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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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Resource | Tasks promoting productive mathematical discourse in collaborative digital environments
Powell, A. B., & Alqahtani, M. M. (2015). Tasks promoting productive mathematical discourse in collaborative digital environments. In N. Amado & S. Carreira (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching. (pp. 68-76). Faro, Portugal: Universidade do Algarve.
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Resource | Teachers’ support of students’ instrumentation in a collaborative, dynamic geometry environment
Alqahtani, M. M., & Powell, A. B. (2015). Teachers’ support of students’ instrumentation in a collaborative, dynamic geometry environment. In N. Amado & S. Carreira (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching. (pp. 268-276). Faro, Portugal: Universidade do Algarve.
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Resource | Constructing Scientific Arguments Using Evidence from Dynamic Computational Climate Models
Pallant, A., & Lee H.-S. (2015). Constructing scientific arguments using evidence from dynamic computational climate models. Journal of Science Education and Technology. 24 (2-3) 378-395. doi 10.1007/s10956-014-9499-3.
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Resource | Great Questions Make for Great Science Education
Pallant, A., & Pryputniewicz, S. J. (2015). Great Questions Make For Great Science Education. @Concord 19(1) 4-6.
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Resource | Assessment of uncertainty-infused scientific argumentation
Lee, H-S, Liu, O.L, Pallant, A., Roohr, K. C., Pryputniewicz, S., & Buck, Z. (2014). Assessment of uncertainty-infused scientific argumentation. The Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 51(5), 581-605.
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Event | 2016 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS)
To learn more, visit: https://www.causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots16/. DR K-12 Presenters: Randall Groth, Salisbury University (Project: PATHWAYS - Preparing Aspiring Teachers to Hypothesize Ways to Assist Young Students)  
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Resource | Re-imagining mathematics teacher education through undergraduate research
Groth, R.E., Bergner, J.A., Burgess, C.R., Austin, J.W., & Holdai, V. (2016). Re-imagining mathematics teacher education through undergraduate research. Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Quarterly, 36(3), 41-46.
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Resource | Journey to Centers in the Core
Groth, R.E., Kent, K., & Hitch, E. (2016). Journey to centers in the core. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School,21(5), 295-302.
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Resource | I Want to be the Inquiry Guy! How Research Experiences for Teachers Change Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values About Teaching Science as Inquiry
Herrington, D. G., Bancroft, S. F., Edwards, M. M., & Schairer, C. J. (2016). I Want to be the Inquiry Guy! How Research Experiences for Teachers Change Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values About Teaching Science as Inquiry. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1-22. doi:10.1007/s10972-016-9450-y
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Announcement | Connected Science Learning
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), debuted Connected Science Learning, an online journal for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) educators. The journal bridges in-school and out-of-school STEM learning and showcases highly effective programs, practices, collaborations, and research taking place between…
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Announcement | NSF CAREER Program Webinar Recording Update
We are currently experiencing issues with the recording of the Mar 15th  NSF CAREER Program Webinar. We are working with Adobe on resolving the issues and will post the recording as soon as we are able. In the meantime, slides from the webinar can be found here.
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Resource | 2016 NSF CAREER Program Webinar Resources
We are currently experiencing issues with the recording of the Mar 15th  NSF CAREER Program Webinar. We are working with Adobe on resolving the issues and will post the recording as soon as we are able. Visit our Early Career page for related resources, including a recording of the 2015 NSF CAREER Program Informational Webinar. Meet the Presenters: Michelle Cirillo Associate Professor,…
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Resource | Lesson Study District Survey Report
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