Principal Investigator: Peng He
Co-Principal Investigator: Namsoo Shin
Award Amount: $449,960.00
Project Dates: 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2025
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
By investigating multiple intermediate three-dimensional learning pathways, the 3DLP project serves the national interest by exploring how to support teachers in creating equitable and coherent learning environments and promoting all students' development in problem-solving and sense-making in science. This may lead to more students choosing STEM fields of study in high school and college.
3DLP has three primary goals:
- to develop a three-dimensional learning progression to support a wide variety of middle school students and that aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards. (with respect to their ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status [SES]
- use the 3DLP as a coherent framework to guide teachers in adapting their existing curriculum, instruction, and assessment to support the knowledge-in-use development of a broad range of students;
- to study and monitor student knowledge-in-use development in the 3DLP-adapted science classrooms across the middle grades.
