Students, research teams and principal investigators are invited to present at the 2019 UW-Madison Education Research Poster Fair. Submit a new or existing poster about research findings related to pre-K through adult education.
WCER introduces the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education, or CRECE (cray-say). “Crece” in Spanish means, “it grows.” And that’s exactly what CRECE Director Beth Graue plans to do with this innovative research center that is intended to bridge the gap between early childhood education research and practice.
Meet Jo Wilder, a young girl who searches for history in the state capitol with her pet badger. Field Day Lab created this game with multiple community partners to help teachers introduce students to historical inquiry. The game addresses academic state standards for social studies, English language arts and information technology.
Learn about these hot research topics in education and more. Read the fall issue of ForwardED!
WCER scientist David Williamson Shaffer has developed a new research method, known as quantitative ethnography, to tease out rich, real-time insights buried in the digital records we all generate on a daily basis. The tool weaves the study of culture with statistics to help understand human behavior.
WIES Lecture Featuring Benedikt Harrer
Benedikt Harrer, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy Physics Education Research, San Jose State University
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Capital Times, Oct 31
"Teachers at the Table: Voice, Agency, and Advocacy in Educational Policymaking," Annalee Good, 2018.
Peter Goff, Yasmin Rodriguez-Escutia, and Minseok Yang, October 2018
"Documenting the Aims of Higher Education in Wisconsin," Bailey B. Smolarek, Matthew Wolfgram, Micayla Darrow, Cassandra Duernberger, Cassidy Hartzog, Kathryn Hendrickson Gagen, Ryan Mulrooney, David Singer, and Isabella Vang, CCWT Research Report, 2018.
Ahyoung Alicia Kim, Daniella Molle, Jason Kemp, and H. Gary Cook, October 2018
Matthew T. Hora, Bailey B. Smolarek, Kelly Norris Martin, and Lee Scrivener, October 2018
Jennifer Asmus and Thomas Kratochwill (co-PIs) were awarded $1,399,428 from the U.S. Department of Education for the project "Response to Intervention and School Teams: Training Pre-service School Psychologists and Special Educators to Be Team Problem Solvers," through 2023.
Donald Gillian-Daniel (PI) leads the project "Collaborative Research: IUSE EHR - Inclusive Learning and Teaching in Undergraduate STEM Instruction," a subcontract of a $562,184 total award to Northwestern University from the National Science Foundation through 2023.
Robert Mathieu (PI), Kitch Barnicle and Donald Gillian-Daniel received a grant of $3,340,893 from the National Science Foundation for “Aspire: The National Alliance for Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty” through Aug. 31, 2023.
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