WCER Working Papers

A Situative Analysis of the Relationship between Faculty Beliefs and Teaching Practice: Implications for Instructional Improvement at the Postsecondary Level
WP 2012-10 (October 2012)

Teaching the Way They Were Taught? Revisiting the Sources of Teaching Knowledge and the Role of Prior Experience in Shaping Faculty Teaching Practices
WP 2012-9 (September 2012)

Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning: Challenges and Opportunities for Undergraduate Math and Science Education
WP 2012-8 (August 2012)

System-Wide Reform in Science: Student-Cenetered Inquiry at Scale Part II WP 2012-7 (July 2012)

Technologies for Education and Technologies for Learners: How Information Technologies Are (and Should Be) Changing Schools
WP 2012-6 (May 2012)

A Case Study Comparison of School Leadership Practice Against the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL) Pilot Results
WP 2012-5 (May 2012)

District Readiness to Implement Standards-Based Reform for English Language Learners a Decade After No Child Left Behind Act
WP 2012-4 (April 2012)

Gesture as Model Enactment: The Depictive and Causal Roles of Gesture in Mental Model Construction When Learning from Text
WP 2012-3 (March 2012)

Inquiry-based Science and the Science Immersion Instructional Reform in LAUSD
WP 2012-2 (February 2012)

Investigating the Antecedents to Instructors' Self-Efficacy for Teaching: Implications for Pedagogical Reform
WP 2012-1 (January 2012)

Practice-Based Evidence for Children and Adolescents: Advancing the Research Agenda in Schools
WP 2011-6 (December 2011)

"What's the Science Behind It?" The Interaction of Engineering and Science Goals, Knowledge, and Practices in a Design-Based Activity
WP 2011-5 (October 2011)

Changing Demographics: Wisconsin's New Latino Diaspora
WP 2011-4 (August 2011)

The Mismeasure of Boys: Reading and Online Videogames
WP 2011-3 (July 2011)

Teaching Assessment for Teacher Human Capital Management: Learning From the Current State of the Art
WP 2011-2 (March 2011)

Games and Simulations for Diabetes Education
WP 2011-1 (February 2011)

Games and Simulations in Informal Science Education
WP 2010-14 (December 2010)

Conservative Dual-Criterion Method for Single-Case Research: A Guide for Visual Analysis of AB, ABAB, and Multiple-Baseline Designs
WP 2010-13 (December 2010)

Cyberinfrastructure and Scientific Collaboration: Application of a Virtual Team Performance Framework with Potential Relevance to Education
WP 2010-12 (October 2010)

Making Sense of Time as Context: Theoretical Affordances of Chronotopes in the Study of Schooling and School Success
WP 2010-11 (September 2010)

Epistemography of a Journalism Practicum: The Complex Mechanisms of Developing Journalistic Expertise
WP 2010-10 (July 2010)

Enhancing Middle School Students' Representational Fluency: A Classroom-Based Study
WP 2010-9 (July 2010)

Epistemography of an Urban and Regional Planning Practicum: Appropriation in the Face of Resistance
WP 2010-8 (May 2010)

Hand Matching vs. Propensity Score Matching: An Empirical Comparison of Results From a Quasi-Experiment
WP 2010-7 (May 2010)

Factors Influencing Change Initiatives to Improve K–20 STEM Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills: Final Case Study of SCALE Activities
WP 2010-6 (April 2010)

Unpacking an Engineering Practicum: Building Engineers, One Participant Structure at a Time
WP 2010-5 (April 2010)

System-Wide Reform in Science: The Impact of District and School Context Part I
WP 2010-4 (February 2010)

Desegregation and the Achievement Gap: Do Diverse Peers Help?
WP 2010-3 (February 2010)

Artistic Production Processes as Venues for Positive Youth Development
WP 2010-2 (February 2010)

Designing and Testing Evaluation Tools to Inform Foundation Reforms and Build Grantee Capacity
WP 2010-1 (January 2010)

Can Achievement Peer Effect Estimates Inform Policy?
A View from Inside the Black Box
WP 2009-8 (September 2009)

The Development of Habitus Over Time
WP 2009-7 (August 2009)

Tracking and Inequality: New Directions for Research and Practice
WP 2009-6 (August 2009)

A Final Case Study of SCALE Activities at California State University, Northridge: How Institutional Context Influenced a K–20 STEM Education Change Initiative
WP 2009-5 (June 2009)

The Challenges of Producing Evidence-Based Claims: An Exploratory Study of NSF's Math and Science Partnership Community
WP 2009-4 (June 2009)

Middle School Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Equations:
Evidence From Writing Story Problems
WP 2009-3 (April 2009)

District-Wide Reform of Mathematics and Science Instruction: Case Studies of Four SCALE Partner Districts
WP 2009-2 (March 2009)

Instituting Change in Classroom Discourse Structure: Human and Computer-Based Motif Analysis
WP 2009-1 (February 2009)

Policy Effectiveness of Interim Assessments in Providence Public Schools
WP 2008-10 (October 2008)

Learning to Read Across Time: Negotiations and Affiliations of a Reader, Grades 1-8
WP 2008-9 (October 2008)

Alternate Mechanisms of Peer Achievement Spillovers: Implications for Identification and Policy
WP 2008-8 (September 2008)
Jane Cooley
Withdrawn. See WP 2009-8 (revised paper)

Desegregation and the Achievement Gap: Do Diverse Peers Help?
WP 2008-7 (September 2008)
Jane Cooley
Withdrawn. See WP 2010-3 (revised paper)

A Final Case Study of SCALE Activities at UW-Madison:
The Influence of Institutional Context on a K-20 STEM Education Change Initiative
WP 2008-6 (September 2008)

Students' Conceptual Metaphors Influence Their Statistical Reasoning About Confidence Intervals
WP 2008-5 (August 2008)

Using Occupational Characteristics Information from O*NET to Identify Occupations for Compensation Comparisons with K-12 Teaching
WP 2008-4 (June 2008)

K–20 Partnerships: Literature Review and Recommendations for Research
WP 2008-3 (June 2008)

Issues in the Development of Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives for WIDA Consortium States
WP 2008-2 (February 2008)

What Do We Know About Instruction From Large-Scale National Surveys?
WP 2008-1 (February 2008)

Equality of Educational Opportunity: A 40-Year Retrospective
WP 2006-9 (December 2006)

Performance Pay System Preferences of Students Preparing to Be Teachers
WP 2006-8 (October 2006)

The Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale: Validation Evidence and Behavioral Prediction
WP 2006-7 (October 2006)

To Disagree, We Must Also Agree: How Intersubjectivity Structures and Perpetuates Discourse in a Mathematics Classroom
WP 2006-6 (October 2006)

Can Brain Research and Computers Improve Literacy? A Randomized Field Trial of the Fast ForWord Language Computer-Based Training Program
WP 2006-5 (August 2006)

Distributed Leadership Perspective on How Leaders Use Artifacts to Create Professional Community in Schools
WP 2006-4 (August 2006)

Boolean Classes and Qualitative Inquiry
WP 2006-3 (April 2006)

What Gesture and Speech Reveal About Students’ Interpretations of Cartesian Graphs: Perceptions Can Bound Thinking
WP 2006-2 (March 2006)