Institute's Work with Indiana Students Yields Gains in STEM Readiness
A program administered by the University of Notre Dame and designed to boost preparation for science and math careers in Indiana’s public high schools has reported substantial jumps in test results among participating students during its first year of operation.
AP-TIP IN Success Story--From "Indiana Education Insight"
AP innovation progress pays; More prepared to succeed in college
Center for STEM Education Leads Visioning in Palm Beach
How can Catholic schools engage young people in innovative models of STEM--science, technology, engineering, and math--education?
Educational Initiatives Spread Benefits to Community and Beyond
The Institute for Educational Initiatives, as a center for Notre Dame’s scholarship on K-12 education, is privileged to contribute to an endeavor encouraging civic engagement and creative expression for young South Bend residents.
Grant Boosts Notre Dame Center's Research on Science Teachers' Use of Student Data
The Notre Dame Center for STEM Education has been awarded a $300,000 grant by the Spencer Foundation to study how indicators of student learning can influence—and help to improve—the instructional practices of middle-school science teachers in the classroom.
Winter Learning Draws Brazilian Teachers to South Bend Classes
This winter the University of Notre Dame is privileged to host 30 English teachers from Brazil, and an extra welcome offered by the South Bend community is expanding this international experience to local students and educators alike.
Notre Dame Researchers Add Insights for Teacher Evaluations
New research led by the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) points a way forward to improve certain teacher performance evaluation systems.
Berends Named AERA Fellow
Mark Berends, the distinguished sociologist of education who directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) in Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
College Board Partnership Award to Karen Morris
Karen Morris, program director of the Advanced Placement Training and Incentive Program for Indiana (AP-TIP IN) in Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, has received the College Board’s inaugural Partnership Award for the Midwestern region.
NSF CAREER Grant to Ying Alison Cheng
Prestigious $600,000 Award Recognizes Cheng, a Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, as Top Teacher-Scholar Bringing New Insights to the Field of Educational Assessment and Standardized Testing