| Scientific Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure
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Dec 27 |
School districts are building data systems and infrastructure to handle the complex requirements of data-driven decision making.
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| Equity and Inclusion Project Supports Black Male Athletes
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Dec 20 |
The Beyond the Field Initiative confronts the challenge of Black male student athletes expiring their eligibility to play without identifying viable career alternatives to professional sports. A comprehensive career counseling and support process exposes Black male student athletes to post-graduation options..
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| Single-Case Research: A Guide for Visual Analysis
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Dec 13 |
Analyzing data visually from single-case designs can be challenging for researchers because there is often a lack of agreement among judges.
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| Linking Curricular Changes to Achievement
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Dec 6 |
Mitchell Nathan and Martha Alibali are working with colleagues at WestEd's National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction to redesign a middle school mathematics curriculum, the Connected Mathematics Project.
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| WCER Partners with WI Technical College System
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Nov 29 |
Allen Phelps and colleagues are working with the Wisconsin Technical College System to advance the state’s capacity for delivering high-quality, advanced manufacturing education.
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| Online Lab to Prepare Students for College Writing
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Nov 22 |
The Minority Student Achievement Network is developing an interactive, on-line writing lab to help high school juniors and seniors complete school assignments and help prepare them for college level writing.
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| How Does Mentoring Affect Student Career Choices?
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Nov 15 |
A new multidisciplinary mentoring program bridges theory, research, and practice to increase and diversify the number of college students who pursue science careers.
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| FAST Program Receives UN Recognition
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Nov 8 |
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recognized FAST as an evidence-based family skills program, one of 24 in the world.
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| Value-Added Research in Milwaukee Public Schools
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Nov 1 |
For the past seven years WCER staff have worked with Milwaukee Public Schools district staff to develop their capacity to analyze and make full use of data on students and schools.
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| Evaluating the Chicago Community Trust
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Oct 25 |
Since 2005, researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education have been evaluating the Chicago Community Trust’s Education Program.
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Oct 18 |
Wisconsin is among six states receiving grants from the U.S. Department of Education under the Promoting Rigorous Career and Technical Education Programs of Study (POS) Program.
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Oct 11 |
One research priority of the Value Added Research Center is to develop and refine a new value-added model that combines the best features of models with random and fixed individual effects.
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Oct 4 |
Undergraduates are learning how new antibiotics can be developed in cultured and uncultured bacteria.
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Sep 27 |
The aims of the Learning Sciences (LS) are to understand the nature of learning from a broad range of perspectives, and to shape the ways that learning environments and resources are designed and used.
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Sep 13 |
The Epistemic Games Group has developed an automated mentoring technology called AutoMentor, which helps teach kids math and science through conversations in natural language.
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Sep 13 |
Education partnerships are central to most education reform initiatives.
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Sep 7 |
Catherine Compton-Lilly offers a new case study that explores time as a context in which a low-income, African American boy defines himself as a particular type of student and literate person and was ultimately relegated to a particular school trajectory.
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Aug 30 |
A newly published study examines the representational fluency of middle algebra school students, or their ability to reason with and between multiple representations, using tabular, graphical, verbal, and symbolic representations of linear and nonlinear relations.
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Aug 23 |
A new Working Paper by David Hatfield and David Williamson Shaffer explores the learning processes within an intermediate-level reporting practicum course..
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Aug 16 |
A new mathematics education project aims to provide students in 4-year-old kindergarten quality learning opportunities in and out of school that are mathematically substantive and culturally sensitive.
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Aug 8 |
The Value Added Research Center will serve as external evaluator for
the newly funded Milwaukee Community Literacy Project.
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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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