Meet Jo Wilder, a young girl who searches for history in the state capitol with her pet badger. Field Day Lab created this game with multiple community partners to help teachers introduce students to historical inquiry. The game addresses academic state standards for social studies, English language arts and information technology.
Learn about these hot research topics in education and more. Read the fall issue of ForwardED!
WCER scientist David Williamson Shaffer has developed a new research method, known as quantitative ethnography, to tease out rich, real-time insights buried in the digital records we all generate on a daily basis. The tool weaves the study of culture with statistics to help understand human behavior.
A new alliance co-led by CIRTL will improve STEM college-level teaching with the goal of increasing underrepresented students in STEM majors and professions.
A new study finds that occupations typically requiring more than high school but less than a bachelor’s degree, such as maintenance and repair workers, account for 16% of all U.S. jobs, much lower than previous estimates.
WIES Lecture featuring Christien Tompkins
Christien Tompkins, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University
WIES Lecture Featuring Benedikt Harrer
Benedikt Harrer, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy Physics Education Research, San Jose State University
WCER Communications, Oct 15
UW-Madison School of Education, Sep 27
WCER Communications, Sep 26
Journal of Folklore and Education, Sep 21
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Sep 20
UW-Madison School of Education, Sep 20
Peter Goff, Yasmin Rodriguez-Escutia, and Minseok Yang, October 2018
"Documenting the Aims of Higher Education in Wisconsin," Bailey B. Smolarek, Matthew Wolfgram, Micayla Darrow, Cassandra Duernberger, Cassidy Hartzog, Kathryn Hendrickson Gagen, Ryan Mulrooney, David Singer, and Isabella Vang, CCWT Research Report, 2018.
Ahyoung Alicia Kim, Daniella Molle, Jason Kemp, and H. Gary Cook, October 2018
Matthew T. Hora, Bailey B. Smolarek, Kelly Norris Martin, and Lee Scrivener, October 2018
"Feeling the Stress and Strain – Race, Economics, and the Educational Experiences of Latinx Emergent Bilinguals in a ‘New’ Destination School," Bailey Smolarek, Race Ethnicity and Education, 2018.
Donald Gillian-Daniel (PI) leads the project "Collaborative Research: IUSE EHR - Inclusive Learning and Teaching in Undergraduate STEM Instruction," a subcontract of a $562,184 total award to Northwestern University from the National Science Foundation through 2023.
Robert Mathieu (PI), Kitch Barnicle and Donald Gillian-Daniel received a grant of $3,340,893 from the National Science Foundation for “Aspire: The National Alliance for Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty” through Aug. 31, 2023.
Peter Wardrip (PI) was awarded $240,568 by the National Science Foundation for the project "EAGER: MAKER: Enhanced learing through making by way of personalized content for animation and fabrication" through 2019.
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