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Exploring Middle School Students’ Understanding of Algorithms Using Standards-aligned Formative Assessments: Teacher and Researcher Perspectives
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‘Algorithms’ is a core CS concept included in the K-12 CS standards, yet student challenges with understanding different aspects of algorithms are still not well documented, especially for younger students. This paper…
Knowledge in Use: Examining Elementary Teachers’ Content Knowledge for Teaching (CKT) about Matter using Scenario-Based Assessment
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This study explores how teachers across the United States answer and reason on “teacher assessment tasks” designed to elicit content knowledge for teaching (CKT) about matter and its interactions. It leverages a think…
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The Responsive Math Teaching project has been developing and refining a model for the development of mathematics instructional leadership in a network of 13 urban under-resourced elementary schools. This report summarizes…
COVID-19 as a Magnifying Glass: Exploring the Importance of Relationships as Education Students Learn and Teach Robotics via Zoom
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Ed+gineering, an NSF-funded program, adapted hands-on robotics instruction for online delivery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative multiple case study shares the experiences of participating education…
A Primer for Developing Measures of Science Content Knowledge for Small-Scale Research and Instructional Use
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This essay, intended for faculty involved in small-scale projects, courses, or educational research, provides a step-by-step guide to the process of developing, scoring, and validating high-quality content knowledge…
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CADRE Tips for Mentoring Early Career STEM Education Researchers and Developers provides guidelines that may help new mentors and mentees establish an effective and productive relationship.
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Robot-math is a term used to describe mathematics instruction centered on engineering, particularly robotics. This type of instruction seeks first to make the mathematics skills useful for robotics-centered…
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In this report section, we discuss the importance of aligning classroom assessments with learning goals and instructional practices to both shape and evaluate students’ learning opportunities.
In this…
Elementary Science Teacher Educators Learning Together: Catalyzing Change With Educative Curriculum Materials and Vignette Writing
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In this article, we describe a professional learning community (PLC) for science teacher educators that supported changes in pedagogy through educative curriculum materials and vignette writing.
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Exploring Differences in Practicing Teachers’ Knowledge Use in a Dynamic and Static Proportional Task
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This exploratory study investigated 32 teachers’ use of knowledge resources in two mathematically similar tasks (one a paper and pencil task, the other a dynamic task) around proportional reasoning.…
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This study investigates facilitation of professional development to promote teacher learning when using animations and videos in a study group with five teachers.
Providing opportunities for learning…
In the Classrooms of Newly Hired Secondary Science Teachers: The Consequences of Teaching In-field or Out-of-field
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Science teachers must sometimes teach outside of their expertise, and this type of teaching assignment is referred to as being out-of-field. Among newly hired teachers, this type of assignment may have a detrimental impact…
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…
Patterns Linking Interpreting and Deciding How to Respond During the Launch of a Lesson: Noticing from an Integrated Perspective
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Authors describe a complementary way of studying the connections between different aspects of noticing, one that stresses the content of teachers noticing. They report on a study in which participants were shown depictions…
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In this theoretical research paper we describe a collaborative effort between researchers and university faculty to improve how teachers are prepared to teach middle school mathematics.
Courey, S.J.,…
Professional Development for STEM Integration Analyzing Bioinformatics Teaching by Examining Teachers' Qualities of Adaptive Expertise
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Bioinformatics—a rapidly developing discipline that integrates mathematical and computational techniques with biological knowledge for applications in medicine, the environment, and other important aspects of life—is an…
Researching design practices and design cognition: contexts, experiences and pedagogical knowledge-in-pieces.
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Kali, Y., Markauskaite, L., & Goodyear, P. (2011). Researching design practices and design cognition: contexts, experiences and pedagogical knowledge-in-pieces. Learning, Media, & Technology. 36(2), 129-149…
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P. A. Kraus and S. Vokos, "The role of language in the teaching of energy: The case of 'heat energy,'" Washington State Teachers' Association Journal (Spring 2011)
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This article describes the different terms that…
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Technology
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Elementary
Kimberle Koile
Andee Rubin
2010…
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NSF and CADRE hosted a series of webinars providing an overview of the DR K-12 funding program and reviewing this year's DR K-12 solicitation. Here is a sample of some of the questions that came up during the webinars:…
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DR K-12 projects' 2011-12 publications, 2012-13 presentations and project-related Websites.
