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Announcement | Resources from the 2016 DR K-12 PI Meeting
Thank you to everyone who participated, presented and tweeted at the 2016 DR K-12 PI Meeting!  Visit our event page for resources from the meeting, including: Presentation slides, handouts and session-specific posters, posted on our online agenda by session. Posters, which are featured in our virtual poster hall. #drk12meeting Tweets, captured via Storify! A…
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Project Spotlight | 2016 NSF STEM For All Video Showcase
The 2016 STEM For All Video Showcase features 156 videos that showcase innovative work to improve science, math, engineering, and computer science education. Thirty-six of these 3-minute videos showcase the work of NSF's Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) program.  The interactive portion of the showcase was held May 17-23rd, 2016. However, you can still view the…
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Announcement | DR K-12 Video Showcase Presenters!
This year, 36 DR K-12 projects featured their work in 3-minute videos in the 2016 NSF STEM for All Video Showcase. The showcase was held May 17-23.  Visit the CADRE DR K-12 section of the video showcase.  See a list of the 36 DR K-12 videos, with links to their project pages and videos. Visit our Spotlight on the video showcase.
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Announcement | CAISE online forum May 16-20
CAISE Online Forum on Design Based Research (DBR), Design Based Implementation Research (DBIR), and Informal STEM Learning May 16-20, 2016 Description:  This forum will explore design-based research (DBR) and design-based implementation research (DBIR) as paradigms, approaches and methodologies in informal STEM education (ISE) projects. Developed in the learning sciences, DBR and DBIR are…
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Announcement | Workshop on Speech Technology
On June 4th, an invitational workshop will be held in Washington, D.C. to help explore, define and launch research at the nexus of speech technology and education research. Interested? Learn more here. 
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Event | 2016 DR K-12 PI Meeting
Please visit our event page for more information.
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Announcement | Save the Date! 2016 Video Showcase
2016 Video Showcase: Advancing STEM Learning for All | May 17th - 23rd, 2016 More than 150 projects (including 40 DR K-12 projects!) will showcase three-minute videos of their innovative work broadening participation and access to STEM. We invite you to view the videos and to interact with each of the presenters online. #stemvideohall
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Event | 2016 Video Showcase: Advancing STEM Learning for All
On May 17th – 23rd, 2016, more than 150 projects will showcase three-minute videos of their innovative work broadening participation and access to STEM. We invite researchers, practitioners, administrators, policy makers and the general public to view the videos and to interact with each of the presenters online. We look forward to your participation! http://stemforall2016.videohall.com/ #…
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Announcement | PAESMEM Nominations
Do you know an individual or an organization working hard to nurture future science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent? If so, nominations are currently open for the 2017 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). The deadline for nominations is Friday, June 17, 2016. Learn more at: http://www.paesmem.net/
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Announcement | CADRE's Spring 2016 Newsletter is Out
The latest issue of the CADRE Newsletter includes several new resources, opportunities and news, including: 2016 STEM for All Video Showcase 2016 DR K-12 PI Meeting STEM Smart: Lessons Learned from Successful Schools 2016 CAREER Program Webinar New Brief on Broadening Participation CADRE Fellowship Update 2016 Project Presentations, Publications, & Websites Newsbites from DR K-12 & NSF…
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Survey | 2016 DR K-12 PI Meeting A/V Needs Survey
NOTE: All rooms will be setup with an LCD projector and screen. Wireless internet will be available. Generally, participant seating will be at round tables set for eight people. Please fill out this short survey so that we know what your A/V needs are for the PI Meeting June 1-3.
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Newsletter | Spring 2016 Newsletter
Dear Colleagues: If you haven't heard, we lost a very well respected NSF colleague, Dr. Janice Earle, who was program director for many of us over several decades. We and others had wonderful professional relationships with her, and she will be missed.   Over the next several months, CADRE will offer many opportunities for dissemination of ideas, findings, and products from DR K-12…
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Announcement | New CADRE Brief on Broadening Participation!
Featured in our Broadening Participation Spotlight, CADRE's neweset brief focuses on Partnership Building as a Broadening-Participation Strategy: Helping Researchers and Developers Bridge the Gaps in STEM Education. The brief examines the continued underrepresentation of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in STEM fields; explains the…
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Announcement | Next Generation Alliance For Science Educators Toolkit
California State University East Bay’s Next Generation Alliance for Science Educators Toolkit (Next Gen ASET), DRK12 Award # 1418440 was selected this past year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at Stanford to serve as one of six national inaugural STEM-focused Improvement Science pilot sites.   Additionally, this work will be showcased…
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Resource | Partnership Building as a Broadening-Participation Strategy: Helping Researchers and Developers Bridge the Gaps in STEM Education
This brief examines the continued underrepresentation of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in STEM fields; explains the benefits of collaboration around broadening participation; and offers guidance on building partnerships as a strategy for bridging the gaps in STEM education.
