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Research Agenda Project Conference

The goal of these two linked conferences was to build more effective connections between research and practice. Specifically, the conferences brought together researchers, practitioners. and policy makers around improving students' mathematics proficiency by ensuring that researchers were investigating the most urgent problems of practice and that practitioners were connected to the research in ways that makes the knowledge useful to instruction.

Lead Organization(s): 
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Award Number: 
0736558
Funding Period: 
Sat, 12/01/2007 - Sun, 05/31/2009
Research Agenda Project Conference

Building an Understanding of Science


Understanding Science provides an accurate portrayal of the nature of science and tools for teaching associated concepts. This project has at its heart a public re-engagement with science that begins with teacher preparation. To this end, its immediate goals are (1) improve teacher understanding of the nature of the scientific enterprise and (2) provide resources and strategies that encourage and enable K-16 teachers to incorporate and reinforce the nature of science throughout their science teaching.

Project URL: 
http://undsci.berkeley.edu/
Lead Organization(s): 
University of California, Berkeley
Award Number: 
0624436
Funding Period: 
Mon, 03/12/2007 - Wed, 05/11/2011
Project Evaluator: 
BSCS
Building an Understanding of Science

Interactions in Understanding the Universe (I2U2)

This project aims to increase the education and outreach activities of scientific experiments at U.S. universities and laboratories by providing infrastructure support and a program framework for a portfolio of coherent, collaborative online science education laboratories. The project maintains an online portfolio of educational laboratories suitable for a diverse range of disciplines and provides tools and support services to assist developers in creating these educational resources.

Project URL: 
http://www.i2u2.org
Lead Organization(s): 
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC.
Partner Organization(s): 
University of Chicago
University of Notre Dame
Award Number: 
0736126
Funding Period: 
Wed, 10/01/2008 - Thu, 09/30/2010
Project Evaluator: 
M.J. Young and Associates
Full Description: 

Interactions in Understanding the Universe (I2U2) supports and strengthens the education and outreach activities of scientific experiments at U.S. universities and laboratories by providing the framework on which a rich portfolio of coherent, collaborative online science education laboratories can be developed. It is developing an “educational virtual organization” that supports participating teachers, students, and laboratory content developers, and is poised to become a sustainable, long-running program to enhance the outcome of K-12 science education. The I2U2 collaboration of scientists, computer scientists and educators directly addresses the urgent national priority to grow and sustain the scientific workforce, and to promote the public’s appreciation of and support for the frontier scientific research and complex collaborations of our national scientific programs.

This proposal supports research on two questions:

1.   Do students learn science practices through e-Labs, grid-enabled virtual investigations; specifically do they increase their skills in using technology as a tool for conducting science (skills that mirror real-world science), engage in scientific collaboration and increase their knowledge of related science and Grid concepts?

2.  Does the Interactions in Understanding the Universe virtual learning community support teacher practices and development to enable students to learn science practices with the I2U2 cyber-enabled tools?

Interactions in Understanding the Universe (I2U2)
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