This information is also available on the CADREK12.org website--
publications can be found in…
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Slides and recordings from the NSF DR K-12 Program and Solicitation webinars are now available. See below.
2013 DR K-12 Program Webinars, led by NSF program officers and hosted by CADRE
September 24 (…
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In this 2-webinar series hosted by CADRE, NSF provides an overview of the DR K-12 funding program and reviews this year's DR K-12 solicitation.
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September 16, 2014 1PM webinar: http://edc.…
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The NSF Nuts & Bolts webinar, hosted by CADRE and led by NSF Program Officer David Campbell on November 20, 2014 at 3:30PM EST, was designed to introduce DR K-12 awardees to the ins and outs of project management—…
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The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-…
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NSF Program Officer Karen King provides information on the DR K-12 program and solicitation in this webinar series.
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September 22, 2015
September 29, 2015
October 6, 2015…
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In this webinar, NSF Program Officer David Campbell introduces DR K-12 awardees to the ins and outs of project management, sharing information on evaluation and reporting, advisory boards, Institutional Review Boards (IRB…
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NSF Program Officers provide information on the DR K-12 program and solicitation in this webinar series.
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September 19, 2016 Webinar (Led by NSF PO Karen King)
September 23, 2016…
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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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In this November 29th webinar, NSF Program Officer David Campbell introduced DR K-12 awardees to the ins and outs of NSF DR K-12 project management.
In this November 29th webinar, NSF Program Officer…
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NSF program director provides information on the DR K-12 program and solicitation in this webinar series.
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August 31, 2017 Webinar
September 11, 2017 Webinar
Read NSF responses to…
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In this October 25th webinar, NSF Program Officer Rob Ochsendorf introduced DR K-12 grantees to the ins and outs of NSF DR K-12 project management.
In this October 25th webinar, NSF Program Director Rob…
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NSF program directors provides information on the DRK-12 program and solicitation in this webinar series.
Watch a recording of the 2018 DRK-12 Solication Webinar (use the bookmarks on left side of…
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In this May 2nd webinar, panelists discussed how to prepare for effective informational meetings with congressional staff and craft appropriate messages about preK-12 STEM education research for conversations with local,…
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NSF program directors provide information on the DRK-12 program and solicitation in this webinar.
Watch a Recording of the 2019 DRK-12 Solication Webinar (use the bookmarks on left side of recording to…
360 Video as an Immersive Representation of Practice: Interactions between Reported Benefits and Teacher Noticing
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This study examined and compared teachers’ perceived affordances of 360 video as a representation of practice and their professional noticing of students’ mathematics in 360 videos. Results from this study suggest that…
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A workshop to be presented at the Association of Science Teacher Educators International Conference.
Hapgood, S., Wilson, G., Heuring, J. & Czerniak, C. M. (Accepted for January 2020). 3DLA: Three…
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Our 5D assessment development process is eight phases, each with a clear goal and tools to support task development. The tools and processes are combined in the 5D Assessment Development Tool for easy access from a single…
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Includes eight separate lesson plans to help integrate the primary literature into the classroom.
Includes eight separate lesson plans to help integrate the primary literature into the classroom…
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This article describes a museum-based urban teacher-residency (UTR) program's approach to building subject-specific content knowledge and research experience in Earth Science teacher candidates.
This…
A Blended Professional Development Program to Help a Teacher Learn to Provide One-to-One Scaffolding
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Argumentation is central to instruction centered on socio-scientific issues (Sadler & Donnelly in International Journal of Science Education, 28(12), 1463–1488, 2006. doi:10.1080/09500690600708717). Teachers can play a…
A Coding Tool for Examining the Substance of Teacher Professional Learning and Change with Example Cases from Middle School Science Lesson Study
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This study presents a theoretically grounded set of codes to systematically document the various aspects of teacher learning and change (knowledge and beliefs, professional learning community, resources) in lesson study…
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Abstract: The Science Literacy through Science Journalism (SciJourn) project aims to reframe the discussion of science literacy for citizenship, and explore how science journalism practices can be used to inform a…
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A collection shares resources to help researchers, parents, and teachers navigate changes to education and education research brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This collection (in progress) shares…
A Comparison of Representations of Units of Length: A Microgenetic Analysis (Cullen, Barrett, Sarama, Clements)
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Mathematics
Science
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Elementary
Cullen, C.
Barrett, J…