Research & Publications

Findings from learning assessments are used to evaluate progress, allocate resources and compare achievement levels across and within countries. Although learning assessments have significantly improved education policies and performance, they also have serious limitations, namely the exclusion of children and youth facing adversities...

The Juhudi Initiative was created with the objective of generating new local knowledge...  

The Quality Assessment in Science Professional Development (QAS PD) project is a joint research endeavor between researchers and teacher educators at the University of Notre Dame and Stanford University investigating teachers' conceptions and practices across a year-long intervention using portfolios of assessment and data-use artifacts...

In recent years, Making – a do-it-yourself, grassroots approach to designing and constructing real things through creativity, problem-solving, and tool use – has received increasing attention as a fruitful vehicle for introducing young people to the excitement of science and engineering and to career skills in these fields...

In 2015, the Chilean Ministry of Education regulated that all schools adopt a new instructional framework, Decree 83, which “calls for educational communities to act with creativity and autonomy in search of diverse, flexible, and enriching educational responses that offer opportunities for participation, learning, and integral development for all of their students.”...

Head Start on Engineering (HSE) is a collaborative, NSF-funded research and practice project designed to develop and refine a theoretical model of early childhood, engineering-related interest development...