Exploring the gender differences in how children develop early interest and understanding in engineering can provide useful information for the ongoing efforts to address the low numbers of women who pursue engineering careers.

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.

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 particip

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 caree

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 portfolio

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

Findings from learning assessments are used to evaluate progress, allocate resources and compare achievement levels across and within countries.

Where nurturing relationships are unavailable to children, the consequences can be severe. While the science on the impact of early childhood interventions is strong, there is a lack of research on best practices in contexts of extreme adversity and poverty in low- and middle-income countries.

The purpose of this paper is to identify the most effective strategies for delivering quality education services to children...

Most Haitians live under the poverty line, making under USD2 per day (UNDP). The extended unemployment rate is 28%.