Research Projects - Does it Work?: Building Methods for Understanding Effects of Professional Development
- Assessment in K-12 Conference
- Does it Work?: Building Methods for Understanding Effects of Professional Development
- Achievements and Challenges of Modeling-based Instruction (ACMI) in Science Education: from 1980 to 2009
- Designing Transformative Assessments for Interdisciplinary Learning in Science (DeTAILS)
- IDEAL Biology
- Mapping Developmental Trajectories of Students’ Conceptions of Integers (Project Z)
- CAREER: Characterizing Critical Aspects of Mathematics Classroom Discourse
- Stimulating Young Neuroscientists And Physiologists In Science Education (SYNAPSE)
- The Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics (CPTM)
- Diagnosing Teachers’ Multiplicative Reasoning
Does it Work?: Building Methods for Understanding Effects of Professional Development
Does it Work?: Building Methods for Understanding Effects of Professional Development (DiW) is an NSF-funded project developing methods for studying relationships among teacher learning, teaching practice, and student achievement. At the heart of the project is a 40-hour professional development course focused on using drawn models to develop arithmetic with rational numbers and proportional reasoning. The course is offered in urban districts and is based on the NSF-funded InterMath professional development program. The three main research questions are:
- What do teachers learn from InterMath experiences?
- If the teacher learn from InterMath, do their instructional practices change as a result?
- If the teachers’ practices change, are there measurable changes in students’ achievement?
The DiW project is a collaboration between mathematics education researchers and psychometricians at the University of Georgia and the University of Massachusetts
