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Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity's most pressing current a...
Americans agree that our students urgently need better science education. But what should they be expected to know and be able to do? Can the same exp...
Investigation and Design at the Center
It is essential for today's students to learn about science and engineering in order to make sense of the world around them and participate as informe...
Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are cultural achievements that reflect our humanity, power our economy, and constitute fundam...
Investigations in High School Science
Laboratory experiences as a part of most U.S. high school science curricula have been taken for granted for decades, but they have rarely been careful...
A Guide for Teaching and Learning
Humans, especially children, are naturally curious. Yet, people often balk at the thought of learning scienceรขโฌ"the "eyes glazed over" syndrome. Te...
Enhancing Opportunities, Creating Supportive Contexts
Currently, many states are adopting the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) or are revising their own state standards in ways that reflect the NG...
A Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) describe a new vision for science learning and teaching that is ca...
Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering
The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DB...
Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8
What is science for a child? How do children learn about science and how to do science? Drawing on a vast array of work from neuroscience to classroom...
Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classrooms
What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, scie...
A Workshop Summary
An emerging body of research suggests that a set of broad "21st century skills"-such as adaptability, complex communication skills, and the ability to...
The COVID-19 pandemic is resulting in widespread and ongoing changes to how the K-12 education system functions, including disruptions to science teac...
A Nation Advancing?
Following a 2011 report by the National Research Council (NRC) on successful K-12 education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM...
People, Places, and Pursuits
Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families...
Learning Science in Informal Environments
Practitioners in informal science settings-museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, libraries, aquariums, zo...
A Handbook
Effective science teaching requires creativity, imagination, and innovation. In light of concerns about American science literacy, scientists and educ...
Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and Lives
The imperative that all students, including English learners (ELs), achieve high academic standards and have opportunities to participate in science, ...
Enhancing Opportunities by Design
In the last twenty years, citizen science has blossomed as a way to engage a broad range of individuals in doing science. Citizen science projects foc...
What students learn about the science disciplines, technology, engineering, and mathematics during their K-12 schooling shapes their intellectual deve...
Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century
Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable...
At a time when scientific and technological competence is vital to the nation's future, the weak performance of U.S. students in science reflects the ...
Today's undergraduate students--future leaders, policymakers, teachers, and citizens, as well as scientists and engineers--will need to make important...
Assessments, understood as tools for tracking what and how well students have learned, play a critical role in the classroom. Developing Assessments f...
Achievements and Opportunities
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is one of the United States' leading federal science, technology, engineering, and mathematic...
The Undergraduate Perspective: Interim Report
The need to manage, analyze, and extract knowledge from data is pervasive across industry, government, and academia. Scientists, engineers, and execut...
Engineering education is emerging as an important component of US K-12 education. Across the country, students in classrooms and after- and out-of-sch...
What Can We Learn From The Survey of Mathematics and Science Opportunities (SMSO) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)?
Amid current efforts to improve mathematics and science education in the United States, people often ask how these subjects are organized and taught i...
More and more young people are learning about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in a wide variety of afterschool, summer, and i...
Learners, Contexts, and Cultures
There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important im...
Integrating Assessment and Instruction in the Classroom
Science educators in the United States are adapting to a new vision of how students learn science. Children are natural explorers and their observatio...
Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools
This book takes a fresh look at programs for advanced studies for high school students in the United States, with a particular focus on the Advanced P...
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals generate a stream of scientific discoveries and technological innovations that f...
Policies, Preservice Education, Professional Development, and the Workplace
Teachers play a critical role in the success of their students, both academically and in regard to long term outcomes such as higher education partici...
Expectations for early learning are very different than they were even as recently as a decade ago. With increased recognition of the intellectual cap...
Using TIMSS to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education, Professional Development Guide
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is a rich source of information that can be used by a broad range of stakeholders to pro...
Summary of Two Workshops
Numerous teaching, learning, assessment, and institutional innovations in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educa...
Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems. Ea...
A Compilation of Meeting Highlights
Established in December 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education was c...
Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities
Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their own ...