Making Astronomy Accessible to the Blind
Students Partner with Professionals to Build New Software Tool Source Newsroom: Associated Universities, Inc. March 8, 2017 If intelligent life without sight exists on some distant planet in our galaxy, these lifeforms would still explore the universe; how? This is a guiding question for Innovators Developing Accessible Tools for Astronomy (IDATA), a new research initiative supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation – STEM + Computing Partnerships (STEM+C) Program. Modern astronomy relies on computers and computational thinking for nearly every aspect of collecting, » Read more
TERC’s Mia Ong presents at AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston
A Pathway Perspective on Expanding the Participation of Women in IT Saturday, February 18, 2017: 3:00 PM-4:30 PMRoom 203 (Hynes Convention Center) Speaker:Mia Ong, TERC Agency of Women of Color in Computing: Strategies for Persistence and SuccessComputing is a discipline in which women, especially women of color, are severely underrepresented. Drawing upon data from over 20 interviews with women of color students and professionals in computing, this talk illuminates how women of color are innovative agents in the strategies they utilize to navigate and persist in their discipline. » Read more
TERC Receives One of First NSF INCLUDES awards
Program aims to broaden participation in STEM at national scale, with initial awards totaling nearly $14 million September 13, 2016 Contact:Ken Mayerken_mayer@terc.edu617.873.9670 Cambridge, MA —The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued its first-ever awards for the NSF INCLUDES program, a comprehensive initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in science and engineering by broadening participation in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) aims to improve access to STEM education and career pathways at the national scale, » Read more
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN EDUCATION
Education Research CollaborativeTERCCambridge, MA The Education Research Collaborative (ERC) at TERC, a not-for-profit research and development institution focusing on education in STEM fields, in Cambridge, MA, invites applications for a two-year residential research fellowship. The fellowship program is focused broadly on transformative research on teaching and learning that intentionally seeks to expand formal and/or informal educational opportunities for children, youth and adults from historically underrepresented communities. We are particularly interested in work focused in the sciences, » Read more
TERC’s iSWOOP2.0 Launches National Science Communications Program in Acadia
National Science Foundation funded project brings scientific research at national parks to the public May 16, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Ken Mayerken_mayer@terc.edu617.873.9670 Cambridge, MA —TERC and its partners at Winston-Salem State University will unveil a nation-wide effort to communicate the scientific research happening in and around America’s national parks at Acadia National Park (ANP) the week of May 16. Park rangers from ANP, Joshua Tree in California, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, the Boston Harbor Islands, » Read more
TERC Hosts NSF 2016 STEM for All Video Showcase
Open event features more than 150 education research initiatives May 10, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cambridge, MA — The NSF Video Showcase “STEM for All” runs from May 17th – 23rd, http://stemforall2016.videohall.com. This open and free event features three-minute video presentations from more than 150 projects aimed at improving STEM education that are funded by the National Science Foundation. The public is invited to view the videos, join the discussion online with presenters, and vote for the most effective presentations through social media. » Read more
Cambridge Science Festival 2016
TERC workshops at the Cambridge Science Festival Wednesday, April 20, 2016 TERC project workshops at the 10th anniversary Cambridge Science Festival were full and fun. Check out the projects that were represented this year. Say It With Shapes and Numbers Jugando juegos, construyendo torres, y contando cuentos … Todo con las matemáticas. (Play games, build towers, and tell stories—all with math!) Explore ways to mix the math of sizes, shapes, patterns, logic, and numbers into just about everything you do with projects and activities that mix in math. » Read more
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM)
Productive Lingering: Elementary Students Learn about Structure of the Operations through Representation-based Argument (Spotlight Speaker) Presenters: Susan Jo Russell (TERC) April 13, 2016 at 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Abstract: Too often representations are passed over quickly, as if what they illustrate is obvious. What does it look like when grades 2-5 students spend focused time creating, comparing, and analyzing representations in order to understand the structure and behavior of the operations? Video examples from our research will be used to examine these questions When the numbers are there, » Read more
TERC at AERA 2016
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Friday, April 8 – Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Washington, DC Snowballing as a methodological approach for research literature synthesis in education: Synthesizing literature on women of color in engineering. Fri, April 8, 12:00 to 1:30pm | Convention Center, Level Three, Ballroom A Presenters: Nuria Jaumot-Pascual, TERC; Maria (Mia) Ong, TERC; Lily Ko, TERC; Apriel K. Hodari, Council for Opportunity in Education Few scholars share detailed methods for producing literature syntheses of qualitative research. » Read more