DRK-12 Research and Products
Publication | This article looks at context-based approaches to science instruction. Authors studied the effects of changes to a set of secondary science teacher education programs, all of which were redesigned with attention to the Secondary Science Teaching…
Publication | The CADRE Early Career Guide offers advice from experienced DR K-12 awardees on becoming a successful researcher in the field of STEM education. The guide also profiles a support program, the CADRE Fellows, for doctoral students in STEM…
Publication | This article describes online video coaching model used with middle-grades, rural mathematics teachers.
Presentation | These slides were presented at the 2019 Annual International Conference of NARST in Baltimore, MD.
Product for Educators | The Deep Structure Modeling (DSM) project addresses the pressing need to more effectively organize science teaching and learning around “big ideas” that run through disciplines. Big ideas are important tools for learning because they…
Tool | Explore tips, resources, and toolkits on communication about research and development.
Publication | This article discusses the implementation of innovative teaching approaches in mathematics.
Publication | In this paper, the author theorizes reciprocal noticing as a relational practice through which teachers and students exchange roles as knowers by reciprocating each other’s noticing as they study mathematics concepts.
Publication | From 2012–2015, Advanced Placement (AP) science courses underwent a large-scale curricular reform to include more scientific inquiry and reasoning, reduce emphasis on broad content coverage, and focus on depth of understanding, with…
Publication | In this article, authors discuss an online Earth science curriculum module called, “Will there be enough fresh water?” designed to engage students in thinking about uncertainty as part of writing scientific arguments.
Presentation | Presentation slides and handout from the 2019 NCTM Regional Conference in Nashville, TN.
Tool | Planning to create a website to feature your project's work? Here are some tips and things to think about.
Presentation | These slides were presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the National Science Teachers Association, St. Louis, Missouri.
Product for Educators | This website provides a growing repository of 360 videos of classroom instruction (currently focusing on elementary mathematics). We also have created and are disseminating tutorial videos for using or creating similar media.
Product for Educators | EzGCM is a climate modeling toolkit that allows students to examine climate change using the same tools and following the same scientific processes as climate scientists.
Publication | This article reports on how three prospective teachers had differing opportunities to demonstrate their skills in the context of the field assessment, but similar opportunities in the context of the simulation assessment.
Product for Educators | Proportions Playground is designed to build understandings of proportional reasoning.
Publication | This article describes how research-based learning progressions can be used to enhance the analysis and response to student work.
Fostering Video Sharing and Discourse Among STEM Educational Researchers in a Multimodal Environment
Publication | This article looks at the 2017 STEM for All Video Showcase, a multimodal environment, that enabled educational researchers to share and discuss short videos depicting their federally-funded work to improve STEM education. In a mixed methods…
Publication | This chapter describes curricula that use WorldWide Telescope in teaching key topics in Astro 101 and K–12 science, including parallax, Hubble’s Law and large-scale structure in the universe, seasons, Moon phases and eclipses, and life in the…
Publication | The aim of this study was to assess evidence for the validity of General Mindset (GM) and Engineering Mindset (EM) surveys that we developed for fifth-grade students (ages 10-11).
Publication | This study explored how teachers interpreted and responded to their own student work during the process of formative assessment.
Presentation | Presentation slides from the 41st annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
Presentation | These slides were presented at the 2019 Annual International Conference of NARST in Baltimore, MD.
Publication | This study uses a mixed-method sequential exploratory design to examine influences on urban adolescents’ engagement and disengagement in school.