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April 8, 2021
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2021 National Association of Research in Science Teaching Conference

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April 8, 2021
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How teacher practices influence elementary students' social emotional learning

Conference Date: April 8th, 2021

Authors: Cory Miller, Tingting Li; Kayla Bartz, Joe Krajcik, Barbara Schneider

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The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between teaching practices and 3rd-grade students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) during science lessons in 49 classrooms (30 treatment and 19 control) for 1,162 students. Several analyses have been conducted to assess the effectiveness of our treatment—ML-PBL—teaching practices on students SEL. The first is a confirmatory factor analysis of our SEL constructs (Reflection, Ownership, and Collaboration) between the two conditions, the second shows the main effect of differences in SEL between them, and the third explores the mechanisms between SEL and teacher instructional practices.

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2021 ASU+GSV Summit Five Characteristics of Project-Based Learning

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Including teachers in the social justice equation of project-based learning: A response to Lee & Grapin

Adah Miller, E., Makori, H., Akgun, S., Miller, C., Li, T., & Codere, S. (2022). Including teachers in the social justice equation of project-based learning: A response to Lee & Grapin. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1– 7.

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The Impact of Project-Based Learning on AP Exam Performance

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Equity-Centered Learning Environments (ECLEs) 

LER funded four research teams who are engaged in ongoing research addressing equity and student-centered learning in educational contexts across the country.

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Democratic Knowledge Project

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Mapping Enabling Conditions for High-Quality PBL: A Collaboratory Approach

This paper explores enabling conditions for scaling high-quality project-based learning (PBL) to understand factors that influence how PBL spreads, whether and how it can be sustained and the extent to which it informs meaningful change in schools.

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Designing Project-Based Learning Curricula

This paper provides instructional designers with guidance on how to design high-quality PBL curricula, drawing on the LER research base, the learning science literature, and best practices from the field. To provide developers with guideposts that can inform design decisions, the paper describes a set of design principles that can support the creation of content-rich, student-centered experiences.

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Interdisciplinary Education: Literature Review and Landscape Analysis  

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Motivating Teaching, Sustaining Change in Practice

Miller, E.C., Severance, S., and Krajcik, J. (2021). Motivating Teaching, Sustaining Change in Practice: Design Principles for Teacher Learning in Project-Based Learning Contexts, Journal of Science Teacher Education, 32:7, 757-779 In A Framework for K-12 Science Education, researchers call for teachers to make dramatic shifts in practice – and sustain in these changes in practice […]

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Enabling Conditions Collaboratory

The Enabling Conditions Collaboratory brought together four research teams to work towards understanding the conditions that support high-quality PBL.

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Project-Based Learning in San Francisco: Research Study Sparks Middle School Science Curriculum

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