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July 26 |
The Value-Added Research Center (VARC) at WCER is working with various school districts around the U.S. to support and promote effective teaching.
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July 19 |
John Rudolph, department of Curriculum & Instruction, is beginning duties as as the WCER Director of Graduate Training and the Doctoral Research Program.
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July 12 |
The U.S. is producing record numbers of Ph.D.s in computing; however, the number of African Americans receiving advanced degrees in computing at the master’s level still lags behind those of other ethnic/racial groups.
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July 6 |
With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, Constance Steinkuehler and colleagues are examining how students engage with reading that occurs during online videogame play.
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June 28 |
The Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) works toward placing talented and capable teachers in classrooms to accomplish the nation’s goals of teaching all students to high standards, and closing the achievement gap.
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June 23 |
The number of English Language Learner students continues to increase dramatically in U.S. schools.
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June 14 |
Families and schools will work more closely together as a result of next week’s international conference sponsored by Families and Schools Together, Inc.
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June 1 |
A new Working Paper by Mitchell Nathan and colleagues illustrates how propensity score matching (PSM) can provide a robust estimate of a program treatment effect on student learning outcomes.
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May 24 |
A new working paper presents findings on the effects of WCER’s SCALE project—System-Wide Change for All Learners and Educators.
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May 17 |
WCER's FLARE project helps secondary school teachers measure the progress of English Language Learners in academic classes.
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May 10 |
At last week’s annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association ITP Fellow Anna Haskins received the Sociology of Education Special Interest Group's "Best Graduate Student Paper" award for her paper.
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May 3 |
WCER’s Children, Families and Schools project tests the effects of social capital on levels and inequalities of children’s social and cognitive development during the early elementary years.
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Apr 24 |
A new paper by Gina Svarovsky presents an ethnographic study of an engineering practicum.
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Apr 19 |
WCER's Value Added Research Center (VARC) offers tutorials to help get you up to speed in value-added assessment.
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Apr 13 |
WIDA will host 3 summer academies for teachers and trainers of teachers of ELLs.
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Apr 5 |
Sharon Derry and colleagues support the practice and development of teachers in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) with the Video Mosaic Collaboratory.
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Mar 29 |
Recent calls for a stronger focus on proof and justification in the middle grades have led to changes in curriculum and in teaching. An emphasis on quantitative reasoning has been found to support students’ understanding of algebraic relationships.
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Mar 22 |
John Smithson and colleagues are analyzing how teachers in about 150 schools teach grades 2-8 mathematics. The goal is to determine practices and policies that promote success in schools, classrooms, and students..
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Mar 15 |
WCER’s Value Added Research Center is helping New York City schools better measure teacher contributions to student achievement.
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Mar 8 |
Martha Alibali and Mitchell Nathan are leading a team of three university groups investigating the learning and teaching of the mathematics of space and motion.
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Mar 1 |
A new Working Paper explores the impact of district and school contexts on the implementation of an inquiry-oriented elementary science initiative undertaken in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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Feb 22 |
With funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, Mitchell Nathan and colleagues have begun an interdisciplinary training program to help postdoctoral students conduct rigorous research in math education.
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Feb 15 |
WCER Scientist Susan Millar has been appointed to the leadership team for The Morgridge Institute for Research.
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Feb 8 |
The study of learning environments that support positive youth development is a growing field.
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Feb 1 |
The Value Added Research Center has been awarded a new $3.7 million grant from the Bush Foundation.
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Jan 26 |
Agile Mind for Biology (AMB) supports the teaching and learning of high school biology content. It’s an online tool providing interactive visualizations and animations.
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Jan 18 |
A new Working Paper reports results of a pilot test of guidelines and related tools from an evaluation of the The Chicago Community Trust.
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Jan 11 |
Training psychologists to work in schools is critical, says Thomas R. Kratochwill.
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Jan 5 |
The Learning Sciences are poised to make great strides in advancing understanding of complex human behavior.
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