STEM and computer science education publications
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Can Nanoscience Be A Catalyst For Education Reform?
This essay explores the implications of national initiatives to prepare students with the science and engineering knowledge necessary to function in a highly technological society and to maintain the momentum…
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Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort
The study used an experimental design to assess the effects of technology products, with volunteering teachers randomly assigned to use or not use selected products.
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Infusing IT/STEM Skill Standards in Informal ITEST Learning
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Assessing Local Item Dependence In Building Explanation Tasks (Padi Technical Report 14)
A common practice in the assessment of science education is to have a shared stimulus followed by a number of questions. In these cases, one might doubt the usual assumption…
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Build IT: Girls Developing Information Technology Fluency Through Design. Annual Report Year 1
The goals for the first year of the Build IT project were to develop and implement the three units of the curriculum at four school sites reaching a total of…
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No Child Left Behind and Science Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks
This article examines the opportunities, challenges, and risks that No Child Left Behind (NCLB) poses for science education in elementary and middle schools.
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Teaching Nanoscience To High School Students: A Tale Of The Nanosense Project
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Build It: Girls Building Information Technology Fluency Through Design
The Computer Science education and practice community has made clear the need to increase the size and diversity of US-trained computer science professionals.
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Mathematizing Middle School: Results From A Cross-Disciplinary Study Of Data Literacy
In this paper we discuss a pilot study in which we investigate bridging the disciplines of social studies and mathematics to help students learn important aspects of data literacy. We…
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The Many Challenges Of Designing And Teaching Nanoscience
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Measuring Middle School Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge Of Teaching Rate And Proportionality
We are investigating if teachers from across the state of Texas can use a specially designed replacement unit and SimCalc software to help their students learn mathematics important to the…
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Implementing Reading and Mathematics Software
This study explored software implementation issues through case study of a subset of the schools participating in the EETI experiment.