Read about the latest research on these hot topics and more in the summer issue of ForwardED.
Have you heard of ALTELLA? It’s a new project at WCER that helps states develop federally mandated assessments for English language learners with significant cognitive disabilities, a K-12 population largely overlooked in the U.S.
Learn what Madison Education Partnership researchers discovered about excused and unexcused absences in Madison’s public schools.
Nearly 2 million 2018 college graduates are readying themselves for the workforce, however, past or present, we know little about this life-changing transition to the world of work. Two new CCWT research projects take off to start filling in the blanks.
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WCER Researcher Mark Connolly, shown with colleague Heather Belmont of Miami Dade College, served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee tasked with creating indicators to answer that question. He shares the main findings of the committee’s report, just released to the public.
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Mun Yuk Chin, Chelsea A. Blackburn Cohen, and Matthew T. Hora, June 2018
MatÃas D. Scaglione, June 2018
Noah Hirschl and Christian Michael Smith, April 2018
"Choosing STEM College Majors: Exploring the Role of Pre-College Engineering Courses," L. Allen Phelps, Eric M. Camburn and Sookweon Min, Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2018.
"Examining Faculty Reflective Practice: A Call for Critical Awareness and Institutional Support," Matthew T. Hora and Bailey B. Smolarek, The Journal of Higher Education, 2018.
Annalee Good (PI) was awrded $63,000 from the U.S. Department Of Education for the project "Javits Expanding Excellence - Milwaukee Public Schools" through 2022.
Martha Alibali (PI) was awarded $524,049 by the National Science Foundation for the project “Collaborative Research: Fostering Conceptual Understanding and Skill with an Intelligent Tutoring System for Equation Solving through 2021.
Matthew Hora was awarded $25,000 from the University of Wisconsin System for the study of college internships on student outcomes.
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