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What does research reveal about how people learn and which educational methods and policies are most effective? An evidence-based approach can provide valuable input into often-controversial debates about educational methods and policy. Our reports have examined and synthesized the evidence on a broad range of questions, from how to accurately measure high-school dropout rates, to the effects of incentives on student learning, to how adults learn to read. Given our affiliation with the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, one area of emphasis is studying how children most effectively learn about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. See also: |
| Current Projects | | | | | Developing Assessments of Science Proficiency in K-12
A committee will make recommendations for strategies for developing assessments that validly measure student proficiency in science as laid out in the new K-12 science education framework. | | | | | Barriers and Opportunities in Completing Two and Four-Year STEM Degrees This study will explore the barriers facing two- and four-year undergraduates who intend to major in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and opportunities for overcoming these barriers. | | | Climate Change Education Roundtable The Roundtable on Climate Change Education* was established 2009 to foster ongoing discussion of the challenges to and strategies for improving climate science and climate change education for the general public, and for students in elementary, secondary and post-secondary education. | | | Committee on Strengthening Science Education through a Teacher Learning Continuum This study will explore the learning needs for teachers throughout their careers and how these needs might differ depending on school level (elementary, middle, and high school). | | | Committee for the Five Year (2009-2013) Summative Evaluation of the District of Columbia's Public Schools
The committee will write a consensus evaluation report that describes changes in the public schools during the period from 2009 to 2013 and also addresses the questions outlined in the PERAA legislation about effects on business practices; human resources operations and human capital strategies; academic plans; and student achievement. | | | Toward Integrated STEM Education: Developing a Research Agenda The goal of this study is to develop a strategic research agenda for determining the approaches and conditions most likely to lead to positive outcomes of integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (iSTEM) education at the K-12 level. | | | | | | Featured Reports | | | | |  | | Improving Adult Literacy: Options for Practice and Research This report recommends a program of research and innovation to gain a better understanding for adult literacy learners, improve instruction, and create the supports adult need for learning and achievement. Read more | | | | |  | | A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas The framework identifies the key scientific ideas and practices all students should learn by the end of high school. Read more | | | | |  | | Successful K-12 STEM Education This report considers various STEM-focused school models, highlights research on effective STEM education practices, and identifies conditions that promote school- and student-level success. Read more | | | | |
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Other Reports of Interest
 | Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape: Summary of a Summit
(BHEW,BLS,BOSE)
2012
The National Research Council (NRC) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have released a new report, Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape: Summary of a Summit. Based on a...
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 | Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary of a Workshop
(BOTA)
2011
The routine jobs of yesterday are being replaced by technology and/or shipped off-shore. In their place, job categories that require knowledge management, abstract reasoning, and personal services...
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 | Successful STEM Education: A Workshop Summary
(BOSE,BOTA)
2011
What students learn about the science disciplines, technology, engineering, and mathematics during their K-12 schooling shapes their intellectual development, opportunities for future study and work,...
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 | Climate Change Education: Goals, Audiences, and Strategies: A Workshop Summary
(BECS,BOSE)
2011
The global scientific and policy community now unequivocally accepts that human activities cause global climate change. Although information on climate change is readily available, the nation still...
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 | A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
(BOSE)
2012
Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity's most pressing current and future challenges. The United States' position...
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 | Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(BOSE,BOTA)
2011
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are cultural achievements that reflect our humanity, power our economy, and constitute fundamental aspects of our lives as citizens, consumers,...
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 | Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education
(BOTA)
2011
In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The federal No Child Left...
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 | Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners
(CNSTAT,BOTA)
2011
As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With the 2001...
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 | Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education:Summary of Two Workshops
(BOSE)
2011
Numerous teaching, learning, assessment, and institutional innovations in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education have emerged in the past decade. Because...
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 | Learning Science Through Computer Games and Simulations
(BOSE)
2011
At a time when scientific and technological competence is vital to the nation's future, the weak performance of U.S. students in science reflects the uneven quality of current science education. ...
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 | High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates:Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions
(BOTA)
2011
High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and economic well being. While determining these rates may...
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