Michigan Teachers Exploring Nature: Thinking Beyond Four Walls
Congratulations to Dr. Cory Miller and Ms. Kara Haas for being selected to receive $50,000 seed funding to develop an outdoor science instructional program.
Current Projects
Collaborative Research: Moving beyond access, increasing teacher knowledge to teach rigorous equity-focused high school computing
New study will increase the awareness and interest of students underrepresented in computer science and educate high school teachers to deliver high-quality computer science instruction.
Culturally Responsive Project-Based Learning Intervention in Secondary Science
Principal Investigators: Dr. Joseph Krajcik, Dr. Barbara Schneider, Dr. Clausell Mathis, Dr. Sheneka Williams (Michigan State Unversity)
Project Partners: Alabama A&M University, Winston-Salem University, and the STEPP Center at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research
Funder: The Office of Elementary & Secondary Education
Award Amount: $7,722,448.00
Supporting High School Students in Constructing Quantitative Knowledge-in-Use of Energy
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joseph Krajcik
Co-Principal Investigators: Knut Neuman (IPN; Jeffrey Nordine (University of Iowa) and David Fortus (Weizmann Institute of Science).
Award amount: $1.9M Project dates: 07/01/2023 - 7/31/2027
Funder: Institute of Education Sciences
Developing a Teacher Micro-credential for Integrating Computational Thinking Across Disciplines
Principal Investigator: Dr. Aman Yadav
Co-Principal Investigators: Dr. Raphael Santo, Dr. Thomas Bijesse, Dr. Marc Lesser (Former Co-PI), and Dr. Carlos Leon (Former Co-PI)
Award amount: $1,733,861.00
Project dates: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2025
Collaborative Research: Modeling inclusive computational thinking instruction
Principal Investigator: Dr. Aman Yadav
Co-principal investigators: Dr. Christina Schwarz and Dr. Emily Bouck
Award amount: $1,300,000.00
Project dates: September 1, 2023 - August 31, 2027 (estimated)
3DLP (Learning Progression)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Peng He
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Namsoo Shin
Award Amount: $449,960.00
Project Dates: 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2025
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
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Principal Investigator: Kevin Haudek
Co-Principal Investigators: Joseph Krajcik (MSU, and Leonora Kaldaras (Texas Tech University)
Project Dates: 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2026
Award Amount: $1,547,918.00
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Assessing Mathematical Sensemaking in Science (AMASS)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin Haudek
Co-Principal Investigators: Dr. Melanie Cooper and Dr. Rachel Henderson
Project Partners: Dr. Jennifer Kaplan of Middle Tennessee State University, Dr. Anita Schuchardt of the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Michael Fleming of the University of California-Stanislaus.
Project Dates: March 15, 2023 - February 28, 2027 (estimated)
Award Amount: $699,918.00
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Health in Our Hands: A New Genomic Framework for Schools and Communities
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joseph Krajcik
Project Manager: Irene Bayer
Project Dates: 2014-2019
Award Amount: $214,079.00
Funder: Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), supported by the National Institutes of Health ________________________________________________________________________________
