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Partnership to Improve Student Achievement in Physical Sciences: Integrating STEM Approaches (PISA2)

This project, led by Stevens Institute of Technology, in partnership with St. Peter's College, Columbia University and 12 geographically, socio-economically and academically diverse school districts throughout New Jersey, aims to improve student achievement in physical sciences in grades 3-8 and increase the quantity, quality and diversity of teachers who are prepared to teach physical science. In addition, the partnership focuses on developing students' 21st century skills, in particular problem-solving, innovation and creativity, by embedding problem-based learning approaches into five new courses in the teacher certification programs.

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Partnership to Improve Student Achievement in Physical Science: Integrating STEM Approaches

Science and engineering education are seen as promising vehicles to promote 21st century skills in K-12 classrooms because they are not only a body of accepted knowledge, but also involve…


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Jersey City Students Learn Rocket Science

A PISA2 partner district was featured in this two-minute segment on Channel 7 Eyewitness News in November. The segment reports on how Jersey City students are becoming more engaged in their science classes through hands-on learning.

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Teacher Learning: What Matters?

"To help young people learn the more complex and analytical skills they need for the 21st century, teachers must learn to teach in ways that develop higher-order thinking and performance.…


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Increasing the Number of STEM Graduates: Insights from the U.S. STEM Education & Modeling Project

BHEF's Securing America's Leadership in STEM Initiative has broken new ground in addressing one of our nation's most critical challenges - increasing the number of students who are interested in…

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Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC)

"The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) are a practical, reliable set of data collection tools being used with teachers of Mathematics, Science and English Language Arts (K-12) to collect and...


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A Science Lesson Plan Analysis Instrument for Formative and Summative Program Evaluation of a Teacher Education Program

"In evaluating the success of teacher development programs, measures of teaching practice that are valid, reliable, and scalable are needed. We have developed, validated, and piloted the Science Lesson...