Researchers in Profile
EMERGING FINDINGS

CRESMET Hosts National Science Board Commission

Miceal Crow and Steve Beering Dr. Steven C. Beering, chairman, National Science Board, center, Dr. Michael Crosby, director, NSB office, left, and ASU President Michael Crow at a reception in January for members of the NSB's Commission on 21st Century Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. CRESMET Director Marilyn Carlson hosted the reception at the Biodesign Institute at ASU with Biodesign Director George Poste and Daniel Sarewitz, director of ASU's Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes. Commission members were in Phoenix to meet with Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano regarding the commission's draft report recommending an action plan for improving U.S. math and science education. http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/edu_com/

 

Learning Communities for Teachers---CRESMET Research Finding What Works

Professional Learning Community "If you're promoting professional learning communities, I can tell you that they don't work. We had to do them in our building all last year, and I know they're the hot new thing, but they don't work. We got rid of that principal, thank goodness."
 Teacher quoted by TLN Teacher Voices

Marilyn Carlson and her team of researchers are finding that indeed, when professional learning communities lack just the right attributes, they don’t work to help teachers improve their practice. Pinpointing which traits of focus, training and norms do make these communities a powerful tool for transforming instruction is proving to be an important part of the research going on in CRESMET’s Project Pathways Math & Science Partnership...More

Thompson Goes to Israel Conference

A February conference on constructivist theories of knowledge at Hebrew University in Jerusalem featured invited comments by Pat Thompson, ASU professor of mathematics education and research director of CRESMET... More