Education & learning publications
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Using Knowledge about How People Learn to Define Learning Goals
How well are college general education classes preparing students to apply big ideas to real-world problems? What are the major steps of domain-specific assessment design? Presented at Innovations 2010.
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Building Relationships That Foster a STEM Continuum for Girls
Who We Are: Project Background and Partners • InnovaTE³: Mission, Goals, Curriculum, Participants • STEM Continuum Programming • Strategies for Building Relationships • Youth Development Approach • Evaluation • Successes…
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Girls InnovaTE3: Girls Innovating with Technology as Entrepreneurial Environmental Engineers
InnovaTE3 is part of our ongoing effort to create a six-year STEM continuum for middle and high school girls in an afterschool program.
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The Alignment of the Informal and Formal Organizational Supports for Reform: Implications for Improving Teaching in Schools
This article combines social network analysis with interview data to analyze how well the formal and informal aspects of a school’s social context are aligned.
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Managing inquiry-based science: Challenges in enacting complex science instruction in K-8 classrooms
In this article, we describe five interconnected management areas that need to be addressed when managing an inquiry-oriented K-8 science classroom. We introduce a pyramid model as a framework for…
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Joint Media Engagement and Learning
Joint media engagement (JME) refers to spontaneous and designed experiences of people using media together.
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Dual Enrollment: Lessons Learned on School‐Level Implementation
This paper is based on a synthesis of findings from prior research. After first reviewing the status of Dual Enrollment across the Nation, we identify lessons learned and potential solutions…
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Engaging Youth with STEM Professionals in Afterschool Programs
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Teaching Routines to Enhance Collaboration using Classroom Network Technology
This chapter presents an argument for the use of teaching routines (pedagogical patterns) to engage students in collaborative learning activities using the Group Scribbles classroom network technology.
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The Bio-Link Career Exploration Web Site Final Report
This report illustrates how web tools can support the particular information needs of these three types of prospective workers in biotechnology technician fields.
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Use of Education Data at the Local Level: From Accountability to Instructional Improvement
The use of student data systems to improve education and help students succeed is a national priority.
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How ITEST Projects Are Meeting NAEP’s Technological Literacy Framework