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Resource | Broadening Participation — Making STEM Learning Relevant and Rigorous for All Students
This CADRE brief explores factors that contribute to opportunity gaps in STEM education based on race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and socioeconomic status. It showcases the work of several DR K-12 projects and describes promising approaches for removing barriers for underrepresented groups and enhancing the STEM learning of all students.
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Resource | An Innovative Approach to Earth Science Teacher Preparation: Uniting Science, Informal Science Education, and Schools to Raise Student Achievement
Teaching Science Teachers [Video file]. (2013, December 15). Retrived from http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000002602875/teaching-science-t…
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Resource | Mind the Emotional Gap: The Impact of Emotional Costs on Student Learning Outcomes
Huang, K., Robinson, &, Cotten, S. R. (2015). Mind the Emotional Gap: The Impact of Emotional Costs on Student Learning Outcomes. In Laura Robinson , Shelia R. Cotten , Jeremy Schulz , Timothy M. Hale , Apryl Williams (ed.) Communication and Information Technologies Annual (Studies in Media and Communications, Volume 10) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 121-144.
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Resource | Threatened by Stereotype: An investigation of the effect of stereotype threat on female and minority students’ STEM learning in the context of a computer intervention
Huang, K., Cotten, S. R., & Ball, C. (2015). Threatened by Stereotype: An investigation of the effect of stereotype threat on female and minority students’ STEM learning in the context of a computer intervention. Proceedings of the iConference 2015.
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Resource | The Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage on Psychological Well-Being among Urban Youth
Coleman, L. O., Hale, T. M., Cotten, S. R., Gibson, P. (2015), The Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage on Psychological Well-Being among Urban Youth. In Sampson Lee Blair , Patricia Neff Claster , Samuel M. Claster (ed.) Technology and Youth: Growing Up in a Digital World (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Volume 19) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 267-…
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Resource | STEM-focused high schools as a strategy for enhancing readiness for postsecondary STEM programs
Means, B., Wang, H., Young, V., Peters, V. & Lynch, S. J. (2016). STEM-focused high schools as a strategy for enhancing readiness for postsecondary STEM programs. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. DOI: 10.1002/tea.21313
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Resource | Valuing student ideas morally, instrumentally, and intellectually
Robertson, A. D. (2016). Valuing student ideas morally, instrumentally, and intellectually. Proceedings of the 2015 Physics Education Research Conference (pp. 275-278). College Park, MD: American Institute of Physics.
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Resource | Productivity of “collisions generate heat” for reconciling an energy model with mechanistic reasoning: A case study
Scherr, R. E. & Robertson, A. D. (2015). The productivity of ‘collisions generate heat’ for reconciling an energy model with mechanistic reasoning: A case study. Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research 11(1), 010111-1 – 010111-16.
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Event | American Sociological Association 2016 Annual Meeting
To learn more, visit: http://www.asanet.org/AM2016/AM_2016.cfm DR K-12 Presenters: Shelia Cotten, Christopher Ball, and Kuo-Ting Huang, Michigan State University (Project: Integrating Computing Across the Curriculum (ICAC): Incorporating Technology into STEM Education Using XO Laptops)
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Resource | Invaluable values: an expectancy-value theory analysis of youths’ academic motivations and intentions
Ball, C., Huang, K., Cotten, S. R., Rikard, R. V., & Coleman, L. O. (2016). Invaluable values: an expectancy-value theory analysis of youths’ academic motivations and intentions. Information, Communication & Society, 19(5), 1-21.
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Resource | Integrating Computing Across the Curriculum: The Impact of Internal Barriers and Training Intensity on Computer Integration in the Elementary School Classroom
Coleman, L. O., Gibson, P., Cotten, S. R., Howell-Moroney, M., & Stringer, K. (2015). Integrating Computing Across the Curriculum: The Impact of Internal Barriers and Training Intensity on Computer Integration in the Elementary School Classroom. Journal of Educational Computing Research. doi: 10.1177/073563311561664.
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Resource | Promoting productive mathematical discourse: Tasks in collaborative digital environments
Powell, A. B., & Alqahtani, M. M. (2015). Promoting productive mathematical discourse: Tasks in collaborative digital environments. In T. G. Bartell, K. N. Bieda, R. T. Putnam, K. Bradfield, & H. Dominguez (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 1246-1249). East Lansing, MI:…
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Resource | Instrumental development of teachers’ reasoning in dynamic geometry
Alqahtani, M. M., & Powell, A. B. (2015, March). Instrumental development of teachers’ reasoning in dynamic geometry. Paper presented at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
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