A new collaborative research project at the Concord Consortium and Michigan State University will develop and research learning materials on the molecular and cellular basis for genetics and the process…
…be allowing teachers to reframe their curricula in entirely new ways and opening up more possibilities for student investigation. The InquirySpace project seeks to couple the power of technology with…
…and CLEAResult launched a Call for Innovation to leverage crowdsourcing to solicit new ideas for saving energy in homes based on smartphone technologies. Modern smartphones are packed with a variety…
The emerging discipline of data science combines computational thinking, mathematics, statistics, and content knowledge, paving the way for a new genre of educational technology: data science games. Funded by the…
…students should encounter new terms and concepts in a more methodical way (for instance, by insisting that the story is read at the beginning), and must have practice applying new…
…online physics learning program with our new model, a Monte Carlo BKT model. With our new approach, we are able to perform a completely unbiased analysis, which can then be…
…12:00 PM The future of education demands a new perspective, and today’s technology and capabilities make it possible. Across all STEM topics, mathematics understanding and practices can play out in…
…contribute to the measurement of their overall scientific argumentation ability. We designed a new assessment tool—explanation-certainty item sets—and conducted Rasch analysis on the Partial Credit model. We will discuss how…
Q. What brought you to the Concord Consortium? A. In 1999, I was doing my postdoc in biophysics research in Europe. At that time, Java was the hottest new programming…
…chair of our board in 2008 to lead the presidential search committee. Penny is co-editor of New Frontiers in Formative Assessment (Harvard Education Press), which includes two chapters by Concord…