Category: About Us
Concord Consortium’s senior research scientist Andy Zucker says that improving education is not rocket science – it’s much harder than that!
Andy Zucker, author of Transforming Schools with Technology: How Smart Use of Digital Tools Helps Achieve Six Key Education Goals and a senior research scientist at the Concord Consortium, gives a thumbs up to Spotlight in Technology in Education.
Our High-Adventure Science research characterizes uncertainty associated with middle school students’ scientific arguments. Read paper presented at the April meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). Our Evolution Readiness project presented Getting Kids to Understand Evolution: First-Year Implementation Results at the April conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Over 90 ninth grade students pilot tested our Engineering Energy Efficiency curriculum in a Massachusetts school in March. They built standard model houses, learned about conduction, convection, and radiation using probes and Energy2D simulations, then designed their own model houses.
An interview with Concord Consortium Senior Scientist Paul Horwitz.
Paul Horwitz, Trudi Lord, and Cynthia McIntyre present the Evolution Readiness curriculum at the New England Educational Research Organization on April 28 at 10:15 a.m. in New Bedford, MA.
Three sessions at the 2011 AERA (American Educational Research Association) Conference showcase the Concord Consortium’s projects. Come learn about our Evolution Readiness and Universal Design for Learning projects.
Amy Pallant discusses the role of uncertainty in student scientific argumentation at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). Based on the High-Adventure Science project, which engages students in unanswered questions in science, she presents “Characterizing Uncertainty Associated with Middle School Students’ Scientific Arguments“ on Sunday, April 3, at 2:45 p.m.
Over 100 high school students tried their hand with virtual breadboards at yesterday’s Engineering Day at Tidewater Community College thanks to an electronics videogame developed by the SPARKS (Simulations for Performance Assessments that Report on Knowledge and Skills) project.
Concord Consortium senior scientist Paul Horwitz describes games in the context of authentic assessment.