Our projects and research shape the STEM education field by introducing innovative curricula and improving student access to STEM.
We support more than 60 active projects every year, and our high-quality, innovative research is based on the understanding that for STEM, real-world application matters. We inspire, motivate, and create life-long learners by helping students connect what they are taught in the classroom to the world around them.
These projects and our research are designed to encompass a wide range of subjects and disciplines within STEM education and teaching methods to expand accessibility for all eager minds.
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The project is developing an interdisciplinary graduate program addressing issues of climate related risk and resilience planning and decision-making in the southeast US.
The ACCT project is developing, implementing, and studying a professional development model for improving chemistry teachers’ formative assessment practices to foster teaching focused on chemical thinking.
The project studies the development of the science assessment practices of teachers in high-needs districts.
Using augmented reality tools to help students with executive function issues attend to STEM related tasks.
The Building Coherence project aims to support development of pre-service elementary teachers’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions for enacting ambitious and equitable STEM instruction, by fostering greater coherence among STEM content and pedagogical teacher preparation opportunities.
The Center for Equitable Family STEM Learning at TERC explores the intersection of equity, STEM education, and family learning. Our definitions of each of these anchoring concepts continue to evolve through our collaborations with families and community partners.
A design-based research project studying how best to integrate data practices into high school science, particularly biology.
DSAIY is engaging, fun, timely, and attainable for ALL students, including those with no coding or statistics background.
Engaging Latinx parents as research partners, to leverage informal family engineering activities that boost preschoolers’ executive function skills.
Doing Math with Families is a mathematics professional development program that empowers families and caregivers to support children’s math learning through games, workshops, and community leadership while building pathways into education careers.