DRK-12 Research and Products

Teaching to design educational technologies
Bridging Multiple Expertise in Collaborative Design for Technology-Enhanced Learning
Researching design practices and design cognition: contexts, experiences and pedagogical knowledge-in-pieces.
Professional Development for Technology- Enhanced Inquiry Science
Taking Educational Games to the Afterschool: Teens and Researchers on a Quest in Collaborative Design-Based Research
Knowledge Integration and WISE Engineering
Randomized Control Trials on the Dynamic Geometry Approach
Connecting Class Talk with Individual Student Writing
The Role of Language in the Teaching of Energy: The Case of ‘Heat Energy’
Promoting Proximal Formative Assessment with Relational Discourse
Intuitive Ontologies for Energy in Physics
Criteria for Creating and Categorizing Forms of Energy
Elements of Proximal Formative Assessment in Learners’ Discourse about Energy
Differentiation of Energy Concepts Through Speech and Gesture in Interaction
Development of Proximal Formative Assessment Skills in Video-based Teacher Professional Development
Practicing versus inventing with contrasting cases: The effects of telling first on learning and transfer
Research on Technology in Mathematics Education: Theoretical Frameworks and Practical Examples
Publication | This was a Keynote Address to be presented at the Korea Society of Educational Studies in Mathematics Conference in Seoul, South Korea on November 12th, 2011.
A Geometric Path to the Concept of Function: Transformations using dynamic software can provide a unique perspective on a common topic.
Wrapping Around - Understanding Fractions and "Super" Units (Witkowski et al.)
What is Algebra? Cross-Curricular Textbook Analyses
Trying Very Hard to Make Games that Don't Stink: User Testing at the NMSU Learning Games Lab
Presentation | Barbara Chamberlin, with the NMSU Learning Games Lab, shares their user testing processes and strategies. The educational development studio involves content experts and game developers in their game design process, also employing a rigorous…
The Use of Pictorial Supports as an Accommodation for Increasing Access to Test Items for Students with Limited Proficiency in the Language of Testing
The Evidence Games - Poster Session 2010
The District Pacing Guide: A Mediator in Enacting Connected Mathematics in an Urban District
Presentation | Poster presented at the DRK-12 Principal Investigators Meeting in Washington, DC.
TED TALK -- Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Presentation | Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises…