Moving STEM Forward

Volume 2, Issue 2

November 2022

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Publications

Supporting Postsecondary Educators to Develop Assessments for Student Learning Based on Backward Design

Authors: Anushree Bopardikar, Karen Mutch-Jones, Santiago Gasca, Melissa Csikari, Marjee Chmiel

Content Areas: PD, Research/Evaluation, Science

Family values, parent roles, and life challenges: Parent reflections on the factors shaping long-term interest development for young children and their families participating in an early childhood engineering program

Authors: Scott Pattison, Smirla Ramos Montañez, Gina Svarovsky

Content Areas: Math, Engineering, Out of School, Science, Technology

Handbook of STEM Faculty Development

Authors: Marjee Chmiel, Melissa Csikari, Karen Mutch-Jones, Santiago Gasca, Anushree Bopardikar

Content Areas: PD, Research/Evaluation, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

Supporting teachers’ engagement with student thinking in teacher-captured video-based professional development environments: factors and implications

Authors: Katrina Borowiec, Anushree Bopardikar, Courtney Castle

Content Areas: Research/Evaluation, Technology

Blog Posts

VisTe’s Impact Outside Classroom: Reflections of a TERC Scholar Intern

Authors: Akiko Voelcker, TERC Scholars Intern

Content Areas: Research/Evaluation

Hispanic Heritage Month

This post celebrates the accomplishments and contributions of Hispanic and Latinx TERC staff members, and the diversity they add to the STEM education community.

New Projects

African American Young Women in Making to Engage in STEM and Entrepreneurship (AAMASE)

Using a co-design model, researchers, practitioners alongside participants will develop a program for young women of color to learn STEM, Making, and entrepreneurship skills.

Staff: Ken Rafanan, Nuria Jaumot-Pascual, Teresa Lara-Meloy, Jennifer Knudsen, Christina B. Silva, Rachel Hayes

Content Areas: Math, Science, Technology, Out of School

AugmentedEF

Authors: Zac Alstad, Ibrahim Dahlstrom-Hakki, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Renee Pawlowski

Content Areas: Research, Science, Technology

Afterschool Making Projects with Design Thinking and Mathematics with Latinx Communities (AMPD4Math)

Authors: Teresa Lara-Meloy, Jennifer Knudsen, Nuria Jaumot-Pascual, Ken Rafanan, Santiago Gasca, Rachel Hayes

Content Areas: Math, Out of School, PD, Technology

Exploring Students’ Data Science Learning and Participation through Engagement with Authentic, Messy Data at DataFest

Authors: Jessica Karch, Traci Higgins, Jim Hammerman

Content Areas: Science, Computer Science

Exploring the Integration of Systems Thinking: Participatory Professional Development (ExIST)

Authors: Michael Cassidy, Gillian Puttick, Debra Bernstein, Santiago Gasca

Content Areas: Professional Development, Science

Opportunities for Educators