WCER Researcher Mark Connolly, shown with colleague Heather Belmont of Miami Dade College, served on a National Academy 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.
U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the top graduate schools on Tuesday and UW–Madison’s School of Education and many of its programs once again were recognized as being among the very best in the nation.
Learn about the most recent outcomes of WCER’s highly respected education research in the Winter 2018 edition of ForwardED.
Are you a fan of citizen science? Then you’re sure to love Siftr, an online platform developed by Field Day Lab that allows you to develop and share fieldwork projects about the world, with the whole world. Best of all, Siftr.org is now accessible through a new phone app, making citizen science easier than ever to engage in.
The call for proposals to present at the 2018 MSAN Institute is open through February 9. The goal of this event is to share cutting-edge strategies for eliminating racial achievement and opportunity gaps in schools. Everyone is invited to participate.
Applying Different Methods of Cost-Benefit Analysis to Evaluation
Mark Fermanich, Senior Associate, APA Consulting
WIES Lecture Featuring Keith Herman
Keith Herman, Professor Educational, School & Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri
Chief Learning Officer, Apr 11
WCER Communications, Apr 10
ASCD Education Update, Apr 6
WCER Communications, Apr 6
The Capital Times, Apr 6
Salon, Apr 4
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.
Ross J. Benbow and Matthew T. Hora, March 2018
A. Nelse Grundvig, February 2018
Matthew Hora (PI) was awarded $25,000 from the University of Wisconsin System for the study of college internships on student outcomes. More.
David Williamson Shaffer (PI) was awarded $2 million from the National Science Foundation for the project Local Environmental Modeling: A Toolkit for Incorporating Place-Based Learning into Virtual Internships - A Scalable, Informal STEM Learning Environment through August 2021. More.
Erica Halverson (PI) was awarded $1.1 million from the National Science Foundation for the project EI: Making + Mentoring: Integrating Computational Thinking into Informal 6-12 STEM Education, through July 2020. More.
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