This report takes stock of what we currently know as well as what we need to know to make classroom assessment maximally beneficial for…
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Spotlights on STEM Education Research
In this Spotlight, explore DRK-12-funded projects and resources that focus on early learning opportunities in STEM.
This Spotlight features DRK-12 partnership development projects, which seek to build or strengthen connections among school partners and researchers for the purpose of co-designing future DRK-12 research and development.
Read about innovative DRK-12 work focused on spatial reasoning.
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Quality early STEM experiences provide a critical foundation for learning about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in ways that facilitate later learning. Early childhood…
Broadening participation in PreK–12 STEM provides ALL students with STEM learning experiences that can prepare them for civic life and the workforce. In this way, broadening participation has the…
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Computational thinking (CT) is central to computer science, yet there is a gap in the literature on how CT emerges and develops in early childhood especially for children from historically…
Computational thinking CT is central to computer science, yet there is a gap in the literature on the best ways to implement CT in early childhood classrooms. The purpose of this qualitative study…
This chapter features intersections of art, literacy, and creative computing. As a component of STEAM, creative computing augments story creation, or storymaking (Buganza et al., 2023; Compton…