subject of increasing…
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In the Model- Evidence Link (MEL) diagram activities, students engage with Earth science content knowledge and evaluate the connections between evidence and alternative explanations. We have developed a rubric for…
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This report gives an overview of a principled approach to designing assessment tasks that can generate valid evidence of students’ abilities to think computationally. This report gives an overview of a…
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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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Elementary School Middle School STEM+C Mathematics Science Technology Michelle Zhu…
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Middle School Assessment Educational Technology Science Technology Janice Gobert…
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This study investigated attributes of 278 instances of student mathematical thinking during whole-class interactions that were identified as having high potential, if made the object of discussion, to foster learners’…
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Elementary School Middle School Mathematics This project aims to examine how teachers' beliefs about the origins of mathematical…
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This conference paper explains how EarSketch affects student persistence. McKlin, T., Magerko, B., Lee, T., Wanzer, D., Edwards, D., & Freeman, J. (2018). Authenticity and personal creativity: How…
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This paper describes HASbot, an automated text scoring and real‐time feedback system designed to support student revision of scientific arguments. This paper describes HASbot, an automated text scoring…
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This guide is for DRK-12 awardees to learn about the support and resources on the cadrek12.org site. Welcome to our network of DRK-12 awardees! The CADREK12 website is a tool for you that provides…
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Presentation slides from the 41st annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Presentation slides from the 41st annual meeting of…
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Presentation slides from the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Presentation slides from the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the…
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The study reported in this article examined the ways in which new mathematics learning influences students’ prior ways of reasoning. Authors conceptualize this kind of influence as a form of transfer of learning called…
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Online plotter for historical data and student data collected using the Emery Method for beach profiling. Online plotter for historical data and student data collected using the Emery Method for beach…
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These narratives explore what it might entail to begin school–university partnerships towards the goal of transformative social changes through the voices of two women scholars of color. Using two school–university…
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In this study, we explore four, second graders’ performances on integer addition problems before and after analyzing contrasting cases involving integers. In this study, we explore four, second graders…
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  This report provides recommendations and best practices suggestions for the use of metricsin digital library project evaluation, formulated by the National Science Digital Library(NSDL) Metrics Working Group. In…
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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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Elementary School Mathematics Science Bruce Johnson Marta Civil
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Elementary School Mathematics Science Margaret Shafer Bruce Johnson…
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A school-wide and multi-contextual perspective on student engagement in school. School engagement researchers have historically focused on academic engagement or academic-related activities. Although…
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This study used an exploratory case study design to investigate conceptions of 19 K-12 science teachers after participating in an integrated STEM-focused professional development and implementing integrated STEM lessons…
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In this report, we present a novel solution to the problem of multiple-criterion-focused selection of research and PD participants when the number of applicants to participate outnumbers the availability of resources…
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These slides were presented at the 2019 Annual International Conference of NARST in Baltimore, MD. Morales-Doyle, D., Frausto, A., Chappell, M.J., Childress-Price, T.L., Collins, D.A., Levingston, A.,…
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This paper puts forth a detailed conceptual framework for K-12 integrated STEM education that can be used by researchers, educators, and curriculum developers as a common vision Given the large…
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Our project team has been developing and testing four MELs about socio-scientific issues (climate change, wetlands and land use, fracking and earthquakes) and abstract ideas (formation of Earth’s Moon) for use in high…
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Teachers experience challenges in effectively using formative assessment practices in their classrooms. In the US, only 28% of elementary teachers report using formative assessment. This study highlights the need to design…
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Pre-Kindergarten Science Young children engaged in observation, experimentation, exploration, and conversations about their natural world can…
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High School Science Technology Disciplinary Content Knowledge Professional Development The purpose of this…
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High School Science Technology Andrew Vershon
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21st Century Skills Biology Presentation High Bioinformatics: Learning by Doing…
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Middle School Engineering Science Technology Sadhana Puntambekar Engineering…