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Resource | Webinar: Evidence Standards for Evaluating Math and Science Programs
What are evidence standards for evaluating math and science programs? Watch this webinar recording with experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) for an engaging webinar about evidence standards. Presenters discussed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Tiers of Evidence and the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence rating system and how these evidence standards relate to…
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Early Career News | Postdoctoral Research Associate
Researchers at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education are hiring a postdoctoral research associate for the Joan Herman and Richard Rasiej Mathematics Initiative.
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Resource | In Praise of Messy Data
Gould, R. R., S. Sunbury, & Dussault, M. (2014). In praise of messy data: Lessons from the search for alien worlds. The Science Teacher, 31.
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Resource | Using online telescopes to explore exoplanets from the physics classroom
The search for habitable planets offers excellent opportunities to advance students’ understanding of core ideas in physics, including gravity and the laws of motion, the interaction of light and matter, and especially the nature of scientific inquiry. Thanks to the development of online telescopes, students can detect more than a dozen of the known exoplanets from the classroom, using data they…
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Resource | Integrating Geospatial Technologies in Fifth-Grade Curriculum: Impact on Spatial Ability and Map-Analysis Skills
This study explores the effects of geographic information systems (GIS) curriculum on fifth-grade students' spatial ability and map-analysis skills. A total of 174 students from an urban public school district and their teachers participated in a quasi-experimental design study. Four teachers implemented a GIS curriculum in experimental classes over six weeks while three teachers continued with…
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Blog | New Measurement Paradigms and the Future of Technology-Enhanced Assessment
Research on assessment has experienced a sea change since CADRE published the New Measurement Paradigms report in 2012. Led by Mike Timms (ACER) and coordinated by Amy Busey (EDC) with Doug Clements (University of Denver), Janice Gobert (Rutgers), Diane Jass Ketelhut (University of Maryland), Debbie Reese (Wheeling Jesuit University), Eric Wiebe (North Carolina State University), and myself as…
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Project Spotlight | Technology-Enhanced Assessment
In this spotlight... Introduction & Reflections by James Lester Featured DRK-12 Projects Assessment of Mathematical Learning in Action in the Game-based Learning Environment – E-Rebuild Development and Empirical Recovery for a Learning Progression-Based Assessment of the Function Concept Graphing Research on Inquiry with Data in Science (GRIDS) Math-Mapper 6-8: A Next Generation Diagnostic…
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Resource | Ramp It Up!
Presser, A. L. Dominguez, X., Goldstein, M., Vidiksis, R., and Kamdar, D. (2019). Ramp It Up! Science & Children.
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Early Career News | Ramp It Up!
Ashley Lewis Presser, Ximena Dominguez, Marion Goldstein, Regan Vidiksis (2014-15 CADRE Fellow), and Danae Kamdar co-authored this practitioner article for Science & Children.
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Event | Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Full Proposal Deadline
Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504793
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Event | Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Full Proposal Deadline
Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500047
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Event | ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions Full Proposal Deadline
Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&org=DRL&sel_org=D… Full Proposal deadline for Catalyst proposals
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Event | ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions Full Proposal Deadline
Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&org=DRL&sel_org=D… Adaptation and Partnership (FY 2019 competition)
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Event | ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions Letter of Intent Deadline
Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&org=DRL&sel_org=D… Letter of Intent for January 2020 Adaptation and Partnership competition
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Event | ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions Letter of Intent Deadline
Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&org=DRL&sel_org=D… Letter of Intent due for May 2019 Adaptation and Partnership competition
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Resource | Examining physics identity development through two high school interventions
As part of the STEP UP project, a national initiative to empower high school teachers to inspire young women to pursue physics degrees in college, we developed two lessons for high school physics classes that are intended to facilitate the physics identity development of female students. One discusses physics careers and links to students' own values and goals; the other…
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Resource | Examining physics identity development through two high school interventions
As part of the STEP UP project, a national initiative to empower high school teachers to inspire young women to pursue physics degrees in college, we developed two lessons for high school physics classes that are intended to facilitate the physics identity development of female students. One discusses physics careers and links to students' own values and goals; the other…
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Resource | What Does It Mean to Notice My Students’ Ideas in Science Today?: An Investigation of Elementary Teachers’ Practice of Noticing Their Students’ Thinking in Science
Efforts toward improving K-12 science education emphasize teachers noticing students’ thinking as they engage in disciplinary practices and reasoning. This noticing requires specialized teacher knowledge and skills as it involves attending to students’ ideas, as well as making sense of and responding to those ideas so that the disciplinary substance in them is recognized, made explicit, and…
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Resource | The Computational Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) Capability Flow: An Approach to Articulating CAT Capabilities over Time in African-American Middle-school Girls
Computational algorithmic thinking (CAT) is the ability to design, implement, and assess the implementation of algorithms to solve a range of problems. It involves identifying and understanding a problem, articulating an algorithm or set of algorithms in the form of a solution to the problem, implementing that solution in such a way that the solution solves the problem, and evaluating the…
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Resource | Exploring African American Middle-School Girls' Perceptions of Themselves as Game Designers
Computational algorithmic thinking (CAT) is the ability to design, implement, and assess the implementation of algorithms to solve a range of problems. Supporting Computational Algorithmic Thinking (SCAT) is a longitudinal project that explores the development of CAT capabilities by guiding African American middle-school girls through the iterative game design cycle, resulting in a set of complex…
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Resource | Exploring the Difficulties African-American Middle School Girls Face Enacting Computational Algorithmic Thinking over three Years while Designing Games for Social Change
Computational algorithmic thinking (CAT) is the ability to design, implement, and assess the implementation of algorithms to solve a range of problems. It involves identifying and understanding a problem, articulating an algorithm or set of algorithms in the form of a solution to the problem, implementing that solution in such a way that the solution solves the problem, and evaluating the…
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Resource | #BlackGirlMagic: The identity conceptualizationof Black women in undergraduate STEM education
Much of the research in science education that explores the influence of a racial and gendered identity on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) engagement for Black women situate their identities primarily as responses to the oppression and struggles they face in STEM. In this study, we use Phenomenological Variant Ecological Systems Theory as a strengths‐based approach to…
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Resource | Understanding the Difficulties African-American Middle School Girls Face While Enacting Computational Algorithmic Thinking in the Context of Game Design
Computational algorithmic thinking (CAT) is the ability to design, implement, and assess the implementation of algorithms to solve a range of problems. It involves identifying and understanding a problem, articulating an algorithm or set of algorithms in the form of a solution to the problem, implementing that solution in such a way that it solves the problem, and evaluating the solution based on…
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Resource | Traveling Teacher Professional Development Model: Local Interpretation and Adaptation of Lesson Study in Florida
This mixed-method comparative study examined lesson study in Japan as the original model, and interpretation and adaption of lesson study as an emerging new model of teacher professional development in Florida, the United States. The study found that lesson study has been interpreted through the lens of organizational structures and routines of teacher professional development in Florida and…
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