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Principal Investigator: Jack Smith
Graduate Students: Leo Chang, Dan Clark, Leslie Dietiker, Hanna Figueras, Funda Gonulates, Jia He, KoSze Lee, Lorraine Males, Aaron Mosier
Funding: National Science Foundation
With funding from the National Science Foundation's REESE Program, this project is assessing the capacity of elementary and middle school curricula to support robust student learning of length, area, and volume measurement. Substantial empirical evidence has shown that U.S. students perform poorly on measurement tasks, weakly understand the process of measurement, and compare poorly to students from other nations. But no serious explanation has been advanced for why national learning and performance is so weak. The STEM project is a first step toward providing such an explanation. We begin with written curricula, but with the full acknowledgement that many factors may contribute to the problem. Jack Smith is the PI for the project.
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