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Using structural equation modeling, the researchers test a path model of various physics identity constructs, extending an earlier, established model. In this paper, they also compare a preliminary structural analysis of…
Beyond Classroom Academics: A School-Wide and Multi-Contextual Perspective on Student Engagement in School
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A school-wide and multi-contextual perspective on student engagement in school.
School engagement researchers have historically focused on academic engagement or academic-related activities. Although…
Does student-centered instruction engage students differently? The moderation effect of student ethnicity
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This study examined the relationship between student-centered mathematics instruction and adolescents’ behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and social engagement in mathematics and whether the relationship differed by…
Student learning emotions in middle school mathematics classrooms: investigating associations with dialogic instructional practices
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Authors examine how dialogic instruction, a socially dynamic form of instruction, was associated with four learning emotions in mathematics: enjoyment, pride, anger, and boredom.
Emotions are central to…
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This study uses a mixed-method sequential exploratory design to examine influences on urban adolescents’ engagement and disengagement in school.
This study uses a mixed-method sequential exploratory…
Engineering for sustainable communities: Epistemic tools in support of equitable and consequential middle school engineering
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This study is focused on engineering for sustainable communities (EfSC) in three middle school classrooms.
This study is focused on engineering for sustainable communities (EfSC) in three middle school…
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In this paper, the author theorizes reciprocal noticing as a relational practice through which teachers and students exchange roles as knowers by reciprocating each other’s noticing as they study mathematics concepts…
Framing, Adapting, and Applying: Learning to Contextualize Science Activity in Multilingual Science Classrooms
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This article looks at context-based approaches to science instruction. Authors studied the effects of changes to a set of secondary science teacher education programs, all of which were redesigned with attention to the…
Understanding Science and Language Connections: New Approaches to Assessment with Bilingual Learners
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Authors report on the use of bilingual constructed response science assessments in the context of a research and development partnership with secondary school science teachers.
We report on the use of…
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This paper discusses the extent to which one case study elementary school child with identified learning disabilities (LDs) made sense of composite units and unit fractions.
Students with learning…
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This lesson plan template centers the importance of including Elders and Environment in Indigenous STEM teaching and learning, and is a way for teachers to weave Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Western Science…
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This resource focuses on engaging learners and their families in field-based science that connects family knowledge and place-based, student-led investigations.
This tool, Rhizome, contains three…
How Place-based Science Education Strategies can Support Equity for Students, Teachers, and Communities
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This brief describes how to support equity for students, teachers, and communities through place-based science education strategies.
This brief describes how to support equity for students, teachers,…
Teachers’ Views of Students’ Mathematical Capabilities: Challenges and Possibilities for Ambitious Reform
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This study offers a large-scale snapshot of middle-grades teachers’ views of their students’ mathematical capabilities in the context of instructional reform.
Background: Research suggests that teachers…
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This paper investigates how one elementary school child with specific visual motor integration differences constructed a unit fraction concept.
Cognitive differences have historically led to deficit…
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This conversion mixed method study analyzed student work samples and teacher lesson plans from seven exemplary inclusive STEM high schools to better understand at what level teachers at these schools are engaging and…
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This article describes how diagrams can be a powerful tool to develop and communicate mathematical understanding for English language learners.
For English language learners, diagrams can be a powerful…
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The purpose of this study was to describe how families utilize science activity packs at home.
The role that caregivers can play in their child’s science education is often overlooked within science…
The Anthropology of Educational Policy: Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy as Sociocultural Practice
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This book provides a single "go to" source on the disciplinary history, theoretical framework, methodology, and empirical applications of the anthropology of education policy across a range of education topics, policy…
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In The Price of Nice, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores Niceness in educational spaces from elementary schools through higher education to highlight how this seemingly benign quality reinforces structural…
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This article focuses on discussion and preliminary findings from classroom testing of the prototype learning module: Investigating Income Inequality in the U.S.
This article focuses on discussion and…
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Designed to be integrated with any curriculum, each grade level includes 18-20 one-hour lessons to be conducted throughout the school year. Each LEAP lesson lasts about an hour is designed to fit within a typical daily…
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This is a description of a new methodological tool to gather response process validity evidence. The context is scholarship within mathematics education contexts.
Response process validity evidence…
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Introduction to special issue focusing on think alouds and response process evidence. This work cuts across STEM education scholarship and introduces readers to robust means to engage in think alouds.…
Preparing Paraeducators for the Teacher Pipeline: Building Confidence Through Professional Development in Mathematics
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The article describes our project that was designed to provide experiences to support paraeducators' professional growth in a large urban district by building their mathematical knowledge for teaching and leadership.…