DRK-12 Research and Products
Publication | The Award and Administration Guide(AAG) provides information regarding the NSF
award cycle from issuance and administration of an award through closeout.
Publication | This paper introduces SketchMiner, which uses drawing topologies to automatically interpret learner-generated sketches.
Product for Educators | Play nine math learning apps and dozens of hands-on activities at home or in the classroom. A digital Teacher's Guide supports use in the classroom, and a digital Family Fun Guide provides activities to do at home.
Publication | This article describes the role of museums in supporting schools and teachers in addressing the demands of the NGSS.
Publication | Explore disciplinary core ideas with the help of computer simulations that can be projected to promote engagement.
Publication | Impact evaluation plays a critical role in determining whether federally funded research programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are wise investments. This paper develops quantitative methods for program evaluation and…
Publication | This paper presents WriteEval, a hybrid text analytics method for analyzing student-constructed responses.
Tool | This webinar was held 3/24/2014 to orient new DR K-12 awardees to the CADREK12.org
Publication | We conduct qualitative analyses of one of the lesson sequences, in which a popular simulation was used in eight high school physics class sections, half in whole class discussion and half in small groups.
Publication | Dynamic visualisations capture aspects of scientific phenomena that are difficult to communicate in static materials and benefit from well-designed scaffolds to succeed in classrooms. We review research to clarify the impacts of dynamic…
Publication | This paper presents a novel application of the soft cardinality text analytics method to support assessment of text.
Publication | Terrazas-Arellanes, F., Knox, C., Rivas, C., & Walden, E. (in press). English Language Learners’ Online Science Learning: A Case Study. In J. E. Aitken (Ed.), Cases on communication technology for second language acquisition and cultural…
Publication | This paper presents a set of authoring tool design principles such as leveraging UI workflows, collaboration, and automation.
Publication | 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 construct in four…
Publication | This study examines the design and implementation of a simulated teaching environment in Second Life for prospective teachers.
Publication | Exploring students' problem solving within an integrated engineering and literacy activity
Publication | One of the many challenges that teachers face in mathematics classrooms is determining how much of the verbal and written explanations help students accomplish instructional goals. The challenge is greater in linguistically diverse classrooms…
Publication | “Workers in STEM fields play a direct role in driving economic growth. Yet, because of how the STEM economy has been defined, policymakers have mainly focused on supporting workers with at least a bachelor’s degree, overlooking a strong…
Publication | Examining discourse of a team of pre-service teachers within an IEL engineering design challenge
Publication | Modeling and argumentation are two important scientific practices students need to develop throughout school years. In this paper, we investigated how middle and high school students (N=512) construct a scientific argument based on evidence from…